So, sorta off topic, but I know there have been a lot of Austen-ites posting and wanted to share. Ages ago I participated in a Kickstarter for a little game start up that sounded cool, but I wasn’t positive would go anywhere. Today I got an email that the closed beta release was available. Why am I posting about this…

I was about to step away from the computer for the night but saw this and had to share:

Hahahaha, that makes him Humungo Grant!!! (I'll show myself out)

It's somewhat comforting to see that a BAMF like Ice-T has self-esteem issues like the rest of us plebs. Gives me a little validation.

Aww, Miley Ray Cyrus looks adorable.

The worst part of being a twin, solved. No shared birthdays.

Okay, but look what we’re reduced to here, stretching ourselves to determine whether there is or isn’t something wrong with some stupid ad. If there was a problem we wouldn’t be guessing, we’d know.

I think you really have to want it to be offended by this one.

As a white person, I’ve gotta call bullshit on that. I have never experienced a moment of societal pressure in my life that could be considered as being due to my whiteness. And that’s getting close to fifty years, now.

Damn, this is a very honest, raw post, and I appreciate that. Few people ever make it to this core level of painful questioning. Most folks that I can tell, will steadfastly avoid painful exploration like this.

I’ve been thinking about relationships and how many people move in and out of others’ lives lately. Friendships, lovers. You always say the same things: “I love you, you’re my soul mate, you’re my family” etc etc. Then poof. They’re gone. They leave you, find someone else, die. I sound really naive, but honestly, when…

Catwoman.

The guy that runs Fark, wrote a book called; It’s Not News, It’s Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap as News. It includes a chapter titled, “Equal Time for Nutjobs,” about how the media likes to give the opposite side of a story, even when it’s proven to be untrue for “the conversation,” when really they’re…

“We feel that screening a film that links vaccines to autism is irresponsible and despite our best efforts to spin it as a conversation piece, we have come to realize that there cannot be any productive conversation stemming from research published by a discredited quack.”

Ok, but here’s my question about leggings. I’m 15 weeks and am discovering that my plan of getting through winter without maternity clothes by wearing leggings and sweater dresses is maybe not going to work because my leggings keep sliding down. How do I make my pants stay up?

I’ll be 37 weeks on Thursday and one of the most soul-crushing experiences of my life was outgrowing some of my maternity shirts and pants. Fortunately it only happened in the past week or so. Hopefully my coworkers won’t mind that I’ll be wearing the same 2 pairs of pants for the next three weeks. It might not have…

A lot of them seem to genuinely believe that they're being straightforward, because ACTUAL straightforwardness/"confrontation" fucking terrifies them. I've seen PA people who are fully capable of making dozens of people miserable for weeks literally cower in reaction to direct communication, or when witnessing…

You hear that?