Lifestyle Duana Names: Nickname and Chill Duana, I need help. I think I've overthought and over-researched names until I have completely confused myself. I am due with our second baby, gender unknown, at the end of November. We are set on a boy's name - Declan. Our first child is Eleanor (middle By Duana • Oct 23, 2015 03:13 pm
Scandal Pope Gets Poped Scandal Season 5 Episode 5 recap Welcome back. Sorry for last week, I was dead. But I’ve been resuscitated by Cyrus. Because Cyrus cannot help but be good at what he does, at running the President’s life and fixing his mistakes and teaching everyone under Fitz how to By Duana • Oct 23, 2015 11:23 am
How To Get Away With Murder Truthiness, maybe How To Get Away With Murder Season 2 Episode 5 recap Have you ever noticed, on this show, that there are deliberate attempts to confound you? Yes, I said confound, not just confuse. Not only are there very, very liberal interpretations of what constitutes a timeline, but the clothes they’ By Duana • Oct 23, 2015 11:08 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: All The Worldwide Names You Love So while I’ve been recovering from the cold that will not die, and which is currently threatening to develop into the potentially WORST stealth side effect ever, you’ve been sending me your International Names that are ripe for co-opting. Herewith: I've always been a fan of By Duana • Oct 21, 2015 02:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bravermans, Fug Girls, and Kate Middleton. Yesterday was a fine day to be Lauren Graham (as if all the others aren’t). Because in addition to the news that Gilmore Girls is set to have a series of special episodes on Netflix, it was announced that Graham and her other, more recent, perhaps more realistic TV By Duana • Oct 20, 2015 03:25 pm
TV Updates Where You Lead Twitter last night was a playground. It was the Christmas Eve of we Canadians getting a new Prime Minister, the Blue Jays had yet to make us anxious and dramatic, and I was texting Lainey about The News: Gilmore Girls is slated to have a limited-series revival on Netflix (where By Duana • Oct 20, 2015 01:51 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Zooey Deschanel’s daughter is named Elsie Otter I’m just going to retype the headline above. Zooey Deschanel’s daughter is named Elsie Otter. Here is what she and her husband told PEOPLE magazine: “It’s Elsie…” Deschanel began, while Pechenik finished, “Otter.” “Like the animal,” the actress explained, with her husband adding, “Sea otter.” Elsie: Cute, By Duana • Oct 20, 2015 12:59 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: The Best Transatlantic Greetings I am writing you, asking you for an opinion on Norwegian/Scandinavian names. We are due at the end of October, and we're having a girl! We are both Norwegian and living here at the moment and we work in the creative field. The child will have both By Duana • Oct 19, 2015 03:08 pm
The Affair Drunken Dinner Party The Affair Season 2 Episode 3 recap I snarked on Twitter early in the episode that Noah is terrible even in his own memory. I was amused by myself actually. But then I realized that it’s true. That he’s actually nicer in Alison’s memory than in his By Duana • Oct 19, 2015 08:01 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: A Present for Me! Today is all about me. It is neither my birthday nor my wedding day, but I am so sick with a cold that keeps getting worse instead of better, and so I’m feeling sorry for myself. So I decided to run a letter that includes a present to me By Duana • Oct 14, 2015 02:09 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Carey Mulligan’s Baby Is Called…. Last night, at the premiere of Suffragette, Carey Mulligan revealed the details about her baby that people were clamouring to know. (Some people. I had forgotten if we’re being honest.) The baby is a girl, she was born three weeks ago, and her name? Well, she says that she By Duana • Oct 13, 2015 10:56 am
Name Nerd Raven-Symoné mocks names she can’t abide The other day on The View, Raven-Symoné said she would be discriminatory towards people with certain names. You know which kinds of names. The kinds of names people laugh about, that become punchlines. Never, ever, say, Phillip. To be clear, the hosts were referencing a study about racism in judging By Duana • Oct 12, 2015 01:13 pm
The Affair NIAR: Noah Is Awful Regardless The Affair Season 2 Episode 2 recap This show is already better than the great show it was last year. Including the perspectives of Helen and Cole make the show better because they are less horrible people than their respective ex-partners, and I say that as someone who fully believes By Duana • Oct 12, 2015 08:55 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: This email arrived entitled ‘Seriously, we’re f*cked’ Hi Duana, For the last 15+ years, I have been a name nerd. I have an unusual name, and I come from a family of unusual names and nicknames. I had been carefully collecting and curatinga list of names for my future child and fiercely protecting them so word wouldn& By Duana • Oct 09, 2015 03:30 pm
Scandal The Narcissist’s Parade Scandal Season 5 Episode 3 recap There were very high highs in this episode, when both Fitz and Olivia smiled during the ‘yes’. The freedom of telling the truth was immensely exciting for both of them. Unfortunately, those highs came in the very first moments of the episode, and it By Duana • Oct 09, 2015 10:09 am
How To Get Away With Murder Utopia Circle Is Exactly What It Sounds Like How To Get Away With Murder Season 2 Episode 3 recap Gee, did you know that young lawyers really like to talk and think about sex? Don’t get me wrong. Everyone likes sex, for the most part, except for weird robots named Wes who we’ll get to. But By Duana • Oct 09, 2015 09:51 am
