I almost bought one of those neat-looking colorful flags at a street fair until a friend informed me it was a Confederate flag. Ah, blissful ignorance.

Dude, when I was 12, I had a whole imagined secret life with the male celebrities I admired. (Because it was the '80s, those celebrities were Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, and Ricky Martin.) I was obsessed. I had all these FEELINGS (and hormones) and fantasizing about celebrities was a safe place to direct them.

LOL the person who comments on a blog whose tagline is "Celebrity, Sex, Fashion for Women" and calls other commenters pathetic for caring about a celebrity marriage. Incredibly un-self-aware? Self hating? Just generally clueless?

We were taught to use two spaces at the end of sentence in typing class because typewriters use monospace fonts, i.e. fonts where every letter takes up the same amount of space regardless of the letter's width. ("Courier" is an example of a monospace font.) Since the spaces between letters are irregular, having that…

Poor 'ol moony Riley. Dude had a whole secret life and still managed to be boring.

Flattering, machine washable, and most are in natural fibers! (I am a natural fiber pedant.) What's not to love? Norm core for life!

I was admiring at least one piece from that line — a shirred halter number in a gorgeous emerald green — earlier this year. But I was a little hesitant to spend $100+ sight unseen. Maybe next year!

It's like the ironic mustache. Is the young fellow wearing that mustache winkingly or is he wearing it sincerely? I never know for sure. I guess I'm not the intended audience.

I did something similar with a Vacu Vin (a small elongated pump that takes the air out of wine bottles so the wine stays fresh longer) once. I attached it to my forehead and walked around my apartment telling my friends I was a unicorn (some wine had been consumed). The hickey-like bruise lasted for a week. The…

I dunno, I think Vickie looks awesome! If I saw someone wearing that outfit walking down the street today, I'd think "That lady has style" (and also "She should probably be wearing a coat").

Whenever Richard III is referenced, I think of this:

I Googled "Shirtless Putin" so you don't have to!

Ditto. I live in the Pacific Northwest. Summer here is glorious, so why would you want to leave? I like to stay close to home and go camping, hiking, etc. during those precious sunny months. I'll take a day off here and there to make a long weekend, but serious vacation time is saved for fall (when the crowds are gone…

I always figured that HPV vaccinations are marketed to women because men don't get cervical cancer, and without a potential bogeyman, people aren't going to go to the effort to get vaccinated. "The general good" just isn't enough of a motivator. Hell, look at how few people get flu shots. Also, since a big part of…

Dear lord, this is the most wonderful thing I've seen all year. Thank you! Peter Serafinowicz is the tits. I've wondered since Shaun of the Dead why he isn't more well-known in the US.

The language barrier is also annoying because it's a rip off of a central device in Brian Friel's play Translations, in which two of the characters have crushes on each other but don't share a language. The audience can understand what they say to each other, but the characters can't, which leads to lots of amusing…

Yes! I too am an adherent of the knit dress + leggings school of attire. I call it "preschool teacher chic". It's all about the cozy. Bonus: when dresses get too ratty for outside-of-the-house wear, they can live out the rest of their days as full-time loungewear.

Now THAT is a quotation I feel like a better person for knowing.

This drives me nuts too! Context matters! If you're just going to pull a quote from a play and attribute it to "Shakespeare", well then, here are some other things the immortal bard had to say:

"I will never claim to be an expert ... " And yet she literally just wrote the book on being grateful.