I have the '63/'64 era Barbie (referred to as bubbletop or something?) and Ken with his crewcut that I always thought made him a bit of a tool, haaa. I had that same plastic box/closet thing...my mom made tons of clothes for them both, and I loved shoving all the stuff in those drawers. OLDS REPRESENT.

Ugh. This Barbie looks like people at work. Blech.

I regret the mysterious loss of my GI Joe's from the 60s, but I have kept my Johnny West and Sam Cobra dolls in a place of honor (with Johnny's horse, naturally). Occasionally I scan the Geronimo selection on eBay, but so far have not succumbed to buying the One I Always Wanted But Never Had. My Barbie and Ken (60's…

With you there! Tinker toys! Do they still make them?

Yeah, the one great thing about Barbie was that She Can Be Anything!! mantra they promoted. I was an avid tomboy, I never played with 'traditional' girl dolls (Betsy Wetsy, Lil Orphan Annie, creepy eyes-open-when-you-move-the-head dolls from the 60's), but I still loved my Barbie because, fuck yeah, she could be…

Oh those science kits. They were the best-and they always included gunpowder! haaaa

That's the one I recall—I was babysitting a gal who HAD IT ALL. I was so envious! It really was gigantic. Possibly the inspiration for the McMansion?
I refer to all lovely homes that I will never live in but would love to as my 'Barbie Dream Homes'.
Someday, house on Brightwood, someday...siiiiigh

Somewhere in the ether, my chemist dad (who was awesome) is laughing his ass off in agreement. I hear you-I'm all for keeping mystery compounds off and out of my body, but the Oh it only works if it's super-expensive cosmetics BS is maddening.
Water, some cocoa creme, and sleep when I can get it seem to work best for…

HEE! I'm hearing this in Morticia Addams' voice (probably the Angelica Huston version, although Carolyn Jones' would be perfect, too)...

Most nurses I know are smarter than the damn doctors, they're not naive innocents. And really, most of them are super cynical about the medical profession, so I can't help thinking that she was too caught up in her 'must be perfect' wedding BS and threw caution to the wind.
But yeah—the CDC and that idiotic fever…

I read it more to being rage at the endless array of women who get so much surgery that they all start looking the same—-giant lips, eyes too tight, completely unlined plastic forehead, and that Joan Rivers/MJ nose. A glance at any of those 'Real Housewives...' crap shows is a good example of the work.
It's sad that…

Yes indeed to this! Ugh, the women I know with the endless FB posts re: how terribly harrrrrd it all is—I beg them all, please, just stop it. If all you can do is complain endlessly about being a mommy, perhaps you should have thought about that before you decide to have kids. Like many jobs, no shit it's hard. Get…

Gravity Falls has one of the best intros I've ever seen for an animated show—love the use of color, the depth of field, all of it. Besides, they have Grunkle Stan!

Oh we GALS. So emotional!

OMG too fucking perfect. JOAN HAS SPOKEN.

I'm Italian and can vouch for this, too.

Is your friend's dad in Floriduh? Because IMO they have incompetent healthcare down to a science.

But to take it out of the digital realm, if I had nude pics of myself that I distributed to someone, and that someone shared them without my knowledge, then I am to a degree at fault for assuming privacy where none may necessarily be implied. I would feel like a knucklehead for having shared them, and I think rightly…

Yep! A million thumbs up.