I was going to do the DC one, but with my significant other in the midst of cancer treatments, I can’t be away from home overnight at the moment. But I’ll be doing the Philly one.

I spent most of high school envying all the students who seemed to have everything put together. One had a great internship at the mayor’s office, another worked in a cancer-biology research lab, etc. What I didn’t see was how much time they put into studying and how they just stuck with the stuff they struggled with,…

Holding my failures against myself is the closest I can get to having something/anything be affectionate towards me, don’t you dare try to take that away from me!

No, she absolutely did—she speaks about it in the Madonna interview for Rolling Stone I mentioned. I just confused the fact that the HIV+ friend she was caring for was also the man who died in her bed—and I’d EVEN READ THE EXTENDED STORY OF THE GOP GUY WHO DIED IN HER BED. Totally my mistake for making a leap over a…

Yes. The Republican. Dunno why I misremembered him having a terminal illness. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2005/mar/22/20050322-110506-1261r/

Yay for perfect rice! I use mine to steam tamales, too. Don’t tell my grandma.

I got a rice cooker for Christmas, and I used it for the first time today. The rice came out perfect, and I’m so excited. That’s all, this is the kind of thing I get excited about. The clay bowl chicken recipe from Every Grain of Rice that I made was also delicious.

Honestly, once you’ve gone to that much effort, why not just make actual pornography? It seems like he was able to find women willing to have sex with him when they thought it was an opportunity to work in porn—why do all the plying with alcohol and the lying and the posing as bunches of different people and…

There are actually decent reasons to list biological sex, mostly medical ones. As much as it might bother some people, there are actual important differences between male and female bodies that can dictate health concerns and treatments....so yes, I don’t have a problem denoting sex on a birth certificate.

Sad to say, this was my thought to as I was reading her letter. And then sadness as how stupid and violent we seem to have become. Stupid and violent is a bad combination.

yep, all I see when I look at that table is the bruises and cuts I would get on my legs. My coffee table is oval...

When it comes to car seats, I wouldn’t really trust anything that’s been used by someone else. Been in an accident? Dropped on the ground? Both reasons that car seats could possibly be replaced that are completely invisible... If they’ve got a good way of keeping this in check, then great, but the safety factor is…

The Democratic party’s incompetence is light years away from a “myth.”

Not sure if serious... but Russian Orthodox Christmas is January 7th.

The problem people are having, is because they’re over using. You should only use a scrub once or twice a week. Not daily.

The best way to find a Cab is to find the nearest mid to high-priced hotel. They will inevitably have a cab-stand out front. My favorite trick is to walk in a side door and then out the front door and ask the doorman to fetch one for you. Only works if you can exude class privilege via race/gender/dress code.

Yep, tylenol + booze = dead. Ibuprofen (advil) taken with alcohol can cause stomach bleeding, but is unlikely to kill you.

In a recent article about Tipsy Tow, our local paper found it necessary to note that they will not tow you to another bar.

No. No. No. No.

They tell you to watch out for the drunk drivers, but not to watch out for the cops! Closest I ever came to a NYE after-party accident was last year when a cop in the right lane next to me pulled a sudden 180 across the road and across my left lane, forcing me to hit my brakes to avoid T-boning him, before he hit his…