He is mad like Chaucer, yo.

A friend of mine wanted to name his eventual child Scorpio Steele, but then an artist in town heard the name and actually changed his name to Scorpio Steele. Then he wanted to name his future daughter Brutalitor, but I think his wife has talked him out of it. I'm hoping they go with Purple, as his last name is Hays…

All the times I watched that show, I think this is the first time I ever heard his first name.

Do you have a problem with my home team, The Rednecked Honkies?

He certainly communicated his subtext effectively, because that's how I read it too.

And then there is the implication that there can't be technological innovation and creativity without a bro-ish atmosphere of unbridled dudeness. Women will come in and try to pretty it up with our "political correctness" (i.e. not want our tits stared at and/or commented on).

That was one of my favorites! I didn't like most of the Sesame Street books because the show was so much better, but this one was great. My son loved it too.

I remember loving this when I read it in sixth grade, but I could never re-read it because of the sadness. So many tears at the end.

I tried re-reading this one last year, and it just didn't hold up for me. But I do remember how much I loved it when I read it as a kid. I would still love to live in a museum.

I love this one. I was so happy that my son did too. He read it twice, even though there are a lot of abstract ideas and new vocabulary, both of which are stumbling blocks for him. But he felt so close to Meg and Charles Wallace, so connected to their bad experiences at school, that he really had to know everything…

The Westing Game

Thank you. Now I don't feel so bad about only making it a chapter or two in, despite storing the book in my bathroom specifically to force myself read the whole thing.

She just has to remember to still pump while she's drunk/hungover (and then dump that milk), otherwise production will slow down (as Penny pointed out.)

Alcohol goes into the bloodstream and therefore it can go into the milk. However, my drinking friends with breastfed babes just plan ahead by pumping extra milk and storing it for party time. Then they can feed by bottle until the alcohol clears their systems.

I live in a pretty nice neighborhood (near a botanical garden and plenty of multi-million dollar mansions), but I still sometimes find a pile of human shit in the alley outside of my front door. I know it is human, because it is either accompanied by napkins used as toilet paper, or covered with a piece of trash from…

If Sinead O'Connor has trouble finding decent psychiatric help, what chance does an average person have? Let alone the scary guy who was swearing and punching things in Wendy's last night.

I'm glad that Ariana Grande has to keep her mouth shut this week. Last week she made my son cry because she claimed that she took a scary ghost picture in a cemetery that was too scary to put on Twitter because demons or something. He was both scared of the ghosts/demons and upset with me because I don't believe in…

I see what you're getting at and you are right. My (probably naive) hope is that people who put those relationships on a pedestal have other reasons for being proud of their relationship, but this is the one that is most public. Like my great grandparents got married because they were both attractive circus people who…

I don't know. I think that even if the intention is to seem hip or cool, the message ends up being, "This is normal and okay," which is ultimately what I want to see.

Also Eureka, where there was an interracial couple and an interracial pair of best buddies.