Weekend Roundup / Open Thread

By Jazmine Hughes February 20, 2015

I don’t know about you guys, but it is brick outside in Brooklyn. Everyone’s instagramming the same thing — — their weather app proclaiming that it’s 1 degree outside — — so I am in bed atop my heated mattress pad (STOP READING THIS AND GO BUY ONE RIGHT NOW IT HAS QUITE LITERALLY CHANGED MY LIFE) and I can’t stop thinking about chili. Should chili have beans?! Let us discuss in the comments.

Though our valiant and pixie-esque leader abandoned us this week to do some field research on other hair accessories (Alex Balk presents ‘The Bandeau Headwrap’ coming to you soon), head witch Anna Fitzpatrick and I held down the fort: we started this week with a stupendous Oscars roundtable discussion, then ranked all the Mister Darcys, identified with James Spader, interviewed Mary Pilon and Nadine Lessio, honored Rose Bertin, also this happened, defended Lina Lamont, learned the natural sound of our voice, read The Orange Eats Creeps, asked Baba Yaga, reviewed an album by an indie female musician, designed the upcoming Katy Perry game, ate second breakfast, and searched in Natasha MH’s bag. Haley even popped by from performing on a Mary-Kate and Ashley cruise to introduce some really great changes that I am 100% certain will continue after next week. We also gathered a bunch of stories about how our families troll us, which was really fun! I’d be open to doing it again; email me if you have an idea of what nosy question you’d like me to ask next.