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Pets

Surprise Canine Reactions

Sometimes, dogs are just weird. You get all geared up to do something you know they’ll love, and they’re completely freaked out. As much as they love novelty, they also have strong ideas about what’s acceptable, and sometimes it makes sense only to them.

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Humor

The 5 Stages of Moving

Our dear Pileofmonkeys gave some really good advice about moving the other week. It’s very practical. But I’m not practical.

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You Complete Me Internet

This Week’s Best of Pinterest: Funny Things Edition (Cats Included)

Hello, my sparkling lovelies. I think Pinterest would like to help brighten your day, so let us take a look at some funny things I’ve seen floating about the place this week.

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Movies

Book to Film Adaptations: High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

High Fidelity is one of those rare instances where the movie is just as good as the book. The two are different, yes, but I count both among my favorites.

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Books

Book Review: How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You

As a Crazy Cat-Person who is currently without cats (and therefore feeling a profound cat-deficit in life) and as a longtime reader of The Oatmeal, of course I had to get my mitts on How to Tell If Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You.

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Pop Culture

What I Watched Last Night: Drunk History

Oh, I could have watched something classy. Or thought-provoking. I had good intentions of perusing the neglected portions of my Netflix queue, but in the end, my husband went down the Vimeo-rabbit-hole, and I watched.

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Books

Book Review: “Let’s Pretend This Never Happened” by Jenny Lawson

My husband could not wait until I was done reading this book. For one thing, I couldn’t read it in bed while he was trying to sleep because my laughing would shake the whole mattress, followed by me going, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry,” and then cracking up all over again. When I read it in […]

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Just for Fun

What I Watched Last Night Was Dangerously Delicious

Do you ever spend some money and are like, “That was so worth it. I’m not disappointed in my purchase at all”? That’s how I felt last night after spending $5 to download Aziz Ansari’s latest special, “Dangerously Delicious.”

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Veg*

Vegans Aren’t Always Debbie D’s! Going Vegan with Ellen and other Fun(ny) Stuff

Why did the tofu cross the road? To prove he wasn’t chicken! [laugh track] What do you call a vegan post-punk band?  Soy Division! [laugh track] This week Ellen DeGeneres launched her website about going vegan, so I thought it might be nice to share some more light hearted and comedic vegan stuff including an […]

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Politics

Anthony Weiner’s Greatest Hits

Anthony Weiner is the Congressional Representative for New York’s 9th District in New York City. He’s an unabashed Democrat and has been gaining notoriety lately for his caustic wit, snarky jibes, and fiery tenacity that he throws at the Republicans on a regular basis.

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The Frisky Feminist

Tentacles, Disembodied Tongues, and the Horn of Plenty

We often talk about how we think it’s important to be able to laugh about sex. Also, I’m still scrambling to finish the rough draft of my thesis, so I wanted something entertaining but quick to talk about. (NSFW sex toy pictures and links, so beware!)

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7 Questions

7 Questions for a Witty Gentleman: Subject L

Tonight’s Witty Gentleman comes to us by way of Rosa, and you’re going to have lots of fun with him. Find out all his secret answers after the break.

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Perspectives

The Furious Guide to Being a Stay-At-Home Girlfriend

A week ago, the internet was all aflutter when this “How To Survive as a SAHG” piece was posted on Brokelyn.  As a stay-at-home girlfriend myself (read: unemployed and my boyfriend totally didn’t sign on for this when we moved in together) it was relevant to my interests.  I sent the link to my boyfriend […]

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Just for Fun

Versus

This is a fun game I like to play where I compare two things that are somewhat similar and determine which one is better. And by determine, I mean arbitrarily and capriciously declare based on my subjective preferences. Let’s begin”¦

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The Daily Goodie

The Daily Goodie: 1/28

Happy Friday once again, my dears. Today’s Goodie is for all you bookish nerds out there. I’ve just been made aware of Book-A-Minute, a years-old website that provides short, slighly snarky summaries of classic books. I’m aware that y’all hate clicking through to external websites, but believe me that this is worth the click. Here’s […]