awkward @ cannes


cannes, ya’ll. stars! films! the seaside! mmwaaaahaaaaa, the french!

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INTERVENTION: dear ‘how i met your mother,’ i love you but it’s time to stop using the word ‘bitch’


first things first, i love how i met your mother. i love the exploration of story-telling techniques. i love the characters. i love how the show has evolved in the last eight years. i love the long-running jokes. and i love everything ever about neil patrick harris. y’know what i do not love? the show’s nearly constant use of the word bitch.

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very important, incredibly superficial thoughts on dutch royalty, coronation fashion, dreamboat prince daniel, and the want of rowdy windsors


Balcony Appearance - Queen Beatrix Abdication and King Willem Alexander Investiture

so queen bea abdicated, ya’ll. a solemn occasion that begs the question: what did everyone wear?  Continue reading

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i am realizing, somewhat belatedly, that 8 years of latin aren’t all that useful and life stories shouldn’t be mediated by google translate


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occasionally my encyclopedic knowledge of american women’s figure skating costumes circa 1992-1995 comes in handy…


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wherein mariah carey gives the people what they didn’t even know they need


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srsly. did you know you needed to see nick cannon dressed as a bunny with queen butterflybunny sipping a bellini while lounging on his back? BUT YOU DID, right? RIGHT?!

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an open letter to lindsay lohan on the occasion of the last three weeks having been a total trainwreck of stupid


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dear lindsay lohan,

i’ve taken an accidental month-long blogging break in large part because there is just too much to take in. what with beiber’s meltdown in london, the DOC/mantel plastic bride/royal bodies smackdown, a piece i’ve been trying to write for months on celeb surgery, and then… THEN… [ominous drums] there is you. there is always you.

personally, i didn’t want to write about you, but then a friend’s mother told me i really needed to engage, so here goes.

li.lo, i can’t even look at you right now. Continue reading

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