emilyalford
Emily Alford
emilyalford
Ph.D. in English. Flower in the Attic. Shares name with superior Brontë.

I thought the same thing! Like, there was no one she could ask about the going rate for a celebrity children’s book?  Read more

No, I understand the full context of the term. It is impossible to overestimate my propensity for being clandestinely childish.  Read more

According to The Little Friend, one need be an aunt with a dead husband who often wears slacks. I’ve got two out of three. Read more

You’re right. I forgot yesterday happened. Fixing now.  Read more

I do that every time! Thank you. From now on any and all Hemsworths shall be known as Chlis. Read more

I knew there was going to be a perfect German word and was legitimately asking. Thank you!  Read more

I can’t. Googled the age and Tish was born three years into the Reality Bites generation.   Read more

Um I wait all week for the shelter cat update just like everybody else :) Thank you all so much for having me!  Read more

I’m starting to think these rich, powerful men aren’t any good. Read more

I didn’t even think of that. Yes. Give it to her and then set fire to the lab, the pills, and the records. Now it’s the story of science saving humanity, much nicer Read more

Because I was stupid enough to get three degrees in reading books, which I could have done for free.  Read more

It’s not worth an entire post. All the good people of Jezebel go home on the weekends, leaving me behind to find and write stories to both entertain and appall you. I write them as fast as I can, mistakes happen, and I correct those mistakes as soon as the grammar-loving crowd types their displeasure. Read more

I’ll cop to the errors not in the pull quotes but my use of the word literally was spot-on.   
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Yes. Roman Polanski has also been awarded access to the future so we are never to be free of him. Fixing now :) Read more

Ah, a quick Google search said the Giannulli house was in Beverly Hills. I live in L.A. too and was wondering where all these people lived because of the school district thing. (I live one block from the “city” of WeHo.) Read more

Right, that was my point. They could have just bought a house in BH if they didn’t live there already and sent their kids to high schools no doubt equipped with an army of guidance counselors. They were not tied to whatever school district they were in like most other Americans. Lori Loughlin is, by definition, a Read more

Not to mention the “a woman is stalked by her husband’s stalker/mistress/lover/student” formula à la the brilliant “A Deadly Adoption.” Read more