Is her skin as insane as it looks in pictures? She looks like porcelain.

I can't even think about the book. I read it when I was maybe 11 or 12 and I swear I've blocked most of the content out. I would almost like to revisit it as an adult and see if it still has the same visceral effect on me.

And also, you have the best screen name ever, except for maybe BurtReynoldsisMySpiritGuide. And you saw Peter Dinklage. I have tickets to see him and George RR do an event in November. I cannot wait.

I would be super excited to see Reba. Only a little less excited than I would be to see DOLLY. What can't I see Dolly? Sadly, that hasn't happened. I am a singer and my partner works in the music business as well, so I have a lot of music related ones: I have hung out backstage with Charlie Sexton (and Bob Dylan came…

I love you so much. It's ridiculous. I just hang out in the grey, eating Fiddle Faddle and waiting for your next post.

Did you seriously write that you "didn't want to list" the brands? Seriously? Because some lesser Jezebel might get in on the big secret and break into the club? Gah. As someone who has a major aversion to the duck, the whale, the palm tree and the order of the golden fleece sheep, just yuck. And yawn. So, let me just…

Why Does She Need a League of Her Own?

Just wanted to commiserate. That's a dreadful story. I have had bad bosses, but never this kind of bad.

I thought that's what you meant. I was just saying that I feel for guys because if they aren't aware of our safety we think they are oblivious and if they are overaware (as in my case) it can come off as paternalistic. And the trick in my story is that the neighborhoods weren't really very crappy. He was just raised…

I absolutely get your point. But I have a little bit of sympathy with guys on this one, because here's the flip. My partnerbytherecordmachine (wow, that's unwieldy) used to foam at the mouth at the idea of my taking the easiest and most direct route from my then-apartment to his. Bad neighborhood, dangerous, etc. But…

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.