Hey now, it's not nice to make fun of those who didn't pass seventh-grade Civics.

Ah, come sit by me. Oh, wait—don't! That's a wooden bench! They could be in there, bedbugging it up! My non-NYC friends think I'm insane. All I can say to them is, "DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH IT COSTS TO DEAL WITH THIS PROBLEM? THOUSANDS." I used to check that site all the time. Now I just Google wherever + bedbugs ahead of…

Dear NYC movie-theater bedbugs, thank you for preventing me from seeing any Oscar-nominated movie this year.

It's for a writing project. :) And one of my friends had a summer job in BH a while back; although she never explicitly said it, the impression I got was what you describe... Thanks for the response. Rehabbing a house up there sounds nothing short of amazing—excuse me while I go lie on my couch and dream of doing…

Thank you! :)

Awright! I hope your guys win. :)

Do tell! :) I'm all ears. (You're welcome to put it in a PM if you want, instead.)

Ok, thanks! :) Is there a big townies-tourist divide in Bar Harbor? What's it like going to college there? Anything you want to share (impressions, etc.), I'd love to hear it, or you can put it in a PM if you want. Thank you!

Promoting this to blow Gawkerites' stereotypes about Jezebel out of the water...

I'm so very sorry. I don't know what else to say... Much of what you loved about him will live on in your daughter. I don't know if that's helpful—I just know I take heart in that, sometimes, with family members I've lost. Take care of yourself.

Anyone from Maine? I need to pick someone's brain about Bar Harbor (please). Anyone, anyone? Halp.

This is going to make me sound like the world's most cynical person, but a therapist who would do this knows he has a 95% chance that the client in this situation will come back to the office, post-letter, with months' worth of problems needing to be addressed...or months of therapy undone. You know? It's as though he…

I haven't done it, but I worked for a publishing startup that basically sold editing and marketing packages to people who wanted to publish (and had deep pockets). (Hey, I'm not proud of it, but it paid the bills in a time when publishing jobs were impossible to find.) Five things you should Google:

SEWINGHULK SMASH! CHICKEN NOT THREAD!

Do they not have babysitters where you live? (I'm asking seriously.)

Yes, but the difference is: you ELECT to undergo that.

Mesmerizing! Thanks, I think that's what's going on. I made better progress yesterday. ;)

Ach, no image. :( Yes, I have the manual, and I understand what's going on under the plate. After much Googling, I think it's either a) cheap thread; b) needle inserted facing the wrong way (not likely); or c) I just have to fish it out/up and back with a pin or pencil or something. Blaaaaaaaaaaaah. :(

I watched about two episodes of that, and then gave up. It's nicely researched, but it doesn't seem to give his comic prowess full rein. It began to seem really restrained, rather than exuberant—which he seems to be on the few episodes of "QI" that I've seen. Maybe I just can't deal with a dialed-down Fry. (I saw him…

The thread? Or the turnwheel [insert Accurate Sewing-Machine Term here]?