I read that review, and immediately had the same reaction as you to that intro. Kinda a “What...???”. Voice too thin? Blondie music too....smooth?!?! Makes no real sense for anyone who actually knows anything about the talented and fascinating Ms. Harry and the band. Either the author is allowing her own personal…

Love Tina!  She and Chris Frantz have a wonderful sense of humor, unlike that other person they used to work with...what’s his name again?  ;)

I was/am a huge DH appreciator, and don’t recall there being that much fan competition between Debbie and Chrissie at least here in the States. I seem to recall that typically boorish comparison was more Debbie and Pat Benatar. Regardless, you are right, crap like that is just BS and sadly continues to this day as you…

Oh, bless your heart!

All those times I didn’t order the amazing sounding but most likely pedestrian tasting desserts at all those overpriced restaurants over the years...I am still haunted by the possibilities.

I may have posted this on another Joyce Carol Oates-related article, but this doesn’t surprise me in the least. Had a friend who lived in the same neighborhood as JCO in NJ, and let’s just say she’s...a rather complex individual. 

I’ve always found mattress buying troublesome. Trying out a mattress in a store isn’t comparable to sleeping on it for a couple of days. I mean, you can have a good idea of what works for you in terms of firmness, topper, classic spring or foam, etc, but in reality until you spend some time with that mattress, there’s…

Reassurance time: I’ve known a good number of people who have had detached retinas and all but one have recovered to the point where either their vision was perceptively the same as before, or at least pretty darn close. The key thing is that you need to give your eye time to recover—you don’t necessarily see well…

Nope

Historically:
—one had a two foot tall PAINTED statue of the Virgin Mary in the bedroom on the dresser, essentially passing judgment, and WORSE, many Giants pennants on the wall.
—another, a resident ghost. House from the 1920's close to a port, a former owner (many decades ago) was a ship captain. Was warned at very…

Have had this argument with friends before, and again now due to the sad recent spate of these deaths in the US.

My opinion is that anyone who says “I would never make this mistake myself!” is fooling themselves to some degree. I feel we all have the ability to make an absolutely terribly tragic mistake like…

My next older brother when I was about 6 or 7 convinced me that there was an animal called a Cabbit, which was a crossbred cat and rabbit. I think he even showed me a manually spliced picture (this is well before Photoshop). We were a very scientific and fact-based family, and I loved genetics and biology, so I have…

Thanks! Sounds fascinating...will add this to my queue. Reminds me a bit of the storyline of Ang Lee’s movie The Wedding Banquet from 1993. Still love that movie, even if parts of it now seem quaint.

My better half has always quoted that same scene as the most disturbing to him ever since he saw it as a child—and I can tell just by his body language when he talks about it that he’s not faking—but I guess I don’t share whatever dark connection it holds for him and you. 

I eventually realized our local urban legend was simply a local variant on the classic “couple making out, man with hook almost gets/kills them” one.

Grew up in a central New Jersey town one town in from the shore. Siblings had classmates who were supposedly part of a large, reclusive family of albinos. They allegedly …

Trashy entertaining books I repeatedly read on a Delaware beach in the 90's during my years of Memorial, July 4th and Labor Day house rentals with friends—looking back it seems I tended towards a lot of Schadenfreude in terms of real-world rich people leading miserable lives LOL:

Poor Little Rich Girl: The Life &…

I came for the comments missing the joke here, and was not disappointed.

Pandas are adorable. Albino animals usually are just as cute, if not more so, than their pigmented counterparts (look up albino raccoons!). And yet, I saw this same photo previously and was a bit horrified. Perhaps not the highest quality shot,…

Sadly, just like many other areas, there’s a huge disparity in income in FL and there’s a lot more poverty than wealth here. The media, realtors etc all push that “Lavish Florida Lifestyle”, but the overall reality is quite different. There are of course those pockets scattered throughout the state, but there are also…

2.5 miles from the ocean in South Florida in a townhouse-style home. We already know that someday our property will eventually be in its own little Venice. Also, for any potential tsunami, we have prepared by having an easily accessed inflatable raft on our roof deck so we can surf safely away as the huge wave comes…

I truly thought the still from the video was Madonna from her Veronica Electronica phase!