Thank you for this.

Awww. I had the exact same relationship with cooking when growing up. i always told my mom that I never want to learn cooking because every indian daily meal is multiple courses and it becomes an expected chore form whoever does it, usually the mom. but as an adult when I started living my life on my own terms, i…

That was a lovely read. I am so sorry about your brother.

This is very well written and speaks to me too. I especially like the description of cooking as “controlled chaos” - esp. true for Indian cooking where the ingredients needn’t be exact and yet comes out a beautiful melange of flavors and textures. I also started to cook after several years in a traveling job with no…

Thank you for writing this. I identify with the cooking for the reasons you described, and I’m glad you explained Kali to me. I’d always wondered because the illustrations are so scary.

Prachi, this was a really beautiful piece. You’ve been doing excellent work all year. I can’t praise you enough for weathering through your loss and the relentless barrage of Trump news and still being such a goddamned pro. Wishing us all much happier tidings in 2019.

Beautiful piece. Thank you.

That dress is beautiful. Probably my favorite celebrity wedding dress of the year (but I can only think of a Megan Markle’s). Nice to know I can own one if I just have $10k lying around. 

I must say, I was expecting a heftier price tag for a celebrity wedding dress. $8,600 is downright reasonable with wedding dresses...at least if Say Yes to the Dress is any indicator.

They’re definitely both related, but I think the few outlets dedicating much attention to the harassment angle erases a very specific narrative/pattern in these kinds of cases that is nestled under the larger misogyny umbrella. 

Dear girls: you are under no obligation to be nice to someone who creeps you out. You do not need to date a guy just because he says you're the love of his life. And you do not have to "give him a chance".

If he wouldn't casually but enthusiastically give a man the same compliment then he should not be giving that compliment at all, especially in a work place

“Jezebel is a feminist website,” Riffer adds in his letter. “It should not be a tool to allow one woman (Remini) to harass another woman (Mrs. Miscavige), her husband and her religion.”

I think she’s alive but drugged/lobotomized, “He finally loved Big Brother”-style.

Maroon is also a classic Bugs Bunny put down.

<<(Full disclosure: Ortega was previously an editor at the Village Voice, where I also worked, several years after his tenure.)>>

Maroon isn’t just a color, it is also a verb.

Ugh, yes! Sabrina’s motivations are so all over the place and her depth of knowledge about witchcraft/the church of night seems to change in every episode. It’s all very stylish and well presented but it just doesn’t work. Somehow I’ve made it through all the episodes save the finale, but I can’t even be bothered to…

Of course this ugly creep would think some young coed girl wanted to fuck him. Also, when someone says “stop sending me inappropriate texts” you should really listen and stop instead of escalating with even raunchier texts. 

If men would just start from the perfectly reasonable premise that nobody actually wants to see photos of our dicks, the world would be a better place.