Hmmmm... I thought it was a vest. I still don't associate him with newsboy caps and cardigans.

I think you are confusing Ryan Reynolds and Ryan Gosling. Gosling wears more cardigans. And he is expecting (or maybe just had) a baby with Eva Mendes. Gosh. Keep your Ryan's straight. (Ok, I realize they are both hot and blonde.)

I am such a sucker for an upper-Midwest accent. This video and rant are a thing of beauty.

As much as I detest local douchebag, Guy Fieri, he is involved with a very cool non-profit called Worth Our Weight. It is a chef apprentice program for teens with significant family challenges like foster care, homelessness and abuse. WOW runs a cafe, staffed by the kids (they run both front and back of house), where…

Well, my 4 carrot, home-grown, organic, fair-trade lentil ring only cost me the packet of seeds and my now-husband's love-filled labor.

That's how they do it at the French Laundry in Napa valley. My husband (who used to clear $50k a year in tipped wages working at various high-end Napa Valley establishments) has friends who work there. All the staff is salaried, with benefits, and they all get a month off, paid. Then again, it's the type of place…

Oh my gosh, Christopher Pike and R. L. Stine! I remember being so titillated by those books in 5th grade. They were like the dirty secret of that age. This was pre-Goosebumps. I wish I could actually assign these books for my October reading workshop, but I'd probably get canned. I do have a student reading The…

Dodai, you made Jez a special place. I will always feel a kinship with you over our shared passion for Judith Krantz novels. Shoulder pads are dead! Long live shoulder pads! Best wishes on your new endeavors.

My (California) county's plastic bag ban went into effect on 9/1/14. I've been to Target twice since then, and it is HILARIOUS to watch people too stingy to shell out 10 cents for a paper bag struggle to carry all of their purchase in their arms. And you can't claim hardship on ten cents when you just spent $100+ on…

Seriously. Fuck yeah, Jerry Brown! I was driving home from work, listening to KCBS (for the traffic!) and just started feeling really happy about living in the Bay Area, because of all the progressive politics. It's not perfect by any stretch, but we are getting somewhere.

Mitch McConnell is the best part of that video. Or worst.

I know I am not alone in my love of sleazy, power-hungry '80's sex-in-Dior a la Judith Krantz. I also have a metric fuck-ton of poorly written Kindle erotica. My introduction into sex-in-books was reading Clan of the Cave Bear when I was in 6th grade. So I am pro-smutty books.

I know this is a late response to this post, but I had to share that I, too, left the tampon applicator in the first time I used one. Ouch!

My students (6th graders in the Bay Area) think it is the most hilarious thing in the world when my Chicago accent slips out. Hilarious.

Not me, I always clandestinely added ketchup. I also put ketchup on Italian Beef. I'm a philistine.

They are asshats, giving caring teachers a bad name!

In my student teaching days (not that long ago), my resident teacher wore cargo shorts, almost every day. I wore dresses and slacks. I also wore my coat a lot, but that's because the charter school was in a warehouse and thus had terrible heating. My RT apparently felt no cold. I was somewhat resentful, but I was…

The union told the teachers NOT to wear the shirts.

Thank you. People who don't teach, don't actually understand this. At. All.

Yellow mustard, raw diced onion, celery salt, green relish ( like neon green, it's weird), sport peppers and, I think, diced tomato. I might be missing something else, but definitely no ketchup.