When I hear about someone getting stung by a man o’ war, I immediately flash back to that scene in Judy Blume’s Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself.

I know! She looked so amazing in Carol, but every time I see her on a red carpet she looks like Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride.

Why “unfortunately” Russell Crowe? He said a good thing.

I do, every time I go to the movies at ArcLight Cinemas. And that’s with my membership discount.

The CEO of the company I work for insists on white everything -- walls, desks, counters, tiles, etc. (We’re not even allowed to order colored desk accessories.) The place looks like a hospital ward.

As opposed to all the tasteful child porn jokes? ;-)

I never watch any of these Christmas movies (unless they star my Roswell crush, Brendan Fehr), but now I totally want to watch this one. :)

Yup. My mom bought me a light wool coat back in 1993 (it was a great gift, but she lost points for fretting out loud about how it pained her to spend that much money), and I’m still wearing it today.

True, but one detail often gets left out — Isidor was invited to join his wife in a lifeboat (because of his advanced age), and he refused because he didn’t want to be treated differently from the other men. Only then did Rosalie (better known as Ida) step out of the boat because she didn’t want to be separated from…

I found myself uncomfortably aware of his facial pores.

I moved from Vermont (where you need a good winter coat) to Connecticut (where you need a good winter coat) to Washington (where you can get by with an okay winter coat) to Iowa (where you need a good winter coat or you’ll die). Then I moved to Los Angeles, leaving my belongings back in Vermont for my mom to ship to…

I remember reading that J.K. Rowling chose to use her initials because there are studies showing boys are far less likely to pick up a book written by a woman. Very disheartening.

I would have loved a class like that!

You asked how she could play a Yugoslavian when Yugoslavia hasn’t existed for 37 years — I was just clarifying that she doesn’t play a Yugoslavian, she plays a “former Yugoslavian” per the movie. The script went to some lengths to acknowledge that Yugoslavia doesn’t exist anymore.

Just saw the movie this afternoon. They say multiple times that they came from “the former Yugoslavia.”

I’m kind of impressed People went with two men of color in a row! (That shouldn’t be remotely impressive, but given the society we live in...)

Oh, I SO wish you had been wrong about this. My heart is broken now and I’m mad at Rob Thomas.

Remember the good old days when politicians (Sarah Palin) couldn’t name a single paper they read because they were dumbasses who just didn’t read?

Yep. The Titanic was in full compliance with the outdated regulations, but her designer had originally proposed enough lifeboats to hold everyone on board. White Star installed the special lifeboat davits Carlisle asked for (which were capable of handling all the extra boats) but ignored his recommendation on the…

There was a brief period of time when my employer (a media publisher) was in talks to purchase Gizmodo. I wish they had!