Seriously. There was a never-ending line to take a picture with Grumpy Cat at SXSW, which definitely sounds like Cat Hell.

Dude seriously. When I was a teenager, the times I remember getting that rock in my gut because I KNEW I'd fucked up was when my dad sat me down to quietly tell me how much I'd disappointed him. My parents were good at having these completely exasperated conversations with me when I did something bad, like they didn't…

Same here. I grew up in the south but my parents were transplanted Yankees. So its weird because I remember a lot of my friends getting whipped with a belt and the principal of our high school even paddled students but my parents just employed a deadly-effective mixture of extreme disappointment, bedroom banishments,…

Personally I'm down with hunting because I'm from the south (where women hunted before women hunting was cool) and most of the people I know who are for serious hunters also have a strong interest in conservation. I grew up in Texas and almost everyone I knew had a deer lease, but my dad was a transplant Yankee…

Sadly, we're literally sinking into the Gulf of Mexico as we speak, so you should come get some gumbo while you still can.

Yeah, Verizon provides way better coverage in my area too. I live in south Louisiana, and work out in the field a lot going out on the Gulf, into the swamp, and to a lot of very rural areas and I still get decent coverage in some really wacky places I'd expect to get dropped (out on a boat 15+ miles out), which is why…

Same as everyone above. Tax breaks. So that we could share insurance company insurance policies. Legal protection for the purchase of major joint assets. Legal protection for any children we have together, etc.

BOOOOOO. Should not have read in the completely empty office after everyone left early for Halloween.

Don't forget Ghost Dads.

Me too. I'm a super horror fan and I usually spend the whole month of October reveling in all the scary books/shows/movies that come out, plus I have a good excuse to force my boyfriend to watch ALL THE SCARY MOVIES. Then its back to the mundane until next year...

Dude. New Orleans has THE BEST Halloween. But then again, people in New Orleans love to go all out. My favorite Halloween memory is from a few years ago when I was at a bar and we ran into a group of people dressed as characters from the Wizard of Oz, including the Lollipop Guild munchkins. I kinda flipped out at the…

A friend of mine from college named her kid Pistol Knox. Gonna be hipster as fuck.

I went to school with a kid named Stormy Youngblood. I was always really jealous of him. Now I write for a newspaper and I love to collect awesome names. There's a local high school basketball star named Lionheart Leslie, for example.

I fight this losing battle every year with my boyfriend. I buy a huge bag of candy a few weeks before Halloween and between my daily picking at it and his complete lack of willpower when it comes to candy we usually have to stock up a few times before the day actually comes. And then my boyfriend will try to convince…

This is funny because I went through a period of interview dress obsessing recently because I was desperate to get out of my job and had gotten to a few final stage interviews without making the last cut. A lot of advise I read recommended NOT wearing skirts to interviews and suggested a tailored suit, which worked me…

Yeah. My boyfriend and I recently got cats together and he got really obsessive about what they ate, which was a little odd to me because my cats growing up ate store brands like Meow Mix and Purina and each lived 18+ years with no major issues aside from being a little chubby (they were inside cats). He did a bunch…

I have no idea, but we lived there for a little over a year and at least three people came and went while we were there (with periods of vacancy in between).

My husband is a Michael Jr. He sneers at me when I suggest any sort of Biblical run-of-the-mill boys name for our future child. I guess after the long plague of Michael, now I know why.

My sister works as an elementary school teacher and they get to dress up for Halloween cause its fun for the kids and the teachers. She looked forward to it the first year until she realized that finding a new elementary-school appropriate Halloween costume every year was an epic undertaking.

Same here. I was born in 83 and there were TONS of Ashleys in my class growing up.