Atlanta is fucking fantastic. It's cheap, it's progressive, it's diverse, it has art and culture, sports, THE BEST FOOD, and people are fucking nice. I mean, it's not perfect - we got issues, within the city and in our relationship with Metro Atlanta - but I have lived all over the country and I prefer Atlanta to Cali…

Ha! I have a an acquaintance from college who lives in Maryland and works for the Tea Party. He sounds EXACTLY like this.

Oh, I agree, I wasn't ragging on them for being poor - I do hate their stance on poor people though, in that they are poor and deserve assistance because they are real, humble folk, while non-white poor people are lazy moochers. Mmmkay. I mentioned that they live in relative poverty on account of dropping out of high…

We're pretty heatheny over in Old Fourth Ward. Don't let the pretty park fool you. I wonder if VaHi's concentration of conservative frat bros would even out the aggressive drinking and smoking that goes on in that neighborhood enough to be saved.

Yeah, I'll only go on weekdays. I'm also 30 now, and I feel like I have, to a degree, aged out of Edgewood in the last year or two. Though I still need to get my ass to Joystick at some point, and I like darts at Corner Tavern.

Agreed. Though I've never been to rehab for meth. Or for stolen oxy-whatever.

Ohhhhh, I did not read that correctly. It makes so much more sense now.

Oh my god, I know. The most conservative, Southern branch of my family (I'm in Atlanta, they're in Alabama) are the ones with meth, pill, and alcohol abuse issues. Not a single one of my cousins made it out of high school without a kid, and as a result, failed to get educations and are living in relative poverty.…

I was watching, I believe, Colbert or the Daily Show when I first heard the title of the book, and I absolutely thought it was a parody title made up by Colbert or Jon Stewart. Like, are you fucking kidding me.

Not to mention Church (though now it's packed with Buckhead assholes and tourists on weekends).

Oh, I think there are more heathen masturbators ITP than OTP.

I did go a little HAM. As a woman who has never had any desire to be a mother, I am constantly subjected to any and all and every permutation of "you'll change your mind/you'll want kids and it'll be too late/your life will be filled with regret/you'll never be fulfilled" and so forth and so ad fucking nauseum. I am…

:-/

Oh no, I wasn't linking Swifty's early music to Adams, they're worlds apart. Who knows. Time will tell. Or it won't.

Yes. Literally every person who has ever gotten a pet has gone on to have human children. Every single one. The crazy, childless cat lady stereotype definitely does not exist.

I love her writing. And I love open and raunchy she gets with sex and the female gaze.

I mean, his first marriage ended because of his sterility. He has been to a bajillion fertility doctors, and he is sterile. He also has to take drugs for an autoimmune condition that, if he had any chance at all of becoming a father, would finish off the sterility job mother nature started.

My boyfriend is sterile. I love it. I don't want kids and I always seem to find dudes who want them, so when my boyfriend and I met and got along like gangbusters AND then I found out he can't have kids, I was like, GOTTA LOCK THIS SHIT DOWN. And by lock it down, I mean we got some pets together.

I feel like the author is newish to the whole sex thing.

THIS. That was terrible, terrible advice by the OP. It costs me $30 to get diagnosed at the urgent care around the corner from me, and I'm in an out in less than half an hour.