"How often do you say the word 'titillating'?" /spits tea

I was about to say, this WOULD happen at the Brookline Booksmith. I read the title and I thought, "I bet I know where this story originates..."

My wife is constantly leaving stuff in books and then forgetting where they are. Money, Post-It notes, receipts-whatever she can stick between the pages of a book, you better believe that she will.

I have absolutely nothing useful to say about the letter, but I will chime in and say that the Brookline Booksmith is a fantastic store and the only reason I don't go there more frequently is because I would be broke if I did.

Part of the reason like buying used books so much is because I love seeing what people left behind. I think my favorite I've found is someone's notes on A Good Man is Hard to Find. I use it as a bookmark when I read O'Connor.

Very well said. I agree with you 100%. The death penalty comes from the most primitive parts of human nature. If we let those parts make decisions, then society will devolve into chaos.

This is the hardest part about opposing the death penalty. There are lots of reasons to oppose it, such as the racist and otherwise deeply flawed system that imposes it, but I also simply belief that it is barbaric for a state to execute it's citizens as a punishment within the law. And that also applies to the very…

Ever. Killing someone else wouldn't make my loved one un-killed. I wouldn't feel any better knowing someone had been put to death. Even the man who abused ME as a child, I don't want put to death, because I believe it is wrong to kill people. Period.

It's not warranted ever, because we are a civilized society and don't need to punish murder with murder, but goddamn if I don't hope some AWFUL traumas happen to him in prison.

One bottle of wine or six pack per person, per six hours of entombment.

No. It's not enough alcohol for anyone, anywhere.

I'm 95% sure that's just straight-up Eli Manning.

My take as someone whose officiated.

For a second, I thought I had already posted to this thread, because you described my mother to an absolute tee. The BPD/BD combo really seems to encourage that delusional self-preservation - the number of times I have brought something up, only to be screamed at that "I never said that!" or "That didn't happen!" is…

Denying things that actually happened is called gaslighting, in case you didn't know, and pretty serious emotional abuse in my opinion.

My mother has a lot of mental health issues (bipolar depression and borderline personality disorder) and she doesn't process guilt at all well. So she denies things so aggressively and persistently that you start to wonder if they ever really happened. I am (mostly) estranged from her because she was emotionally…

The only time I went to Europe (Paris) it was so nice to see all the well dressed men. I'm not sure what compels American men to decorate themselves in sports paraphernalia.

I suspect Vanilla Ice.

I do something similar on Christmas, but my song of choice is Prince's "Another Lonely Christmas." I love the U2 idea, but again, Prince wins out with "1999," even if it is passe'. I like to get hammered and super-depressed in order to feel like it can only get better.

Maybe I should find a guy and get myself knocked up- THEN I WILL NEVER HAVE TO WIRRY ABOUT NEW YEARS EVE EVER AGAIN.