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Aside from the Grammys and all that fallout, one of the biggest gossip stories last week, at least in my feeds, was gossip about a gossiper. I’m talking about the anonymous blogger behind the website Crazy Days and Nights and the story in The Daily Beast about how his identity has allegedly been exposed. When the gossiper becomes the gossip – we saw this happen with DeuxMoi a few months ago when Taylor Swift’s publicist Tree Paine put them on blast, and I have some personal experience with it (on a much smaller scale, not trying to pretend I’m a big deal) when I was called out a few years ago for the all-round disgusting shit that was posted in the early years of LaineyGossip.

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Ralphie (Jesse Eisenberg) is the quintessential American Bro of the 21st Century. The wannabe alpha male who tries to compensate for his failures by acting tough, provoking people who he thinks are weak enough not to engage in a fight with him. Everyone else, physically and mentally, he’s afraid of. That’s no surprise since Ralphie knows where he stands in the social hierarchy — it’s hard to mask fear and insecurity when you let life shit on you for so long.

So I decided to read Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus because it seemed like everyone else was. This is not like me because I am self-declaredly famous for not reading certain books precisely because so many other people are reading them. I even wrote awhole column about how I was avoiding Amor Towles’s A Gentleman in Moscowfor just this reason. But I was won over by the story of a debut novelist in her 60’s finding such acclaim, plus that fact that it had been a New York Times notable book.

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I’m 36-years-old. And I’ve been thrown back into my middle school era. As a tween, I faithfully wore braces. When I finally had smooth and straight teeth, I vowed always to wear my retainer at bedtime. I stopped wearing my retainer in college because it was so embarrassing. After all, why would I want my roommates to know that I kept my teeth straight while sleeping? HOW MORTIFYING. TLDR: I should have worn my retainer.

Instagram / Essie Once a month, I find myself asking the same question: Where are all the brown hands? It shouldn’t be that hard to answer; they shouldn’t be this hard to find. There are more than 13 billion individual, non-Caucasian hands on the planet at any given moment (give or take a couple hundred million). Still, every time I comb through the Instagram content of the biggest nail care brands in the business, attempting to find images for a monthly nail art column, I wonder.

There are 5,000,000 of us Patels around the world, it's high time we knew where we came from. A few years ago while I was in Chicago, my cousin’s son who was just eight years old at the time asked, so how much Indian am I and how much American am I? Does that mean I’m 50% Indian and 50% American? Until that moment, I hadn’t realized that so many of us think of ourselves as our genetic make-up, our DNA or the culture we have been born and raised in.

The handsomest guy in L.A. took me to omakase this weekend. I had never experienced it before. It was so fancy and the fish was so pretty! A very fun time. The most memorable course might have been the first: just a little kettle of seafood broth. Ain’t that always the way. -Katherine If you haven’t become a paid subscriber yet, please consider it. The money goes straight to paying freelancers a good rate - much better than most publications.