Postcards from Nowhere

So lovely reader Nina was true to her word and sent me postcards from her various vacation destinations this summer.  While she didn’t get me a picture of a man riding a dinosaur, she did sent me some uniformly AWFUL postcards. First up, a recipe from Ohio: Nina said: All the postcards centered around these [...]

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I Promise, This Is a Post You’ll All Actually Care About

Assuming that you all care about romance novels of dubious quality.  Which is assuming rather a lot. Wait–most of you found me because of I Love My Dead Gay Husband.  We’re good! Eloisa James, A Duke of Her Own After years of whoring around and never using condoms, the Duke of Villiers has six illegitimate [...]

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And While We’re Talking about Haterade…

After witnessing the brewing storm on twitter because of Dooce’s laundry situation (no, I am not making this up, this is an actual issue for some people), I decided that it was time to lay out my intentions for you, all 10 of my extremely occasional readers: If I ever get internet-famous, I solemnly swear [...]

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Let’s Hear It for the Baby-Haters!

Now, let’s get this straight:  I am not actually a baby hater.  One of the ladies in my office has an adorable, chubby baby that I occasionally get to see and nosh on, and it is hard for me not to run off with him.  Babies are part of my life plan, which is why [...]

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Guidos Have Feelings, Too

So I’ve read the first two Jessica Darling books—I even reviewed them here—and I bought the next two.  And they’ve been sitting on my shelf, unread, for a year.  Because I read the first sixty pages or so of the third one and found something that I just cannot get past.

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Celebrity Memoir Monday

Tori Spelling, sTori Telling Spelling’s first memoir, in which she details her childhood, her pre-reality show career, and the dissolution of her first marriage and the affair that led to her second. For me, the most interesting part about this autobiography was the fact that I totally had to read a book about the Voodoo [...]

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The Boyfriend Rolls His Own

..sushi, that is. And for the record, when he said that he wanted his face obscured for this photo, I volunteered to (badly) photoshop Rain’s head onto his body.  Or, if he preferred, I could make him look like young and hot Jet Li from Lethal Weapon 4. I even offered to give him Brad [...]

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The Horror: Part I

So awhile back, I promised to liveblog this: (Holy shit, what have I done?) And you know guys, I’m not going to welsch on you.  I will uphold my side of the bargain.  But in pieces and parts, because sweet heavenly Jesus, I cannot read that shit all in one sitting.  It is just not [...]

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Attack of the 16 lb Toilet-Drinker

So most of the time, the toilet-drinker (otherwise known as Oliver) is a pretty mellow guy.  A good portion of the day, he can be found chillin’ like a villain: (Probably dreaming of taking another nap.) But the truth is that despite his missing front fang, his knowing eyes, and his…impressive bulk, Oliver is actually [...]

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I Might Have Forgiven the Pun if the Book Hadn’t Been So Sexist

But then again, probably not.  I have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to puns. Iain Pears, Stone’s Fall A mystery told in four parts by three narrators, the story begins relatively simply.  Journalist Matthew Braddock, now an old man, attends the funeral of a mysterious Frenchwoman to whom he has some unexplained connection.  After the [...]

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