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you do whatever it takes to get the marbles to watch "Star Trek"

Sara C. — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 11:53:11 -0800

Doctor Of Celebrity Gossip and frequent chronicler of the Scandals Of Classic Hollywood (previously) Anne Helen Petersen (more previously) muses on growing up with Star Trek: The Next Generation. Questions raised include the need to start at the beginning with The Original Series and movies ("Is Data in them? THEN NO."), the lure of a Dr. Crusher bookmark, and whether it's appropriate to share a copy of Imzadi with your mom. If your nostalgia about Star Trek: The Next Generation is along the lines of "what kind of bikini would Deanna Troi pick?", you might enjoy the previously FPP'd Fashion It So. More interested in the proper way to stand on the bridge of the Enterprise 1701-D? Allow Commander William T. Riker to teach you to lean. While being dreamy, of course.

Unreleased Celebrity Fragrances

briank — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:50:02 -0800

27th Precinct by Jerry Orbach: Notes of pepperoni and shoe polish on an instant coffee base. Leathery, minimal, and cost-effective, this fragrance feels like a big, crusty hug...

Dear Reader, I texted him.

maryr — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 12:36:41 -0800

Texts from Jane Eyre. Texts from Scarlett O'Hara. On a more serious note, Text Messages From A Ghost and The Return of Ghost. (Mallory Ortberg for The Hairpin)

27. THE WORD IS INUIT AND ALSO THE OKINAWANS LIVE FOREVER.

wreckingball — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:36:56 -0800

The Comment Section for Every Article Ever Written About PETA (SLHairpin)

Slumber parties and sisterhood

naoko — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:55:25 -0800

Jezebel. The Hairpin. xoJane. Rookie. The ladyblog isn't quite the same as a feminist blog, but what is it? n+1 says, The notion that women might share some fundamental experience and interests, a notion on which women’s websites would seem to depend—'sisterhood,' let’s call it—has curdled into BFF-ship." Salon counters, "On the ladyblogs, adult womanhood is a given, and within our shared womanhood we carve out a comfortable space we can all inhabit."

When a benefit is suggested for men, the question asked is: "Will it benefit men?" When a benefit is suggested for women, the question is: "Will it benefit men?"

flex — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:22:27 -0800

Are Women People? A writer for The Hairpin discovers the satirical poetry of Alice Duer Miller.

Right up there with Handel’s “Messiah.”

rewil — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:31:28 -0800

Santa answers a few pre-Christmas questions.

"I didn't call you for a month because [big shrug] ... New York."

griphus — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 07:00:59 -0800

Hot on the heels of Amusingly Horrible Things Moms Have Said: The Bracket , it's Amusingly Horrible Things Significant Others Have Said: The Bracket

Living With Breasts That Can Be Seen From Orbit

roger ackroyd — Thu, 26 May 2011 17:10:33 -0800

I was the first girl I knew to get breasts. I remember being in sixth grade and this horrible girl named Erica coming up to me before social studies and saying, “You don't have to stick out your chest like that,” and I almost cried. (I cried very easily as a child, and by “as a child” I mean “up until this morning.”) Because I wasn't actually sticking my chest out at all, it was just like that.

You Love Purple!

hermitosis — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:27:47 -0800

What happens when you let your boyfriend do your makeup. (via The Hairpin)

Women Laughing Alone With Salad

hermitosis — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 10:27:12 -0800

Women Laughing Alone With Salad. The Hairpin is the sister site of The Awl, under the editorial eye of Edith Zimmerman (whose contributions to the site often fill me with wonder and dread) and Liz Colville.

These Kids are Awl Right

geoff. — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:05:31 -0800

“I’m surprised that there aren’t a lot of independent, owner-operated editorial Web sites out there,” Mr. Sicha said. “We will be two years old in April, and we are self-sufficient and stable. That’s pretty fast.” The NYT on the ups and downs of The Awl, which happens to be launching their new site, The Hairpin, today.