Man. Some people’s parents, I just can’t even...

“Apparently a few young girls are aware of Jem, but most people who recognize the name are women in their 30s and 40s. If they wanted an audience for this, they needed to tap into at least a bit of what made the cartoon cool. That shouldn’t have been hard, because half the women I know can list the important points.”

Well... it’s not exactly as if they were really “secret”, seeing as they’ve been released and published, is it?

Maybe Gene Kelly?

Lauren Bacall. Clearly.

I don’t get it either. And I think others have already explained one of the biggest reasons for the physically demanding sport/sexy football bunny dichotomy but it’s worth repeating I guess, because it really is true that this is in large part because the “cheerleading industrial complex” (basically, one giant…

Okay. So I am not, nor have a ever been, a cheerleader. My cousin was a cheerleader for years and is now a high school cheerleading coach. (She’s also an algebra teacher and a heck of a smart person, so I get kind of cranky about some of the cheerleader stereotypes.) But my understanding of the hair and makeup is as…

Thanks! And FWIW, I agree about The Lost Boys. Like I said, I may have questionable taste but I’m okay with that.

Yes, you should. What you should absolutely not under any circumstances do is watch any of the sequels.

The restaurant I used to work at had a salad that came with a grilled tuna steak on it. It was a delicious salad and I ate it often myself. So when one day a woman ordered it and then complained that her salad tasted fishy I was mortified, assuming that she was using the word “fishy” to indicate that it tasted “off”…

... is it somewhere with no humidity? I really don’t know. The most orderly my hair has even been in my life was for a week in the desert, and even then it was nothing like straight. It was just less “big” and frizzy.

Nope. I’m not saying that no one has naturally super straight, super sleek hair, but it’s pretty rare I think. But it’s still managed to become some bullshit standard that super straight hair is pretty much the only truly “professional” hair. I assume that’s because it looks “done” and heaven forbid you don’t alter…