At some Chinese American weddings, there are one to three dress changes. I got my white American dress on sale, so I decided spending a bit more to get a second red Chinese dress would be fun. My mom hated the dress I picked and literally took the red dress apart, and resewed the entire shebang because she hated the…

When I arrived at the church, my soon to be father in law hugged me. His cigarette set my beautiful finger length double veil on fire. My soon to be mother in law gracefully and completely without a fuss, put out the fire, removed the charred edges, hid the damage, hugged me tight, and sent me into the church. 26…

Yup, sure did. I had a dress that I only had tried on once in the store before the big day. Two weeks before, went bra/spanx shopping with mom. We glance at slips. "Do you need a slip?" "I'unno." (I don't do dresses normally. I'm a web developer and pretty much rock the T-shirt/jeans developer look.)

So yes, I put this…

Oh yeah, Sartre! Sorry everyone, we're shutting this blog down because Sartre already happened. It was fun while it lasted.

Snow white and Rose Red was definitely a favorite. I also love the Hans Christian Andersen one about the dogs with 'eyes as big as dinner plates'. Something about soldiers coming home, subterranean chambers, and hideous beasts just hits me in all the right places.

A few minutes before the tweets started, I had gotten an email from Domino's, letting me know that my pizza order was ready, payable with cash upon delivery. I'd shrugged it off as a glitch in their ordering system. I hadn't ordered a pizza, and the address listed on the order was an apartment I hadn't lived in for a…

He was definitely the creepiest vampire in "Lost Boys."

I just want to go home and snoogle my cat and cry and nod.

My worst holiday party was a Thanksgiving at my grandma's house.

My birthday is exactly a week before Christmas, and as such, is almost always the day that my office chooses to have their holiday party. This has happened several times over the years with various jobs, and it is generally uncomfortable and has occasionally gotten weird.

The most memorable, however, was several…

I'm offended as a woman AND as a librarian.

That's how I would read it. Not "feminism is make-believe" so much as that the specific issue of wanting a Black Widow movie is dumb, because it's just fiction and that doesn't affect the real world, right? (*eyerolls*) Which ... is still problematic but not quite AS problematic.

Are we really sure he was saying feminism was make believe? I got the feeling he was saying that superheroes/movies are make believe. I think it is highly possible it isn't clear what he was referencing there.

Um, actually it's not about his penis. It's about ethics in journalism.

The somethingawful forums have had a yearly ghost story thread that was consistently terrifying from 2007-2012. Haven't checked in the past couple years, might still be good. They compiled the old stories on another site (http://nothotbutspicy.com/para/)and into an online book called Goonbumps (that used to be free,…

YES.

I too lived in a murder house. Ours had been the owner of the house before our landlords bought it, and she was murdered by her daughter's boyfriend, according to our neighbors. And because the post office will keep sending you mail long after you'd died, we even knew her name: Alice. And, strangely enough, there…

Murder houses! I lived in one a few years ago. I consider myself a skeptic, but I'm not doing that again. I was too late to post this the other day but Halloween is as good as any I suppose:

I was going to say the exact same thing - Roman brides couldn't stumble as they crossed the threshold without it being a bad omen, so the solution was to carry her. But we're both in the grays . . . ㅠ.ㅠ

It's actually a Roman tradition meant to ensure that the bride didn't collect evil spirits while crossing the threshold.