I adored the passage about Jean’s experience buying her ready-made dress (and getting shoes dyed to match). For some reason, I found all the details Cleary included about the Jarett family’s cost-cutting measures incredibly charming.

I used to re-read Fifteen, Jean and Johnny, and The Luckiest Girl when I couldn’t sleep at night. I found her descriptions of homemade dresses and hamburger dates incredibly soothing, and I fantasized about inhaling the scent of oranges through an open window in Shelly’s non-square bedroom. I was SIMILARLY confused by…

*begins to type. Sighs. Backs away from keyboard*

I DIE laughing at that line every time.

I had a friend like this. We had this emergency, and my other friends and I are calmly assessing and getting things fixed and figuring out what to do. He’s screaming, “Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god!”

channing tatum is aging as a celebrity crush remarkably well

SHVEET

“She’s got a little somthin’-somethin’”

I still watch that movie. A true classic.

one of the best movies ever made

Hmm. He can sing ok, but he doesn’t have a very memorable or distinctive voice...
His voice is like Sienna Miller. It’s pretty enough but I wouldn’t be able to pick it out of a lineup.

I rip off a piece of the box and say, “Get me more of these.” He can’t get my takeout order right a lot of the time, but he always comes back with the correct feminine hygiene products.

Edited to add: Oh, one time Target was out of my brand so he called from the aisle to ask if “super absorbency” and “ultra absorbency”…

Seriously. I am in horrible pain for the duration on my period so like, if I NEED some goddamn tampons, either I am going to murder everyone I see in public and cry while doing it, or my goddamn loving partner will do it. OR ELSE.

I wasn’t disappointed as Judd Apatow is awful, so I assumed it would be as well.

I mean, being shitty to costars is not excusable but all she said about Knocked Up was that having the male characters portrayed as fun and lovable despite being immature manchildren while the women telling them to grow up were portrayed as shrill not-fun harpies was “kind of sexist,” which is true. And then she said…

I mean, listen, I love Shonda and I love Scandal and Olivia Pope with all my heart, but they made Katherine Heigl give CPR to a deer and then make out with a ghost. That season was so truly awful. And I don’t understand why she didn’t give Isaiah Washington the same shit she gave to Heigl.

I’m rewatching the series now with my roommate on Netflix and she had never seen it, and man is it totally different when you watch it as an adult.

Amy Schumer being lusted after is so unbelievable. I prefer my rom-coms to be totally legit, like when Kevin James and Leslie Bibb get together, or Adam Sandler and Kate Beckinsale. You know, a nice out of shape forty-something guy meets a 20-something supermodel who throws herself at him in the final scene.

It’s like Christopher Walken’s heavier, not-as-lucky brother who watches a lot of TV.