The actress playing Lisa is a fucking comic genius! At the end, when everybody’s singing the Kellerman’s song and Johnny jumps up on stage and everybody trails off one by one? And she keeps singing and singing solo until he practically has to kneecap her to shut up already? GENIUS.

Once, when I was 16, a boy put “She’s Like the Wind” on a mix tape for me. And that will forever be on my top ten list of dreamiest things ever.

My youngest sister got married right after DD came out and the band she hired sang every song at the reception. I have so many memories of dancing with older relatives who are no longer with us, the soundtrack is like a wedding album for me. I’ll join you on the floor and reminisce about almost dropping a great aunt…

there’s a new subplot in which Baby’s sister solves racism

There were aspects of the movie that Jews from that era would recognize as being very specific to that time and place. The resort setting in particular was intended to replicate a typical Jewish summer vacation in the Catskill mountains, which was still very popular in the sixties. As a matter of fact, my grandparents…

And you can wackle all you wanna, you can wackle while I walk away,
And you can wackle all you wanna, you can wackle while I walk away, away, away, away!

I’m living on mostly rice, these days, but still subscribe to the New Yorker.

Obviously the more effective strategy would have been to wear a lampshade on his head and stand very still.

Let she who has NOT hidden in the drapes to avoid the sweaty advances of an inveterate pussy-grabber cast the first stone. Amirite, ladies?

You’d think the head of the FBI would be able to figure this out.

Still better than bushes

And once again, my father, who, as I have said before on other posts, predicted Trump’s nomination, win, and Russian connections (“there are too many Russians in this campaign”), was right - he also predicted that Trump would blab top secret information to either reporters or foreign countries. He’s been right about…

Does he know Edie Sedgewick was an incorrigible drug addict who died at 28?

So she’s trying to get fired? Is ‘Conway’ an anglicized version of ‘Constanza’?

It really does go too far. Because only one of them is assured of health insurance in the event.

As a veteran bridesmaid, let me throw this out there re: #10. Do NOT buy me a nice gift to thank me. I love you; I'm happy to be here, it's why I agreed to be your bridesmaid in the first place, and I do not need a memento—I have 300 pictures of myself at your wedding to remember it by. If you really want to do…