Name Nerd Duana Names: CLOCK IS TICKING..! Hi Duana, I am desperate for your insight and perspective... and am being induced to have my baby tomorrow! This is my third boy, and I feel like all I have left are rejected names from already having to name two boys: The TL, DR version: My top name is By Duana • Oct 29, 2020 03:10 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Who Are They Now? Dear Duana, I am writing with a bit of an unusual name suggestion request. I have a child who is 13 years old, and identifies as non-binary with preferred pronouns of "they / them". Our family loves and supports them, and we are so happy to see them embracing By Duana • Oct 19, 2020 03:48 pm
TV Updates Binge Deaf U Immediately How do you get people to do stuff you want them to? More specifically, how do you get someone to watch or listen to something you’re obsessed with? Lainey tries to manipulate me. “It’s got this that and that, which you love!” Sasha tosses in small tidbits about By Duana • Oct 14, 2020 03:33 pm
TV Updates SNL is my Favourite Pandemic Sport Am I the only narcissist who thinks, “Hey I said a smart thing, why didn’t everyone pick up on it?” (I’d venture no, because that’s the sole reason Twitter is still in business.) I was very pleased with myself on an episode of Show Your Work for By Duana • Oct 09, 2020 02:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Witches - Anne Hathaway's Triumph? It's been an unexpected pleasure of the past few years to have several of our most beloved stars find The Roles They Were Born To Play. Jennifer Aniston's Alex in The Morning Show, Reese Witherspoon in Big Little Lies. Hell, I'm very late to By Duana • Oct 02, 2020 03:10 pm
Top Reads Every Brand Should Be Courting Gabrielle Union Well, it’s Friday, who’s ready for a horrifying thought? As bad as everyone acknowledges this year has been – last night I snickered at a “YearQuil” meme: ‘End 2020 Fast’, I realized that this may actually be a time we look back on with… okay, not happiness, but nostalgia; By Duana • Sep 25, 2020 12:50 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Beyonce’s Sister meets Moulin Rouge? Hi Duana, If it's a boy he will be Linus Winston. That's settled. We'll only have one, so I don't care about having the girl name "go" with Linus. But that girl name… Our last name starts with L and By Duana • Sep 23, 2020 03:58 pm
Emmy Awards 2020 Jennifer Aniston’s Loss Is Still Everyone’s Win If there’s one thing Jennifer Aniston is gonna do it’s wear a boring black dress. #Emmys — Kathleen Newman-Bremang (@KathleenNB) September 21, 2020 You know when someone makes a joke and you’re mad you didn’t think of it first? Yeah ^^. I mean, was there really any doubt? By Duana • Sep 21, 2020 01:08 pm
Emmy Awards 2020 Uzo Aduba reps for Mrs. America When did you find out that ‘earnest’ is a bad word? Or – do you think it’s a bad word? I always thought it was good, like earnest is honest in a way that means, you know, transparent. I was fully in my 20s before I heard it derided. A By Duana • Sep 21, 2020 12:09 pm
Emmy Awards 2020 Succession’s Non-Sweep: Worst Best Emmy’s Acceptance Speech First things first – if we’re going to talk about Succession, you have to know what I have in my head at all times while it’s on, from the moment the first chord plays on the piano: ‘A kiss from Dad-dy-y’. It KILLS me. Because it’s so petty. By Duana • Sep 21, 2020 11:25 am
Music Emmys In Memoriam: H.E.R I saw a few tweets last night criticizing the In Memoriam segment, specifically the arrangement (which seemed insane, because it was stunning) or the editing, but I have to ask, exactly who is watching this segment and thinking ‘this doesn’t really meet my standards on an aesthetic level’? I By Duana • Sep 21, 2020 09:46 am
TV Updates Regina King and the Kingdom of Watchmen I’ve rewritten this sentence about nine times. What I want to say is “Watchmen deserved every Emmy it got and more” but that seems to discount the incredible Unbelievable and Unorthodox and others, and look – we just need to accept the fact that there’s too much that’s By Duana • Sep 21, 2020 08:47 am
Emmy Awards 2020 Gabrielle Union-Wade: Best Emmys Spot From Home It’s beyond debate that the people at home had a better time than the people who were in studio, right? Once you’re there, even if you have a gag to do (more on those later) it’s basically business as usual. But the people at home really seemed By Duana • Sep 21, 2020 07:53 am
Emmy Awards 2020 Insecure and The Good Place Were Also Nominated At the time I’m writing this, I don’t know whether Lainey has written what we both agreed on when we debriefed after the show – even though it was pretty good as a broadcast, we just felt… you know, aware of our pandemic selves. It was a great show, By Duana • Sep 21, 2020 07:27 am
Dumbass I’m The One Person You Know Who Watched Cuties on Netflix I have a major complaint about the controversial Netflix movie Cuties, which was originally called Mignonnes, and it has nothing to do with the online furor you’ve undoubtedly heard about. My issue? The performances in the English-dubbed version (which is what my Netflix account naturally defaulted to) were overdone, By Duana • Sep 18, 2020 02:33 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: All of the Angst About “A” Hi Duana, Long time reader, first time… caller? Does that work in the digital age? Regardless, I would love your help. Here’s the scoop: with baby #1 I didn’t need to write to you because the baby-naming conversation with my husband took us literally 30 seconds. We didn’ By Duana • Sep 16, 2020 02:45 pm
