I could bike or hike for 20 miles without breaking a sweat, dance my ass off, surf. I miss that rude ability and lack of pain that went along with it.

LOL yup. If I had a dollar for every little crybaby dude who unmatched me on Tinder once he found out I’m six feet tall...

Yeah, now that I’m in my 30s, I think I look way better than I did in my 30s. I’m not in the physical prime I was (since I’m not an athlete or dancer anymore), but that’s really only in reference to how much I could punish my body in terms of what labor I had to put it through at work and shit. On the whole in…

I brought this up elsewhere, but I’m forever gray on Lifehacker so no one will see it, but THANK YOU For bringing up her container shit. That was such an obvious, hypocritical cash-in it just made me laugh when I first saw it.

I hope it passes soon. I’ve been sick of it since her book came out. And not just because I’m a bookseller (and publisher) by trade. I work in a secondhand bookshop; we literally trade in books that pass through one set of hands to others. That’s not the issue.

Congrats on the book deal! I do enjoy your articles here, and I really loved your last post on the Tumblr blog you had going (not sure if that was going to continue or not, but I can see it ending there, especially as you have other projects to work on now).

As someone who lives in the east side of Hollywood, I agree! I’m in a very walkable area, and walk anywhere I can (I consider anything 5 miles or less, one way, to be walking distance), but I still like to go out exploring elsewhere whenever I can, and there’s still a lot I’d like to see and haven’t yet.

Ugh, I’m sorry. I know how you feel, and it’s rough. (I will warn you away from OKCupid though, if I can, because holy hell, my few months on that site were HORRIFIC. Never again.)

Haha, you mean NY guy and Buster? I concur. ;)

I may just do that! I’m generally not a big fan of collections, but with King, who tends to be a bit wordy for my taste, that might be an interesting read.

Thank you! I agree. I love black kitties, too (Stella, who was formerly mine and my mother’s cat, who now just lives with her in my hometown, is also a lovely black cat).

Calling something a “full-blown affair” and claiming they’ve “fallen in love with each other” is hardly a “one time” screw up, you obtuse moron.

“Poor willpower” is an incredibly lame, deeply immature, pansy-ass excuse. You’re an adult in an adult relationship? Act like it. Only children genuinely believe that kind of justification will actually fly.

I know! I’m still completely floored by it.

Yeah, it was pretty good! Pet Sematary is still my favorite King so far, but I’ve been wanting to at least read a good chunk of his classics.

Aw, happy birthday to you, too!

Thank you! He is quite a looker, which I suspect he knows.

I hope you can! That sounds like a good potential opportunity to just be good to yourself and chill/recharge a bit.

I’m glad you know what I mean! It is freeing. It was nice to just realize that I was fine with it, and remain chill about everything, then move on. I have gotten so much better over the past few years re: dwelling/obsessing over things, and that’s done wonders for my anxiety.

A pretty chill start to year so far, for me! Which is certainly good, and an improvement on last year, which didn’t have the best emotional place for me to start from. (Granted, in hindsight, that was the beginning of ending some things that needed to be, resetting my boundaries and expectations in certain areas,…