He has been asked that question repeatedly, though, and somehow names never manage to find their way into his answer. Either he doesn't think women authors meet his gold standard, or he just doesn't read the work of anyone with a vagina.

I've read both Franzen and Weiner. His stuff is not the high falutin' literature that he thinks it is. Her stuff is very readable but on the lighter side.

Jamie Dornan, who played another sexy but twisted character on the British drama The Fall

"You know, what I really wanted to do is just joke around with what had happened [with Taylor Swift] before"

I'm fairly certain that wasn't a selfie and was more of a "LOOK AT THIS OLD MAN PEEING WITH HIS PANTS DOWN" photo. Because I would snap that one, and I don't selfie.

Cue the gender-normative sarcasm. Oh, wait, I see it's already here.

Still love her. I don't know if she can pull it off, but I'll watch her try.

Kent State was pissed about that sweatshirt and demanded they take it out of stores. As they pointed out - red is not a Kent State color, so it's hard to justify why it was printed that way, and Kent State got licensing for the sale, either.

& also pretty sure Karlie Kloss is not letting Taylor bone anyone

I got a coffee pot for my desk that no one else can use. I still make my own coffee, but no one else gets to drink the stuff.

No shit. My colleagues insist on having video conferences where they deliver requirements verbally, and expect me to write that shit down, like I'm their fucking secretary.

Listens for a bit. Turns on T-Swift.

We don't know if Chevalier d'Éon had ambiguous sex organs as Mok is speculating. We do know that she identified as a woman though, and demanded that she be treated like one. Like trans people today, the gender she was assigned at birth was not the one that was correct for her according to her own wishes. In the same…

If you have to do that much manipulation of one song to make it sound like another, it's no longer the same song. Pitch and speed are different, the words are different, the instruments used are different. The two songs don't even fit in the same genre of music. The differences are significant enough to make it a…

Edited - damn, you're right! Did they change the photo? Because the one that's there now - woman walking on the beach in blue hooded coat with a corgi trailing behind - that's EII, not the Queen Mum.

Actually, the shoes are custom made specifically to be let her be on her feet and to help her avoid tripping when she has to walk in all sorts of public settings - cobblestones, etc. There was an article about it a few years back.

They got up this morning and forgot to put on their knees; that's the problem. Could happen to anyone.

The scholarly study of that rumor had decided it's not true, though.

That book is going to be sold one way or another, though. Maybe it's better that she gets some benefit from it while she's still alive. Sadly, the vultures seem to be circling.

We have a can of contraband AquaNet at our house, retrieved from my wife's childhood bedroom. She was an only child so her room is perfectly preserved, like an archeological dig of the 1980s. It is exquisite and terrifying.