Somewhat OT but thank you for that picture of Ms. Blanchett. It’s nice to see an actress look like a real actual person. As each year adds more creases, I can’t help but wonder what those women are doing—lasers? fillers? face lifts? It’s great to see someone who looks normal.

It shows they care, dahling. They’re not too big to touch the little people. It shows how democratic and fair they are.

I guess this is a good way to get attention for their books. Otherwise they sit in a room, alone, writing. Maybe they teach—I don’t know. I’ve read many, not all, of their books. I do think he’s pretentious, but he’s really good. She’s really good too, without the pretension. She does have a point that ‘literary’ men…

Every Christmas, a little strip mall a few blocks away, hangs lights off a huge tree. The front of it is beautiful, but for the past two years they’ve run out of lights or got tired when they got to the back. For the back, they throw a string of lights up over the top, then let the sides hang down. The shape of the…

Anna, I am sorry you had to have this garbage spewed at you. If I hadn’t seen it, I wouldn’t believe that people still think so ignorantly and hatefully. It’s beyond depressing to me that this exists.

Once a WW leader said I should stop eating a salad for lunch every day. I thought, ‘wtf?’. Then I realized she thought I was eating a variation of the iceberg, supermarket tomato salad. I told her she’d be thrilled to eat my salads. Let’s see—spinach, arugula mix, grilled chicken or salmon, chopped red onions and red…

My God, what kind of loon buys her wedding dress from a store?!?! Uh, I did. Most of my friends did. I guess if I had the money for a custom made frock, I might go for it. But it is her second wedding. She did have a big all-out customized celebration for the first. Perhaps she’s learned the wedding isn’t a great…

Really. Why is she there? Anywhere I’ve worked, from the CEO down to the guy vacuuming the floors, if you don’t do your job, you get fired. It’s not like the boss hasn’t discussed this with her or been clear about her responsibilities. I think she loves the attention. Fire her. Let Fox and the christian channels…

I agree. My dad fell into a coma because of a ‘hidden’ mass in his lungs (nonsmoker). They pushed him out of ICU as soon as he woke up and was out of the hospital in six days. Six days where they weren’t sure if he would live. A friend had a baby and the baby was jaundiced. Both were pretty sick. Both were out of the…

Thank you. I love this. It reminds me of my great-aunts and their vacation photos when they were single girls. It always looked so much more romantic than anything my friends and I did.

Check Costco. I have a summer pair, and a heavier winter pair.

You have put in actual words my worst fears for this election. She has my vote, but Hilary’s stubbornness, entitlement and coziness with the banks may sideline her nom. Oh, and as you said, many people find her unlikeable. Despite my crazy husband’s belief that Sanders is a viable candidate—when have Americans ever…

It made me laugh (darkly) that King George, Elizabeth’s father, has a cigarette in his hand even during their wedding balcony wave.

I love the ‘I was born in a commune’ line. I’ve always been jealous of ‘the courthouse or hospital burned down’ excuse for not having a precise age. I’m going to use it now.

THIS is why I never buy ‘brands’. I think (the midrange price of) $400 for a purse, something to carry your crap in, is insane. I used to think Coach purses were ‘nice’ until my sister informed me that ‘anyone can have one now.’ And that makes them uglier? That special or beautiful fashionable items are wrapped up in…

I live in Northern California. Not the fancy, high population part in the Bay Area, but the less populous, somewhat lower rent part that you pass on your way to Lake Tahoe. Sandwiches here are $8-$12. They rarely come with sides. I always have to buy my chips separately. A handful of delis will give you a pickle, but…

Hey, I went on that one too. I got a reverse slap in the face. Everyone who saw my weight thought I weighed at least 15-30 pounds more than I actually did. wtf? They were surprised I weighed so little. I changed my entire wardrobe after that week. The nerve!

I wonder if people gasp when they first see him. And then to cover it up, they shake his hand and tell him he looks great. No one wants to hurt his feelings so no one tells him how crazy scary he looks. I wonder if that happens to Donald Trump too.

That those crazies are upset with rehoming—fine, fine, it is positively barbaric. But it’s okay to mistreat your kids in the name of demonic possession? And that you can keep them in solitary confinement because they can ‘read the two year old’s mind’ ? I don’t have words for how sick this has made me.

Microwave a potato? Grabs pearls, gasps. ;)