@Chocolate Bunny: Annie was the best. I would've killed for that locket!! Alas, I had to make due with the tape— til it got eaten by the recorder... which kind of forced me to move on to Cabbage Patch Dolls.

@zoethebitch: LMAO everytime I see some 7 yo boy sporting the adolescent Danny Bonaduce haircut seen all over this photo.

@Queenjulie: OMG I am literally reaching for the Zofran as I write this. The only thing that's be worse is if said parents specified the bloodiness of the meat (ie WELL-DONE cheeseburger? Bloody? Medium-rare? Rare? And is rare a good thing??)

@sexysecularist: LMAO- sounds like you had the kind of parents kids like me dreamt of. Circa age 7, I recall having had a dream where I rebelled against everything (BAMF-ism?) and waking up w/the most delicious feeling...

@Flackette Goes Retro: I thought perhaps I wrote this in a(n ambien-induced haze last night. Save for paragraph 2).

I can easily see something of this sort happening at a festival heavy on mosh pit-inducing bands, but at The Love Parade?

Re: Ashley, the most egregious part of the entire debacle— and a theme that keeps popping up throughout the season— is the way she truly believes she can heroically do whatever evil, nasty, borderline-sociopathic thing she wants with scant consequences.

@hussein persepolis hussein: I just hearted you.

I spent most of the late 90's as a fixture at clubs on Sunset. This yielded many, many bad p/u lines. Two remain in my consciousness:

Hmmm... at first I thought mani/pedi thing was crap, as the last time I was self-conscious of my red chipped-polish ridden toes was in Dec. at the gyno.

@ExMachina: @CassandraSays:

@ExMachina: I was under the impression that it was possible to assimilate without losing one's heritage, i.e. by opening a chain-superior Mexican Restaurant (to hopefully kill those damn pseudo-mexican franchises. Like El Torito. Eww.) The best thing about the US is diversity born from such enterprises. (Not…

@itsonreserve: Um, you mean an anchor baby? (Written in Jest. Lighten up, chica!!)

@itsonreserve: Please let me borrow your rose-colored glasses! Bc maybe it's just my worldview that has me believing the (not so legal) Mexican immigrant in (I think it was) an LA Weekly article when she told her story. Let's call her Rosa.

As my Dad says, "Finishing a good book is like losing a good friend".

Dear Theresa, Gia and Juicy Joe-

Thank god they've got that "make the tone deaf sound decent" software, aka Auditory Photoshop!

@titchytiny: Agreed. Time and again, I find myself appalled by the shameless looks-based public bashing of celebs found in said gossip sites.

Q: Do you think finding out a dude wears this stuff adds or detracts from his appeal? Obvs. it seems to detract, but I'm not sure exactly why? Too girly? Personally, I'm a fan of men who give a shit about their appearance (IMHO, they get serious points for a bathroom well-stocked with overpriced hair products.…

@perfidia: I'm so sorry for both of your losses. When my mom got breast cancer (and caught it super-early, since every other female in her family went there first) I really had a hard time seeing her, though I couldn't explain it at the time. Thinking of her as mortal somehow shook— and continues to shake— me to the…