Anne Heche, Your New Mommy Blog Is Pretty Good


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Dear Anne Heche, Welcome to the spiritually fulfilling and marginally lucrative world of mommy blogging! After reading your three posts at People.com, I gotta say, you mommy blog like a seasoned pro. Gut-busting tales of children throwing tantrums in public. Great yarns about signing your kids up for sports they don’t want to play. I [...]

The Venn Diagram of Divorce Guilt [Essay]


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Guilt is the absolute worst thing you can carry. It’s like transporting four hungry hamsters in a fanny pack on a trans-Atlantic ocean voyage. If you don’t feed those hamsters, they’re going to start chewing at your bathing suit parts. Some people deserve to carry such a load – they’ve committed crimes, or hurt others [...]

The Maxim Hot 100: 8 Awkward Celebrity Poses Explained


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I can’t tell you how many times  I’ve been getting dressed in the morning when, just as I reach the halfway mark, I fall asleep against the wall. It’s one of many things that newly-minted Maxim Hot 100 cover girl Miley Cyrus and I have in common. Yes, the annual Hot 100 issue is back to [...]

Painted Ladies: Why Do Female Sports Reporters Wear So Much MakeUp?


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I was watching SportsCenter on Saturday — as one does during the NHL and NBA playoffs — and there was something that really bothered me. It was about the female anchor. I am not offended by female sports anchors, mind you. In fact, I think they are awesome if they are qualified, and clearly this [...]

We Are All Nerds: My Life As A Geek-Jock [Essay]


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A few years ago, I was sent to cover ComicCon in San Diego by a webzine. It was a geek’s dream: not only did I get a very hard-to-obtain ComicCon press pass, not only would I be hobnobbing with the likes of Joss Whedon, George R.R. Martin, and J.J. Abrams, getting to see exclusive footage [...]