Bunchland

What we’re reading today:

1. Oh Tina Fey. We feel you. Fey was watching 30 Rock with 6-year-old daughter Alice when there was a reference to an erection under someone’s clothes. Alice asked what an erection was and Fey picked the most innocuous explanation she could. “An erection is a building.” But Alice knew that wasn’t quite right.

2. Dr. Spock’s revised his Baby and Child Care so that it now covers autism, ADHD and has a new section for gay and lesbian parents.

3. Looking for some new baby names? Look no further than this civil war general guide! We actually really love a couple of the names on here, but you can blame our Classical education. Also, while we’re not huge on Cullen, the Cullen on Hell on Wheels is tough as nails and mighty handsome, so we could see that name coming back. (Just not coming back in an Edward and Jacob way).  Read more...

Sometime this afternoon, we noticed that #rulesforgirls was trending on Twitter and we couldn’t help but join in the discussion.

If you’re not familiar with Twitter, users often participate in large discussions by using a hashtag (#) to identify the subject. So if you’re interested in seeing all the responses to the #rulesforgirls topic, just click on it in someone’s status update.

Here are some of our #rulesforgirls:

It’s totally okay to wear a skirt over top of your jeans over top of your dress with rubber boots – @BunchFamily

This resonated with relationship expert @JoseyVogels: My catholic school uniform RT @BunchFamily: #rulesforgirls okay to wear a skirt overtop your jeans overtop your dress with rubber boots.

We have to stop calling each other bitches and hos – @BunchFamily (OK fine, we stole that one from Mean Girls)  Read more...