It's about hookers, right? I'm hoping it's about hookers.

Huh. A story about what the music business has become thanks to the dual nukage of Napster and iTunes sounds like it could be interesting if done right. But I guess this won't be that.

Oh, it is not.

If the bad things stop, that leaves only good things, right? Maybe Jesse and Skylar will hook up and start an internet business together.

Eh, the best one is "Heaven help us all when The Devil's Rain!" Your brain keeps trying to parse it, but… it just can't.

It's did seem pretty obvious. But research sounded like work. So I split the difference and made it short.

It just seems like you need to weigh what you have now - without talking yourself into believing it'll be more like what you want it to be - with the family idea. I doubt you'll ever get it from her - she's almost certainly crystallized a relationship model vis-a-vis you in her head, and if she does settle down later…

Eh, it could be a lot of things. They could be shallow and like being given shiny things and just don't worry too much about people she doesn't know. She could think that her (very generous) new guy is trapped in a shitty marriage and hell, maybe she's the first step out of it so she's actually the good guy! She could…

Well, in context, it was 'find someone good". Depending on how assertive you are and what your standards are, that can be pretty easy or can be near-impossible. But it's always a lot easier if you actually try, which I'm hoping was the point.

Sure. I mean, they say that contrary to propaganda, most bankruptcies aren't irresponsible people maxing out their credit cards, but medical costs and divorce. For the financially weaker partner, divorce can be nigh-apocalyptic - if the marriage isn't hellish but just "not good", I can totally see just sticking it out…

Depends where you live. If you're in a conservative, religious area, I can totally see the kids of divorce suddenly being an "other". It can also be a financial hardship, even if the other person is a slimebag, and kids have a way of hanging onto fantasies about a mythical perfect family and reacting badly when that's…

I dunno. If it's someone who's normally out of your league and the only way to get your fantasy bang is by putting up the cash, I can see how the logic works. If you really feel like you've settled, that some great part of life has been denied you (you never dated cheerleaders and always wanted to, heard all the…

Frank "Grimey" Grimes?

As a youngin', I thought his name was Sheriff Roscoe Pico Train. I thought Pico must be some Southern thing, and it seemed kinda cool. Oh, well.

I saw a PSA last year by the NFL, and Matt Schaub had his plastic wife and three pithed blonde daughters: Madison, McKenzie and Mikayla. In it's own way, it was one of the most awesomely deranged things I've ever seen.

Fuck you, The Killing.

Not "yurel"?

"Jiff" makes it sound like that peanut butter. And a little like jizz. "Giff" is like gift, and everyone likes gifts. So I go with the g-like-goat version.

Well, the local co-op is mainly left-wing agitprop magazines, which can get a little shrill. But yeah; there's like 10 people who's disappearance would seemingly end the supermarket tabloid industry.

Like little baby turtles on the beach, waddling towards the sea. Will the gulls swoop down and snatch them before they reach safety? Stay tuned!