I do this. I hate pockets on dress pants. I'm a bit curvy on the bottom and most kinds of pockets gap in a weird way so I sew them shut and sometimes cut them out if they make a pocket line. Generally, if something is tailored enough that having pockets makes it fit weird, actually using the pockets will only make the…

Also, dress pants. I end up sewing the pockets closed on every pair of dress pants that I own because having any kind of curve on your lower half pulls at the pockets and ruins the line of the pants. Pockets actually interfere with the fit of the pants. If some genius pocket engineer can find a way to add pockets to…

You should have consulted me before embarking on this journey! I would have told you that the correct way to wear sweatpants is with the waisband folded over, at hip level. This shortens the crotchal region, thereby elimintaing the drop-crotch look, and rendering the ensamble agreeably slouchy and nonchalant. If you…

See, that is kind of fascinating to me. Actually, the taking of selfies in general is kind of fascinating to me. The thought of taking a nude photo of myself, even one that I planned on deleting half a second later, almost makes me start breaking out into hives. I almost invariably hate how I look in photos and I…

If the worst thing in someone's life is that their new iPhone 6 came preloaded with a U2 album that they didn't particularly want, that is the First-Worldiest First World problem in the history of the First World. Maybe in the history of all the worlds, and in the future history of all the worlds to come.

I DON'T KNOW EITHER. WE CAN BE OLD TOGETHER.

To be fair, stock photos are not exactly a form of artistic expression. They're created in response to demand. If your clients demand stupid pictures of women squatting on scales in their underwear then you're going to give it to them because that's how you make a living. So maybe the question here needs to be less…

I'm not a photographer, but my guess is that the buyers of stock photographs need them to be certain dimensions to plug into their overall design, and maybe a photo of a person standing is just the wrong dimensions?

There's more than one country. They don't do iced tea in the UK. Apparently they see it as some sort of abomination.

I've known lots of people who present as fairly sober or slightly buzzed a most who were, in fact, blackout drunk. The only way I could tell sometimes is that they were acting differently from how they normally act, but a someone who didn't know them well wouldn't be able to tell. It's possible, you just have to have…

I bought what I thought would be a decent pair of skinny black cropped pants online to wear to work and realized when I received them that they didn't have fucking belt loops. What the hell, Gap? Do you think I want to have my pants falling down all day at my place of employment and not even have the option of a belt?…

Cauliflower and banana? With yogurt and protein powder? That's my guess for the white smoothie.

Yes! The tone is way different, more matter of fact. The bit where her infant son died at just a few days old was incredibly jarring.

I just made ice cream from my Little House cookbook!

Has anyone else read Little Town on the Prairie? It's one of the later books, set a year or so after the winter of The Long Winter. Having lived through the last winter, the townspeople sort of band together to brace for another horrible winter and one of the things that they plan to keep their spirits up are little…

Goddamn right the '30's are an under appreciated decade for fashion! The bias cut was practically invented in the '30's. Clothes from the '30's are my vintage shopping holy grail. I have a couple of very luxe silk satin nightgowns from that era and they are probably the most sensual things that I own. The silhouette…

Well goddamit. I don't have an iPad. Or a smartphone. These things are expensive and not useful enough to me in my daily life to bother with them. So if I end up staring out the window for all eight hours of my next flight to London because some stupid airline assumed that I'm all gadgeted up I'm gonna be pretty…

Probably because when they were installed there was no slimmer hardware available. They've had these since before iPads and smartphone were a thing. Now they may be a bit outdated, but if they still work then I don't see airlines paying to replace them.

This is actually a good idea. I don't have a tablet or a smartphone and have no plans to acquire one, so if they're offering that the majority of passengers have their own screen anyway as a justification I call bullshit. BUT, if I could get a loaner just for the duration of the flight I'd be okay with that. Doesn't…

I graduated high school in 1996 and through my teenagerhood I desperately wanted non-ribcage-height skinny jeans to come into existence. I remember looking at old pictures of The Ramones and being all "WHERE DO THEY BUY THEIR PANTS THAT'S WHAT I WANT!"