I used to think all Wes Anderson movies were hipster trash, but the Darjeeling Limited completely transfixed me. Then I saw Moonrise Kingdom and quickly went through his entire back catalog, just amazed. He's an incredible story teller and I love just the atmosphere his films have, this almost magical realism…

Plus, it's so awesome when you meet academic couples that you didn't know were couples: "WAIT. THEY'RE MARRIED?" I get a huge kick out it, because I get to know and appreciate the work of two different people, and find out that they're also married to someone whose work is amazing, and that I KNOW THAT PERSON TOO.

This is exactly why I want to keep my name. There is a backlog of publishes articles and recognition attached to my name, and changing that name is (I feel) an insult to how hard I've worked to become the woman I am today.

Yep. Not a doctor, but I have a unique name and by the time I got married (in my late 20's) I had a Google cache that I was proud of- personally and professionally. Maybe if I'd been a well-known arsonist or tan mom I would have been open to taking my husband's name, but I'm proud of my damn self.

I'd be afraid GRRM would kill me if I changed my last name to Stark.

YES thank you- I don't want people looking up my academic work to be like "God, Dr. Tastycakes2's Hypothetical Future Husband hasn't published hardly ANYTHING. What were they doing in grad school?" or "Why did Dr. Tastycakes2 just stop publishing all of a sudden? That shit was pretty good."

Ditto this. Dr. FluterDale is me. He can be Mr. Dr. FluterDale if matching is that important.

Spoiler alert: It wasn't that important.

I'm willing to bet that Instagram wouldn't have done shit about a man's happy trail.

I love how this is the only arena in life it's okay to be an asshole about.

Oh good... yet another person who acts like a douche and then gets rewarded with free publicity for their stupid, vacuous, fart-sniffing blog.

Yep. Yep. It's pretty clear here... Yep. "And yea, in a time of great discord, a man of many progeny will make a fool of himself, comparing the genocide of millions of people with something totally unrelated." It's in the Book of STFU.

The Penisphere. Hmm.

Penisphere still isn't taken.

HOO-HA BROU HA HA!

I'm writing a Modernist/Feminist MA thesis right now! LOVE it.

I love ALL Sylvia Townswend Warner's novels! Great to meet fellow fans (on a page about US politics ... got to be good for something)

I don't have a puppy but here's a picture of naked Benedict Cumberbatch in a bathtub.