I totally dig this, and basically do the femme version of it already. Every year I buy the tackiest Christmas fabric I can find and make a cute dress for my Christmas parties.

And he felt that his childhood was very manipulated, as the other stuffed toys were bought for him to become characters in the books.

Oh, and don't forget the final details:

Me too. My friends and I are giving them the attention they want by giving them our business and submitting quotes!

Haha immediately came to comment that.

I find it only marginally helpful. There was an article recently about how plus-sized models are always perfect hourglasses. As I myself possess a rounder shape, it's still disheartening to see the tiny waist touted as the standard of beauty everywhere.

Oh shit...

Oh, man, it's on DVD? I've wanted to see that again just to revel in how crazy fucked up that show was.

Kara, I don't know how to submit things to Jez but I thought you might want to see this... http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ha…

I hope, if Blake Lively has a girl, that she's the most surly, square-jawed, genderqueer motherfucker ever to live.

I once read a YA novel from the perspective of a teenage boy who over the course of the novel comes to realize that he raped his friend. I can't remember what it was called, but it was so, so good, and I wish it were mandatory high school reading.

No no no, the thick yellow banana-flavoured amoxicillin. I'm gagging just thinking about it.

I'm going with a Clueless classic: surfing the crimson wave.

SO TRUE. Except the Taylor > Zac > Isaac order got mixed up as they grew older, and I will now recognize that Isaac has ugly-ducklinged his way into Isaac > Taylor > Zac.

Well, this is certainly the exception to Trudeau's assertion that "there's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation." Guessing these women would like some state intervention.

I did, I did... I will now retaliate with: Swedish Hasbeens.

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE. (Shoe shopping spiral....)

Were they old? The soles of an old pair of mine completely disintegrated recently, but they replaced them under warranty.

I'm wearing these right now and I feel like an autumnal BOSS.

Agreed. I was a very shy kid who had no idea how to say no to adults. People touched me all the time and I had no idea how to get out, just endure. Especially tickling. Fuck. I have always found it aggressive and painful and awful, but people (like my dentist) thought it was somehow appropriate behaviour.