@mad danny:

oh absolutely.

she's not actually a wasp, her last name is paltrowski. otoh, since she so very presents as a wasp you are absolutely correct.

i'd like to see in writing, really, where she was asked to bind them down. cos if theyre that big, binding is not gonna make them look small it's only gonna make em look weird. the only thing i would look like if i stuck an ace bandage around my frontal units is as if i'd stuck not two, but one, extra large canned ham…

as someone who has lost more than one job for looking inadvertently provocative i should be firmly on this woman's side. but all i can say is she took a job working for the orthodox. theyre paying her. she needs to at least make a fair attempt to wear what they want or decide the place & its dress code are not for…

why is he only chasing black people?

the must read on this subject, even though it's old:

@Liz

apologies for being too weary & too overworked to read the rest of the comments, so i dont know if anyone else has said this. otoh, i think it's important enough to say, or even repeat, so i'm throwing it out there. it's not much condolence but it could be some, cos:

what really interests me is why their mothers are calling it prom when from the beginning of time up until the most recentest of pasts it was always & forever called the prom. curious.

add fan bingbing:

i'm not who you were talking to but i do know the taman shud case. have you seen that amazing website devoted to it?

yes, & i have to add:

we are now anorexia survivors? you mean, like holocaust survivors? or people who beat terrible, fatal diagnoses by the skin of their teeth? or, maybe, say, the girl who jumped out of ted bundy's volkswagen?

now that is glamour & attitude you have to be born w/—you cant just manufacture it. cant even learn it. wow.

you can download an earlier translation here, from this website about russian science fiction:

this is the best book i've read this year, maybe in the last two years, maybe in the last five. of all kinds of books too, not just science fiction. i have about five thousand books, i've read most of them. it's going on my best books of all time list. i cant even say that this is cos stalker is one of my very…

i was right there w/ you until i saw it happen. so were more people than i can count that are no longer w/ us to say that.

i wonder if anyone still believes this is real. for me, in particular, it's her age that is absolutely suspect but, really, any of it will do.

this is closer to true/correct; either way, it's hideous.