I took sculpture classes in college, and the shop was half woodworking and half metalwork. (welding, etc.) We had a grizzled old guy with maybe 8 fingers who did our intro to the shop day and he scared the heck out of us, which I really (non sarcastically) appreciated. We did have one gory accident that year, but it…

Yeah, Reese, thanks for giving me a super sexy visual to have dancing in my head while I watch that scene!

My water broke during the final meeting/exit interview/formatting hell nightmare of my M.A. thesis. My advice to you is DO NOT EAT ANYTHING WITH EGGPLANT a few days before you take the bar, and chill the f*ck out beforehand too. My OB swears by eggplant as a way to get labor moving, and I ate a big plate of it and…

Party planning like it's 1599!

Thanks for the choc chip pic with this story. You guys could have gone the traditional chocolate bar route, but instead opted for the best value in the grocery store for chocolaty deliciousness per ounce, and my own private weakness. Who cares if it's not in the candy aisle?! Viva las chippos chocolates!

A billionaire is a dick? *gasp*

That was so awesome! I watched it on the DVR about 5 times. Maddon is generally Mr. Cool, so to see him get that fired up was a real treat. Maybe it worked, because we beat the Red Sox last night, whee!!!!

How about just say I have a cutie pie and moving on?

Oprah seems really into figuring out how to schedule 3 lovers in 1 day. Good for you, O!

My sis got me & my daughter the book "Do Princesses Wear Hiking Boots?" and this comment made me think of it. It's super cute. Maybe a bit too young for your 8 year old, but the mommy & kiddo in it think along the same lines you do. :-)

Wow. I've never experienced a public tirade like this, but I admire your class in handling it. What the heck goes through some peoples' heads? Un-frickin-real.

I never thought I would be that person (and I still don't snap at people if they get my girl's gender wrong) but sometimes it's really a lack of paying attention, which is just dumb & annoying. My girl could be wearing pink sandals and a butterfly shirt, but she's still gotten the "OMG what a cute boy!" comment. WTF?…

I'm a Rays fan, so any pretense of underdog-ness from Red Sox fans makes me LIVID. Only Milwaukee fans or White Sox fans can get away with that sh*t in my earshot.

Super hard if you have a toddler already who isn't feeling the stroller time.

I tried soooo hard to fight this gender binary stuff in baby clothes, but unless you want your kid in tan or yellow PJs 24/7 you just can't fight it. Yes, there are "gender neutral" clothes for newborns (in case parents went the "surprise us" route) but after that stage it really divides into boy/girl stuff. When…

TJ Maxxx where I live isn't so bad, it's the Ross stores that are black holes of annoying clutter. I still shop them though.

Hasn't ONTD heard of stand-ins used for setting lights & camera angles? Said stand-in is generally in the same wardrobe as the "star."

So glad my marital fate doesn't hang on what a dead relative told me. Whew!

Read the "Freakonomics" guys too. Their ground-breaking article (first published in the Economist, I believe) claimed that the drastic drop in crime per capita that started during the Clinton years was a result of Roe. V Wade making abortion legal. Simply put, people who might be raised in terrible circumstances and…

The daughter of a Yale professor was smart enough to get into multiple Ivies? Color me shocked!