I was obsessed with vintage nudes as a teen; even ran a large vintage nude community on GreatestJournal. They all were so beautifully normal, with natural shapes and faces and their confidence in their bodies gave me confidence in my own body.

RE: Ninette. You can see a hint of "sleeveless" sleeve on the left shoulder. Neck 'choker'' obscures 'neckline,' belt obscures two-piecy-ness ('cause girl gotta pee!) Ta Da!

No, you are smelling the difference in time. I was there at the end of the 60’s. It was exactly as I described it then. I’m glad to hear the Odessa horizons are broader now, and surely, given the increase in communication technologies and global movement of people since then, they would have to be. There will be far…

“And that’s a goal you can actually attain! How great is that? A goal you have in life is actually attainable! All you have to do is you just keep playing with your buddies and your friends and you actually attain your goals! In Odessa, you can do that!”

I attended Permian High School a long time before the FNL book, movie or TV series, none I which I have watched/read because it would likely bring back unhappy family memories. It really is weird to read about the football team and see that field sign, which was there in an earlier incarnation. Odessa High School was…

Clearly my Googling skills suck. which search terms did you use?

Australia. The Florida of the South Pacific.

It used to be a recognized disorder all on its own, but like Asparger’s disease, it no longer exists except as part of a larger diagnostic catagory. MBP is now part of ‘Facticious’ (false) Injury Disorder.

I personally knew someone who did this to her child. But it was fecal matter. Apparently, one of her kids was actually born sick, and she liked the attention so much she started poisoning the others. (Incidentally, she was also a mommy blogger.)

Christ.

Uh huh. There’s always a reason. When Asian guy or white guy walks into the interview, he has an advantage regardless of degree or previous experience. He is unconsciously viewed as a better candidate than an equivalent or even a better candidate who is a white woman or a man or woman who is hispanic, black, or…

It’s also a circular problem of when there are black women qualified for the job, are they going to want to work for a company where they are not represented and are going to be “the token”?

I feel like you have to have little to no self respect to work in food service.

We’re coming home along the Thruway and decide to stop at McD’s. There’s a woman and smallish kid in front of us getting huffy and I can tell this won’t end well. And in due time she starts yelling at the cashier, “Why is everything more expensive here? This is ridiculous! You’re ripping people off!” and so on, as the…

Back when I worked for my local library, I had a patron tell her little boy not to talk to me because I was “the goddamned devil.” All because she had a small fine, which she didn’t even have to pay in order to check out her items that day.

Regarding the screaming woman in the pizza place: I did have an occasion once where my then 2.5 year old daughter asked me why some woman was yelling at an employee at my local grocery store. It gave me great pleasure to explain, very loudly, that the yelling woman was mean and nasty and probably very unhappy with her…

Re: the pizza place. I was just screamed at last week at full volume in front of the circulation desk (I’m a librarian) and I figured that most people around us were thinking, “Whoa! That woman sounds CRAZY. Hey kids, don’t ever act like that.” Never dreamed that someone would back up the lunatic and give the message…

I used to work for a music producer who would get her power-trip stroked by sending back the food. Every. Single. Time. It didn’t matter what she ordered, where she was eating, or any other variable you can think of. This was just her way of saying, “I can bend others to my will” (probably because she wasn’t even on…

Dear dining public: