i gotta say, talking about finishing my book is proving to be easier than actually finishing it ( Read more... )

Things I could watch 10,000 times:

- When Harry Met Sally

- Empire Records

- Chinatown

- Seasons one through four of The West Wing, especially the crisis episodes. Something about the chemistry of those actors and the crispness of their dialogue floors me every time. And seriously, world leaders could learn something. Olmert, for example, ( Read more... )

Three fantastic woman-centered stories in the Washington Post this morning. It's almost enough to make me proud of my sex for the first time since Paris Hilton arrived on the scene. In combination with Pepsi's new female CEO of color, it's an almost dizzying week for the X chromosome. Huzzah ( Read more... )

no one ever gets to travel to europe again. i thought asia was bad! this heathrow mass-murder-by-gatorade-and-ipod nonsense has been making me crazy since i heard about it, largely because ben is in munich and i didn't know how, exactly, he was getting home ( Read more... )

ABB imagines the NAACP dinner this year that Bush might FINALLY condescend to attend: Concerned NAACP member…"Mr. President, how do you plan to address concerns about disenfranchisement in the age of computerized voting ( Read more... )

There comes a point in every girl's life when she must ask herself why, for all that is holy, did she just pay $25 for a Russian woman, in curlers and drawn-on eyebrows, to paint her toenails her least favorite color ( Read more... )

SETTING: Discount shoe store on a lovely Sunday afternoon.

CHARACTERS: Me, Ester, casually looking for comfy cute shoes -- a never-ending journey; Girly-Girl, in a sundress, trying on strappy sandals; Overinvolved Salesman, sticking his nose in.

And Scene!:

As Ester walks in, OS is telling shoppers, "Oh no, girl, those are shoes you wear ( Read more... )

here's one potential wedding site and the best thing about it is, you can get married in "a hemlock grove." A HEMLOCK GROVE. Can you think of anything cooler that would be simultaneously acceptable to grandmothers??

Snippets from Stephen Colbert chatting with Congressfolk. My favorite bit: Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif ( Read more... )

i'm a bad swattie. every once in a while, guilt swirls up around me about this. how could i be so bad? it was my first choice skool and it picked me in the first round -- love, actually, reciprocated. where did we go wrong ( Read more... )