One of my favorite variations is a Pink 75. Substitute rose petal jam for the simple syrup & use Hendrick's gin. It's gorgeous in the glass and very tasty.

door dashers are so so bad! bad bad bad! (sorry, i am actually saying these words to the resident door dasher, who is planning a dash even as i write - i can see it in his shifty eyes and slightly askew ears.) bad, door dasher, bad! outside that door is death!

yeah, pretty much no hot men here. and boca? really?

she is just precious! want to kiss her little forehead!

OMG, had a single-snaggle-tooth also! called her curly sue because of the weird but so cute twisted tooth that always protruded. snaggle pusses foreva!

Thank you! She actually is pretty bad ass. Just moments ago I had to rescue my parents' mild mannered felines who were cornered by my ninjacat. She is very sweet with people, but does not play well with other cats.

black cats go with everything. this is black betty, aka le bete noir.

You are quite right! In 2000, Redbook made an editorial change to sex itself up, in a futile effort to distance itself from the old lady category of magazines where it rightly belongs. It did become racier, but did not really become "younger." It's still an old lady magazine, just a bit trashier than, say, Good…

Maybe Barris should just come out and say it then.

Redbook has always embraced regressive politics and atrocious photos. Like the other remaining four of the "seven sisters," it's an embarrassment.

A few moments with those scissors looked pretty dicey, as well. "Watch as Grandma stabs herself with unnecessarily sharp shears on Christmas morning."

The only great NYE I've had was ringing in the year 2000 at some cheesy overpriced night club with a hot new boyfriend. When the dj dropped "1999," I thought I may have lived my whole (short) life for just that moment.

i think it's totally awesome! where'd she get it?

In case you haven't read his source material, both of David Simon's books (Homicide and The Corner) are absolutely excellent. And absolutely heartbreaking.

It's good this girl didn't read Augustine's Confessions, or else she might think that chewing vegetables causes them pain (a belief of the fifth century Manichean faith).

ED: of course, I was in a country with free emergency medical care for all (even a furiner like me), so there's that.

As an American who lost a finger tip on a boat, I did (admit my fault, that is). All I wanted was a pain killer.

As an American who lost a finger tip on a boat, I did (admit my fault, that is). All I wanted was a pain killer.