Vampire Diaries Underwhelmed If That’s A Word The Vampire Diaries Season 4 Episode 16 recap Well, that was less than I expected. Am I wrong? After watching Elena’s pain overwhelm her, then her badass walk out of the house she decided to torch, I thought the turning off of her feelings would mean she was unfeeling, By Duana • Mar 15, 2013 11:39 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Wolf & Fox twin boys Dear Duana, We're expecting two boys any day now and before these twinadoes land, we need some serious help with names. Burt and Ernie just won't do. My husband and I are far apart (think Wolf and Fox vs. Elliot and Ewan) and feel that we& By Duana • Mar 14, 2013 11:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Veronica Mars Movie Project Goddammit. Here was my reaction to Lainey’s asking if I wanted to write about the Veronica Mars movie: “Ugh. Does she KNOW this has been a thing for years? It’s never gonna happen.” Then I read the article and went , “Ugh. Yeah, but the whole point was that By Duana • Mar 13, 2013 02:46 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: When it’s just too (Twi-)Hard Duana! I have a crazy-related baby name situation. When we first found out we were pregnant in 2008, we decided that we both liked the idea of keeping our family members’ names going. So when we found out that our first was a girl, I gave hubby two choices, all By Duana • Mar 12, 2013 10:20 am
Girls All The Ways To Feel Bad Girls Season 2 Episode 9 recap I should point out, before I get distracted with all the other things in this episode, that I am really enjoying some of the songs this season. Twitter linked to an interview with Michael Penn about some of the work he’s done for By Duana • Mar 11, 2013 01:52 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Mae Is Not The Middle We're having a girl and have decided to name her Mae. The thing is that although we both like this name, it is a compromise chosen through a process of elimination. My first choice would be Lisa and my husband's would be Celia. These two names By Duana • Mar 07, 2013 01:26 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: H or E for girls I'm pregnant with my second child and we're expecting a girl! Our first is a boy, named George. My husband is Chinese and I am Jewish so we're following the Jewish tradition of naming our children after recently deceased relatives, in this case girls By Duana • Mar 05, 2013 02:36 pm
Girls Patterns And Addictions Girls Season 2 Episode 8 recap I am a terrible person. I know this, because when Hannah, early in the episode, started exhibiting OCD symptoms, I thought “Oh, right, she’s pretending to have OCD for an essay in her book”. It made perfect sense to me. It seemed like By Duana • Mar 04, 2013 02:05 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Merging Families Hey Duana, While I am not currently knocked up, I'm engaged to a great guy, and we're planning on starting to try shortly after the wedding. Here's the issue - this will be his second marriage, and he has two kids from the first By Duana • Mar 01, 2013 12:48 pm
Girls The Prodigal Girls Season 2 Episode 7 I am so tired of the commentary on vaginas these days. I have had enough. Please do not talk about how women are being shamed into hating their labia, or criticizing or worshipping the giant bush, or talking about ambassadors of vagina, or something. I By Duana • Feb 25, 2013 06:02 pm
Oscars 2013 Oscars Most Swaggiful Partying: Amy Poehler & Rashida Jones You don’t often get to see a lot of the non-nominated. You see a lot of the sound-editing types, who are nervous but self-aware enough to know that nobody cares, and you get the occasional shot of Jack Nicholson, but as discussed elsewhere on this blog today, Jack Nicholson By Duana • Feb 25, 2013 05:44 pm
Oscars 2013 Oscars Most Overall Lame: Anne Hathaway I share with Lainey the trait of being an Anne Hathaway apologist. So each individual thing about her last night was, you know, not the best, but not horrible. Not terrible, at least at first. The dress. She will regret this sooner than later, but for a long time. Because By Duana • Feb 25, 2013 05:38 pm
Bad Style Oscars Worst Dressed: Amy Adams Did you love this? The only person I saw who loved this was the Oscar PR girl on Twitter, and um, she has a vested interest. Not only has this dress been DONE – on Penelope Cruz, on J. Lo, on Tina Fey -- but in this washed out colour, I’ By Duana • Feb 25, 2013 04:45 pm
Oscars 2013 Best Oscar Night: Jessica Chastain Jessica Chastain, I’ve decided, had the best Oscar night of anyone. Think about it. She wears the best dress she’s worn in two or three years, a delicate light copper with her medium copper hair and she looked spectacular. And she KNEW it, because she showed up on By Duana • Feb 25, 2013 04:29 pm
Oscars 2013 Most All-Around Awesome…Again: Adele at the Oscars I’ve been writing about Adele for weeks. You bored ? No, not like “U Mad?” Try it again, in an Adele accent. “Y’booohd??” and make sure you put three separate notes in it. Now, see? You can’t not laugh. You can’t not smile. She’s the absolute By Duana • Feb 25, 2013 03:37 pm
Oscars 2013 Best Oscar Misanthropy: Larry David Just – look at this. Watch it all the way through. Don’t make the mistake I did, which is laugh so hard that you close your eyes to keep the tears from escaping, because you will miss the good stuff. Some of which is cute, a la Amy Poehler and By Duana • Feb 25, 2013 03:29 pm
