If your baby hates being read to, you’re doing it wrong.

Also, star this comment if you went to Catholic school and still remember how much fucking time you'd be spending in chapel this week.

I don't know why but knowing this exists makes me oddly happy :)

Flies are always flying

Stabbing someone at a diner is the equivalent of breaking a bottle of champagne across the bow of a ship. You're not properly open for business until bloods been shed. #Jerseystrong

I can't say I know much about how Urban Fantasy that doesn't feature a wisecracking Chicago wizard works, but it seems to me like the genre's got a ready-made archetype for a badass older female protagonist if someone wants to just go back and look at all the witches in folklore. Perhaps your old UF protagonist is…

Someone on Gawker started a "favorite celebrity encounters" thread many months ago. My favorite is still Phillip Seymour Hoffman:

I assumed that's why the doctor in this video administered a sedative first before completing his exam...

I disagree with the Mets lifestyle.

You think you have it figured out? Wait until peri menopause!

Sometimes my dog sits when I ask.

My wife died last year at age 35. (Bear with me, totally not trolling for sympathy.)

Great food for thought, Diana.

NYC stopped picking up garbage several times during strikes and economic struggles. Everything happens first in NYC.

My ring is made out of organically-grown, free-range lentils and the artisans who made it actually paid me to take it off their hands.

This is a little off-topic, but... I had a friend who showed up to my father's funeral wearing jeans and work boots. Because that's what he wears for his job. He took his lunch break two hours early so he could come and pay his respects and I thought it was lovely. He made an effort to be there for my family and we…

The NYPD must need a nap; or else it lost its binkie.

What would be best, is if the NYPD would quit telling lies, killing people, and making up reasons to throw temper tantrums.

Or when she doesn't answer the phone. Sample voicemail: HELLO. ITS YOUR CHILD. I NEED TO KNOW IF IT'S OKAY TO EAT THIS MEATLOAF. CALL ME BACK IF YOU WANT TO KEEP ME ALIVE.