Mark: Honestly, Leslie, it’s going to be a long uphill battle. You are going to be super-annoyed with all the people who want you to fail. There is a sea of red tape, endless road blocks. So, yeah, I don’t…

            This moment was one of the most emotional for me in last nights Parks and Recreation episode, “Leslie and Ben.” April (Aubrey Plaza) and Tom (Aziz Ansari) have presented Leslie (Amy Poehler) and Ben…

The rumors of Saturday Night Live facing the departure of their biggest stars have been flying for a few months now, so fans of the show tuned in with already-heavy hearts, bracing themselves for the last of powerhouse Kristen Wiig,…

Someone just stumbled across PopGurls by using this search term: “how gurls com there selfs” I’m weirdly fascinated by this. are they looking for masturbation techniques or is it some inquisitive boy desperate to know how ladies get off? Google…

This morning was one of battling musical earworms — in the first shot, Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know” was lobbed at me. I fired back, quite possibly with a little bit of overkill, with the ultimate earworm: Mahna…

In the trailer for HBO’s Girls, Lena Dunham’s character, Hannah, tells her parents that she thinks that she might be the voice of her generation and then qualifies it with, “Or at least of a generation.” Similar expectations are being…

It seems like it was yesterday when I wrote up a little thing for the 14th anniversary for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer premiere, and now we’re on the 15th anniversary. And today, I’m pondering this day as I work…

Last night was Parks and Recreation’s much-hyped episode in which Dave the Cop aka Leslie Knope’s boyfriend from Season Two, played by Louis C.K., returns to Pawnee. NBC had leaked photos in which Leslie (Amy Poehler) was at dinner with…

Here’s the thing — I rarely remember February 7th as something big and major. I don’t eagerly anticipate it or even think much of it, but then Laura will simply post “Sex Day” and all of a sudden I’m flush…

Janet Howell quickly went from Virginia State Senator to viral celebre on January 30, when she made the bold move to add a floor amendment to a bill requiring women to undergo an ultrasound before having an abortion. Her amendment…

A New York City Subway busker takes on Adele’s “Someone Like You” and delivers something spectacularly powerful and lovely. Be sure to watch all the way through to the end — even the subway trains know to wait until he’s…

PRI’s Marketplace Morning Report pushed me back a few years in pop nostalgia this morning — the end track of their 8:50a ET segment was Kid Koala’s Stompin’ at Le Savoi. There was something about the drum and horn combination…

Is anyone else getting Miranda July’s “The Future” emails? It’s part of the marketing campaign for her new movie and you can also hit her site for “The Oracle” or to sign up for “The Future” emails. As someone who…

I’ve been feeling really old lately, which I realize is kind of obnoxious since I’m in my 30s. Okay, my mid-30s. My ever so-slightly later mid-30s. Yeah, this isn’t helping. What also hasn’t helped was a random Tumblr reblog meme…

Watch it all the way to the end. Bonus: It’s set to a lovely cover of The Smith’s “Please Please Please Me Get What I Want”

Even if that “someone” is a sarcastic website — someecards. See: Leslie/Ben, Brenda/Dylan, Willow/Xander, Willow/Oz, Pacey/Joey, Michael/Maria, Charlie Crews/Dani Reese, Angela/Jordan, Ten/Rose, Ten/Donna, Troy/Abed, Mulder/Scully, Kalinda/Casey, Keith/Watts. I’ll just stop there or it could get REALLY embarrassing. (read Amanda’s shipping…

Apparently there was some big UFC fight last night, if the Twitterverse is to be believed. There was so much excitement! From all lover! I don’t really know what it was about but this morning I got really excited about…

The first time I saw Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, I was in my college apartment. More specifically, I was laying on the couch while my roommate Carlie was on our other couch — both of us totally splayed…

It seems to be all about nostalgia on TV these days — although most of the audience probably were born far, far later than the decades they are time-traveling back to. Mad Men, Boardwalk Empire, Downton Abbey, Pan Am, The…

I’m the easiest person to earworm, but Tumblr is going to be the end of me. I see something, anything, and then it’s in my head for the rest of the day. This morning, I stumbled across a collection of…