We bought tickets last November and are going in September. $178 each, and in the nosebleed section, but still. Benefits to having the old anniversary fall on a Tuesday.

We could have gotten them for $110 but the husband didn’t believe me when I said they’d be going up in price by the time we got home. “We’ll be back…

I am weeping.

....who on Earth bought a toy version of the Iron Man III villain?

Quick! Blame China!

Processing the trauma of female empowerment through the eroticization of female torture shows up near-constantly in early Wonder Woman comics as well.

Pale skin and his actual hair and he will look like Don Rickles’s body after being fished out of a lake

Kept my name, but we plan on giving the spawn Dad’s name. I anticipate and have made my peace with the fact that spawn’s friends will probably refer to me as Mrs. Dadsname.

Right, but I suppose I’m saying that I don’t think a solution that boils down to ‘never like a coworker’ is very realistic, if for no other reason than most everyone knows people in successful romances that began in the office (or the lab).

This made me think of something.

Can the commentariat share examples from cinema, literature, etc., of GOOD romantic behavior from men? I.e., expressions of attraction that are appropriate, acknowledge the women’s agency, and do not infringe on any preexisting professional relationship?

There’s obviously an enormous…

My husband and I once took a cabin vacation long weekend in Vermont with the worst. Weather. Ever. Was impossible to do any of the outdoorsy stuff we planned, so we spent it mostly in the cabin banging and watching TV and baking cakes. There was a Golden Girls marathon on which I was like we must DEFINITELY watch. He…

Live in Salem, former editor of a Salem newspaper, cursing all the gods that I missed this screening.

Here’s the thing. Salem’s embrace of witches is very new. It’s newer than the Crucible - it really dates to 1970, when the first-ever on-location television episodes of Bewitched were filmed here. Before that, from…

I just got a new job for which I got ALLLLMOST what I asked for - I came down $500 in the negotiating, which is not great but okay. The reason quoted to me? “We need to have you making less than your supervisor, and we determine salaries based on parity with the rest of the department.” This department is all women.…

When my husband and I were given a crock pot, the one we got came with a baby crock pot inside! It’s perfect for steel cut oats. And apparently these things are ten a penny at thrift shops, because a lot of people who only wanted the big one just give them away. http://www.crock-pot.com/specialty/croc…

This utterly meaningless experience costs more than half of what my actual wedding did. My wedding was three days long.

I got a very nice Christmas present in the form of a promotion away from a seriously toxic boss. My resolution is to not permit myself to be mistreated in the new office.

Heehee. I live in Salem. This is a real place - though in the game it’s called the Museum of Witchcraft, in the real world it’s the Salem Witch Museum. I can’t understand why they didn’t include the totally awesome statue in front of the museum though - it’s an insanely dramatic Pilgrim in a windswept coat perched on…

Yep, that’s the Manchester I remember.

Loved it so so much, couldn’t help constantly thinking ‘if this had been an American show, it would have been so much more obnoxious.’ Paul Hollywood is a douche though.

I love this show like burning, but MAN do I not understand all the people who are like ‘I need a million more episodes now please.’ Husband and I planned to binge and we hit episode 5 and I just started sobbing and couldn’t stop. Now it’s one episode a day please. I don’t need any more Nam flashbacks.

Sorry, have to call bullshit without The Magnificent Seven.