Ahhhh! I read that one, too! Tommyknockers! Man, the Scholastic book fair was the best thing that ever happened at my school.

I must dig this out of my old bookshelf at my parents' house. If my mom hasn't given it away. My edition had a CREEPY AS ALL HELL cover, too. I seem to recall that the author wrote another book about a little girl and a freaky ass haunted doll. Another dead parent and another absentee one were also included. It was…

I manage a building pretty well known locally for being haunted. We get ghost hunting groups in all the time, and I even talked about it for a local documentary. Pretty standard stuff-the building was built on what used to be a graveyard. Anyway, I've never experienced anything (or if I have, I have rationalized it…

I live in El Paso and TB has been lurking around here for years, it's actually sort of common. For example, I test positive for TB. I got exposed to it via my mother, who at one time was a social worker and was exposed during the course of her work. She was tested and treated a few years before I came up positive…

Can someone from Team Cat HQ explain how in the hell she is able to walk around with a cat like that? Has the cat been tranquilized? Is it a stuffed cat? Because I'm pretty damn sure my two fats would never condescend to allow me to use them as props for a photo op on a busy urban street. Not for all the treats and…

As a Tex-Mexican, I would not have been offended if the copy editor had used tacos instead. Tacos are awesome. Fajitas sit around and cry because they're poseur tacos and everyone knows it.

Hand up! I knew that! But, to be fair, I'm a librarian, so I know everything.

oh, what sweet babies...how could anyone think....ahhh! My face!

I know others have said it, but I'll say it, too...I would not be shocked if one or two of these stories are about me. I am so sorry about my 20s, roommates.

Wow. If I was rich, dour and had the figure of a gamine 14-year old boy, I would totes wear all of these. But in all seriousness, that is some beautiful stuff.

In middle school, the girls were segregated and shown a video, where I SWEAR TO GOD, the "mom" made a uterus out of pancake batter while she was 'splainin to little Susie how she managed to bleed for 3 days and not die. Now, no one else remembers that, so it might be that I was so bored/traumatized by the video they…

I get itchy just thinking about it.

The waxing required in order to wear that thing and not be mistaken for the cover art for Amorica...sweet Jesus. So much waxing.

Friend of mine met him once. He is also incredibly, incredibly nice IRL. Happy to sign autographs, take pics with you, not bugged at all. Very laid back, very nice. This is why I now harbor secret Day dreams (see what I did there?)

It's not the cats' faults that babies taste like ham. Maybe if people stopped having ham babies, cats wouldn't try to eat them.

Fuck tapioca right in the eye. And lobster anything. Lobsters are like giant cockroaches and if you put them in my delicious, home-made macaroni and cheese with its blend of cheddar and Parmesan cheeses and toasty breadcrumb topping, I WILL END YOU. But I grew up in a desert, so I'm naturally suspicious of anything…

Man, if this all turns out to be true, then I'll have to find another cat food to buy and be smug about. Bummer.

The Vermont Country Store was (and is to this day) a fave. http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/store/

Holy crap. Tell me that all the profit from these toys is going to solving global warming, hunger, disease and poverty and then I will get emotionally invested in these parents' inability to get a doll with light-up hands for their kids.

Thank goodness most of my female friends and family prefer to live in sin. I've only been a bridesmaid twice and while both times cost me a lot of money and time, they were both totally worth it. I have a rule: I only attend life events (weddings, funerals, baby showers, birthday parties) if I like the person. Saves…