It would just feel good to wear dramatic and beautiful clothing. I don’t happen to have a cape, but that’s easily remedied. 

Testing to see if I’m still dead.

Okay. Hugh Grant?

I was no fan, but that was pretty harsh considering the timing. Save it for like a week?

I feel that Carrie started acting like an adult in Season 5. Still a selfish horrible person, but an adult one. My friends and I have often talked about what a transformative 6-year period it is between 32 and 38—an extension of your 20s to a preview of your 40s. I think this season was the switch-over for Carrie.

Glamour has been missing for awhile now—I’m looking forward to seeing some uncomplicated shiny beauty.

I always assumed this was the reference, too.

And why the hell am I in the greys? I have been in the black for years.

I always think that, but he was totally prepared to buy Carrie’s apartment and the one next door. Maybe he was one of those low-key rich people who like to look kinda broke? He backed the bar, too!

I feel badly for Ivana sometimes. I think she got hosed.

Prude on screen, prude in real life.

Aiden is terrible because he didn’t accept her for who she was. He wanted her to change but was unwilling to try to fit into her world. He was a better human being than Carrie, who is a selfish judgmental prude, but he wasn’t that great for her, either.

As a sidebar, what if we women, as a bloc, decide to quit it with this “effortless” shit. My own grandmother taught me that the more you are complimented on something, the more miraculous it should seem. “You have beautiful skin! What’s your secret? Oh, I just use Oil of Olay!”

I told several people yesterday—I even think I said it here—this horrifying truth: When your brain is trying to kill you, it doesn’t care about outward indicators of success.

Well, you know, he’s an unmitigated fame whore.

I dig little guys, too. Give me a Davy Jones or a Bruno Mars or the little Hemsworth any day! Mikhail Baryshnikov is fucking HOT.

Trivia: The actual old dude portraying Samantha’s 72 year old friend had a nice ass, and they got a flabbier stunt ass for him. Major Question/Plot Hole: Steve went from being a philosophical book lover to being a giant infant. That was convenient for creating draaaaama.

When your brain wants to kill you, it doesn’t care about outside measures of success and happiness. Heartbreaking.

You usually add flourishes when the pen naturally lifts, so it only takes a second. What I find fascinating, though, is that if you mentally remove her swoops, her handwriting is just run-of-the-mill good penmanship!

There IS a market for calligraphy on fancy invitations. Most fine stationers have a cadre of calligraphers they work with, and they will be workaday calligraphers rather than fine artists. Not that there isn’t a lot of overlap between the two.