Wasn’t this basically Winona Ryder’s excuse?

If she and Cassandra Wilson did an album together I would die happy.

That is one of my desert island discs!!!!

ME TOO! And if you don’t have her recording of Brecht/Weill RUN AND GET THEM. Could there ever be anyone more appropriate to cover those songs?

I have been yelling about a Kamal Harris/ Tammy Duckworth ticket so long I am hoarse.

I came here to write exactly this. Marianne Faithfull is like a rock zelig. Name a cultural zeitgeist she was not part of:

My husband is Irish and still cracks the hell up that we call it a “drugstore” and that the place where you go to get your prescriptions filled is a place where you can also get booze, cigarettes and super size candy bars.

I grew up in Southern Maryland. I always describe it as liquor store, church, liquor store, church. And it used to crack me the hell up that there were DRIVE THROUGH liquor stores, but only during certain hours, never open on Sundays and hell, no, you could never even get a damn bottle of wine in the supermarket.

We need to hang out. You’re my kind.

That sounds EXACTLY like wreck beach in Vancouver-is that it?

Wow. I hadn’t thought about that- of COURSE there are all kinds of Dani Mathers out there who would love to take pics, etc. That really ruins it doesn’t it?

I’m old, so our family used to go in the 70's and 80's. Ocean City was always just party people, and all the families I knew went to Bethany and Rehoboth.

Wait, I’m confused, it sounds like you are agreeing with me. That is what I said!

If you are in the area-Skip Ocean city and go to Assateague and see the wild ponies. You won’t want to bare too much there anyway because of all the mosquitoes.

When I was growing up in MD families went to Bethany and Rehoboth, and ocean city was for partiers and visiting the boardwalk. Is that not true anymore?

Bigger people, more ogling.

add sailing.

This. Very much this.

I’ve been to lots of nude beaches here in california and in europe but the best was the one in Vancouver- wreck beach. I saw people of all ages and it was just lovely and relaxed and I definitely did not feel more ogled that I have been in Ocean City, with my stupid swimsuit on! (I grew up vacationing there every…

Absolutely. I was married to an addict and when he left I had to take a long look at myself and MY part of it-Why was I drawn to someone with so much damage? Why did I let myself be abused? Why did I stay? I had to get the answers to all those things so that I did not perpetuate a cycle. I made sure that was NEVER…