No. I require that my partners have access to enough fridge storage for at least two onions.

Somebody on a major bender of heavy duty drugs. He was dangerously high and drunk on Dr Phil, to the point that it looked like a life threatening addiction. I do think he had something to do with her death though.

Thank you! I’m a left-coaster and I was SO confused at first.

Maybe this is a regional dialect thing, but out here on the Left Coast a crawlspace is the area under the house, above the dirt but below the floor. What he’s in would be either an attic, a chase, or an old mechanical room, although it’s hard to determine which of those things it is from the photos.

I used to date a doctor - and not just a doctor, but an otorhinolaryngologist - who had a mattress on the floor in his townhouse. He kept his clothes in neatly folded piles on the floor. But what the heck, he took me to restaurants where almost everything was served flaming, and he only wanted to perform oral sex…

Hey, they didn’t free the slaves either, so let’s get right back to a cotton/sorrow based economy, right?

In poetry, you can’t really get much more “official” than being engraved in bronze at the foot of the statue of liberty. If your argument is that we shouldn’t feel compassion for immigrants because this particular poem isn’t literally ratified law, I think you’re going to have to come up with a better argument. (And…

Wait...is that a show?

But Parker himself didn’t say stop so, by his own logic, not only should the journalist kept going, he should have invited two other journalists into the room to keep asking the same question.

I would like to take a moment to pay tribute to my father, Marine Corp Colonel Samuel Tillett for his courageous and near fatal actions, attempting to save as many lives as possible 15 years ago today in his position as head of security at The Pentagon. When the plane hit my father was not but a hundred feet from the…

Wow. Thank you so much for taking the time to say all this. Really great and you make it sound so accessible. Honestly I have gotten most of my make-up from the Clinique giveaway bags my mom gives me from her moisturizer purchases, that is so embarrassing. Bobbi Brown was mentioned by someone else as a good natural…

I mean it kinda sounds like he’s so commitment-phobic that he is searching for an escape hatch even as he is getting married. I would take this for what it is: extremely flattering to be the object of his passion, but holy crap is he bad news. Keep it friendly in future but do NOT get involved with him, for your…

“Boardwalk Empire” was always the sort of thing eighteen-year-old boys who have anointed themselves film buffs after procuring “Reservoir Dogs” posters during the big sale in the quad would hail as genius. There were some good moments, but it never lived up to the hype.

My 2 dachshunds would probably kiss and jump on any intruder, bring him the flashlight and show him to the valuables.

My former next door neighbor (who dealt weed and raised his pitbull to be an asshole on purpose) was irresponsible enough to allow his dog to get out of the yard on multiple occasions. Once I encountered the dog while at our mailbox and he snarled and lunged at me—without biting, thank God. It was one of the scariest…

Adjuncts are a different bag, but many tenured academics are totally rich, both through family money (academia notoriously privileges those born to the upper classes) and by household income compared to median US household income and US household income percentiles.

I think of NPR people as I do academics. I was shocked to learn that many professors are filthy hippies despite making bank (or what I consider “bank”). They drive beaters and their offices are stupid cluttered and anything could be living under all those journals they hoard. Some of them even SMELL *nods at the…

If they have rodents, that’s one thing but bedbugs literally do not care if you are clean as a whistle or dirty as can be. They are much harder to get rid of with clutter but bedbugs will take up residence ANYWHERE and they SUCK SO MUCH. Our neighbors (in a duplex) had them. We never got them that I know of - no…

A roach. A leak. A lawsuit. And a banana peel. All this. And more. On the next. This. American Life.