This is in NO WAY excusing the Boy Scouts of America for not getting with the times, but from an administrative perspective, BSA leadership is, from what I understand, more decentralized than Girl Scouts typically is, and their troops tend to be more at the mercy of the hosting sites’ values. And these hosting sites…

If you have Amazon Prime or know someone who does, seasons 1 and 2 are available for free with Prime Instant Video!

The very first thing I asked myself upon seeing the trailer was “Why are there so many white people in this movie?”

They’re punking us! They’re punking ALL of us! All but the 7s and 8s!

AMEN. I’m 5’1”, and I have dinky little baby feet to match. They always scale heels down from the 7 and 8 sizes, which for most designers just means shortening the toe parts to accommodate smaller feet. By the time the shoe is resized to a 5, I’d basically be en pointe if I wanted to wear a heel higher than an inch or…

Similarly awesome, even though it hasn’t updated in awhile:

SO CREEPY. <3

I really like Lost Highway the best, personally. Blue Velvet is probably the most pop culturally relevant movie (obviously Twin Peaks wins all of the pop culture awards, but it's primarily a TV show) of his, then maybe Eraserhead.

The tourist parts tend to be very artificial. A lot of places will play up the Elvis-and-Blue-Hawaii vibe because that’s what a lot of mainland visitors expect to see when they get there. Much more fun and less kitsch once you get out of Waikiki or the other resort areas a bit. :)

Oh man, any time we had mainland family visit, they always wanted to go to the luaus. I was #OverIt by the time I was like eight, and I only got more and more uncomfortable after that, haha. Give me pupus and BBQ with friends any day.

I feel you. I left the islands for college ten years ago, and I still miss it often. So many of my friends growing up have all left for the mainland as well—there’s just no entry or mid-level jobs there that can justify the cost of living or the traffic anymore. The people I know who are still there are either there…

It is highly satisfying. I’m not a sports fan, but I am a big ol’ nerd, and there is a similar assumption there that even if you are acknowledged to be a lady who loves a thing, your fandom is assumed to be more casual in nature. I went out for drinks with a work friend and some of his friends one evening, and one of…

We have (well, HAD) a leadership development program at my office that I was told you could only apply for after being here two years. Well, clearly not, because a brand new dude who I guess hadn’t been told the same applied and was accepted into the last cohort that went through before they nixed the program. IDK if…

OMG in the first paragraph, it’s supposed to be “But that” in the last sentence, but it says “Butthat” and this is officially the finest typo I’ve ever seen in my entire LIFE. <3

I CAN NEVER UNSEE THIS. (And largely, I'm okay with that.)

"The only thing that close quicker than our caskets be the factories."

AAAAAH she's so talented and gorgeous, I just want to bite her. Is that weird?

The food scene is actually starting to get really great in Pittsburgh, but if your friend is using Primanti's as the example, I suspect he needs to get out and try more places. :)

I moved to Pittsburgh a few years ago from Hawaii by way of central West Virginia, so I had serious whiplash in terms of the quality of Chinese food available. I agree there's not a lot of top shelf Chinese food in Pittsburgh, but I've been really pleasantly surprised with a lot of the local Thai restaurants and some…

I made an earnest attempt to get really into reading The Economist when I was going for a Fulbright and my advisor told me that a healthy knowledge of worldly events would only help my chances. I didn't get the Fulbright, and I dropped The Economist habit around the same time, but I remember being pleasantly surprised…