My experience with the chemtrail obsession goes back further than that, more than 20 years. My aunt used to suffer from severe back pain so she’d be up at 3 AM listening to call-in shows on low-wattage AM radio stations to pass the time. She might have been calling in herself. She was a wonderful woman, very kind and…

My experience with the chemtrail obsession goes back further than that, more than 20 years. My aunt used to suffer from severe back pain so she’d be up at 3 AM listening to call-in shows on low-wattage AM radio stations to pass the time. She might have been calling in herself. She was a wonderful woman, very kind and…

Thanks! I’m always afraid that I’m hijacking threads and leaving these interminable comments that people have to tediously scroll through on their phones. But I love everyone’s stories and I like to share my own, if only to keep up morale!

I’ll tell you one thing I won’t enjoy about my reunion. A really good friend of mine won’t be going, and she never has, because she’s so self-conscous about her weight. She’s a wonderful woman, so funny, incredibly successful, happily married for years with five (FIVE!) children but she doesn’t want our former…

Straight dudes seemingly always want to go younger regardless of their age. It’s ridiculous.

If this will make you feel any better I finally went to a doctor a couple of weeks ago for the first time in about three years and discovered that in those three years I have gained 30 pounds. On the printout there are exclamation points next to troubling numbers and there was a big one next to my weight.

I sometimes dream that I’m going to die (my dream about flying over the Himalayas, where did the oxygen come from?) but I never actually do. The “we never dream of our own deaths” might be a Freudian or Jungian insight I picked up while I was in college, and might not be true.

Thanks. God, that sounds ghastly. I hope the Murine-dispensing bartender made that story up. And that bars really don’t keep Murine under the counter to punish asshole-ish customers!

I read somewhere that the two most common dreams people have is being inappropriately dressed in public and being in school and realizing you’re unprepared for a test. I don’t know why. Another common one is that you’re moving, like in a car or a plane or something, and you’re crossing a bridge or flying in the sky…

Oh, I somehow skipped over the late 80s part. Hello, fellow elderly person! I really love Jezebel, it’s the only place I have an account for and comment to, but sometimes reading the other comments I feel like I was with Washington at Valley Forge.

This is like the tenth comment I’ve read talking about how adding Murine to a drink is poisoning someone. Before I read any further, maybe you could help me out: what makes it so poisonous? And if you put it in your eyes you’re putting it into your system anyway? I didn’t single you out for any reason, I just stopped…

What do you do for a living? I’m a freelance writer/editor so I’m like the Dowager Countess on Downton Abbey: What is a weekend? Also: what is a paid vacation day?

My mother used to babysit my nephew when he was a newborn, a 50-something changing the diaper of a 50-day-old something, and she used to lay him on the living room floor (three-inch-pile shag rug vacuumed at least three times a day; that stuff was indestructible) and put a few clean towels down and yell “Clear the…

The frozen strawberry margarita has never gone out of fashion at the summer share in Rehoboth that I belong to! I’ll be there again in August and I’m the one that makes them. I even bring the blender. Of course my housemates and I are probably old enough to be your parents (sigh.)

Oh God, the Capitol Hill interns! Their thinking: “I am curing cancer.” The reality: “I am fetching coffee for free for some stooge who will vote to make the lives of 99% of Americans even worse than they already are.”

Name one of the males Aquaman. And name one of the females Esther Williams. And name another male The Incredible Mr. Limpet. Oh I should just adopt a few kitties myself, if I didn’t have a crazy 70-lb puppy who’d befriend them into an early grave from playing with them and licking them to death.

She was really the best. So funny. So talented. RIP Anne. You made me laugh for decades and for some of us longer than that.

Put Fleet Week in New York on your vacation calendar for next year! If you show up in uniform that will be a mixed blessing. Random strangers will want to know all kinds of details that you probably won’t want to share (my father and all my uncles saw active service and they never wanted to talk about it) but on the…

I think there are definitely fields of medicine that are becoming sex-segregated. When I was growing up all the pediatricians were men (all the doctors were men; I grew up with a black-and-white TV with an antenna and no remote control.) Now I know parents with a combined group of probably 100 children and I’m close…

I pick up dog shit for free! Gotta go, off to the dog run with my little monster puppy!