At least Mary owns up to being insufferable. I just reread LHotP and think the beads the girls found in the Osage camp could have been made into bracelets for each of them. Toddler Carrie was too young for a necklace which was a choking hazard.

Thomas Wolfe rubs me the wrong way and I don't click with Michael Chabon either.

I was glad to learn that LMA DID go to Europe irl.

It wasn't a seminar, she was touring with her most recent book.

No, asparagus IS finger food.

I read Maddaddam recently.

Fitzhugh made Harriet goofy in Sport. :-S

He's far more respected now than he was as president.

The film Wadja shows her mother and several other women employing a Pakistani driver with an SUV.

Kroger took over many local chains: Ralphs, King Soopers,QFC,Smiths.......

Someone responded " dyke tyke" when I asked this question in a graffiti discussion.

I'm a Jew and had thought you were male...my synagogue had a copy of Charlotte Herman's The Confessions of Ari Stein ( set in the 40's; his assimilated aunt insists on calling him Lionel) and all the IRL Aris I have known are male.

The NOVEL Endless Love has a graphic period cunnilingus scene that didn't make it into the Brooke Shields movie and I suppose won't be in the remake...

I was 15 when Flashdance was released. My parents were traveling and left me and my brother with the horrible woman who had stayed with us when I was 5 (she got wasted with a friend one afternoon and passed out in my parents' bedroom; we were getting hungry, didn't know what to do and wound up throwing toy maracas on…

North Country was based on a true story.

Conceiving Ada with Tilda Swinton came out in the late 90's

I had someone "protecting" the mariachis threaten in Spanish to rape me.

If you're obviously engrossed in reading/ working on something or have just pulled out a stack of it, the guy is being rude for refusing to respect your right to be left alone.

I have been harassed by South Asian service industry workers in North America and Europe; most egregiously at a London branch of the Taj hotel chain while I was in the business center.

http://decentexposures.com/ in the states makes bras to order in tons of colors.