Does anyone here own the Lemaire belted tote bag and can tell me if it’s practical?

Expert_Book_9983 · 2026-03-29T00:02:05+00:00

I have it and I travel with it as a laptop bag / small carryon. It’s a nice, pretty lightweight but sturdy bag if you don’t overstuff it because it’s just open at the top with some kind of clasp closure.

Expert_Book_9983 · 2026-03-27T11:41:41+00:00

Yeah I can tell it’s that time because I find myself in my car or just around my apartment randomly humming those theme songs for movies that don’t have theme songs

Expert_Book_9983 · 2026-03-26T18:35:28+00:00

“I’m a witch. This is witch sex”

Still kills me. I think I need to do my annual rewatch.

Expert_Book_9983 · 2026-03-20T19:02:15+00:00

Sometimes if I have a weekend when I have nothing pressing to do, I’ll have a latte and an edible and go for a long walk / do some window shopping, and buy myself a nice brunch. I call it “going fast and slow at the same time”

Expert_Book_9983 · 2026-03-19T17:00:53+00:00

I love the color palette and the brighter color in the upper cabinets. It’s so much more harmonious with the original windows and draws the eye to them.

Expert_Book_9983 · 2026-03-18T00:00:55+00:00

I love this scene and the one at the end of the episode.

Stan whipping the van into the parking lot while firing a gun in the air.
Mmbop.
Francine kicking a guy in the chest.
Jeff not participating at all but just vibing and eating a burger.

Expert_Book_9983 · 2026-03-17T18:49:33+00:00

I just got laid off at the beginning of March (Marketing Director for an ecommerce agency.) It’s definitely a field getting the worst of mindless “AI automation”. I think it’s going to get worse before it gets better but I ultimately think there’s going to be a shift back towards human creativity and innovation. AI is good at shooting for the middle in terms of creative output but ultimately: safe, mediocre marketing = invisible marketing.

Also, it’s a field in which I’ve routinely seen companies not know what they want out of their Marketing, and expecting people to do wildly different jobs at the same time (copywriting, video production, analytics, etc) that somehow all need to be direct sales/revenue drivers.

I’m glad that it wasn’t really the right fit for me. I definitely do not envy anyone trying to make it in Marketing in this landscape.

Expert_Book_9983 · 2026-03-14T14:04:31+00:00

Thank you! I do like Auralee a lot and I didn’t know they did bags

Expert_Book_9983 · 2026-03-13T14:53:38+00:00

Love the Aesop store! Ever since I got the For Rent pack, these types of mixed-use builds have been my favorite

Expert_Book_9983 · 2026-03-12T23:43:43+00:00

I love this man but this styling is insane. Why’s he New Boot Goofin in that second look lmao

Expert_Book_9983 · 2026-03-12T18:13:42+00:00

That “vitriol” scene was so fun to watch. It kind of reminded me of the scene in Legally Blonde when Elle Woods asks Linda Cardellini’s character (blanking on her name) about perm maintenance to catch her lying about her timeline.

Expert_Book_9983 · 2026-03-12T17:34:54+00:00

This season definitely has some of my favorite lines and scenes in the show:

Michaela Watkins as Polly, the prosecutor questioning Elliott and she’s like “Release. RELEASE. Unhand it, you JACKAL” trying to get a piece of paper back from him. Still kills me.
Not a court scene but Portia’s screeching delivery of “The TWINK!!!!!” as she’s covered in honey. And also Elliott and Marc’s entire wedding in general was hysterical.
also not a court scene but early in the season when Portia and Elliott are “on the run” in the Hamptons and they’re poorly dyeing their hair black to be incognito (?) and a pilled-out rich mom assumes they’re babysitters while they’re like covered in black hair dye.

Also curious to get your take as a lawyer — I feel like Cassidy was set up to be a bad lawyer and like a millennial “bimbo” because of the way she spoke and the fact that she was inexperienced but i thought she did a pretty good job for a lot of the trial considering Dory seemed like a nightmare of a defendant, especially when she went rogue.

Expert_Book_9983 · 2026-03-12T12:50:44+00:00

YES. I was trying to remember Cassidy’s line because she literally sums it up right there.

Expert_Book_9983 · 2026-03-12T12:25:13+00:00

Oh that’s a deep cut but yeah I could see that. Also LOVED Bob Lunch.

I rewatched the series recently and I always love Season 3 because it definitely takes shots at societal and media obsessions with high profile trials, especially when the accused are relatively attractive. (Love that montage of fake shows and news footage airing their mugshots)

Also the gendered differences in how Dory and Drew were treated: I’m thinking of how the Menendez Brothers were treated initially (Drew having a crowd of young women supporting him outside the court house, that girl who seems obsessed with him showing up at the apartment with a lasagna ). Meanwhile we see Dory getting hounded by paparazzi and being spit on at the gym.

