On Why 1995 Was Probably the Best Year Ever for Movies
@dahlface Please tell me you all are watching the La Femme Nikita reboot on the CW. Devon Sawa keeps showing up and kicking ass. It's everything 1995 me could possibly want.
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On Really Good Books About Fake Murder
@Dale Edmonds@facebook I don't care if I'm commenting weeks late, I just love Cadfael so so much. Thanks to Ellis Peters the "Interests" section of my resume (my school makes me do this, although it makes me feel like an overeager teenager) actually includes "medieval murder mysteries" among my primary interests. See also Ariana Franklin's "Mistress of the Art of Death" series. In other historicals, I love Deanna Raybourn's Lady Julia Grey series, Dianne Day's Fremont Jones series and Ruth Downie's "Medicus" series.
I recently started reading Val McDiarmid after Netflix sent me down the rabbit hole with "Gritty BBC Procedurals". Damn you Wire in the Blood! I also used to love Kathy Reichs and Janet Burke, but those series really lost momentum. I don't care about Temperance Brennan's love life, I just want to hear about gruesome forensics. Still, the first few are pretty awesome.
More murder!
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On "Was My Face Red!"
@Gina@twitter I'm so glad someone else admitted to hoarding YMs and Seventeens. I just found a box of them in my parents' attic and actually had a hard time deciding whether or not to keep them. I mean, now they're artifacts. The prom issues alone are worth their weight in gold.
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On Love, Bathrooms, and the Older Male Coworker
@figwiggin I want to like all these SO many times. Gigi is the best ever.
Also "Bad table manners, my dear Gigi, have broken up more marriages than infidelity."
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On Love, Bathrooms, and the Older Male Coworker
@Mame16th Why do random guys always want to pet long hair? It's so creepy. Also, it still feels like hair, so what is the big appeal? It's like people touching pregnant bellies. Boundaries! Not that I'm still weirded out a decade later or anything.
And then there are the women that tell you never to cut your hair because they used to have long hair and cut it and always always always regretted it. So don't do it. EVER.
For the record, no regrets. It was incredibly satisfying to chop off feet and feet of hair. In fact, so satisfying that I grew it out and did it again.
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On Scandals of Classic Hollywood: Rita Hayworth, Tragic Princess
@Minnow Yes! Their feud was fascinating. The New York Times or New York Magazine (there was a new york in there somewhere and I'm pretty sure it wasn't the New Yorker) did a great piece on it last year or so. As a huge fan of both Rebecca and Gone With the Wind, I was riveted. I had no idea!
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On How Do You Know When It's Time to Move?
Connecticut! (Specifically Fairfield County) The worst part is that even when you move, somehow Connecticut FOLLOWS you. Basically, CT is your creepy stalker (Your Edward Cullen, if you will). You meet him one time, are sort of put off by his weird family and obvious repression, but he just shows up randomly to watch you sleep, no matter how many states away you go.
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On Margaret Sanger, Badass Mother Lover
@Craftastrophies new feature, please
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On "Before You Die, You See"
@Emily Kaye Lazzaro For me it was "Scream" late at night in Easton in a room just full of French doors... (I was also a senior in 2002 in Fairfield)
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On Really Good Books That Happen to Be Free For the Kindle: Part One
Bram Stoker, proving yet again that good grammar costs NOTHING. Also, everybody should just read Dracula. It's awesome.