The Newsroom Progress? The Newsroom Season 2 Episode 4 recap Okay, well, this is the episode where things began to happen. And it’s the episode where the distance between what The Newsroom is trying to do and what it does do comes the closest to being closed. This is what it could By Duana • Aug 05, 2013 09:48 am
Megan Follows Nitpicking Reign: amusement or irritation? There’s nothing quite like the schizophrenia that comes when I read an article I can’t decide if I agree with. This piece on the TCA presser for the CW’s new show Reign made me feel fairly crazy. Please read to see if I’m the only one. By Duana • Aug 01, 2013 03:07 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: What About Rocco? Dear Duana, I'm having a hard time with my family and the name that my husband and I picked out. I have always thought my Mom’s taste to be superior to mine so it can F#$% with my thinking because she hates it. My husband and I By Duana • Aug 01, 2013 12:03 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: What counts as “Common”? My husband and I are having a terrible time naming baby #2, and I was hoping I could get a second opinion to help us out (and hopefully convince him I'm right!) If it's a boy, we are set, because we both like the name Braedon By Duana • Jul 30, 2013 01:16 pm
The Newsroom Civilizing The Masses Again The Newsroom Season 2 Episode 3 recap In the first two minutes, Mackenzie points out that Will has to – and did – ask her permission to say “witless bullies and hapless punks” but seconds later, she’s begging him to remember what he said to her in the phone message. One By Duana • Jul 30, 2013 10:20 am
Lifestyle Duana: In Which We Get Personal about Jacek Hi, My husband and I are expecting our first baby next year and we really like the name Jacek for a boy. And no, it's not because that's Lainey's husband's name (although that's why I'm writing in), it& By Duana • Jul 25, 2013 12:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Flowers In The Attic I read an article this morning where a woman wrote that consuming Sex And The City as a teenager set up her and her friends for unrealistic expectations where sex was concerned. That in turn made them receptive and hungry when Girls came to present a different view. This makes By Duana • Jul 25, 2013 12:07 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession He Who Must Be Named Okay, they’ve announced it. I actually thought it would take longer, but seeing as the Queen was out to visit them relatively early this AM, I suppose she approved in plenty of time. Even the royals have to move faster in a 24-hour news cycle. George Alexander Louis, to By Duana • Jul 24, 2013 04:05 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: International Understandings Our younger daughter is going to arrive very soon and I have just found a name that my husband approves: "Adelina Lelle". Adelina means noble, Lelle means soul in Hungarian (it's not prounounced like Elle, it's more like Halle or Lel-leh). We call her By Duana • Jul 23, 2013 12:58 pm
Veronica Mars Re: Marshmallows Okay, the Veronica Mars Kickstarter–funded movie trailer appeared on Saturday with the cast appearance at Comic-Con, complete with what we used to call an EPK (Electronic Press Kit) years ago – clips from the cast and Rob Thomas to get us hyped up. And I’m hyped – but not by By Duana • Jul 22, 2013 03:27 pm
The Newsroom YouTube Videos, Campaign Buses, and no Newsroom The Newsroom Season 2 Episode 2 recap That Beyonce show was amazing. And one of the most amazing parts was her all-female band, which included three brass players. I couldn’t stop looking at them. Here’s what kills me. To be a professional trumpet player of that level is By Duana • Jul 22, 2013 01:28 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Going for G Hi Duana, My husband and I are expecting our first baby boy and are really struggling with finding a name. We really like "Guerin" (Ga-rin), especially with the french "gue" spelling as my husband's family is French. Are we cursing our child with a By Duana • Jul 18, 2013 01:56 pm
Neil Patrick Harris Emmy Nominations 2013 Is it weird that I am comforted by strangers I’ve never met on Twitter? Does it make a difference if they’re famous strangers? Because they are all saying the same thing this morning. “Tatiana Maslany was robbed.” It was always the longest of long shots, of course – a By Duana • Jul 18, 2013 11:14 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: What goes with Owen Duana, The hubs and I are at odds over what to name baby dos. Owen was the only name we could agree on for our first. As a teacher I had never had an Owen and appreciated the fact that it would be easy for him to learn/write (teaching By Duana • Jul 16, 2013 03:29 pm
The Newsroom The Newsroom Returns The Newsroom Season 2 Episode 1 recap So I started watching one of those Sorkinisms Supercuts a few days before this episode premiered. My God, it is hypnotic. But even though the man rips himself off wholesale, that’s not what bothers me. Lord knows people could line up all By Duana • Jul 15, 2013 12:07 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Cricket Pearl And now, an epistolary post. Which I am doing because it will be fun, and not just because “epistolary” makes me sound good. Excerpted from an email from Kelly: “I know you guys don’t give Busy Phillips a lot of coverage…But seriously: your name is an adjective so By Duana • Jul 12, 2013 10:57 am
