Back in early Deadwood days, John Hawkes played with his band Kong Straggler in a teeny venue in my city... And can I just say, the band was pretty good, and Hawkes was simultaneously very gracious to fans while managing not to swan about like a famous person. It made me a Hawkes fan for life, and the fact that he's…

People, I have a solution. Let's stop calling them, "transvaginal ultrasounds" and start calling them, "dildo-inspired ultrasounds." There's no way conservative white men will say that term on the record.

Cleanse the liver?! The liver is not in the butt, last I checked. How, pray tell, does the coffee get from point A to point B?

Let's not be too caps-y about drinking at work; among the start-up crowd it's fairly common to have a beer or two in the office, especially at the end of the day. Hell, my office provides it in the kitchen.

This doesn't seem to be the driving force in other species; typically, it results from limited resources and/or intentional concealment of paternity.

Came here to say exactly this. Well done, BlueJeans.

Maybe she's just a really big Robin Williams fan.

I'm feeling very privileged and smug about being able to wear whatever I like to work. Everyone in my office wears whatever they damn please, and there is none of this bitching. Casual dress code for eeeeeveryone! Problem solved.

And to think a gentlemen once suggested to me that my lack of protruding labia was abnormal and unsatisfactory. Perhaps I should forward him a link.

As long as you have a cat door. Gotta have the cat door.

I hear a lot of my friends say this sort of thing, only to completely forget their stance on this and go buckwild when they get married (not suggesting you would, Ginger, just sharing anecdata)- one friend who had been publicly critical of a bridal shower of a friend had- count them- 6 different events surrounding her…

Yikes. That's a shame.

I've been reading her book and it's been cracking me the fuck up, but otherwise I'm not terribly familiar with Caitlan Moran- what's she been doing/saying that's perturbing you?

I wasn't referring to her actions so much as how she portrayed herself in this story.

It wasn't my most carefully worded comment, for sure. It apparently came off much differently than intended.

This is so sad. As a woman who loves her some grad school (and the people in it), I want to will the universe to send you someone who will dig you.

Yep. I remember going bonkers on bags of doritos at sleepovers, because omg chips!

I didn't intend to suggest they *can't* bite, I just meant to suggest it's unlikely (just like it's unlikely, but not impossible, that I would bite someone).

Not shells, exuviae. Let's be precise.

Well, that was a thing I didn't know about. The girl sounds obnoxious.