The footprint of that veil was bigger than most American homes. That’s not snarking on Indian wedding traditions. 

I had to think this was a poor attempt at satire of a butthurt Jonas fan.... it’s the only way it makes sense to even write it. 

I kind of wonder if the piece was actually meant to be satire? Like, parodying what a butthurt Jonas fan would be feeling about this wedding? Is that too generous? I mean, satire is really hard! It’s really easy to f up. 

I think it was Joy Behar who said, the only way to understand what Rudy is doing right now is to understand the depth to which Italians hold grudges. Rudy wanted to be AG. Rudy did not get to be AG. Rudy will now ruin Trump, and if he is ruined as well, so be it. 

NPR has been pretty good about allowing the shades of gray into their coverage of his death. 

I kept promising my husband I wouldn’t spoil anything for him since I have read the books and he hasn’t, but I literally hiss involuntarily whenever Donato appeared on the screen and I had to explain, he is just a bad man (not that any of the others are anything special, but he is particularly, insidiously,…

Seriously. As long as his answer isn’t “The Dems should run a milquetoast white man” then I’m on board with his brand of cynicism. (And I clicked through, that doesn’t sound like his answer.)

Does anyone else remember some interview or social post by Gigi or Bella where they said they often try to make up the most absurd shit they can think of in interviews, to see what people will believe? Just me?

the problem is that the show wants Claire and Jamie to be heroes, but also wants to tell the story of colonial America, and also doesn’t want Claire and Jamie to do anything radical. There is no way for a white person to be a hero in this time without being radical. The complaints you are seeing about this season are…

Very reminiscent of The God Complex, actually.

Ahem.....

WHY would any of these young women talk to Nancy Jo Sales of all people? She’s so wonderfully sneaky! Remember her profile of the Bling Ring girl? 

Kelly, Is there an official British or official royal definition of a “cottage” because any house with 10 bedrooms should automatically be disqualified from that descriptor. But if it literally means, like, a house with a driveway longer than 10 m ... I guess it’s ok. But this seems like a very Kelly Faircloth…

Power of the free market, bitch.

I especially loved how the exposition from Pasquale was handled. It was as much a character beat about Lila’s thirst for knowledge of the world around her, as it was laying out the map of the neighborhood. (And, yes, I can believe that Lila’s library didn’t have much available reading on the camorra or black market,…

What I found most difficult about the books was the intense internality of them. Everything was in Lenu’s mind. The show, through the direction and the brilliant acting, gives us peeks into the minds of others. It’s refreshing. Lenu was a whiny, mopey brat a lot, and it got tiresome. Like I’m sure we were intended to,…

Grazie

Are we supposed to know who the boys were who followed Lenu into the bathroom? I couldn’t place them.

Just want to point that that while there were not many, there were Black people in Britain (and America, for that matter) in the 17th Century who were not servants or slaves... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_British#17th_and_18th_centuries

Bobby’s BACK???? YAAAAAAYYYY!