@ablative: Bad Romance has been playing on the Top 40 station in my hometown lately, but it's just not the same without the video.

@Penny: The neighborhoods I like best are University City, Grand South Grand, the Central West End, Webster Groves and Kirkwood. The first three are really liberal, especially the CWE (it's our big gayborhood), and they're close to universities, so there's a lot of young-ish people there, especially U.City. The last…

@Penny: I'm from St.Louis! Which company recruited you? St.Louis is an okay place. It has some really hip, cool, progressive neighborhoods, but the mass transit system is a joke, racism (especially toward African-Americans) is quite pervasive, and well, when I went downtown on Tuesday night, the streets were deserted…

@PipPipCheerio: I have a lot of papers and projects due within the next two weeks and it's causing me a lot of anxiety. Last night I convinced my girlfriend to drive back to school with me early on the condition that I get a lot of work done today and that I do not complain about homework during our drive. The…

Yesterday, my 33-year-old brother almost threw a tantrum because I disagreed with him over what kind of background noise we should have on during the big dinner. He wanted a movie, I wanted classical music. Oprah ended up being the ambiance of choice, but that was almost a minefield because the whole episode consisted…

Thanks for reminding me to text one of my good friends, who was rehired at Toys 'R' Us for the holiday season. He's one of the most environmentally conscious and anti-capitalist people I know, so I can't imagine how much he is dying inside right now.

@Beets.Go.On is the Fat Yogini: I'm making a dish with roasted garlic, green beans and shiitake mushrooms. My sister is making a tiny crockpot-sized ham because her husband won't eat turkey. My mom is making the turkey, a Quorn turk'y roast for me, mashed potatoes, apple pie, pecan pie, and stuffing (with and without…

@angelina jolie-laide is a gaudy tulip: It's not quite the same thing, but I have the cell phone numbers for two of my favorite professors, and I don't hesitate to text them whatsoever.

@FurrierAndIves: I recently discovered the All Songs Considered podcast. It.is.AWESOME.

@whats_in_a_name: Beauty products that smell like food freak me out. It's like ... I love cookies, but it's not like I want to smell like them. I make an exception for my passionfruit-guava shampoo and conditioner because I've never actually eaten either of those fruits.

@FurrierAndIves: I've been away at University. I don't have time at school to hang around in these here parts. :(

@MalinaMango: Yes. Urban Dictionary will explain everything — [www.urbandictionary.com]

This is the first time I've participated in an OT in several months.

@Keep it cool: I tried to do No-Shave November with my legs, but I gave up the other day. It had been a month since I shaved my legs and I just couldn't put up with the way certain fabrics felt against my legs and how itchy my legs felt all the time. I felt like I was selling out to the Man, but my legs were seriously…

Quorn's fake turkey is far superior to Tofurky. Just sayin'

As bell hooks said, 'Feminism is for everybody.' BAM! Done.

Is it just me or in this clip does she sound vaguely like Fran Drescher on the Nanny? All of a sudden I want there to be some sort of futuristic remake of that show with LG in the lead.

@funzette: Do you think Oprah is trying to tell the world something? I've been holding on to the hope that she will come out as queer some time soon, but if she's actually been some sort of dominatrix this whole time, I'll definitely settle for that.

@FrannyR: Yeah, as a fellow lesbian, I found this post to be both fascinating and uninteresting at the same time.

@samarkand: There's at least a few theaters in my home town that sell craft beer, Italian soda, and fancy coffee drinks. The first time I went to one of them after I turned 21 I was really psyched to drink a pretentious beer and watch a pretentious movie, but alas it was a Sunday and state law forbade the sale of…