Seriously, after reading the NY piece, I don’t believe for a minute that psychotic compulsive liar either conceptualized or wrote that book — I’m sure it was cobbled together from manuscripts that he reviewed. Actually writing a book would not give him any pleasure, but faking or stealing it, THAT’S the ticket!

That New Yorker piece is well worth reading. This guy may be a talented writer, but he’s a lying sack of shit too.

I wouldn’t count on that happening at every wedding. And considering the expense of some of the meals and the fact that crashers aren’t usually paying anything, it’s obviously not ok. If the people putting on the wedding want to give the food away, that’s their prerogative of course, but crashing is stealing.

Like Mr. Greenblatt, Ms. Wolfson and her date also left a card. Theirs contained a Polaroid photo of themselves and “a buck for good luck.”

Why would anyone choose to go to a wedding?

Also, the ‘victims’ in the article didn’t seem to mind nearly as much as you did, but leaving a dollar at an open bar reception would be really gauche.

Once you start complying with the required safety regulations for subways (carriage strength in crashes, accessibility, emergency exits, tunnel walkways, fire suppression, tunnel walkways, etc), you no longer have a “micro-subway” in “micro-tunnels” — you have a full-size subway in a full-size tunnel with full-size…

More than anything, it’s just... sad. As though everyone who does this thinks they're Owen Wilson, but are actually Will Ferrell.

You realize subways are electric, right? You also realize one train can move HUNDREDS of people at once, right? Breakdowns are due to deferred maintenance, not because the concept is flawed.

discovered Nora Robert’s books through my love of Silhouette books and later the stand-alone novels. I will admit that I have read her current books but several of her trilogies still hold a prized position on my bookshelves.

I know a few people have joked that #Puppygate has been a boring storyline, but I completely disagree! You are refusing to see the light! And it’s not about the fucking dog (as much... anymore), it’s about everyone coming together to finally, successfully uncover LVP’s ongoing attempts to use her pets, her shiny new…

isn’t it possible it’s both?? I read a few books of hers way back in HS and they were ok, picked one up at a sale last year, and it was SO bad there was no way it was written by her. I’m not exaggerating either. No characterization, no real conflict. Something about a wedding planner who fell in luv with a bad boi…

The Anita Blake series had such potential in the beginning, didn’t it? And then it went right over a cliff into an endless plummet. 

Except that in any other performance setting, there are child labour laws specifically to stop parents from exploiting their kids like this—not on Youtube where labour laws don’t apply.

I was thinking the same thing. Basically kids on monetized YouTube channels are child actors — they should get the same protections as any other child performer. We can’t stop people from abusing their kids, but we can at least make it harder for them to make money off of it.

Right?   Like, she’s got that formula that works for her (which I love, nothing better than discovering I haven’t read one of her trilogies/quadrilogies right before a vacation or a long flight) but part of me wondered if she was employing a Patterson model at some point.

I really cannot fathom how thin skinned these right wing fanatics are. They’ll say the most vile things to anyone of differing political ideals, but at the same time completely break down at the tiniest bit of criticism (which is almost always totally justifiable) when directed at them.

“Choosing the Best includes a similar exercise using adhesive tape. The exercise involves placing tape on a student’s skin, then removing it to show what has transferred from the skin to the tape. What remains on the tape is supposed to represent the emotional baggage resulting from sex.”

“You know what your GPA is. You know what your extracurriculars are. You presumably have looked at the freshman profile every ding dang college and university has posted on their website and know whether you are a candidate.”

I do not believe him, or any of the other children of the corn. Who takes the SAT at home? Who sits in a private room to take the SAT with a proctor feeding you answers? Who gets a letter offering you an athletic admission and doesn’t say, ummm, I don’t row? It didn’t occur to any of them that you know, something is…