because the nature of racism is, we think, a good topic

I dig! I think it does a good job of updating the books to look modern without taking away from the actual stories inside [side-eyeing that awful Bell Jar cover from a couple of years ago]. I really love the tagline on Margaret especially. Well done, cover artist.

A friend and I were in line at a Bruce Campbell signing, and she made him giggle by taking a couple of lines from Army of Darkness out of context and having him sign, "This is my boomstick...blow."

I need a double feature, and I need it now. I also need the gloriously creepy double-cover from FitA so I can properly gift it to a friend.

One of the arguments made was that a woman couldn't possibly be that violent. It's believed by some that if the parents had been poisoned or killed in an otherwise "passive" fashion, Lizzie would have been found guilty.

Her straight-laced fashion sense and dance moves—the fact that she's never writhed across a concert stage wearing a negligee, or less—may make her more square than some other singers. But she's also less beholden to that old feminist bugbear, the Male Gaze.

RDJ tried to screw Terrence out of more money? That's his argument? Not that he's, you know, a violent douchebag misogynist? If RDJ squeezed him out at all it was probably because he's an asshole, and RDJ's had his issues (and will be the first to list them), but being an asshole has never been one of them. Hell,…

Colbert also mentioned recently that everyone who is currently hired was hired on a blind joke packet (their personal info being totally removed so it's only the jokes), and it just worked out the way it did. With a lack of turnover, I think the internships that focus on bringing in women/minorities is a really smart,…

Well, shit. Okay, look, everyone hold on. I gotta go divorce my husband, okay? I swear I'll be right back.

We had a copy in the house when I was twelve or thirteen. No idea how it got there or where it went after, but I've decided it magically showed up to entrance me with wonderfully terrible purple prose and then left to find the next young teen woman who would remember it was ridiculous with fondness, by a new copy at a…

I answered honestly, was told I was dateless, and loved that it told me I should ask more about HIM when I answered that I WOULD ask about him. Because I would. Because I am a human being interested in human beings and not a piece of meat to be hooked. But since I also talked about myself, I must not really care.

As a mostly reformed conversation kidnapper (I still trip up sometimes), I would offer the following considerations for Letter #1: 1) Are you annoyed by her in some way that isn't the incessant talking? 2) Do you feel you can be polite/comfortable enough with her to politely mention your concern about the incessant…

My guy and I actually had to have a discussion about exactly that response because he'd had people who would use it as a blanket question any time he appeared to be in a mood, so we had to work of getting to the point where we could say, "Hey, trying not to assume, but have you eaten recently?"

It's especially bad when it's first thing in the morning, and I'm hungry AND not fully awake yet. He's a total morning person, so we had a few good bickers about how he needs to just give me a lot of space until I initiate conversation. Just this morning, he came up to me and said, "Are you awake enough so I can tell…

The "tone" argument is a regular in our house. Both of us have a pitch that can set the other off quick because we associate it with incoming assholery, and it's usually that one of us needs a snack.