Girl I love Father Ralph and enjoyed that book immensely but I just had a lot of trouble with the earliest parts of the book when she is five and her parents don't pay her any attention but Father Ralph does and they have this "special closeness." Read more

"a mix of Sharon Stone in Casino and Diana Ross in Mahogany" oh my god it's so perfect Read more

the girl who got bounced from heaven Read more

the deadspin guys already ate it all, sorry Read more

what, you don't like my groovy new spelling???? Read more

The answer to that question is generally yes, as long as you're not standing on a boardwalk somewhere. Read more

The weird thing is, I don't think he was joking. I think he maybe actually thought this was a good idea? Read more

Oh, I just meant very sensitive about the War being a serious subject that's talked about in a very specific (and generally reverent) way. Read more

Can you imagine if someone running for, say, United States Senator, pushed back on all that "Greatest Generation" talk? You'd be in deep shit, politically. Read more

Hi there! This blog post was written for a largely American audience, some of whom might not know as much about the war on the Eastern front because America generally doesn't talk that much about it in our schools, and therefore I used a point of comparison that would be familiar to, again, Americans. Obviously the… Read more

no but the amazon description calls it "a russian thornbirds" so obviously I'm ordering it RIGHT NOW Read more

Oh, totally. And also when it comes to this kind of thing: fuck patience. Read more

For what it's worth, I tend to think of it less as giving cookies (sorry, I save all cookies 4 myself) as recognizing signs for optimism. And I do think that this move and the shifted rhetoric of the pope represent a stepping back from institutional support of the culture wars. Which doesn't mean the Age of Aquarius… Read more

shout out to my mom though — our convo last night inspired me to get the stuff to make this pot roast when I'm stuck inside tomorrow Read more

I feel like if my eyelashes really were that Disney princess I would have ended up with a wildly different outlook on life Read more

Come on, you know that half a handle of infused vodka from your Fun in the Sun party looks leftover in February, admit it Read more

This reminds me of a wisecrack I heard one time — somebody pointed out that the most effective anti-smoking ad would be to simply say: You're going to get addicted and one day you're going to want to smoke but it's going to be super cold outside. Read more

I don't think they'd be alarmed if it weren't for the rising rates of addiction and overdose. That's why they're worried, not just because women are poppin' pills. The medical biz needs to work on alternative pain management strategies if the one we've got puts a bunch of women on the path to addiction. (WEED 4… Read more

These Cats Want to Talk to You About Addiction Read more

Yeah, to be clear, opioid addiction is nothing to fuck with. (It is also really hard to get people to click on an article about opioid addiction, without a grabby headline.) Read more