No, you're not the only one concerned. I wouldn't even call it a "justified" idea.

It's difficult to find tasteful blank cards unless you go to a stationery store, and then it's still difficult, because there is about nothing in the card department that a hetero male with decent taste can buy.

Not sure, but I'm guessing Tina Fey wrote her book. 99% of autobiographies are written by ghostwriters and are terrible.

And crispy in the dark.

He has Lost interest in the show.

Just for a final punctuation check.

These two girls may seem vapid, but they had the skills and mental discipline to sit down and pen a pair of highly-regarded dystopian YA novels, the double-coloned Rebels: City of Indra: The Story of Lex and Livia and its sequel. Sure, they have to put on a show of being "it girls" and fashion queens, but behind the…

That might all be true, but the number of houses burning down has dropped dramatically. I'd guess that's due mostly to less smoking, beds and furniture being fire-resistant, alarms, and sprinklers. Too bad we can't still use asbestos. That stuff was great.

You've got a point, but I'm still going to make fun of them. But it's not just a matter of taste: I think there is a disconnect between what people think they want and what they really do. Most are probably completely happy with their houses. But I find, in the large suburban houses in which I've been, not a…

I've seen the opposite—shutters which extended far below the window. I am guessing this was just a case of having ordered the wrong part and being too lazy to get the correct one. I don't even mind so much shutters which no one would ever use or in a place where there are no big storms, as long as they look like…

That's interesting—I wasn't aware of these so I looked them up. (Also known as "jack arches".) The keystone would play a part in those. However, the flat arches I see these days are one of two types. They are composed of normal bricks placed vertically, not the wedge-shaped bricks that would be needed to provide…

I've also seen strange pieces just glued on to the exterior. You often see them just under the roof. I think these are supposed to be vestigial exposed timbers, but at this point probably nobody remembers.

That's true; you don't want things to look too stark. There's just something about the shutters that bug me when they are representing something functional that couldn't possibly work. I just always imagine trying to close them and then they seem ridiculous.

I like that blog. Before I ever saw it, I started taking pictures of "vestigial" features I saw on modern houses. That is, items which once served a purpose but had now shrunken and become decorative. The most obvious are shutters. The best ones I found were for a window that was probably 10' wide. The shutters…

This series is about to jump the shark.

That's probably anecdotal. Skiers die at a higher rate than snowboarders, and the main reason seems to be that intermediate skiers, when they get out of control, continue to speed up until they hit a tree (or person). Snowboarders out of control tend to catch an edge and go down quickly.

Good snowboarders carve, leaving behind them a single narrow cut, impacting the snow perhaps even less than a skier. But most snowboarders aren't at that level.

I've gotten very good at moguls on the board. It takes some suffering to get there, but probably does with skis, too.

Yeah, this doesn't sound funny at all.
"Weekend at Bernie's" is different in that the protagonists didn't kill Bernie and are trying to get out of a mess they didn't create.

In the best shark movie ever, Sharks in Venice, there is underwater dialogue between Stephen Baldwin and his dive buddies, even though they are shown wearing the standard regulators. It's amazing.