Sigh...Dicken. Growing up, I lived way out in the woods and I had such a crush on him. We would have been the perfect little pair.

I'm sorry, but "giving birth to my record," was pretty funny.

The first blind item is Mischa Barton. Yes! I never get those.

@TeenageGangDeb: This is secratary job number two for me after 23 years doing nothing but retail and going to school. I don't hate it, it's just so boring. The crazy thing about retail is the insanity when it's busy and the friends that you make as you bond over how aweful the job is. I actually miss that, now it's…

@katieb has landed: *may be, duh.

@dirtdevilabortion: I don't want to turn this into advice corner or anything, but I got my degree in history, if you're going to anthro, you will have to go to grad school to get anything in those kinds of fields. I did the unpaid internship thing, but when I wanted actual money after graduation, didn't happen. I'm…

@expatriatedjerseyan: Exactly, this article makes it seem like we have all these ridiculous demands. I would like to be able to go to the doctor/dentist without having to file bancruptcy afterwards, is that really so much to ask?

@expatriatedjerseyan: Exactly, I think the hard part is, if like you and me, you've worked shit jobs since 16, it's hard to have the degree, have to pay for the degree AND still have to work a shit job and be completely broke all the time on top of it. I can't help but think of the Modest Mouse lyric, "life handed us…

@katieb has landed: Whoa, comment lag! there weren't any when I started so I'm cursing the article. Just to be clear.

Um fuck this noise. I'm so tired of people calling my generation lazy, or to idealistic or whatever. Everyone I know currently has to work 2 jobs just to keep ubove water. But... we're doing it, we're working non-stop and it's not wrong to want a better, challenging, interesting job, and I think people should be…

@Gingerlime: Parsley is not an abortion drug. It's just poison. That's what most of these "remedies" are...poison, and the stress of the body dealing with this poison forces it to destroy the fetus or destroy the mother. And the body always chooses the mother. There was a girl in Italy who tried the "parsley" method,…

@Archetype: This, I think, is the heart of teenage suicide. Teenagers can't even imagine a life beyond the walls of their high school. Sometimes I think the best thing for a kid who's being bullied is to send them somewhere for the summer, to an aunt or uncle who lives far away so the kids can get a decent…

Any other Sunny in Philadelphia fans? "Why are you wearing the duster with no shirt?"

We were on a break!

12000 Rupees not dollars, right? So it actually comes out to like $300.

caste-based prostitution? Come on India, get it together.

A big thanks to everyone who recommeneded "Under the Banner of Heaven," read it this weekend, it blew my mind.

@hortense: Or maybe an overzealous officer who thought they were ready to go in. I know it's far fetched. But it's happened before.

"it boggles the mind that the "solution" to the patriarchy would be to have the women take the most menial work known the world over" This sounds a lot like communism to me. Make the proletariat (women) so miserable that they rise up. A good idea in theory, but the execution never really works out.

I think it's wierd that they go to salons. When I was in middle and high school we just got crap at cvs, or kool-aid. Hey, kool-aid! remember that. My mom said no :(