As much as I like Rainey St., all the condos that’ve gone up have taken out some of my favorite bars over there and it just makes me sad.

That being said, Garaj Mahal is delicious and the pizza truck at Craft Pride is the business.

If you have the chance, see Master Pancake Theater mock various movies at the Alamo Drafthouse. They’re hilarious on their own, but they regularly have guests including Doug Benson and the original Mads themselves, Frank Conniff and Trace Beaulieu.

Kerby Lane is one of the must-visit local restaurants, particularly if…

Captain Awkward (who is awesome and everyone should read) has a couple of great posts on getting low-cost-to-free mental health care on her site:

Samantha Mathis is God’s special angel and is made of light.

First: I’m so sorry about what your father did to you.

Second: you’ve got way more than a binary decision here man. The first thing you should do is start with talking with a therapist. You’re sitting on a whole lot of pain and emotional scar tissue and that’s not the sort of thing that’s easily undone by yourself.

But…

Mssr. Gainsbourg disagrees.

Show that she’s not left-handed.

Nope, never done it, never really been interested in it.

First a minor tweak: the generally preferred term is sex worker. Hooker tends to be derogatory.

Wrong.

Let’s start by eliminating non-primates, where there’s really no comparison in terms of relationships and social structures. So that leaves us primates. Of primates, we’re the most related to great apes. So that leaves us with gibbons, orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos.

Gibbons are out in your…

Long story short: double-standards and Madonna-Whore syndrome. Guys grow up being taught that they’re horny beasts and should fuck as much as possible, women grow up being taught that they shouldn’t want sex, definitely shouldn’t have it except under very specific circumstances and women who try (or do) have sex like…

Well yeah. How would you get them on your feet otherwise?

Part of it is accepting that people can and are interested in you. Confirmation bias is a motherfucker, and it’s really easy to end up dismissing people’s - often glaringly obvious - interest in you as being anything other than what it is.

I’ve written a fair amount of how to tell whether someone’s into you or not,…

That happens to a lot of people. I once had a girl in college tell he she had this anime horror* movie that she wanted to watch back at her room but she was too scared to watch it alone.

I was still working on a project for class, so I said “I’m good, maybe next time?”

I didn’t realize until much, much later that what…

You wound me to the quick, sirrah. I faith know not how I shall go on.

Thanks for the pageviews!

NICE.

As someone who’s job is literally giving advice, this comes up a surprising amount. Usually by people who want to jump the queue for questions I get through my submission form.

Cracked had a fascinating episode of their podcast about cults, including some online cults run through YouTube: http://www.earwolf.com/episode/modern-cults-are-scarier-than-jonestown/