I once had an obligatory winter concert thing in middle school. It was in the evening, and all the other 7th grade girls were wearing their first little black dresses. Some of them even got to wear their first pairs of black high-heels.

Oh man, my mother would only buy me those kind of brands too (she has a debilitating Macy’s addiction, previously Filene’s before they closed up shop). One time she and I were going on a school trip to Italy and she planned my wardrobe down to each half-hour excursion. I was dressed like a middle aged housewife,…

My dad used to joke when I had braces that all I needed in addition to those railroad tracks were glasses and then I would never find a husband.

I think the hair thing is because that is he way the leader of the quiver full movement says women should wear their hair. Every little thing is dictated to women in that cult.

Honestly... she’s got 4 small children she’s taking care of on her own, my guess is she needs the money. Which really makes me sad.

I am going to miss you and your writing so much, Mark.

you know, you can’t ask them those questions during debate, they are hard questions

How great would it be for the people running one of the debates to just hand the Republican candidates an unlabeled map of the Middle East and tell them to fill in country names? I’d say “and the leaders of those countries” but c’mon.

If they take away my Monday morning BCO, I will beat someone with my monogrammed thermos.

KITCHENETTE?!!! Noo... Doesn’t everyone love BCO? Unaccebtabru, on almost all counts. Also, I really kinda love The Vane. Thought all of these were pretty popular... Sorry to see them all go but wish them the best in new adventures. <3

losing millihelen is terrible. i love that one.

Folding Kitchenette is the 3rd dumbest thing Gawker has ever done.

Nooo! Not Jane!

nah kid, i call em like i see em constantly wrt my queen. this just isn’t a hot take, it’s been discussed at length. nice try sweet flower.

Sometimes I let him out in courtyard of my building, but not after dark. After dark he gets brave and I’m afraid someone’s going to take him home or he’s going to get hit by a car.

If I met this couple at an event or a dinner party, I would think they were nice people. They probably are nice people.

My favorite “Shake It Off”.

Thank you Hillary. This is a story that makes me smile because the badass women are getting shit done. And makes me furious that it has taken badass women who can get shit done, to get shit done because all the fucking men who run shit found a way to get all the weed smokers in jail but not the fucking rapists.

I’m embarrassed to live in the same state as this jackass.

This is only tangentially a food story, but it ends up in a Starbucks, so there you go.