@AthertonMerriweather: Exactly—where there are laws and regulations about how close the boat can get to the whale.

@lollilove: @maude_flanders: His tank in Sea World was a big step up from his original tank, and he was generally known to be a sweet personality. Another reason his release into the wild didn't work is because people would feed him from the shore, and he never learned how to be an independent hunter ever again.

@Alibelle: Oh. My. God. A horse caught on fire? I'd be traumatized for life.

Right after "Free Willy" first came out, I did a biology term paper on the effect of captivity on orcas,using Keiko and a whale named Ulysses from Spain as examples.

@BearDownCBears: I can handle their earlier stuff. Davis and Coltrane, in particular, are a must-have for any jazz aficionado. And, then, of course, there's Brubeck, his stuff is a later style and he's pretty damned awesome.

I've moved six times in the last 10 years, mostly career-related, and have found that your happiness and your sadness goes with you wherever you go—but leaving a bad job for a job that is better suited to you is hugely satisfying and worth its weight in packing peanuts.

@Honeybee74: You are absolutely right! Weight isn't just fat, either. People with a lot of muscle mass weigh more, too, and no one would call them fat or overweight.

@HereComesMyBaby: I suppose this proves that I don't know enough about the hip-hop culture to make judgements. : )

@WashingMyHair: Yoshi's in San Francisco. I saw the Count Basie orchestra there a couple years ago. They were AWESOME. Unfortunately, there's not too much jazz in my current city, but I am seeing a singer and her trio tonight at a fundraiser for a choir I'm in. : )

@WashingMyHair: So...you free tonight?

@ClassiqueMisdirection: Any kind! I don't know why it works, but it does. No itchiness or iritation, but I have to do it every time I shower for a few days after shaving.

@Goldbunny86: Oh, you said it so beautifully.

@quelconque: OMG, how musically stupid does one have to be to say that about the Beatles?!

@WashingMyHair: Same—I have a background in vocal jazz, so I've been exposed to a lot of the stuff. I find that early jazz and blues, up to about Big Band, is it. Be-bop was okay. But anything after the 60s just got way annoying and weird for me. Gimme the old stuff any day.

@KimberleeJean: But...I like John Denver!

@crocuta: Ohhhhhh, *vomit*

My BFF and I (both proud holders of music degrees) both say that a guy's taste in music can be a deal-breaker. I think we're kind of joking.

@sarasasa: I should crop it, because that's as far as I made it up that stupid wall before I thought, "OMG I'M GONNA FALL AND DIE!!" and got down. : P I can climb that silly wall, but heights are not my friend. My students (this was an 8th grade field trip) were like, "Ms. C....really."

@Zulkey: Definitely—I can make better decisions without doing the emotional eating thing. That's empowering.

@Hortense Smith: That I can agree with—and I posted at greater length above my own personal story. I mean, I was 29 and getting sciatica (PAINFUL) and on blood pressure meds, so something had to give. It is sad when some of the bigger girls in Hollywood feel they have to lose weight to be "normal" or to get jobs.