Self Care TV Recommendations Get Happy With Geeked-Out College-Bound Teens on YouTube A few years ago, when Dr. Pimple Popper and her imitators suddenly became famous, I developed a theory about ‘popping videos’ that I’d tell to anyone who would listen (so what else is new?): I think people are addicted to popping videos – and popping zits in general – because they By Duana • May 08, 2020 03:43 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Eyerolling THAT Name, and Puff Daddy Energy Okay. Before we get to today’s letter writer, yes, I have to address that baby name. I kept wanting to write ‘alleged’ because I really don’t believe it, but they’ve both confirmed it’s true – their baby is named X Æ A-12, which I would wager is By Duana • May 06, 2020 03:42 pm
TV Updates Amazon’s Upload Is For… Who, Exactly? I am unreasonably fond of the expression ‘our people’. As in, ‘she’s our people’. Once I was really nervous about joining a particular group, and after a couple of people one of the guys there said he’d told someone else about me that, “she’s our people”. As By Duana • May 04, 2020 01:10 pm
TV Updates Parks & Recreation Reunion was Perfect – And Not Enough Last night’s brand-new, shot-from-home reunion episode of Parks and Recreation was the first time in a long while that I can remember sitting down to watch something live, on broadcast, as soon as it was released (that’s not counting the number of times I’ve refreshed to see By Duana • May 01, 2020 02:49 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: ‘TV Names’ are NAMES Hi Duana, We really need your help. Our daughter is due in less than 2 weeks and my husband and I are at an impasse. We are desperate and I’m frustrated, because we have not been able to agree on a name despite being in complete agreement on style By Duana • Apr 29, 2020 03:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Whitney Houston Prestige Biopic Is For Real Headline writing is an art, you know? When I saw the bold text at the top of the Deadline piece, ‘Whitney Houston Biopic Crystallizes’, I thought it was strangely appropriate. The biopic has ‘crystallized’, or set; hardened – because I guess we all kind of knew somehow that there would be By Duana • Apr 27, 2020 12:05 pm
Music What I Missed About Meghan Trainor’s Work Like everyone else, I’m consuming everything in sight these days, because what else are we going to do, really; but also like everyone else (I suspect) I’m using the time either to catch up on series I heard I should have watched, or to be pulled into whatever By Duana • Apr 24, 2020 02:41 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: They’re great names – but not HER name Dear Duana, I have been reading your name column since it started and even almost wrote in when my sister was expecting. We are unexpectedly expecting our second child early this Spring almost eight years after our first. For our first, my husband insisted that our son's name By Duana • Apr 22, 2020 04:36 pm
Amazingness Kenny vs. Teddy – The Rematch I cried laughing. I tweeted. I cackled. I cried crying. I Felt My Spirit. I watched last night’s Babyface and Teddy Riley rematch on Instagram Live. To be absolutely truthful, I went over to Questlove’s IG Live and watched it there. He was bootleg livestreaming, which turned out By Duana • Apr 21, 2020 01:00 pm
Amazingness Babyface Wins By Forfeit I wasn’t that into the Together At Home concert Saturday night. I mean, I happened to turn it on when Lizzo was performing, which was two minutes of straight bliss, but the show in general…. I was much more excited about the Instagram Live battle between BabyFace and Teddy By Duana • Apr 20, 2020 12:06 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Dating and Nicknames Hi Duana, I have an odd dilemma for you, it may be more of an etiquette thing but totally name based. I am 50 and single, I am on a dating site that I am not invested in and received an introductory message from a man yesterday. On the site By Duana • Apr 17, 2020 04:00 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Panic Stockpiling Happens Here Too Hi Duana, I've considered emailing you twice before (with my first two babies), but felt certain enough in my love for them so never pulled the trigger. Their names are Gavin and Ivy, two names which I still adore, even when I'm screaming them at top By Duana • Apr 15, 2020 03:40 pm
TV Updates Saturday Night Live, At Home On Saturday night we had a games night over FaceTime (shout-out to whomever is writing the article about which group chat apps are chosen for which activities.) It was the most fun – and the most ‘out’ – I’ve felt in weeks. But even though it was great, or maybe because By Duana • Apr 13, 2020 12:50 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Conservative Concern, or Primal Passion? Hello! I’m expecting a baby girl. We already have two boys - Miles and Jacob. We are a mixed-race family, and I’d like to honour our heritages, but I’m also leaning toward simple names - easy to spell and pronounce. We will use my late grandmother’s By Duana • Apr 08, 2020 03:58 pm
Name Nerd On “Karens” Breaking format today because I have a problem, which is that I am endlessly scrolling Twitter even more than usual these days. The problem with that, other than the obvious, is that sooner or later I run into something I can use for work, which means I’m getting positive By Duana • Apr 07, 2020 11:38 am
Name Nerd Duana Names: Playing The Right Tune Hi Duana, I love your column, and I have read it since the very beginning! And now since I'm having my first child I decided to actually write in! Anyways, in an attempt to distract myself from the scary world happenings and self-isolation, I have been thinking a By Duana • Apr 03, 2020 03:34 pm
