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The (financial and physical) casualties of wedding dress shopping
I’m stuck in the dress. The zipper has split and there is not enough give for the gown to go up over my head or for me to step out of it. Thing is, this is not just any dress. It’s a high-end couture...
View ArticleARA: Does your dateability go down when you’re unemployed?
A reader asks: I’ve been out of work for a while now, and have been single even longer. I’m wondering what you – and your readers – think about dating while unemployed. Okay? Not okay? When to tell...
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You think you’re going to tow my car?!
Last night I was up in Saratoga shooting Seen at Counting Crows and I had a hankering for a doughboy (OK, maybe three doughboys). With about 30 minutes, I drove over to Esperanto. Somehow, I managed to...
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Great website for wedding invitations
I’ve been lamenting over the wedding invites. And, while I realize I don’t need them yet, I wanted an idea of the general theme so that the save-the-dates complimented the eventual invites. Sure, it...
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Customize your hicky
My familiarity with hickys ends with what I see on TV. I have never had one (thankfully), nor have I ever known anyone has has. I am, quite simply, perplexed by the appeal. There are some people,...
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An $1,800-plus sports bra
Trenta has created an $1,850 sports bra, complete with a Black Diamond Swarovski Crystal neckline. And to think, all along I thought my $9.99, crucifix -free Nike bra from Marshalls was good enough?...
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ARA: What is an appropriate cash gift at a wedding?
A reader asks: Given recent wedding posts (and congrats, btw. I was thinking of you when I drove through Geneva on Sunday) just wondering what is an appropriate cash gift for the bride and groom? So...
View ArticleWoman paints with her 38DDs
Kira Ayn Varszegi’s 38DDs are her meal ticket, and not in the way you may think. The 34-year-old Hartford, Conn. woman creates abstract art with her breasts — and sells each piece for a whopping...
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Guest post: Charlie Sheen, why do we care?
This post is from intern Taylor Rao: It’d be difficult to believe that a million people that would ever follow Charlie Sheen’s example of boisterous behavior, but it is indeed true that they’d at least...
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The great Kraft Macaroni & Cheese debate
Please tell me you saw this: Two food bloggers (and moms) out of North Carolina are not happy Kraft uses color additives in their mac and cheese. The women created a petition on Change.org to force...
View ArticleAmanda Bynes, arrested — again: Has she officially topped Lindsay Lohan?
Amanda Bynes’s days of playing the sweet, younger sister to Jennie Garth’s character on “What I Like About You” are all but forgotten due to the star’s recent rash of run-ins with the law. She’s been...
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Marriage isn’t for you
Many of my married guy friends say their only regret about marriage is that they didn’t do it sooner. They realize the Mr. and Mrs. (or Mr. and Mr., as it may be) isn’t as restricting as they thought....
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Man arrested for taking 5 cents of electricity
Careful where you plug in that electric car. Anyone with a electric car that requires charging, take note: This guy, Kaveh Kamooneh, was arrested for plugging in at the wrong spot — a school in Georgia...
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Why does everyone on Facebook have a raccoon in their bedroom?
Really? You, too? Step aside Giraffe game, the raccoon in the bedroom, has taken your place. Wondering why all your Facebook posts are talking about a raccoon in the bedroom and buying sex toys? I...
View ArticleYouTube’s most popular videos of 2013
The video-sharing website has released a list of this year’s top trending videos and top music videos. Have a look back at some of 2013′s biggest moments in pop culture in the video below and on...
View ArticleHearts in the right place
In less than three hours, $11,000 was raised through gofundme.com for two National Guard soldiers, Jake and Jill Montesano, who lost everything in a house fire — including their two German shepherds...
View ArticleInteractive dialect map
All week, people have been sharing their results of a New York Times quiz “How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk.” The questions relate to how you pronounce certain words or which words you use for...
View ArticleInstagram’s Miserable Men: These guys are tired of shopping
In this season of shopping, returns and even more shopping, the Instagram account Miserable Men has found a way to entertain us: by sharing photos of — what else? — miserable men in malls. There are...
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Man killed by atomic wedgie
An Oklahoma man has been charged with the first degree murder of his stepfather by pulling the waistband of the older man’s under up over his head and face, causing him to choke to death. True story....
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A 40-year-old deaf woman hears for the first time
I’m a sucker for these cochlear-implant videos. If you search “cochlear implant hearing for the first time” on YouTube, you’ll find several vids of people of all ages experiencing sound, voices, and...
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