I agree that it needs to be more ingrained and automatic (I mean, more so than it is now) that OF COURSE you wear a condom until such time as you and your partner decide not to, and as far as ingraining a culture of "wear a condom and quit whining like it's some kind of terrible inconvenience when they won't even give…

There's a pizza place on O'ahu called Big Kahuna's where their Hawaiian pizza is topped with kalua pork, cabbage, and onions. SO ONO. They do have a ham and pineapple combo there, but they call it the "Haole" pizza. (For those not familiar with Hawaiian slang, haole = foreigner, and is normally code for "white…

One of my friends used to work very heavily in the (de)Occupy Honolulu camps, and the second I saw this I shared it with him. There are a LOT of factors involved in why Hawai'i in particular has so many homeless people (too many to list here), and this guy needs to get back into the legislature and, oh I don't know,…

It's extra funny because most people in Hawaii don't really take ownership for this pizza topping combo, and the fact that it's attributed to Hawaii actually kind of a running joke in the islands. Like, of all the food out there that is unique to Hawaii or that most people there actually think of as being local kine…

The place settings are the same, but yeah, American etiquette allows for "zig-zag" eating (cut the food with the dominant hand, put down knife, then switch the fork over and stab/scoop the food into your mouth). I normally opt for the European method (knife in right, fork in left, place the tines curve side down and…

YES. I have only been to Cleveland once, and only for a weekend, but I had an awesome time. And the whole time I was there, I was thinking of 30 Rock, haha.

I got a pair of yoga pants from Target that were surprisingly awesome. It's hard to find yoga pants in my size because I'm something of a short stack, but I have meaty, meaty thighs, so I was definitely thrilled that these pants were nice and thick, stretchy but held their shape pretty well (little bit of knee bagging…

Right? I just...I read the whole thing and I thought, "Wow, these people exist! They're out there! They are putting this piece out into the world without any apparent trace of irony." And then I sat for awhile by myself in the dark and tried not to weep hot salty tears because cartoon birds will never braid my hair…

GAH. Creepy. At least I have no pets, so I can carry about in blithe ignorance of my potential invisible roommate, haha.

I have never quite understood what calls people to wear that much perfume. I have my "signature scent" and I admit, I am pretty immune to it now, but I still only use one spray a day in the a.m. because I trust that even though I'm desensitized to it, it's still there, smelling pretty great whether I notice it or not.…

I'm about to move into an apartment where the previous owner DEFINITELY died in the house (like, three years ago, of a preventable illness, which just SCREAMS unfinished business), and the previous tenant reported having a dream and/or vision of an old man at the foot of her bed. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME? (In my defense,…

This sounds a lot like a Thinking Day celebration, which I always thought were pretty common being that they happened in all of the Girl Scout councils I've been a part of (and I moved a lot as a kid). We would do research on the country, learn about the history, food, and culture of the area, and then we'd normally…

My uncle in Missouri is hunting buddies with R. Lee Ermey. Apparently he's a really nice guy when he's not yelling at you. He's very busy with work, but whenever he's in town, he still makes time to help out with the local high school's JROTC program. Very cool!

I live in Pittsburgh, too! :D My friend used to live next door to them, and she said Sharon Needles would always pet her dog when she took her out for walks and was really nice. And a different friend of mine once ran into Sharon outside of Belvedere's before she was on Drag Race, and she gave her a ride up to…

It's unfortunate that so many of the YA books with female leads that get popular do it with such weak protagonists. There are obvious exceptions of course, but the ones I'm remembering are just...meh. Can't remember names, but both of the leads in "Blood and Chocolate" ("I'm a gorgeous werewolf who everyone is just…

I have two software engineer friends who are trans women. And thanks to Rails Girls and Girl Develop It, I think I know more female software engineers than male! I think I'm quite lucky in this regard, because when I see the stats, I kind of just weep a little. :P I am trying to learn programming now though, so maybe…

I'm all for DIY, but I also accept that there is a point after which my time/money/sanity expenditure is outweighing the cost of just dropping it off and letting a pro handle it. And changing the oil in my car is one of those things, especially since I park in a gravelly alley in a semi-major US city and don't really…

I saw the title of this article and was instantly like, "If Ginger Snaps isn't on here, it fails." And then it was, and I was so happy. :) You know, I actually really liked the initial premise of Ginger Snaps 2 (having to take Monkshood like insulin and getting sent to a rehab facility because of track marks? GENIUS),…

Is it me, or is he missing his neck? Like, I know Peeta was supposed to be sort of broad-featured and deceptively strong (which I guess I can kind of see making him smaller), but he looks so...shrunken next to her. And he's got an abnormally big forehead. I know to each their own, but he's very strangely shaped and,…

...is it bad that this has actually made me want McNuggets? That all sounds so grody, but then I think about eating one, and I'm still like, "Awww yissss." I grew up in Hawaii though, so unidentifiable tinned meats of dubious origin were part of the cultural landscape.