“why bother with underwear at all then?”

Not a novel, just a wonderfully snarky look at the everyday filth and madness behind the froofy skirts and genteel manners we associate with the era because of popular culture. The fascinating thing is that it’s all utterly believable and understandable once the author lays out the facts. Of COURSE nobody washed…

Yes - basically underwear was two separate sort of sleeves, one for each leg, that tied around the waist and were open in the middle. Eventually they added buttons to fasten them — still open between the legs.

Just started this book this morning, and it is AWESOME! It starts with an unflinching look at what going to the bathroom was like (for ladies and everybody else). Will never look at women in those gowns the same way ever again.

I don’t mind the scalp massage during a shampoo, but dry scalp massage during a facial or massage drives me up a freakin’ wall. All I hear is scratch, scratch, scratch. I feel like I might be missing something, because I love massage, and I love having my hair patted, but I don’t really feel anything during a scalp…

Reagan didn’t care that his aides got so much credit for really running his administration. Do you think Trump will tolerate people talking about Pence being the brains of HIS administration? Or any other high ranking republican? Or anybody else he might happen to hire? They will go on Meet the Press or whatever and…

I’m sure they talk about it — she just doesn’t appreciate him bringing it into their public personas, especially since she’s a UN environmental ambassador, which makes things tricky for her if Donald Trump guts the EPA and environmental treaties while saying what a big fan her husband is of his.

That makes FOUR democratic women representing NH in Washington.

90s movies, yes. But the first rule of Fight Club...

So, if Brad Pitt happens to pose in front of a graffiti wall that contains the words “your wife already has”... is that shade?

First we need to know how he’s holding up with the whole incarceration thing... has his quality of life been adversely affected? That will have to be factored in.

Apparently, a cat may also NOT look at a (future) Queen.

I saw him live in concert once — had access to tickets, figured I liked some of his stuff, it was a night out... it really was a great show, with a couple hours of hits. Didn’t own a single recording of his, but realized how many songs I knew by heart, just from the radio. And he had a comfortable and funny stage…

I was thinking more of the scrunchy thing you exfoliate with in the shower.

Well, if you didn’t grasp the humor in the blackface, at LEAST you could grasp the humor in the domestic violence, right?

“I have repeatedly demonstrated terrible judgement about the people I have communicated with online and the things I have sent. I am filled with regret and heartbroken for those I have hurt.”

She’s known for writing constantly, and has been for 10 years — I’m guessing there are a lot of songs out there under pseudonyms that we’ll learn about in retrospect one day.

There is an opportunity here for a stellar mashup with the RHofBH trailer.

Erika’s “I just did” was a perfect mid-afternoon soundbite.

This petty bullshit is so unnecessary — like Hillary couldn’t have answered a question about Flint/water/lead pipes without a heads up? Thanks, Donna. The whole lot of them are millionaire kleptomaniacs — risking everything for such insignificant gains. And every day it’s drip drip drip on the undecideds, while the…