@meanteeth: OK, cool, I'm glad we are friends.

@Alibelle: monica drake!

Close Range – Wyoming Stories by E. Annie Proulx—vignettes about people living in the desolate, godforsaken prairie. She can write like a motherfucker.

@Dancingfrog: You could apply the "language is evolving" argument to my typing style as well. Couldn't you?

@Sarah Beuhler: I guess the point is that I'm not a magazine and I don't have a style guide. I'm just some asshole. I was curious about Essence's conventions because I've worked in print media for about 12 years now and that example was really weird.

@BadBanana: hey, i appreciate this. thanks. that was nice of you.

@Sarah Beuhler: i know i'm not the only jezzie who types this way. i know/see a lot of folks who write in all lowercase, especially on livejournal—i didn't realize it was such an issue. it's the internet, not a doctoral thesis.

@SuperSally: this this this. cheers.

@meanteeth: not arguing, but i figured african-american was capitalized because africa and america are proper nouns.

@Blodwynn is still rude and not ginger: hey, better to stink of laziness than of rudeness, right? oh, wait, you've copped to being rude in your handle, so that makes it OK.

@dancingteacups: wow, that's really interesting. thanks for this.

@Blodwynn is still rude and not ginger: perhaps i should have mentioned that i PLAN to read it, but i had to stop in the middle when i saw that. it think it's a legit question, and i am reading it now.

@belladonna seablue marshmallow eyes: there's another version that usually appears on compilations, and it's great too, but i think i prefer this one. i'm gonna cover it at a variety show next week!

i haven't even read this article yet, but i have to stop now and say that it drives me fucking crazy when people capitalize "white" and "black" when referring to races. is it in the style guide at essence?

"boobies" can only legally be used by nina simone in "i got life." nobody else is allowed.

nothing against eye make-up, i am wearing plenty of it right this second, but . . . how can she even see through that shit? seem like it'd be like cockroaches walking over your corneas. i can't stop blinking when i look at that photo.

you are a solid-gold superhero, jessica. go on, girl. let 'em know.

as a native seattleite, can i just say: courtney's a prizewinning slag, and we're all pulling for you, frances. congrats on your freedom. fingers crossed.

you guys are obsessed with american apparel. one of my close friends and housemates works there 40 hours a week, for godsakes, as do most of his friends, and they're at our house four nights a week, and they talk about american apparel one fingernail-paring of the amount that you do.

while i agree that "james" is [participating in] objectifying women by Liking the group and i guess it's good to rally against the principle's family with a pocket full of shells and so on . . . it's still coming off as a little petty here. sounds as though you already knew he wasn't the brightest bulb on the…