Crap, I thought my wedding was great, but I didn't know you could get PENGUINS.

It's stupid to tell people what to read. What's more, the big bucks brought in by books like The Hunger Games or the latest thriller allow publishing houses to ALSO publish the midlist and more nichey literary stuff that never makes back its advance (though I admit there's a lot less of that these days). Best sellers…

I have two kids who are teens now. I'm a little bit more "free-rangey" than most parents I know, but 10 was the age when I started letting them doing things without supervision: stand at the bus stop without me, walk to the store. A ten year old is out of the car seat and can manipulate the locks and windows easily. I…

You can nix a title, though. In my experience* it's a collaboration. "I hate that one." "Well I hate that one." "How about this?" She didn't have to roll over and accept that crap title. (*my SO has published several books with a bunch of different commercial houses)

That really is about the worst possible title and makes me totally hate the writer. SO DUMB.

It would actually make a great novel: A stalker/fan moves next door to a writer and sneakily writes a biography about them, entirely based on awkward interactions and imaginative projections.

Yeah — I can think of a hundred "eccentric" sites in NY. Maybe I should make a website. Sheesh!

Lemme guess: you're blond? (And a dude, of course.)

How about four?

I loooove vanity sizing. Even though I've gained weight over the years, I'm the same size! So I get to not obsess about my weight and can think about things that are actually interesting.

I'm a writer and have worked food service in several different roles, including server. (Also done a shitload of other jobs; got a lot of stories.) The WORST day writing is 100 times better than the BEST day serving. That's why I never tip less than 20% EVER. If the server slaps the food on the table and disappears…

Like brussels sprouts and after dinner mints.

This reminds me of Komar and Melamid's "America's Most and Least Wanted" projects, where they polled people for their favorite elements in art and music and created paintings and music based on the results. The favorites are boring and silly, and the least favorites are hilariously hideous:

Me too. I refused to believe both customers and management would be that cruel to an injured little girl and her granny. Glad my faith in the general public is undamaged. Sad that the family had to go to such lengths to get money.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but as an example my kid has my permission, if someone bullies him, to pop them in the nose. He'll get in trouble from the school, but he'll feel less helpless and the bully will think twice about doing it again.

If we want equality, we have a LOT of objectification to make up for.

I'd be more interested in the misery index for each major. Are Business Majors happy with their lives 20 years down the line? Happier than Theology majors? Maybe. I think it's an important consideration, anyway.

Yeah, I actually feel bad that my pretty devout mother-in-law got a staunch atheist for a daughter-in-law. Her son is a lapsed Catholic, and I guess I just kept him that way. I'm super-nice and I never bring it up or, God forbid, go all Dawkins on her. The worst part is, I'm raising our kids w/o religion. Every now…

Yeah, the Parthenon is a mess compared to the Pantheon.

I don't think the teacher should have been removed from the classroom for teaching absolutely accurate history, but on the other hand, the subtlety of the message could very easily be lost on middle schoolers. It would be a much more effective lesson if the kids were a little older. Kids of middle school age tend to…