At Silver Springs (an attraction in Florida), they call that expectorate "guanacomole."

High-pitched is a good way to describe it, although I'd say glowing light yellow. Like the filament in a lightbulb. I also have a sensation like there is something small and thin in my mouth, like the last bit of a Lifesaver candy, but with no taste.

The only asparagus or green beans I ever had growing up were canned, which doesn't even count. I thought I hated green beans until I started cooking them myself! Actually, there are a lot of vegetables I didn't know were delicious if they weren't cooked to mush. :(

Well, honestly, you could smear hummus on a piece of cardboard and I'd eat it. :) I usually grate carrots and put them in fried rice or couscous, that way I can hide them from myself better. I do love carrot cake, however. I'd consider that the best use of a bunch of carrots!

Wow, until you said you were from Texas, I thought you were me! (Georgia peach here) I also am blessed with a child who loves roasted cauliflower, and who is growing okra because it's his favorite vegetable. I can't say he likes everything yet; he still doesn't love cabbage, but he eats far healthier than I did at…

Right. I hardly ever play with Skeletor.

This is why my son's room is a wild toy jungle. My dad gave my stable of My Little Ponies to the church nursery and broke my heart. Now, I can't bear to get rid of toys, because what if my grandchildren need an Optimus Prime or a Skeletor?! They may only make lame toys in the future (my youngest is only 6, those…

Not sure yet, but I missed the last selection, so I'm reading that now (along with a couple other books, of course).

I finished it last night and loved it. I would never have picked it up if it had not been for io9, but it wasn't what I expected at all. The imagery was just fantastic. I know I'll treasure the idea of the Psycho Canoe for a long time.

If I wasn't sold before, I certainly am now.

Thank you for that awesome link hidden in your post! Now I'm even more anxious for the next Locke Lamora tale.

He certainly looks the part of the diamond-burning mad scientist! What a delightful video, thanks for posting this.

Hell, it's pretty horrific for adults, too! Not as traumatizing as Plague Dogs, but most horror I've read was milder than that ray of sunshine.

That must be a powerful song; my husband often gets that earworm and insists on singing it loudly and with incorrect lyrics. So of course, when I correct him it burrows right into my head.

That glucose solution is ghastly. I begged my midwife to let me skip that test with my second child, but she refused.

What, you've never seen Dick Tracy? He's a perfect example of the "Masculine" nose! I can't decide whether Oswald Cobblepot is cunning or pessimistic, though.

I say we send that optical-illusion dance video, blow their minds.

If you like fantasy at all, absolutely keep reading. Drawing of the Three is good, but The Wastelands is magnificent, and then you will be hooked. I also recommend The Talisman, which has the same feel (but not the sequel, oh god no).

I recently found Flashman and the Mountain of Light at a Goodwill, bare breasts on the cover and all. I couldn't believe my luck.

You Napoleon of the stump, you.