Happy Halloween! I hope you are all getting more treats than tricks. I had a fantastic Halloween weekend, thanks to VAMPIRE BATS, the made for TV disaster movie about–well, vampire bats—starring Lucy Lawless. Awesome stuff. Except that while I was watching, I saw an ad for made-for-TV disaster movie that could be even better, and  Read more »

I will admit it's hard to knit and chat at the same time…if you're cyber-chatting, that is. But that's what we've got planned for this Sunday at 2PM (Eastern standard time): a massive knit-and-chat with author of the Meg Cabot Book Club's October pick of the month CHICKS WITH STICKS. But don't worry…you don't need  Read more »

Just a quick post to let you know that Key West is FINE after Hurricane Wilma…bruised but not broken! I will post a longer entry about it after my broadband is back up (yes! I am posting this by dial up! That is how dedicated I am to keeping you informed on the minutest details  Read more »

Level of Allergens in the air due to Wilma:High (woke with eyelids so swollen, I look like a komodo dragon). Level of Reporters in town due to Wilma:High. They are all gathered outside the La Concha hotel, drinking Starbucks and saying things like, “Brian, some residents of Key West are not heeding orders to evacuate,  Read more »

Remember this book?If you don't, you need to run and get a copy, pronto. This is the best book to read when you're having “one of those days.” Which I happen to be. I am having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day—but it hasn't been as bad as Henrietta's. I mean, it's true  Read more »

Wow. So it turns out author Marian Keyes already wrote an essay in her new book about how it's ok to be a feminist and wear lip gloss, and she called it “The F Word” (thanks to alert UK readers for the heads up on this) just like I did in my last blog entry.  Read more »

Oh my God, people. You can SO call yourself a feminist and still shave your legs and wear high heels and listen to Eminem and the Bloodhoung Gang. You can even read PLAYBOY and still be a feminist—I KNOW the girls are all scary thin and air-brushed, but where else are you going to find  Read more »

*Dear Keira Knightley, Okay, so I'm really sorry I said all that mean stuff about you in my blog a few entries ago. I didn't know you were cool, okay? I DIDN'T KNOW. Then I read that article about you in last month's ELLE or whatever it was, and you said you're a feminist and  Read more »

After the devastating news about Paris and Paris splitting up (why, God, why? If those two crazy kids can't make it together, can anyone?) then Jessica and Nick (are they breaking up or aren't they? Why won't Jessica just wear her wedding ring when she goes out? And is this all just a publicity stunt  Read more »

After clarifying in my last blog how to tell when your “That's it. I'm out” moment has occurred in a romantic relationship, I was inundated by emails containing the following lament: “But how can I break up with a boyfriend when I can't even get a boyfriend in the first place???” Girls, girls, girls. I  Read more »