I played a harmonica or two in my day. (Badly, in high school, against the advice of many.) Read more

Already corrected. Damn you, Kinja hijacks. Read more

...wait, the Jonas with the eyebrow game has a music career? Read more

Hello! To clarify: I was not being snarky—quite the opposite.
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It’s times like these I’m grateful that I am a queer lady, basically. Read more

Already been solved! Read more

But no seriously wait what? Read more

Wait, what? Read more

Favorite (mostly) blind item of my summer. Read more

I honestly can’t recall. I worked there roughly a decade ago, and to top it all off, we weren’t allowed to actually watch the episodes if the store was empty, which it usually was. I suppose it was for ambiance. Or a riff on the Stanford Prison Experiment. Read more

If you don’t think I’m watching this movie right this minute, you are very wrong. Read more

I have no idea how I somehow blocked out the fact that she was in Star Trek 2, but I am very upset about it. Read more

Exactly!

(Sidenote: as someone who lived in Boston for four years before moving to NYC, I always found Bostonians to be a lot more gruff and generally more mean than New Yorkers. Massholes will literally run you down in the street and not even blink as they barrel away. Still love the heck out of that city, though.) Read more

Rick Moody’s short story “Forecast from the Retail Desk” from his wonderful collection Demonology did the trick for me. (Shudder.) Read more

I myself could never own a pet rodent — my phobias get the best of me — but they do make sense as pets, generally. Read more

P.S. I think Macaulay won out, to be honest :-(. Read more

It’s the common lesbian small-scale tragedy. Read more

Yup, that’s what my dad, a Brit, calls it. Read more

Hey, thanks for saying I’m super respectful to commenters! I’m glad you think so. Guess my writing workshops back in undergrad/grad school paid off in unexpected ways, haha. Read more

I accidentally posted two comments regarding the fact that I included both a description and the video because my Internet was wonky — didn’t mean to overemphasize. Just wanted to show my due diligence in regards to the article and responses. Read more