She's probably Vlad's personal chef, if I had to guess.

So we should ignore broad civil rights violations and gender-based discrimination just because it's "their culture"? Where do you draw the line? I guess we should ignore racial or ethnic genocide in other countries because that's just "the culture," right?

Their eyeshadow is amazing, though!

When I told my grandma my boyfriend and I got a puppy, she frowned and said, "Kids are better than dogs. Dogs are too much work. Why not a child?"

Yeah, it's weird. I recently became interested in Japan and Japanese culture again after almost two decades of exploring other things. I had a Japanese pen pal as a child, during the Age of Sailor Moon — so that point in my life was a perfect storm of Japan love. But I went for the first time this year on a total…

You had me at Sysco ranch dressing.

I know kimonos are a Big Deal, but I still was surprised to have my 40-something Japanese friend mention she has a kimono teacher when we were hanging out in Tokyo in October.

Those would only look good on someone with no hips who weighs 100lbs.

Goddamnit, finally a voice of reason.

We have a doberman puppy, and the small dog people who insist on bringing their tiny dogs into the big dog zone at Silver Lake always end up screaming at me because my dog is "attacking" theirs — meaning he's playing and bowing and just wants to hang out because he. is. a. puppy.

LOL OK, bro.

Wait, she was hating on a West Hollywood dog park? Does she even live here? That would take so much of the load off the Silver Lake dog park and Griffith Park. I'm all for the yippy yappy WeHo lap/apartment dogs to have their own place to chill.

Amazed that this Real Life Troll Creature actually found a woman willing to marry him.

I laughed. People (re: Vegans) need to lighten up sometimes.

Fuck, I wonder how many White People I can swindle cash from by offloading the pinecones and pine branches that are littering our yard right now.

Just don't dare to bring over your standard store-bought crap from [massive grocery retailer] when you cook with Ina. Ina will have none of that pedestrian slop. Only GOOD* mayonnaise and GOOD olive oil for Ina.

For me, it was "Let's pray."

For me, church was youth group every Wednesday night (I picked up work shifts every other Wednesday), which was basically church with minor supervision in the form of a cooOoOOoooky youth pastor that was totally down and hip to our jive and cooly fresh yo, and understood our young feels, and, "...word, dog. I get you.…

My white as hell Grandpa did the exact same thing for the exact same reason. He passed away this summer, and the grandkids worked that into his eulogy. It's family lore at this point.

To talk about Seattle and the Northwest music scene in the early 90s and overlook Bikini Kill is to completely rewrite the region's impact on the last 30 years of popular music culture. Ditto with leaving Hole out of any discussion of Los Angeles.