And two steps above being over 40 and calling Bukowski your favorite author. I'll accept Bukowski as someone's favorite poet at that age.. but not author.

Galatoire's freaks me out.

I don't know about the taping, but the therapist is bound by law to report anything said in session that indicates a patient may do harm to another individual or themselves. Not sure how that applies to past crimes, but certainly a pattern of abuse had been established. Personally (arm chair psychiatrist, here!) if he…

Uh, yeah, but look how his biological children turned out on It's Always Sunny! Clearly an argument for nature and nurture being to blame..

I was in a couple of classes in undergrad with him. He made fast friends with several young women, bringing them coffee to class, chatting them up. He tried with me one day in the library, but I was a returning student in my 30s, not really interested and deadly serious about my library time. My point: if he is shy…

Me too! That no one saw the genius in his vision made me sad, but the cable channel would have been displaced by the advent of internet animal vids anyway... Man was before his times.

Is this from the TAL puppy channel episode? That guy got so ripped off.

Eh, I am Jewish and grandparents were first cousins. It explains a lot of the crazy...

Don't be such a stiff. He is totally a "stand up" kind of guy. And the video is uncut.

I was shocked that it wasn't, and I consider myself a pretty good font guesser of people.

I don't understand her (nor particularly find her talented) either. Her portrayal of the two Latina women in that video was so incredibly two dimensional though that she's moved from mildly annoying to kind of offensive.

I love the word Wombat. I call many non-wombat animals- moles, raccoons, skunks- wombats. Because WOMBAT!

You mean a Jellicle Ball...!!!

I highly recommend anyone interested in this listen to the This American Life story about Adam. ANY disgust you feel at the beginning of the episode is absolutely gone by the end. The articles are great and all, but it really helps to hear him talk about the whole thing in his own voice (albeit altered for radio).…

Just wait until presidential elections are won based on the quality of the candidates' sex tapes (that's the plot for my dystopian sci-fi novel I will never write).

I've known a couple of women over the years who just had fantastic legs. Older women and younger. Like they were the perfect execution of shapely, long and 0% cellulite. And everyone knew that was the case because, when you got legs like that, you wear short shorts & short skirts and showcase those assets. I always…

I'd be too limp to manage any of those.

Well that's a crappy situation, but here's a thought: If you wear thongs and are flush enough to buy several, always carry a spare #2 thong in your bag. Also a word of unsolicited advice while I'm at it, If you wear thongs maybe avoid sitting on stools less you reveal your movements?

Hmm kinja ate my reply. But I am truly sorry you had to go through that as a child, that must have been extremely stressful. And I hope you mom is now happy here in the US!

Ugh, I am so sorry you had to go through that kind of trauma as a child. Part of me would like to go to Kishnev someday to see where my grandmother came from, but I probably never will. But more importantly, I hope your mom is happy here in the U.S. now!