I’m no expert, but I seem to recall about 8 billion* tweets criticizing Beyonce for having blonde-ish long hair at her superbowl performance. For just one example.

In many states, things that are considered “necessities” are not taxed. So for example here in NY, many groceries are not taxed, basic clothing has been tax-exempt for a number of years (items under $110 so long as they don’t have too many sparkly things like sequins), and many drugstore items. But feminine hygiene…

I think they actually wear the matching patriotic leotards for the team competition, and then the wear different (choose their own color) leotards when they compete in the individual competition. We’ll have to wait and see if I’m right, but that’s what I remember from past Olympics.

Not a museum, but at the Time Warner Center in NYC, there are two giant bronze Botero statues. of naked people. You know how bronze gets shiner when it’s polished? Let’s just say it’s fairly obvious that the male statue is getting touched WAY too much.

When I was young I used to take lots of pics of art, and then once I actually got into photography more seriously I realized I could never take pics that would equal either the original or high quality prints/art books. Now I enjoy myself significantly more by just walking through museums and actually looking at the…

I had this happen once years ago - I went on a bit of a shopping spree. The combination of starting my first professional job after graduating from law school, plus one of those NY state tax-free weekends (before they made clothes under $110 tax free altogether) sent my friends and I on a frenzy. At about the 8th…

I literally broke down in tears this morning just thinking about the fact that Obama will not be our president anymore in a few months. I’m 42 years old, I turned 18 in 1992 and Bill was the first election I got to vote in, and I’m really looking forward to voting for Hillary, but Obama has been a once in a lifetime…

I will admit that I kind of love this stuff too. I wear them with either leggings or with loose culottes (more boxiness!). Then I wear hippie-sandals and carry a parasol to protect my pasty white skin. I think i’m settling into my IDGAF middle-aged-ness quite nicely.

I actually keep my AC set at, like, 74. It’s enough to suck the humidity out and keep my apartment from becoming an oven, but otherwise keeps my place from turning into a giant icebox.

Yes, and for many years he refused to cash checks or take money for much of his work beyond the bare minimum - he founded several magazines, but refused to profit from their sales, so I’m not sure he actually would care what happened to his work after his death enough to write a will - that’s the real crux of it. I…

Me too! I didn’t get into Cornell, which I had wanted since I was a kid - they had routinely admitted over a dozen kids from each class of my high school every year. My year, they decided they had too high a ‘concentration’ and only admitted two early decision applicants (my parents wouldn’t let me apply early…

I think this was the most heartbreaking part. That she had spent so long blaming her mother, and then years later discovered that her mother had actually tried to prevent it and basically never deflected the daughter’s blame onto the true perpetrators so that the daughter wouldn’t hate everyone else in the family who…

I like my Pebble Time Round - they’ve recently improved the health-related functionality, adding health recording to the app (in addition to syncing to the iOS/android native health apps), and the best part about it is that you don’t need to wear a fitness device in addition to a watch. Plus, it’s nice looking, unlike…

I like my Pebble Time Round - they’ve recently improved the health-related functionality, adding health recording to…

welcome to the mistake made by every man to ever take a class in my old womens’ studies department.

Yeah - even back when I was in college a million years ago (or 20+, but who’s counting?), we had plenty of “affinity” clubs, like the Black Student Union, the Jewish Student Union, various gay and lesbian groups, but in order to be recognized as official campus organizations and receive a share of that sweet, sweet,…

I don’t know - I could totally see taking advantage of something like this while I do some renovations on my (real) apartment that I couldn’t live through (redoing the floors in particular). I’ve been looking for a while for some sort of temporary/month-to-month furnished living situation while that goes on. I’d…

I was born with a ridiculous amount of hair and everyone told my mother the same old wives’ tale. But mine never fell out either. To this day I have the thickest hair of anyone my hair stylist has ever seen. As a bonus, as a teenager during the high-perm era of the 1980s, getting a perm required five boxes of perm…

I had a diabetic cat growing up, and it was a pain. my cat now eats a combo of wet food and dry food (supplemented by a daily allowance of dental treats), but the most important thing, according to my vet, was to make sure that she couldn’t free graze throughout the day - to have set meal times. So i got a “wet food”…

Hee - that’s exactly what I call it too - her venus flytrap maneuver. You *think* they want belly rubs, but don’t fall for it. The belly is a trap!

The idea is that coats and small stuff can be fitted around the edges of the wheelie bags, but if you put that stuff in first, you can’t get the wheelie bags in at all. It’s about efficiency and maximizing space. And technically, no one has “allotted” or “designated” space in the overhead bins.