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Thank You For Being A Friend! Again! (Now with our donation receipts!)

With apologies to Supertramp for taking liberties with their lyrics, you gave a big bit!

Drugstore Cowgirl: Perfume Nite: The Revenge

$ · June 28, 2022

Glow Jennifer Lopez versus Rihanna's Reb'l Fleur

Matching Funds and One Heckuva Pep Talk

well, here we are again

Drugstore Cowgirl: "U" Versus "One"

It's Perfume Nite and we're doing reals versus fakes

Actually Decent-Seeming, Cis, Presumably Straight, White Dudes Quarterly

Hey, it happens!

Drugstore Cowgirl: Bath & Body Works AGAIN?!

$ · June 12, 2022

It's the semi-annual sale, fellow scent hounds!

Never Mind The Sex Pistols, Here's The Dames

when so-so art prompts great conversations

Drugstore Cowgirl: No Heavy Vibes

$ · June 8, 2022

Cracklin' Rosie get on board...

"One of my great aunts left me with the ukulele."

"Ivan" by Travels With Brindle—you saw it here first!

Drugstore Cowgirl: You Are So Cool

$ · May 29, 2022

Reprints and Rarities

A very bossy ode to physical media

Drugstore Cowgirl: Vacation, All I Ever Wanted

$ · May 22, 2022

Hello and welcome to this week’s Common Scents Roundup. We got a few requests and I am delighted! We’ll start with Lizzie this week, who says: “I like...

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Drugstore Cowgirl: Summer Breezes

$ · May 15, 2022

Sweat pooling, brain sweltering, and patience running thin? There's a scent for that.

Pick-Me-Ups With No Side-Effects

Greetings, Dames Nation! Before we get to this week’s main selection of Internet delights, we wanted to announce that we’re going to be scheduling a couple...

Garbage Fires and Lovely Scents

This issue has it all

sorry/not sorry, we could not resist

Little Upgrades

with apologies to Tori Amos

Open Thread: Unexpectedly Great Doo-Dads

photo by madmishmac, used under CC BY-NC 2.0 Thingummies, gimcracks, and whatnot! We’ve all got them, often from listicle recommendations or as an impulse-...

Coveted Invitations and Crossover Proposals

We're crying on the dancefloor and thinking about 90s media again!

Teamwork: Making The Dream Work

Always and forever

Never Keep Your Visions To Yourself

Dreams To Remember From Dames Nation

Dream a Little Dream

Of (belatedly) following your dreams!

The Best Dang Liner Notes Of All Time

Bonus Responses To & Contextualization of Pam & Tommy

Where You Lead, We Will Follow Up

If following up involved snappy banter with Kelly Bishop, set to Carole King songs, that would probably solve our little problem quite neatly Dames Nation,...

Our Idiosyncratic Grocery Faves

February 26, 2022

Turns out we love an old-timey confection!

Memory Lane & Sumptuous Bathing

February 19, 2022

Something for everyone!

It's Time To Take Comedy Seriously

February 12, 2022

The Method to Our Madness

February 5, 2022

PLUS: a rant about orcas!

Livetweet Announcement: Pam & Tommy

February 1, 2022

We, too, can scarcely believe our eyes Dames Nation, it’s been too long since we gathered ‘round the old moving picture story appliance to discuss, dissect,...

Excited & Exhausted

January 29, 2022

Dispatches From Perimenopause

Style and Substance and Silliness

January 22, 2022

We need all three!

Early Edition: We Remember Ronnie Spector

January 13, 2022

To hear her is to love her

Oh My God, We're Back Again!

January 7, 2022

Let's goooooooooooo

Tidings Good and Tidings Fine

First, the good news—the great news, if you’re a Stalwart of Dames Nation who’s been here since our This Week in Hamilton days: In the Heights (the film...

Towards an Ideal Vacation House: DVD Shelves & Book Shelves

You know, for when you’re tired of being a glamorous water skiier Vacation rentals can be weird. It’s probably kinder to imagine that they’re reflective only...

Summoning Summer 2021

Revel in casual glamour with Guest Editors Kaitlyn & Brenda!

Well Begun Is Half-Done

And that's just fine!!!

Martini Air Quotes

Earlier this week, I was listening to this song and— let me tell you. After the first full week of sustained good weather and my first dose of the Moderna...

Last Call & Flat Exhaustion

As we reach the one year mark on our period of involuntary house arrest, exhausted doesn’t even begin to cover it. We are like… lying flat on our backs at...

Powerful Thighs, Hackable Lives

February 27, 2021

It is serotonin booster time again, friends! Here are this week’s gems selected from your incredible submissions to our handy dandy Google Form. Have we...

Infrastructure Week

February 20, 2021

For real! Maintenance is so important!

Portrait of a Lady on Fire Livetweet

February 15, 2021

Bonjour, Notre Amis! We are so excited to watch and discuss Portrait of a Lady on Fire with you tonight starting at 7:30pm ET. We will be in here chatting...

Chop Me Up Fine With Your Tiny Knife

February 13, 2021

The new "Take Me Away, Calgon"

February 6, 2021

Curl up with some good things

Disco Fever Dream

January 30, 2021

Earlier this week, something incredibly important happened: a weird food I am DYING to try appeared on the internet— Everything Bagel Ice Cream. Jeni's...

Laura's Magical Savory Morning Buns

January 30, 2021

Courtesy of beloved Dames Pal Laura Koenig, proprietress of The Witch House, here is her magical recipe for everything bagel-flavored savory morning buns....

January 23, 2021

Thundersnow Day!

January 16, 2021

Okay so— unsurprisingly— asking you guys to send in your Guaranteed Seratonin Booster videos was an inspired choice because, Dames Nation??? You have great...

This Hell? At Least It's Fresh

January 9, 2021

Happy (???) New Year, Dames Nation. Time? We don’t know her. What do we even say at this point? This week was going to be weird and difficult pretty much no...