On Beauty Q&A: What's That Smell?
@Lil Sebastian This *might* smell like Body Splash or w/e, but you could perhaps check out Demeter's Grapefruit Tea? It smells exactly like grapefruit, with supposedly a note of tea that I can't detect. I'm wearing it right now, and I LOVE it, but it definitely smells...well, more like grapefruit than like perfume, which could be good or bad.
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On Madonna's "Girls Gone Wild" Video
All of these things (well, not Fred Astaire) are things that reference, or at least were in part made possible by, Madonna videos...I mean, Alejandro basically WAS a Madonna video. And this new video is pretty much like a Madonna video had a baby with another Madonna video.
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On The Songs of Pure Moods
@camanda LORD I LIFT YOUR NAME ON HIGH. Oh my goodness, the memory bomb you just unleashed on me!
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On What Does a Scientist Look Like?
@piggie This is so wonderful!
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On Curried Chicken and Broccoli Casserole
@Clare UM I want that in my mouth like five minutes ago.
ETA: What kind of noodles do you use?
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On Curried Chicken and Broccoli Casserole
@elizabeast Now that you mention it, I remember that being pretty much the most delicious thing ever...but that can't be true, can it? Maybe this can be my weekend domestic project.
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On Paz de la Huerta Too Paz de la Huerta-y for Boardwalk Empire?
I read that as 'Touching One's Own Breasts While Watching Lana Del Rey Curse' rather than 'THE Touching One's Own Breasts While Watching Lana Del Rey Curse' and thought I was being urged to touch my own breasts while watching this video, and that I must have missed a new Hairpin joke.
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On We're All Murderers Inside Our Own Heads, or The Time My Boss Wanted to Kill Me
@fleurdelivre True dat.
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On We're All Murderers Inside Our Own Heads, or The Time My Boss Wanted to Kill Me
@Party Falcon This is so true! I worked in a University department while I was an undergraduate and I really struggled with the language, particularly when I was being reprimanded - 'You're very good at [thing]! By the way, just recently we've noticed you've been possibly terrible at [completely unrelated thing]. Do you feel we can do anything to help you be less terrible? How was your weekend? Get back to work.'
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On This is a Safe Space to Talk About Your Dissertation
I started biting my nails for the first time ever at age 22 while writing my MA thesis. I got the marker comments on it back in November and I still haven't looked at them. Last week I submitted my first piece of written work for my first PhD monitoring panel and I noticed after I sent it that I had left a small joke to myself within a long footnote on Page 2. I have the meeting next week and I can't decide if, on the chance it is brought up, I should be honest or pretend I was just being blithe and intended it to remain. Sigh!