Lifestyle Duana Names: Much Ado About Nothing Hi Duana! I too have a general name nerd question. Would you advise expectant parents to research their options before settling on chosen names? I googled the first and middle name of a coworker's newborn daughter because it just sounded familiar to me in a maybe-famous kind of By Duana • Oct 06, 2014 12:52 pm
Scandal “The Taliban Is Better Than This” Scandal Season 4 Episode 2 Okay, so. Nicely done. That’s saying something because I thought an elementary-school shooting premise was going to be far more mawkish. Scandal made it not about that, which is impressive and also somehow made the death of Fitz & Mellie’s son Jerry into By Duana • Oct 03, 2014 11:57 am
How To Get Away With Murder “You’re Too Old To Be A Twink” HTGAWM Season 1 Episode 2 recap So far, the most unbelievable part of the whole show is that all of this is happening in Keating’s living room, like she doesn’t have the money and resources for an absolutely stunning suite of offices. Second most unbelievable is that a By Duana • Oct 03, 2014 11:27 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Wyatt Isabelle Kutcher What if it’s a fake? Stay with me here. So they called the girl Wyatt Isabelle, as per Ashton Kutcher’s blog, but while there, he also posted a pic of half a dozen babies (and a couple of animals, including one that looks just like my dog Libby) By Duana • Oct 03, 2014 10:14 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: What Does It Mean? This is more of a general name nerd question - what is your feeling on the meaning of names? Do you think it's important? Does giving a child a name with a negative meaning equal bad karma?? --------- This is a great question, because people really, really have By Duana • Oct 01, 2014 03:08 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Twin Fakeout Hi Duana Im expecting twins and my hubby and i were all set to wait to find out the sexes but alas that did not happen( suspense was killing us) so we found out a week go that we are having 2 girls!!! I wrote to you a couple months By Duana • Sep 29, 2014 02:32 pm
Masters of Sex Throw a Brick Through The Window Masters of Sex Season 2 Episode 12 recap. Ohhhh. There. That’s what we’ve been building toward. Satisfying, terrifying, and nauseating like the best of all the golden age of television. I was uncomfortable and upset for most of the episode, which paradoxically feels good, and right. So – did By Duana • Sep 29, 2014 10:55 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: A Different Kind of Name Dilemma My sister and her husband have always been torn on the last name of their children. They are both very attached to their names and families and want that reflected in their children. They had a boy in 2013 and a girl is due in December. For their son, my By Duana • Sep 26, 2014 12:10 pm
Scandal SCANDAL Season 4, Episode 1 recap I forgot about the soul music. I love the soul music on this show. Gone Girl is a very nice touch, as is Olivia’s curly hair, and what appears to be a first for network 9 PM. Is that a first? Um, digital manipulation? By Duana • Sep 26, 2014 11:54 am
How To Get Away With Murder How To Get Away With Murder Season 1 Episode 1 recap. PORN PORN LAW ACADEMIA PORN. It is not for nothing that we fantasize about New England and its Ivy-covered halls. There is some serious academic fantasizing going on here, not least because we all think if we just could have applied ourselves, we’d be By Duana • Sep 26, 2014 11:10 am
Dumbass “I’m not a Feminist, but…” Lainey sent me the Billboard article about Meghan Trainor because she likes to see me rage. HEADLINE: “I don’t consider myself a feminist” CONTEXTUAL QUOTE: "I don't consider myself a feminist, but I'm down for my first opportunity to say something to the world By Duana • Sep 23, 2014 12:05 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Derby Girl Hi Duana, I hope you can help. I've recently signed up for a Fresh Meat Bootcamp hosted by the local roller derby. I've always thought roller derby looked really fun and cool, and would be quite the physical challenge since I'd never roller skated By Duana • Sep 22, 2014 01:39 pm
Equality Issues Shonda Rhimes and the Question Lord knows I am usually long-winded. But I am so anxious to have you read the article I just read that brevity is essential. On Friday morning, the NYT article about Shonda Rhimes was published. There was immediate outcry and, most tellingly, there were three or four tweets from Rhimes By Duana • Sep 22, 2014 11:26 am
Masters of Sex Morning Wood Got You Down? Masters Of Sex Season 2 Episode 11 recap Here lies the Cal-o-metric plotline. Not only is it clumsy and completely beside the point, but in this episode (as well as the last) we completely abandon the pretense that any of these Cal-O-Metric characters exist in the same world as Bill By Duana • Sep 22, 2014 10:48 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: The Little German Duana, please help!? My spouse and I are expecting our first child, a boy, in October. His family is German/Dutch and mine is German/British. The only thing we have agreed on is that we both would like to go the German route as our heritage is a big By Duana • Sep 19, 2014 01:11 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Trying not to be Those People Duana, The other day one of my girlfriends and I were talking about baby names and she was telling me that she is having a lot of trouble coming up with names. I absolutely love reading all of your posts and thought who could be better to ask than you! By Duana • Sep 17, 2014 12:14 pm
