Ladies First.
We were nestled in the relationship sweet spot: lying on separate sofas watching Gwyneth Paltrow deliver her Oscar acceptance speech for Shakespeare in Love. Then Amy muted the television and cleared her throat. The words came off her tongue too cle…
Brenda “My daughter is now 36, and lives in San Francisco. I remember when she sold Girl Scout cookies door to door. Nobody ever really bought them. But she never gave up.” To celebrate Mother’s Day, we talked with 20 moms during an overcast, leaf…
Here's my best archives story: when I was doing my Ph.D. research, I went to Poland to look for the papers of one of the guys I was working on. The archivist there didn't speak English and I don't speak Polish, so for a while we were talking to eac…
@The Lady of Shalott I've got super-curly hair, like mach 5, Felicity-level curly, like curlier than the after shot of Jane's Flashdance-esque curling tutorial. and to do this look, I apply a LOT of gel to wet hair, fingerwave the top down to the e…
This is the last in a series of tournaments pitting the amusingly horrible things people have said to one another … against one another. This round turned out to be a little trickier than the past few (see: strangers, moms, bosses, significant oth…
@antarcticastartshere I am totally one of those people who is always defending her! I am like “Guys, she is totally right!” half the time and they're like, “What a shrew.” BUT SHE IS TOTALLY RIGHT ABOUT BEING DISCRETE AND OMG SHE IS SO SMART (well, …
It’s been a little more than a year since April 15, 2011, a date known as Black Friday to most poker players. On that day, every American who visited Fulltiltpoker.com or Pokerstars.com saw an unwelcome Department of Justice logo pasted onto a white…
You may or may not be familiar with The Horse. Perhaps as a child, you had many Marguerite Henry books, or you watched National Velvet every day after school for four months, or you pretended to be taking jumps over fences during long car rides. Per…
@discocammata Hmmm. Basically that when I went to grad school (lo these many months ago) I had been messing around with art administration and visitor services at museums since graduating from college (with an art/museum studies degree), half-hearte…
Here is what we know about the girls on Girls (the first episode of which is now on YouTube). They are lean and they are leggy, they have fat thighs and they have smart mouths, they call each other at work to discuss the details of their STDs, they …
The people in these stock photos must be the same motor-skilled deficient folks…
Samantha Parkington: Did you know, when you picked her out, that Samantha was the cool one? Or were…
I hope he also wished to win “Best Mustache” next year. Despite the economic…
Baby Boy: The Sociocultural Effects of Prolonged Male Adolescence Check on It: The Gendered Dynamics of Male Spectatorship in Urban Public Spaces Crazy in Love: The Diagnosis and Treatment of “Female Hysteria”… N…
With its cast of international superstars, 135-minute running time, nine…
I could write an entire book about horses and how into them I am, but let's…
Bella Swan, by contrast, is a much more honest (though cringe-inducing)…
As for The Woman Question: I definitely became intrigued by the fact that…
1. Sometimes state flags run out of red marker before they're finished.… 2. Sometimes state flags have aspirations of being limited edition vinyl release indie rock album covers. (California) 3. Sometimes state flags try to do too m…
Each year of your twenties is worth three in regular time. The decade moves…
That was fast. Allegedly the pop star was upset after a contestant butchered…
One year later, a dogged handful still believe that Anthony Weiner was framed.
Happy 30 birthday to the the most lovable alien. However, E.T. wasn't…
