Ciara is fucking amazing. The world needs to recognize. Also Jez should feature her in Your Imaginary Girlfriend.

HAHAHAHA

Because it's cold. Your body burns all that energy just to stay at 98.6F. I remember hearing Michael Phelps say he ate 7,000 calories a day or something while training.

I watched this while eating a black-and-white cookie and a chocolate donut, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Oh but that was actually the style in the late 80s. You most likely wore two pairs of pantyhose under your leotard so no one could see your legs. And probably leg warmers with matching wristbands, in hot pink or something. Fabulous! And you wore this outfit to aerobics class, where you'd make jazz hands and do that…

I was obsessed with twerk videos for like six months, because they made me realize my ass is not as strong as I thought it was. Also they are hypnotizing. I love these women.

Argh, the Master Cleanse! My housemates did that years ago with only drinking the lemonade/cayenne pepper mixture for days on end. They were SO sick none of them could go to work for like a week. I thought they were incredible idiots.

Now that you mention it, the only time I've ever had legit food poisoning was from a salad. God that sucked. All I could think for twelve hours straight was, "All of life is suffering".

I understand what you're saying, but it sounds like your beef is with lingerie in general, not Chrysalis in particular. This company's ads and products look no different than something you'd see from Wacoal or Natori. If that's not your deal, then you don't need this stuff. I've known cis women who hate underwire or…

So the other day I looked up the 1964 LIFE Magazine article "Homosexuality in America" on Google Books. I highly recommend it, if anyone's interested. It's all about the sad, sordid, shadowy lives of gay men - the mainstream could barely even conceive that lesbians existed then.

Ugh, yes! I didn't realize how much I hated that shit until a couple years ago when a woman said to me "I know you're not dainty" and I felt like it was the best compliment I'd ever gotten.

All of this is true. I have known several people who don't "look" like they are in shape, but who eat vegetarian, are at the gym daily, running half-marathons beside me, or swimming laps in the pool long after I'm exhausted. And I think those types of people ("large-framed" or whatever, or retaining water due to meds)…

What interests me is, how did these circumstances come into being? Who was the first human to walk down a beach, find a lump of stinky slime, and think "Hey, I'm gonna dilute this with alcohol and rub it all over myself, it'll smell awesome!"?

May I suggest preserved lemons? If you really have a lot, you could probably sell jars of them to someone with a booth at a farmer's market or a local grocer that carries ethnic foods.

This is heartbreaking. When I was younger, I had a friend who was closeted for similar reasons, even though he had moved to the US and his entire family was very far away. He became a Catholic priest.

If you're not jacked in, you're not alive.

That's actually a pretty cute story.

This article just makes me feel old. Like, really old. Also, naive and sheltered. I have never heard of A/S/L before, and I generally trust people to be who they say they are. (Actually, to me ASL = American Sign Language.) I've never tried to "date" anyone online and I don't think I'm even sure exactly what a "chat…

I don't have time to look it up right now, but the study I'm thinking of was done in Philly by the med school at Penn. (NOT Penn State.) My ex-husband went to that med school and a friend of ours worked on the study. It was published in a medical journal. I'm sure you'll find it, it was maybe six or seven years ago.…

Keeping a handgun in your home increases your chances of becoming a shooting victim by 70%. I wonder if Attorney Trotter cares about that statistic. Half my family is in law enforcement and they all agree (in spite of being nutty conservatives) that unless you have serious training (like police or military), it's more…