Mmm... I love Mongolian grills, but I just go to the one in the mall food court so it’s like 8 bucks, not 15. I’ll pick my own food for 8 bucks.

I totally remember his Fog series, but I forgot about Yoko’s involvement. I just remember the pitch meeting, and Susan was like, it’s been done to death, “The Fog and the City,” “The Fog and the Bridge,” and he was like, Who said anything about the city? It’s just the fog.

I have a friend who refuses to even go to a salad bar because if he’s paying at a restaurant he wants a chef to tell him what tastes good.

The most fascinating part of the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo books is the descriptions of all the food. Most of her sandwiches sounded super gross to me, but I thought it was hilarious in the third book when the cabal of villains work through lunch and one of the young guys gets sushi for everyone. One of the old guys…

She does not play Nat Turner’s wife.

I saw it at Sundance (so I didn’t know about Parker’s history and have to weigh all the everything before I saw it), and if I remember correctly, which I am 95% sure I do, the rape scene is not graphic at all. It’s more like she goes into the room knowing what is going to happen and maybe it shows a little tiny bit of…

I once knew twins named Freddy and Frederick.

I am very glad that my parents did not let my brother name me after his imaginary horse, Lucy Bicardo.

Well, that was weirdly hostile...

I’ve gotten great shoes at Aldo, though. It’s better than Payless!

My BIL’s middle name (what the family calls him; my husband and all of his siblings were called by their middle names growing up) is just two random syllables jammed together because when my MIL was in labor my FIL put his hand over her belly and the baby told him his name. He swears that he has since learned that it…

My cousin named both of his sons after cars, but Lincoln and Hudson seem normal these days.

Grandma-type names are the names that are trending now, just fyi

Please tell me your sister was a huge The Face on the Milk Carton fan and your niece is named Denim Lace.

My mom is Suzan (Susan, not Suzann) from 1960. The original.

My husband has three names. His second middle name is a weirdo hippy name, and it’s what his family has always called him and what he goes by. His first middle name is Christian because after his father picked the hippy name, his mother said, “He has to have a Christian name!” Then he was born on the feast day of a…

I’m pregnant and my 4 year old has decided on Jojo for a boy and Cojo for a girl.

Michelle?

My grandmother is Ina. Hates her name. Her MIL was Berteele. Also hated her name. I don’t have a lot of great family names to draw from. Wilma. Chalmers. Geraldine. Et cetera.

I read a NY Times trend piece a few years ago about parents who changed their kids’ names. One set was upset that there were three other Sophias in their daughter’s preschool class, so they changed her name to Isadora. When she was four.