His website name is close enough to my real name that I hate it even more than I would otherwise. Also, I have given an annual tea party for the last 20 years, and the fact that I have to say, "I'm going to have a tea party. No, not THAT KIND," really ticks me off. QUIT TOUCHING MY STUFF!

Linking to Glenn Beck? Like, for real?

I always wonder when he's going to write "The Bailiff." Or, alternately, "The Tipstaff."

This is why I heart you.

I found a dress that had a scalloped embroidery edge (I do mean "found." In a free box.) I had a pair of garage sale US Navy Seafarer dungarees, the bottom edge of which was fraying. So, I cut the edging off the dress and (after watching a youtube video on it) used blanket stitch to sew the edging so that it hid the…

I was doing this when I was 15, too. That was in Colorado. In 1983. And I was a square. So, yeah, I'm not real convinced that this is "cool."

I have always thought that strip-mining the beasties that help you get nutrients from your food sounded like a Bad Idea. Also, the people who do this always seem to be the same people who religiously take probiotics to, you know, populate their gut with bacteria. The only explanation for this contradiction: a…

I did.

No Ballard. Does anyone else find that just unbelievably weird?

Because the news media—excoriated to the consistency of hamburger by ceaseless references to their non-existent liberal bias—believe that you have to give the same amount of time to both sides of the story, as opposed to, say, giving more time to the people who ARE'NT just talking about made-up shit that they just…

Amish furniture manufacturers have internet in the office? I did not know that.

Regime change? Let's get on that! USA! USA!

Yeah, Donkeyskin and Deerskin are not the happiest stories, although Deerskin is far far less upsetting than the original, where she reconciles with her incestuously-minded dad.

I don't know. I think that Robin McKinley's version shows there is some life still in Sleeping Beauty. What I would really like is to see a version of her Deerskin, which is a version of the creepy fairy tale "Donkeyskin."

If you've read a lot of Victorian literature, and have actually noticed things like tone, words used, social norms, etc., it'll bug you. If you are not a nit-picky know-it-all like myself, and are just looking for a (in my opinion annoyingly-written) thriller set in ye olden tymes, then you might like it.

I'm glad they haven't tried. I'm going to go against the love-fest and say that that book is really crappy, and full of so many anachronisms that it's like Caleb Carr has never read any Victorian literature ever.

Maybe I'm stupid, but I what did the honoree find offensive about that?

It's okay. I thought, "Wow! They're 12!"

How about "three-time Oscar winner so-and-so," or other constructions? I think that's maybe what they're talking about.

Hate-Fucking and Architecture, by Ayn Rand.