KangaROOS! I had a pair in 1983. I was so fresh.

My Aunt Jean had this very same “fireplace” at her old house on the Connecticut shoreline. She lived in one of the very few houses in that neck of the woods without a fireplace so hey presto! Instant fireplace. Pretty sure she acquired it sometime around 1966 (from what I can recall her telling me — it predated me, I…

Yes. This woman who fits your description of an ideal woman met a man of your self-description (without child, though that is merely circumstantial) here in Los Angeles. Five and a half years on and we are That Couple that everyone hates because we’re still so fucking cute. Courage, mon ami!

I ate an entire packet of Bourbon biscuits and drank an entire pot of tea. Fucking FANTASTIC.

Thank you for the sources and thank you again for your reporting on the genre. I am a no-fucks-given consumer of romance novels, with particular affection for the Regency sub-genre. As a younger reader, I could not get enough of heavy duty SEXYTIMES in my selections, but now ensconced in perigeriatric…

Sadly, yes, through his grandfather, the detestable Prescott.

As a distant (but not distant enough, because UGH) cousin, I apologize to the world. :-/

Gorgeous! (He knows it.)

Yes!!!! We’ve known each other since we were both nine-year-old weirdo girls of color obsessed with Voltron attending a lily-white school. (You’ll have seen many of her rants about said school, I’m sure.) She is the best.

Do we have the same friend in Brooklyn???

I gotta say, I don’t miss being a bookseller at all. As much as I was very much in love with the idea of managing a secondhand and rare bookshop, I am not particularly gifted when it comes to retail. Mostly because I just don’t have that desire to make it a genuinely enjoyable experience for anyone else while I’m at…

I was about to say my favourite in elementary school was early Bananarama. :-/

“Firearms stand next in importance to the constitution itself. They are the American PEOPLE’S liberty teeth and keystone under independence … from the hour the Pilgrims landed to the present day, events, occurences and tendencies prove that to ensure peace security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally…

Agreed!

But the child is American. If the grandparents are indeed loaded, there are significantly lower barriers to immigration than for us poors. An EB-5 investment visa is only one way to a green card for the grandparents, if they don’t already have permanent residency. It can be very difficult to remove an American child…

Well, there is the issue that the child is American and the maternal grandparents apparently Ukrainian. The paternal grandparents could make a potentially persuasive case that raising the child in the US is in the best interests of the child, given the current state of affairs in Ukraine.

Interesting choice of a Swiss white to counterbalance the barf sandwiches topped with mini-gherkins.

About 75% of their petite offerings would make me look like mutton dressed as lamb, but there are some cute trousers in there. :-)

Buying t-shirts that aren’t petite means I end up with a hem that hits at a very unflattering place when I leave it untucked (and I always leave everything untucked). Lands End tees and tanks used to be amazing, because HOLY HELL they were actually built for petite women and not just made supersmall. These past two…

So true. I can’t tell you how many times I ran into the British Museum after admission fees were abolished for a free whizz. I would often stop to look at the Rosetta Stone on the way out so I wouldn’t feel so guilty about taking advantage of the place as a cultured commode.