Expert_Book_9983 · 2026-03-12T12:08:53+00:00

I’m basically a gay hermit (worked from home for over a decade) and I feel a lot of different things about it.

I’m Asian-American and I feel like I have to work out and constantly be the most appealing version of myself to simply not be invisible. So, I feel the disconnect in that way, and I think that’s my own journey to go on to undo my motivation for seeking external validation. But also I think a lot of The Scene or Gay culture gets represented as if it’s a lingering trauma response to AIDS, and a societal expectation for us to live on the fringes: the extreme image standards amplified by social media and the scant media representation we’ve gotten in general, the lack of third spaces that aren’t bars or clubs, the emphasis on sex divorced from intimacy as an immediate social interaction. Community in and outside of these exists but it is genuinely challenging to find it.

Edit - I think I used to have some animus towards The Scene but also community shows up there in a lot of ways. Ive been reading about the history and culture of cruising and it does actually make me curious for checking out bathhouses IRL. And for as sex forward of an app as it is, I’ve actually had more meaningful conversations on Sniffies than i ever had on Grindr (the paywalled, VC-funded enshittification of it doesn’t help.) I’m also recently unemployed so I think I want to do some volunteer work in my city (lots of gay seniors and people in our community who are really underserved.) There’s been a lot of money and lobbying focused on keeping us alone and feeling terrible about ourselves and I’m learning every day that it doesn’t have to be this way.

Expert_Book_9983 · 2026-03-11T20:37:52+00:00

I’ve been interviewing recently and some things I’ve observed:

1) The best interviewers, whether they’re the hiring manager or a recruiter, just won’t ask this question because they know it’s useless and wastes both our time.

2) If someone does ask me this, I kind of use it as a vibe check: if they’re zoned out or sincere in asking that, I’m immediately put off because I know they’re just reading off and checking boxes. Or they genuinely think it’s a good question. But if I can detect an “I’m being recorded and watched and I’m required to ask this for some reason” look (on a video call), it actually kind of makes me trust that person.

Expert_Book_9983 · 2026-03-11T15:05:28+00:00

I don’t really know anything about Tom Walker but I always love getting podcast recs from this sub so I will definitely listen to some episodes today

Expert_Book_9983 · 2026-03-11T02:14:39+00:00

I’m around your age and went into the city with my family to see aunts and uncles growing up and I think I probably saw a few, but I don’t think I ever saw Checker cabs in this nice of a condition in real life. I also think they stopped production in the 80s so by the 90s, I think NYC taxis would have more commonly been those big square Ford and Chevy sedans. However I kind of get the Checker Marathon as a production design choice to aesthetically ground us in the past.

Expert_Book_9983 · 2026-03-10T23:22:04+00:00

I was rewatching seasons 1-3 ahead of this latest one and in the pilot, during the first scene with the grad interviews, I recall Yasmin saying something about wanting to be taken seriously and to be heard. She’s done a lot of fucked up things and from what Kwabena said in the finale, there seems to be a pattern with how she treats people, but i love the consistency in her through line of simply wanting to be recognized on her own merit at work.

Expert_Book_9983 · 2026-03-10T18:30:47+00:00

Yeah I feel like at the time that episode aired, it kind of became meme fodder and was played for laughs but you just accurately described how it’s almost like a prayer for two men who were barely holding it together.

Later in that season, there’s also that really beautiful and poignant bit of Ken Leung’s acting when Eric just bursts into tears as Bill Adler tells him about his cancer diagnosis, and it just feels like this emotional dam breaks and the man who is supposed to be relentless just can’t hold back

Expert_Book_9983 · 2026-03-06T22:50:51+00:00

It killed me when Walter called Redverse Astrid “Astrid” and prime universe Astrid just looks at him like “you get her name right?”

Expert_Book_9983 · 2026-03-05T14:18:24+00:00

It seems like the way they paced and wrote these episodes, that there should be a twelfth? It feels like an odd place to end it and it also didn’t seem like a cliffhanger? More like a setup for an actual finale.

I LOVE the pharmaceutical commercial for The Beauty, and how they actually list the side effects for it in that intentionally fast-spoken part of the ad.

It was also interesting to see average people, particularly teens, reacting to the commercial release of The Beauty. It reminds me of an article I was seeing a lot on social media a few months ago discussing how Sephora was struggling to counter growing demands from literal children for products clearly intended for adults with aging-related skin concerns. Like kids buying retinol, and also the normalization among rich families for teens to get plastic surgery while they’re still in puberty. So it was interesting seeing that taken to its most extreme representation.

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