Have you watched Veronica Mars? Not sci-fi, but awesome. And I'm pumped for the guy who wrote its next project, "iZombie."

As to how deadlines work: From my experience at a fairly small (but nationally distributed) magazine, deadlines are hell; they continuously get pushed back from the original deadline to the absolute last minute the magazine can be sent to press (i.e., at whatever hour/minute your publishing company will allow you to…

The Toast, The Hairpin, NYT, Smitten Kitchen bc I love reading recipes...

Buffy! And Firefly, which is very much an ensemble.

Also, walking around as much as you can instead of caving into the urge to curl up in a ball and die. I suggest walking while listening to angry girl music.

If you aren't already, you can take 4-5 advil at once instead of 2 (just have something in your stomach and don't do it for more than a day or two at a time w out talking to your doc).

I can see that making a difference. I mean it's not the exact same, and given the whole men tend to be larger than women thing, I think to feel similarly threatened it'd have to be a smallish straight dude and a larger gay guy. But there is an intense discomfort to being pushily hit on by someone you really don't want…

They don't?

I too have thought about this; I'd do a drop-pin group text (w my location) and "help call 911" to my mom/brothers/best friend. I also might think about this too much.

Because with the very specific phenomenon of unwanted attention that can feel threatening, the majority of straight men only feel comparable discomfort/fear when hit on by gay men rather than by women. There's a certain strain of homophobia that is a straight man's fear of being treated as he's treated women. (FWIW, I…

Making those decisions bc you have a small wedding is huuuugely different than advertising said reasoning, though. Everyone has the right to invite whomever they would like; telling people about it is so...middle school.

Not that I'm anywhere close to marriage, but I want my wedding to be a giant party with all my favorite people eating and drinking good stuff. It seems like a fantastic excuse to hang out with all my friends from various parts of my life at once. The rest (I mean, flowers and shit, the person I marry will probably be…

Yup! So far I have only attended (and been in) weddings with lovely, reasonable, somewhat-stressed-but-mature-about-it brides. But every once in a while, I hear an absolute horror story from a friend who's a bridesmaid in a terrible-sounding wedding.

The one male-dominated job I worked, I didn't get hit on, but my boss was way harder on me than anyone else. I thought I was just imagining things, but at one point, one of my co-workers told me I was the first woman not to quit after 3 months, bc the boss was such a dick to women (and pretty nice to the dudes). I…

But they might fart in front of you and make fun of your sports teams!

Imagine being listened to in meetings! Imagine only being *occasionally* interrupted! You'd have to like, have...ideas...or something.

I'm genuinely sorry, which is hard to convey on the internet, but I am.

I mean, it seems like she just didn't give it much thought, and then in retrospect realized what was going on. I don't think we should be too hard on people who grew up surrounded by ignorance and took awhile to actually see what was happening around them — the willingness to change/admit to being wrong is important.

Ehh let's say any still-living presidents. Hoover and Jackson were like, really awful, albeit in different ways. (This is not in defense of Bush)

How does the fact that many democrats are also racist make Obama being a democrat ironic? Looots of people are racist, and many more were racist in the days of George Wallace. Currently, the democratic party is, at least, less terrible for black people than the republican party. (And if try to you tell me that Lincoln…