I don't want to overwhelm you by adding to all the responses you've already received, but did want to share what works for me. I adopted a ketogenic 'diet' — which I now look at as a way of life, since I know that if I went back to my prior way of eating I'd regain my lost weight. Here are some links, if you're…

I'm not sure why, but that excerpt also struck me as odd for similar reasons. I think it was the competitive aspect — and that, based on this, Hemingway seemed to need Fitzgerald's desire for his (Hemingway's) imagined women to add extra spice. There was something that implied that Fitzgerald's interest in them would…

And now *that* image is stuck in my head. (Does my local drugstore sell brainwash?)

REM had something to say about that...

Absolutely! My diet was an Atkins variant (ketogenic/Paleo) and not only did it allow me to lose my excess weight, but it did so without my having to give much thought to it. Within certain parameters, I eat as much as I want, whenever I want, without feeling deprived. And I feel so much better that I plan to stick to…

Many vegetable-haters are supertasters. If you read the linked article, you'll see that, to a number of people, many vegetables have a truly abhorrent taste. And, ignorant people making erroneous assumptions get on my nerves.

I just renewed my LinkedIn Business membership. I clicked to renew, filled out the necessary information, and only by thoroughly examining the screen did I find that I was 'choosing' to upgrade to Business Plus (at $500+ annually) rather than Business (at $300). Needless to say, I canceled out of the whole thing.

I'm with you. I loved Jasmine and Aaron — Jasmine in particular, given her ability to convey emotion and those amazing legs — but I felt that Amy was a better dancer; she has an amazing emotional instrument, and her technique is close to perfection.

Thanks for your comment. To say, "Formerly Obese Teenagers Are More Likely to Have Eating Disorders" based on a case study of only two people is utterly absurd. Furthermore, it doesn't even make sense. More likely than whom? And how could that even be concluded since the 'study' only included formerly obese teenagers?

Ketoacidosis and ketosis are totally different things:

Yeah, at that age I too seemed "older than (my) chronological age" — and the reason for that was that I was molested early on and hence sexualized way earlier than I should have been. Fuck ANYONE who would use that as a reason. And thank you for pointing it out.

This story led me down the rabbit hole of Google-searching my high school religion teacher: a Jesuit Brother who tried to seduce me when I was 15. I was pretty savvy by that age — fortunately or unfortunately, as I earned my 'savvy' by having been molested as a child, and having numerous grown men (19-45) try that…

I agree about the secret taping, but in this case it seems to me that the portrait orientation is appropriate; the point is to capture as much as possible of the guy's body, not to provide a gym vista.

Until you mentioned it, I'd completely forgotten about the dead dick—or, more likely—intentionally wiped it from my memory.

I understand that. I was just pointing out that you spoke about another commenter making assumptions about your gender when your choice of words encouraged that 'assumption.' I'm aware that the English language does not have non-gendered words to use in these circumstances. But until we do, we've got to know that if…

And you know if that happens, they'll be saying, "Oh, it's not me, it's my injury/depression/medication." But what'll happen after they live with it for a while? I don't want people to suffer...but I guess I'd just really like for them to learn!

Thanks. I was a little afraid to say it...but I thought it needed to be said.

I cried (again) when I heard Yoko Ono cut all her hair off after John Lennon was shot. It wasn't that I had any particular connection with Yoko Ono; it was the grief I felt at the world's — and my — loss of him. And my understanding that whatever sorrow I was feeling, Yoko was feeling it at least a thousand times…

You didn't.

I have no stake in this argument, but did want to point out that you said, "...as someone who has lived in Japan...and doesn't even have his TV antenna connected..." Therefore, it would seem reasonable to me that a reader would conclude that you are, in fact, male.