Was it tacky to get a cake during a hostage crisis? What was the protocol? She pictured chocolate frosting with white lettering: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HOPE YOUR DAUGHTER ISN’T DEAD. But this year was her fiftieth, a year with a zero. Veronica had to do something. So on her way to the condo she’d swung by a bakery and picked up a small German chocolate cake. It was her mom’s favorite—or at least it had been, a decade ago.-page 218 of The Thousand Dollar Tan Line
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ROB PAULSEN Trolling taps into people's desire to poke fun, make trouble and cause annoyance. ROB MANUEL When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we ... ROB SHEFFIELD The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice. ROB WALTON Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always somet... ROB ZOMBIE If you are willing to take the trip through 'Analogue,' you'll be rewarded with some of ... ROB MANUEL One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We'... ROB SHEFFIELD Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ba... ROB SHEFFIELD 'Revenge' is a shameless soap in the style of Eighties shoulder-pad slap-offs like 'Dall... ROB SHEFFIELD 'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, s... 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But if a man does it, it's ve... ROB SCHNEIDER Ron Swanson is more than the MVP of the 'Parks and Recreation' squad, more than just the fun... ROB SHEFFIELD The cast of 'Parks & Rec' is just a group of unbelievably nice, humble, down to earth, h... ROB LOWE The '90s were a time of building for me. Building a life that was sober, drained of harmful, was... ROB LOWE I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie. ROB ZOMBIE The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma. ROB LOWE Because Microsoft seems to sometimes not trust customer choice, they salt XP with all these little g... ROB GLASER I understand why some kid in his bedroom in Wisconsin thinks downloading songs couldn't hurt any... ROB ZOMBIE You could have another downgrade. You could certainly have a stock market reaction that would be neg... ROB PORTMAN There's a certain logic to avoiding the haters, but as a strategy, it's utterly flawed. When... ROB MANUEL The main job requirement for a network-news anchor is thinking it's the only important job in th... ROB SHEFFIELD I think people have come to know me, and I don't deviate too much as an individual. What you see... ROB MARIANO More than just music, the splash of water or a lone footstep can put you in the moment. Sound is jus... ROB MANUEL I feel like dress socks differentiate you in a different way - especially men in suits who just have... ROB KARDASHIAN For me, the battle is finding the balance between wanting to spend time with my boys and then having... ROB LOWE There is a movie called 'My Dog Skip,' starring my 'Outsiders' costar Diane Lane. I ... ROB LOWE We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little succe... ROB LOWE