I think the best part is the 90's EXTREME LAZERS background going on, esp. since I have school portraits with that exact same background. I was so EXTREME in my blue lamb sweater and chunky pink plastic glasses.

Well, not comfortably. Stop touching me. I call dibs on the car. *runs*

Did you see how much it retailed for? It was on sale for $80! Marked down from $150!

There has been research into the idea that different races have differences in the sinuses and such, and postulations that they may affect the sound of the voice, though there are a ton of other factors that go into how we sound, so the actual physical structure only plays a small part. "Sounding black" is probably a…

Silly is a great descriptor for how I feel about "fatshion."

I would as well. I used to be plus-size, though at the lower end. I'm not anymore, but I still have all the same fashion issues as I did, and a few more besides, being on the short and curvy side of things, instead of the slim and willowy side of things that current fashion seems to revolve around. The problems I am…

Well, I do see the positive in that, taking a word often meant to hurt, and using it to create more positive or neutral tones, but I guess I just don't really like the portmanteau. It just feels clumsy. Not sure what I would use in its place, though. I'll get used to the term.

Well, that's not insulting at all. Ugh.

In an unrelated note, I'm giggling over the stock photo where the pregnant lady is using my old dell laptop from a decade ago. Same blue cover and everything. Lol!

Technically I could be fired for bringing a drink out on the floor at Michael's Arts and Crafts, and most certainly for bringing it or food back into the frameshop where I work, due to potential damage to people's art. However, they have been accommodating in the past when I've been taking heavy decongestants that…

I work on my feet all day as well, but I think something like this might be beneficial to people like my husband, who sits at a desk all day long and has the usual health complaints because of it. I'm aware that I'm in vastly better shape than he, due to less weight to stress my joints and the fact that I do a lot of…

That's ridiculously impressive, and watching it makes my neck hurt in sympathy. Any gaming is going to stress the body just from repetitive motions, bad habits, or general bad ergonomics, but this is a whole new ball of wax. Though I imagine he's gotten used to doing a lot of things with his neck and face and mouth,…

I've been a fan of Mark's since nearly the beginning. He was still reading Twilight and just starting Harry Potter when I stumbled upon his blog (he was still on Buzznet at the time, before the move and job change and getting his own site.) I have been an avid reader ever since, because this sentence: Anyone who has…

While there's nothing overtly sexual about Fanning's campaign, the juxtaposition of the young fresh-faced Fanning and the name of the perfume.

I gotta go hug my ratties now, who are themselves barrling towards rattie old age. Though I've had one who lived until she was 4, and she was my most awesome rat ever.

I think Jezebel ate my reply or my computer burped or something, so lets try this again...

My husband is from West Virginia and you better bet his parents moved away when he was 1, cause West Virginia. His stories about going back there to visit grandparents are... interesting. Also they totally did the whiskey on the gums thing when he was teething.

I thought about being terrified but now I'm just amused. And I will be singing this all day.

She will grow up to become Squirrel Girl, of course.

I always shake my head at that point, because the banana is an example of breeding. It didn't poof into existence in that perfect-hand-holding form... it was carefully bred over many years to select characteristics such as flavor, shape, and seedlessness. A banana tree cannot reproduce on it's own because of this.…