OMG. Trying to capture the coveted Salt ‘n Pepa market, I see.

I am starting to wheeze just thinking of the ethanol-based sadness that is Lady Stetson. A writer I follow on Twitter recently brought up Malibu Musk-which was my own personal Axe body spray when I was in junior high. Anybody else use that stuff?

In Europe they are “large sizes”. I know because I am a large size in Europe. And a medium in the U.S., ah, vanity.

that was a badass blog.

this made me think of this:

Ugh, that’s shite. My sister-in-law initially said she was taking my brother’s name, but then decided against it. Her reason was that “it’s too much paperwork” but I don’t see why she should have had to justify it at all. of course my mom still sends her shit to mr. and mrs. c. It’s garbagey but i’m not sure if it’s…

I married a man from a culture in which women don’t change their names-if you have the same last name, it’s because you’re related by blood, and we live in his country, so it would’ve been weird. That’s what I tell people. The real reason is that and also that I don’t like the tradition of wiping part of the identity…

oh man if you don’t have to go anywhere and have lots of kleenex, there was a book about it, covered right here:

I used to be a biologist in the U.S. and now I do research administration for a top European physicist. I put together the meetings and conferences for the people who do physics for a living. Of course a lot of them are European and not American, so the history and the population are a lot different, but they work…

Ugh. You’d think he might’ve looked for someone who was academically capable of being admitted in the first place, I dunno. Or maybe those people were admitted and this is the best he could do...I used to teach undergrads-both in research institutions dominated by privileged white kids and in community colleges that…

It’s almost like dumb hicks would have to know that you’re possibly a different thing, even if you’re from the same third of the world or so as ISIS . ugh, so awful.

I KNOW What is that shiny, tinsel? Ok I know it’s probably a really good wig but it’s sooo pretty.

There was recently an interesting NYTimes article about this documentary that Dave Navarro is making, and the takeaway for me was “whoa. Dave Navarro is almost 50”.

It’s really not that hard to make a good dessert from scratch. All the food companies that made housewives insecure about their ability to make desserts without a boxed kit set the society wayy back, man. My MIL, who is in her 70s and is a lifelong housewife, has a limited range of dessert options for the holidays:…

hurrrrk. I recommend David Kamp’s The United State of Arugula. Very interesting read about why we eat a lot better now. Crikey, that’s a crime against gastronomy if ever was.

TRUDEAU FOR POTUSSS

My Cabbage Patch doll. I had a whole box of different outfits that one of my aunties gave me. I would commit a misdemeanor to have some of those outfits in adult human size.

Peppermint bark seems like the bundt cake of the candy world. Sad crap for people who don’t know about baklava or marzipans.

Actualllly...if you want to stare at grass, you can also go to college. It’s called Landscape Architecture. Is a real thing. Also: up with trade school, I went to college (and grad school, boo!), but this is adorable and I love Michelle Obama.

You sound fun, can we hang out? A lot of people I know become insufferable shits when they have kids. Good for you for not doing that.