"Flick Chicks"

I love Mindy Kaling. You guys should read her piece in the New Yorker on rom-com heroines.

"The Forty-two-Year-Old Mother of the Thirty-Year-Old Male Lead: If you think about the backstory of a typical mother character in a romantic comedy, you realize this: when “Mom” was an adolescent, the very week she started to menstruate she was impregnated with a baby who would grow up to be the movie’s likable brown-haired leading man. I am fascinated by Mom’s sordid early life. I would rather see this movie than the one I bought a ticket for."

The fattest cat I have ever seen in real life and the ocean

I feel like growing up in Edward Gorey's house wouldn't have been that different from growing up in our house...

The Edward Gorey House

Let's go to Pompeii, Es!

Or at least to the new exhibit on Pompeii at the Museum of Science opening next week. There is also an Omni film about archeology on the island of Santorini that looks really interesting. (I don't think it will have too much whizzing about shots so it shouldn't make you sick...)

And on a somewhat related note, scientists recently discovered that many of the walls in Pompeii were originally yellow, but due to the gases released by Mount Vesuvius, the paint transformed into the classic "Pompeiian red."