Double recommend. I enjoyed Gone Girl, but somehow liked Dark Places and Sharp Things even more.

So much anglo discrimination against French Canadians back in the day. My mom told me that when the superintendent came to her father's school in rural MB, they'd have to hide all the French text books.

I love Rifle Paper, too! They have the cutest freaking cards, and prints.

I think I saw a recent write-up on California somewhere among these many Gawker sites. Sounds super interesting, but what kind of read is it? Good for a cottage weekend?

I work in marketing analytics, and I'll tell you this: I like using the gender classification in order to invalidate those assumptions. My interests and preferences often don't align to what marketers, etc typically associate with females, so I take special pleasure in using actual data to subvert their expectations.

And?

Hug watch always makes me sad.

I do the same, with one small change: I never go through it again. I have many boxes of junk cluttering up my room at the moment.

EVERY day?? Good god. I get a five o-clock shadow, but either stretch legs to a second day or wear pants & sleeves. I don't know what it would take for me to shave daily.

It still can. Please make all children's sizes and ship to Canada. Will invest.

I'll clear that up for you: it doesn't.

Couldn't bear to watch. Which FreshCo is it?

I have had coconut water, and I have had fluid from a can or tetra pak that has the words "coconut water" on its label. The latter bears no resemblance, other than being an potable* liquid, to the former.

Is that from Madame Tussauds?

Have to give credit where it's due, mattenglish.kinja.com is the brilliant originator of that particular meme.

I have such Nenshvy.

You remind me of the people who insist "So you identify as Indian, right?" as though one can only have one side to be a whole person.

Man, I hadn't even considered that. As if we haven't done enough damage to the First Nations people here, either.

Kind of a funny reach to shoehorn Drake's mixed background in.

Oh boy. This is weird. Alberta is very much a conservative province, but I'm hung up on this part: