I’d imagine Garrett is probably going to get a stern talking to after this blog, and will be told to write something nasty about Anne Hatheway ASAP in penitence.

Man, I still have a lot of the original boxed Bratz dolls because I was that girl who loved fashion dolls and enjoyed the box art. Every time I tell myself I’m going to sell them, I pull them out of storage, take them out of their respective tupperwares, and am instantly transported back to my middle school days. As a…

This is a great summary. Post-college, pre-baby, Modcloth was my go-to because they had clothes that were fun but still work appropriate (I work in a creative field) and you could find things that were different than what you would get in the standard mall store. So as standard trends tended towards looks very…

This is the correct answer.

I think our definitions of ruthless are different.

That being said, I have no love for Biden. I don’t really want another old white dude but if it has to be another old white dude there are better old white dude options out there. I mean, I have no love for Bernie either but at least he’s not more of the same,…

Even in specialized, non-glamorous areas of film and television, this happens. My husband had an unpaid internship at a post production sound studio, with the promise that if he worked there for a year they would give him a paying job. At the end of the year, they offered him an hourly rate as a contractor which came…

Oof, yeah, no the one I read was not that great, in my opinion, but I was more referring to when she wrote fanfic and used quotes from a myriad other places (like Monty Python and Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and even copy/pasted whole passages out of other novels (mostly out of print fantasy novels) and then said it was…

If it helps, I went to a highly regarded film school. I don’t love most classic films, but I watch them and I can see what makes them special or classic so, at the risk of being vain, I do feel I at least understand most cinematic taste if I don’t have it myself (my favorite films are still Adventures in Babysitting…

No. Even if you’re the actor who miraculously escapes any kind of sexual misconduct, you’re still treated like something less than human during the audition process, and on set are regarded by most crew as something akin to a meat puppet or a mannequin that speaks unless you’re lucky enough to be the lead and have a…

This is heartbreaking, and my heart goes out to Elizabeth. I wish that there was a way to make every person who does not believe in legalized abortion have a day or two to live in the shoes of a person who finds themselves in a situation where they have to have one.

This is a cold reality I am facing myself. I recently…

The most annoying ret-con ever is their claim that her clearly brown eyes are actually hazel. Why can’t they just have a brown haired, brown-eyed heroine? //My rage is in no way related to the fact that I’m a brown haired, brown-eyed girl who loves to read.

I’ve loved this movie for ages, and my mom and I will watch both this and the 1980s (90sish?) remake. The remake isn’t as good but it ALSO has an amazing house.

Didn’t he kiss Carter right before she died? He also kissed the Fixer lady.

I was going to say the same thing, but “Equilibrium” instead of “The Island.”

I think your mom is right, here. My own mom went through the same gift-giving thing with my dad. It wasn’t until she said “no more” and stopped buying him presents altogether that he started to realize he really wasn’t holding up his end of the deal. The fact of the matter, the money and stress of gift-buying is HUGE,…

My mother says that fashion designers are pushing that look on purpose: they know that ultimately older women are the only one who can afford (are willing to pay for) high end fashion right now, so they are quietly designing clothes that will be loose and comfortable for older women (because that’s what that customer…

Yup. I’ve been getting properly fitted bras, and was shocked to find I was a 30DD/32D when I’d been wearing 32A bras. Why? ‘Cause I just thought I was small, and small breasts wore As. Turns out, most the tissue was just getting squished into my arm pits, but still, I don’t look huge—I have a pretty broad/round base…

When this came up with my boyfriend (now husband) I said: You wouldn’t buy a Ferrari and not expect to put time and money into maintaining it. If you’d prefer a more affordable Honda Civic or a Volvo, please, be my guest.

Probably not very feminist of me, but he got it and hasn’t complained about the money I spend on…

Also, she really looks like she got a laser skin peel at the dermatologists’ office. That’s the tell-tale greasy sunscreen they slather on you afterwards and drill into you that you have to wear several days out. I know because my mom had that same shiney/greasy look the day after she had hers done. If you get a lot…

So true! And astounding how many were in music—though maybe it’s selective bias, based on my own experiences as a music-focused kid. But I remember when I was 13, I started voice lessons with a music teacher. He said some things to me that, when I told my mother, disturbed her enough that she immediately un-enrolled…