Emma showed up in a bit part on Orphan Black and I screamed. I guess she hasn't moved beyond the Canadian small screen?

One of the many things I found fascinating about Mad Men was their initial movement into TV advertising - they clearly were out of their element but were like, welp, we've gotta do something there. I think a lot of this early TV advertising was created by people who were just assuming that TV ads were secondary to the…

Ha - I would also describe my dad as a Motel 6 connoisseur. In his mind, why stay anywhere else when they only charge $59/night, even if you have to sleep with one foot on the floor and one hand on your suitcase?

I think it's worth noting that a) this is from a bodybuilding website, therefore b) it is geared towards women who had a higher than normal state of fitness before pregnancy, and c) were probably more likely to have focused on maintaining a higher than normal state of fitness during pregnancy. It's also authored by…

I dunno, it's a pretty basic rule of contemporary TV series: if you don't see a dead body, that character is not dead.

Kids has been mentioned: she was also in The Last Days of Disco. Her biggest mainstream role was probably as Hilary Swank's love interest in Boys Don't Cry.

Or bath salts. (Do people still do bath salts?)

Preach. She's a beautiful woman but that photo looks like it should be airbrushed on the side of a van.

By the time you're 40 you can add to this list:

My friend and I refer to these as "aspirational purchases"...the pants that are juuust a bit too tight, etc.

I just re-read your last sentence. Maybe some women are postponing motherhood "just so they can work a little more," but not everyone meets the person they want to have kids with in their prime reproductive years. Until recently (when egg freezing became more feasible) that left a choice between not waiting and…

I don't really know if it's a question of encouragement. It's happening, and I think we need to figure out how to make it work as a society. Over the years, science has made it possible for women to carry and deliver children, and live to tell the tale, in a variety of circumstances, going all the way back to the…

You do overcome some of the biology - younger egg means much lower risk of child with Down Syndrome, etc. And an older mother doesn't automatically equal a high-risk pregnancy - many women over 35 have completely normal pregancies. One large contributor to the higher-risk stats is older women are more likely to have…

What I am saying is that the majority of those women of advanced maternal age will have come to donor eggs after trying to use their own eggs repeatedly. If you look at any online forum where donor egg use is being discussed, you will find that everyone there has really struggled with the decision to let go of their…

I agree - the intent is genuine, I'm sure, but the ad is way too glib. Dress meme lolz ≠ taking the topic seriously. I'm in favor of eyecatching ads that make people take notice in innovative ways, but there's no artfulness here.

Nobody STARTS with donor eggs, unless they have a genetic problem that they already know about before they start trying to conceive. It's never anyone's first choice. So yes, they DO know what it involves to donate eggs, because they've gone through that process multiple times themselves already.

The tone of entitlement is also extremely chafing for those of us who have had multiple failures at doing what she sees as being as easy as picking up a carton of milk at the store. "Oh, I knew it would work the first time because it did with little Dashiell!" Fuck you, lady, is what I say.

I want Seth Rogen to be my special R-rated friend.

Yep, just grab a fork and dig in! Sardines right out of the can are a great afternoon snack - super-high in protein and no carbs. Much better for an energy boost than anything you'll get out of the snack machine. I try to keep a couple of tins at work. Once I had the idea to mix them into some scrambled eggs for…

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