Check out MAC's Indianwood cream eyeshadow. It's a deep gold-bronze with a non-glittery shimmer. Looks neutral enough to pass these days but is still far more exciting than matte brown and beige. And you can throw a green or prussian blue liner under the eye if you are craving a pop of color.

I have a meteorites version with pastel colors like this (supposed to give you a natural glow, which I suppose it does, very nicely) and it always makes me hungry for dippin' dots.

On me they only seem to move the panty line to more southerly locations. Works for some skirts, but not for the tight pants.

I have the same anger/slash/tears reaction to more than a couple of hours in a thong. Gotta be something about booty shape or design. I have given in and resigned myself to panty lines. If it's urgent (leather pants) I just go commando (which I also dislike, but less than thongs).

That is some nice research mojo. Thanks for the link.

Proper Street Grammar would make a pretty good album title.

I'm thinking that they're like thick Carr's biscuits. The bit about dissolving uric acid is interesting - gout would have been pretty common back then and it's caused by uric acid build-up. So these are marketed as a treatment for gout. And they're great with whisky!

Yah. I'll give you that. But as I noted elsewhere, as a singer and songwriter myself, I give a grammar pass with songs. I have used the construction "I been" in lieu of "I've been" quite a few times, but it's vernacular and it makes sense for the characters in the song. And sometimes you need a weird construction just…

Got to be kidding. He's a songwriter. He knows that songs allow vernacular. Seriously. I am a singer and songwriter (indie folk, alt.country) and I use "I been" ALL THE TIME. I know the correct grammar, but my characters are often rural and disenfranchised and that's their language (I grew up rural and surrounded by…

I do this! I buy tickets to see artists I love and then can't go or have to leave early because I have some spectrum-y overload freakout thing. Too Much Feeling! I turned down Wilco tickets not too long ago because I just didn't want to deal. Almost passed on Lorde for Thursday. Sigh.

It feels like you're playing to an audience of robots.

I'm singer and songwriter and it stuns me how many times I stand onstage and look out at a sea of phones. It's a fairly recent thing. I've been doing this for 15 years and it's only in the last 5 that I have had the experience of playing to an audience of smartphones instead of faces. It's disheartening, and I can't…

I just realized that I typed PND across the whole post. I am an American living in Australia and they call it post-natal depression here, so I guess I have internalized the language. I never call it that though out loud though. Always say post-partum. Huh. Anyhow, like I said before, good luck and don't worry too…

Just wanted to say congrats on your pregnancy. I am bipolar and had a son three years ago. I get pretty rough PMDD, and I also got PND, after a sharp hypomanic spike. It sounds like you are prepared and know what to expect. The awesome news is that you could totally dodge the PND and surprise yourself. But should it…

I just made this same argument on another thread. At first glance, it seems like a fine idea to allow a waiver option, but it would be a dreadful safety practices precedence to set. I shudder to think what the mining industry or the chem manufacturing industry would do with such a gift. We have made so many steps…

I recommended your earlier post about a waiver option, but the more I think about it, the more far-fetched it seems. Yes, ideally we would trust a group of whip-smart women to make their own choices about their health, but it would set an awful safety practices precedent for companies (I can imagine what mining…

Mine too. I got a little giddy chill just looking at the pic.

My aunt talks this way. She generally behaves as if she's living in a black and white movie. My favorite aunt, of course.

That was about right for me when I was in college. Now I am old and married and wash my sheets every two weeks (I love the feel of fresh sheets). One of my most embarrassing memories is of a friend's mother staying over at my place (she looked horrified when she stepped in the door - and you know, I lived in utter…

You just summed up my feelings on the matter perfectly. I was just delivering a drunken rant on how there would BE NO PIXIES today. Black Francis. Kim Deal. Yeah, not on. Or they would be like me - small money deal, small label, tied to touring for barely enough $ to keep making records.