Seriously. It cost us $5000 to move our dog to Australia from NYC. Granted, there's a quarantine period of 30 days, so that was tacked on to the bill, but still...say it's only $1000. That's insane!

I am white, but it has been my experience as well that men of color have hollered at me (or just said something - sometimes really funny - and I don't help the cause here because I laugh very easily), but white men use their bodies to physically intimidate. When I was in grad school the business school guys were…

I wonder in that case if he felt he was being "gentlemanly" or just doing a bit more of a mindfuck.

I'm overseas for my partner's work right now, but when we eventually get home, I'm putting Lancaster on my list!

I don't know what magical corner of the world you live in, but I want to go to there. Seriously.

Thanks BurnThem. I experienced the same kind of attack as Seth and spent years thinking I should just bear up cause it wasn't like I was "raped" or something. I gotta say (and this one's for you Kafka), having a guy choke you while sticking several fingers in you hard and without warning is painful and terrifying.…

Then you should definitely go there. I was just making the argument that Americana (or alt.ountry or roots or whatever you want to call it) has never really been out of style and never will go out of style because it's an amalgamation of styles - bluegrass, blues, country, trad. ballad - that people atavistically…

I do not love this trend. Doubling is fine. Using an outside voice on the main track isn't. That's just kinda cheating, to my mind. And yes, you should make music because it is the best fun there is. Even if you're not doing it professionally, it's good for your soul.

Oh, I LIKE you. Saving me money shipping poo-pourri to Australia. Smartypants.

I double on my records, in big choruses, but it's my voice. I'm doubling myself. What freaked me out with Katy Perry was that I could hear the different voice and that it was pretty recognisable as Bonnie. Usually if they use another singer it's tuned so hard you can't tell who it is, and buried far back in the mix.…

When I was younger people sometimes guessed upwards, and now almost always young, so I guess I just found an age and stuck with it. Around 32, I think.

Yeah, I wonder why they double her? She's got the pipes. Maybe just not in the upper register?

You can actually hear the other singer in Katy Perry's doubles in recent tracks. Pretty sure it's Bonnie McKee.

Oh the RAGE!!!! My cousin developed enormous breasts when she was 13 (I was also 13 and built like a willowy boy), and the things old men said to her still make me quiver with righteous anger.

Yep. I'm officially old. Like I had a (HS) party for the final episode of Twin Peaks old, and I was carded for a pack of cigarettes last year. The guy insisted my NY state ID was fake. I showed him my passport and he was shocked. That said, I never get carded for clubs anymore, so he was an outlier.

At least he had the good graces to run away! I guess he knew the statues in your area.

That's what I was just wondering. Surely they needed it for the creative thinking event. I loved Odyssey of the Mind. I remember one set we had was a picture of a fly on a baby's face and we had to come up with as many captions or associations as possible in 5 minutes. But that was for the quick sets. I can absolutely…

The battlefields are mad haunted. Google "haunted Civil War battlefields" and go nuts. I have had some truly weird experiences in Gettysburg, but I don't really understand what happened, so I'd hate to post them and sound like a naif.

We have some fancy security glass on our balcony and side porch doors, and we had an intruder try to break it by slamming into it with a cast iron chair. It held up with no chips or anything. Just a paint smear. For about a year, you could see the guy's GIANT workboot print. I couldn't wash it off by any means. Gave…

My kid, who is three (nearly four) has been telling me for two years about his son Nicholas, who died. But he also has an evil imaginary friend called Kevin who lives in the sky and tells him how to do all the "bad stuff," so who knows?