luckily, most work in the sciences area I am now in is paid, although Im currently volunteering until grad school just because I didn't get on early enough to be a tech and got credit for it back before I graduated. I'm married, so we are able to live on his income for a few months until grad school, which I am paid…

It's not just dangerous to have lead in lipstick for women - it's potentially dangerous for children too.

I invest and have since 2001, so what I say is informed but may not be what anyone wants to hear:

HEY GIANT HAND THAT LADY GOES IN THE RECYCLABLES

You got the potatoes in the right order so I'll let you off this time, Beck, but do not cross me again.

"This is getting a little deep, but I believe they tap into our American cultural tendency toward selfishness and emotional isolation," she typed to me via Gchat. "Like, what other culture needs a kind of cake that is literally impossible to share if you even try it just disintegrates into crumbs and sadness?"

You guys, HAND PIES are the next hipster dessert trend. Hand pies... hair pies? And dude they totally look like female genitalia. (That's what this is really about right?)

Tell that to my Lemon Lemon Lemony, bitches!(lemon cake filled with lemon curd, topped with lemon Swiss meringue buttercream and a lemon meringue that cracked damn it!) Seriously though, cupcakes as a business is a total bust for most folks. I love to bake and cupcakes happen to be easy to travel with and easy to…

My million dollar idea is cupcake paper thingy whatever you call them that are the size of full-size cake pans.

Oh splendid, the utterly predictable "cupcakes suck" backlash story. Jesus, it's pastry. And I refuse to allow delicious icing delivery devices be besmirched in this way. If you don't like cupcakes, go eat a cruller. Or a donut. I'd suggest petit fours, but that might be too twee and cupcake-similar.

Sorry, folks, I still love cupcakes. They're adorable, the perfect portion, and you get to pick whatever flavor you want. I'm not saying goodbye yet. And what's going to replace them? French macaroons? Really? Cardboard with paste in the middle?

Um...please share the name of aforementioned bakery in North Berkeley for the benefit of those of us in the East Bay. I don't care if I'm the last cupcake lover standing. Maybe it'll go back to how it was 10 years ago and I won't have to stand in line behind a bunch of poseurs (vive la diference!)