Name Nerd Duana Names: Perfection Plus One Duana: Our unicorn babe Penelope is getting a sibling in late June and we need name help. If it's a boy, we will name him either Nicholas or Sebastian, middle name Howard (family name). The girl names are proving to be a bit more problematic. I was trying By Duana • Jun 17, 2019 04:02 pm
Theatre Nerd The TONYs Are Better TV Than The Oscars. I Said It. Confession: I missed the beginning of the show live, including host James Corden’s over 10-minute opening number, and saw it after I’d watched the rest of the show. I didn’t think that would shift the fabric of my whole viewing experience, but I saw more than a By Duana • Jun 10, 2019 11:26 am
Name Nerd Duana Names: When He’s Stuck In A Junior-High Haze… Hi Duana, We are expecting our second child at the end of June and just can’t find a name that clicks for us. Our first is Benjamin. This time around we are having a girl. I gravitate towards grandma and/or Irish names, my husband adores anything from the By Duana • Jun 05, 2019 04:25 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Lost That Loving Feeling Hi Duana, My daughter's name is Adelaide Vance which I love. We had Adelaide picked out as a girl's name for years (Addie for short) and Vance is a middle name in my family given to first born girls. Now I'm pregnant with a By Duana • Jun 03, 2019 04:28 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Is It Evil? And…Is that Bad? Hi Duana! We’re expecting our third kid in June. We already have a boy and girl and I swear we have already vetoed every dang name there is! We don’t want something super popular because my husband has a very common 80’s boy name and hated using By Duana • May 31, 2019 04:10 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Secrets Of His Success Hi Duana, My friend Hafida is having a baby boy at the end of May, and is a bit stuck for names. The baby's big sister is Sophia. His father is Samir, and the family's background is Moroccan origin, but they live in the Netherlands. My By Duana • May 29, 2019 04:58 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Astounded / Euphoric / Blunt / True Dear Duana - LONG time reader, first time writer. Potential meltdown haver. Love your taste, and your advice would be a HUGE help. I live in the middle of conservative America, but I am part of a liberal-yuppie-hint-of-hipster-crew. I hate that I just wrote that, but I’m self aware. By Duana • May 27, 2019 03:42 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: I Push Because I Love Hi Duana, We are expecting our second daughter in a few weeks and haven’t yet settled on a name. For our first daughter, her name came super easily. We both had really liked the name Serena and it was the natural choice - we hadn’t really thought of By Duana • May 24, 2019 04:21 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Riverdale Writer Michael Grassi Takes Us To School He’s a real-live showrunner! This week’s Show Your Work is a special pleasure for both of us; for me, because our guest, Michael Grassi, is not just a writer and co-executive producer on Riverdale AND the showrunner of the upcoming CW show Katy Keene, also based on a By Duana • May 23, 2019 12:55 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: What About Love? Hey Duana! We are expecting late spring this year, and don’t know what gender the baby will be. The longer I sit on names, the less they seem to appeal to me... we do want names that would be easily said in English or French. Ages ago, we came By Duana • May 17, 2019 04:33 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Name Update Fire Sale! I’ve amassed quite a few name updates and I don’t want to always wait for a busy day or relevant reason to deploy them, so let’s just assume today is all of those things, and get right to them! Here’s the update to ‘Permission Slip – Check By Duana • May 15, 2019 04:20 pm
TV Updates Beverly Hills, 90210 trailer birthday! Oh you beautiful dolls! First reaction – pure, giddy tween joy. Second reaction – am I being an uncritical stan? See for yourself: Maybe we should talk about the art of trailers on Show Your Work, because they can be very good or very bad, but when they’re good, they’re By Duana • May 14, 2019 12:03 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Chew On This Dear Duana, A very good friend of mine is due to give birth to baby #3 next week. She massively struggles with names (this is the text she sent me earlier today: "Why is naming a human soooo difficult???"), but she and her partner did an exceptional job By Duana • May 13, 2019 04:20 pm
Equality Issues “You Know Me”: Busy Philipps Speaks Out This is the opening of Tuesday night’s episode of Busy Tonight. The relevant part begins at the 39 second mark: The clip stands on its own, obviously. You don’t need me to explain why it’s so powerful, especially because it’s not new news – Busy wrote about By Duana • May 10, 2019 04:23 pm
TV Updates Tori Spelling… Gets It? If you’re like me, you still can’t quite believe the 90210 reboot – or revival, or mockumentary, or whatever you want to call it – is happening. It seems like the kind of thing that people would drunkenly pitch over drinks and then realize, when they were sober, could never By Duana • May 09, 2019 01:04 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Taylor Jenkins-Reid thinks Daisy Jones Should Drive You Nuts This week it’s part 2 of our conversation with the incredible Taylor Jenkins-Reid! Because Lainey and I were both so obsessed with Daisy Jones & The Six we were shameless about getting her to talk to us about our favourite moments and characters, and didn’t stay away from By Duana • May 08, 2019 03:28 pm
