I was on a massive Irving kick in college and all his books are the kind that stay with you. Maybe Owen Meaney the most though.

OMG THE BLIND ASSASSIN. nothing can ever dull my love of that book.

OMG hang in there! And definitely go see your doctor. I didn't have HG while pregnant but the wee amount of morning sickness I did have was terrible so I can't imagine what you're going through. Fistbumps of solidarity and support.

Or Ethelbert or Frideswide or something more exciting! I actually cannot remember King Baby's name so clearly they need to work on this.

I don't think it's necessarily that the evidence just came to light now - it appears that the family that owned this shawl knew about it and its supposed provenance - but that the author has a book to sell just now.

I'm fond of anything involving Mozza.

Yeah, the fact that every article includes that the author got into Jack the Ripper stuff because of the Tim Burton movie didn't exactly fill me with confidence in his investigative methods. The huz and I were watching a show about "hidden" London history last night that touched on the Ripper cases, and included a…

Based on other articles, the scientist's methods do not seem to be up to normal standards of DNA testing of crime evidence (double blind testing, various steps to prevent cross contamination). His results do back up what is already a pretty strong theory on who the killer was, but I don't think they'd be admissible…

Yeah, my husband read one article and was like OMG THEY CAUGHT HIM and I read three or four more (looking for decently credible sources - The Independent is one I remember) that were like "The DNA which HASN'T BEEN INDEPENTLY TESTED was found on a shawl THAT WAS IN AN ATTIC FOR 126 YEARS and which the owner CLAIMED to…

I actually find it a big turn on when my husband sniffs mine. I guess it's the primal thing?

Ooft, I'm JEWISH but when my Episcopalian husband wears a collar when he volunteers as a Eucharistic visitor (basically bringing communion to people in the hospital or can't leave their house) I can't keep my hands off him, doubly so if he wears a cassock too. Shame-movie-crush: Ewan MacGregor in The Davinci Code.

Yes with the freckles, particularly on people with dark complexions and light eyes. I studied in Ireland one summer and caught a glimpse of a dude on the lawn outside the library where they keep the Book of Kells who I'm not entirely sure nearly twenty years on was actually real because he was that glorious with…

One of my coworkers was telling me that he had encountered a Lemonjello and Orangejello while at work. I told him that these names were a common urban legend but he insisted they really existed. It made me wonder if the urban legend going viral led to any parents actually giving their kids those names (I mean I…

Wait, you AND Lindy are leaving? Is this real life? I mean, sorry, best wishes to you both, you will be missed.

AAAAHHH get it away. Giant mantis shrimps are the beasts of nightmares.

I LOLed when I found out there actually is a Vidalia, and there was a huge kerfuffle this spring over when exactly the farmers were allowed to pick them for market!

It's probably just the ones that make it to the stores here, but I've tried grocery store, nice grocery store known for produce, mom and pop produce store, roadside stand...all terrible. There's a roadside stand that sells melons all summer RIGHT on my way home, let's just say we eat a lot of canteloupe and…

I'm just glad it wasn't peaches. Every Georgia peach I've had since I moved here nine years ago has been godawful. The (boiled) peanuts tho.

ME TOO for the whole summer I was there.

My home state's top four would actually make a decent dish - chicken tenders, eggplant, broccoli and pasta. Not sure how haddock, number five, would fit in (or why it's apparat entry such a New England thing - I haven't lived there in several years but don't remember it being so ubiquitous).