Lo is your fave Hill's character? Really? Lo?! Not even Audrina "dead eyes" Patridge? Everyone know the show stopper was Justin Bobby!

No. I'm not sure that religiously listening to This American Life counts as a geek hobby. Maybe you win a yuppie/hipster award? Or, just the award of enjoying great radio.

I'm not sure I agree that the Rakoff selection you quoted is a very good demonstration of "the privilege of experiencing a fairly honest relationship with the person [h]e had put in charge of [his] mental healthcare." Isn't he basically saying his entire outward persona was a facade that not even his therapist could…

How I miss David Rakoff. God, so much testosterone!

I wouldn't really trust natural balance anymore. Del Monte bought them. They had these awesome dog rolls that are now making dogs throw up, mine included. :(

Black mutts with white chins and a white patch on their chests who are part spaniel, you say? Meet Jub Jub. Half-Cocker Spaniel, half-Boston Terrier, fully awesome (and no longer gassy thanks to fat-free plain yogurt):

I wondered this as well. Our recent adoptee took about 2 months to adjust too. She came to us with hot spots and terrible farts (she farted in our truck once and we were all about to bail). All it took was switching to a high quality food. Now, she's all good:

Rude? Or thoughtfully inclusive???

Doggy Tasteful thinks nothing of curling right up next to her humans before ripping some silent farts. But look at this face!

My dog will deliberately get up in the middle of the night from her bed, walk over to my side of the bed, lay down on the floor with her butt near my head and fart. I think she thinks that's how she's supposed to fart.

Or, maybe, just maybe (stick with me here) maybe it's possible for something to still be dangerous, even if it doesn't reliably kill you dead one hundred percent of the time.

Yup, ours act as if bath time=treason.

My cocker mix does the same thing! Please note his "why momma. WHY?" Look in those big eyes.

My cocker spaniel goes into a full-on pout after a bath. She sits perfectly still with the towel around her and looks pitiful. So sad.

I kind of want to throw my experience in the mix, just because it's slightly different. My husband and I have been together for about 8 years, married for four, and we have a preschool-age kid. We've have been through a lot of shit together. Family shit, mental illness shit, job shit, and traumatizing shit where I…

I just made myself a delicious salad! Tonight it was baby arugula (almost always arugula), sherry vinaigrette ( red wine works, too) with sliced cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, walnuts, crumbled flatbread (like, fancy cheese crackers) instead of croutons, and walnuts. I also ground flax and chia in a spice grinder and…

Mr. Scarves and I will have been together 5 year this coming June, and we got married this past fall. We're both teetering around 30, have a dog, and are planning to start trying for children this summer. It's scary since we're still somewhat in limbo re: finances, but we both want a bull pen of kids, and it's…

Sorry you're going through issues. Perhaps if you add a bit of color we can offer advice?

Please tell me, if you feel so inclined, about...your marriage/LTR/committed partnership. I'm going through some bigtime trials in my ltr and I take a lot of comfort in hearing that every relationship is different and goes through ups and downs and sometimes you even kind of can't stand each other. I'm pretty new to…