Because Dubious Hodgepodge Would be a Great Name for a Rock Band
by Amalah
BUT FIRST, LET ME GET ALL META ON YOUR ASS With a question from…me! Whoa. Dear Amalah, Do you have any words of advice for future question submitters about how they can help YOU help THEM? Also, why do all your pop culture references date from before 1999, you big fat lame-o? Amalah Yes! I [...]
Well Aware I Can’t Dance
My older sister inherited completely different parts of our parents’ DNA than I did, and consequently we look nothing alike. She got my mother’s curves and body-type, womanly in every line and shape, whereas my appearance is much like my father’s in that my only curve is the tip of my pointy chin. My sister [...]
Because My Laptop Battery is About to Die ThisVerySecondWhoops
by Amalah
I am writing this week’s column on the plane, while on my way to BlogHer. Whooo! Dedication! Multi-tasking! The guy in the seat next to me repeatedly whacking my elbows and reading over my shoulder! (HI. WHAT. STOP LOOKING AT MY BOOBS.) This also means, however, that I had to select questions that I could [...]
On becoming an Anglophile
Because I began my freshman year of college toward the beginning of the nineties, my music collection was filled with what you might expect for a white kid who, while living away from home for the first time, decided that she was the first person in the history of the world who ever had to [...]
Because Handbags and Babies and Panties, Oh My!
by Amalah
Dear Almighty Amalah, I love your blog and I share your love for Coach handbags. Luckily I have received two over the years as gifts. However, that was several years ago and they are showing signs of wear, particularly in the bindings. A friend told me that Coach will recondition and rebind its bags, but [...]
Waiting for Superman to return
Growing up the youngest of three children I had my taste in everything from music to movies to clothing influenced by the field-testing my brother and sister had done before me. Both of them were larger than life to me, who I wanted to become when I grew up, and the fact that my sister [...]
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