I got into a conversation with an optometrist once, who watched me adjust a visual test machine to accommodate that I am left-handed and he said that he didn’t believe people were left-handed. He said people were either right-handed or ambidextrous. His reasoning was that, as a right-handed person, his left hand was…

Twenty-six-and-a-half million dollars and they will give it back, because their fee-fees are hurt about him calling out the state for passing terrible legislation.

It’s a really good read; you’ll fly through it. It’s one of those novels told from a few different perspectives and she is so brilliant at writing the distinct voices of each of the characters that I didn’t need to read the headings to know who was telling each chapter.

La Croix is the only brand I’ve found so far that does cherry lime. Back in the 1990s, Snapple briefly tried doing sodas, and their Cherry Lime Ricky was my favorite. Now I am old and my metabolism is old and I can no longer throw back sweetened beverages with my youthful, reckless,  size 2 abandon, but the La Croix…

Oh, I know. The question just made me remember that story. Parton has also said that she couldn’t care less that people now think that song is Whitney’s, not hers, as long as the checks come addressed to Dolly Parton. :)

Here’s an anecdote from Wikipedia about Dolly Parton, “I Will Always Love You” and Elvis Presley:

My first job out of college was working for two women who ran a business together. The married one (married at age 40, I think because she was panicking she’d never marry anyone) was mean, judgmental, and shouted at her (equally terrible) husband regularly over the phone (as well as at me in the office). The never…

That was awesome!  Thanks for posting it.

Oh no, that sucks!  I am in Manhattan, so I don’t know how likely our paths are to cross, but I can tell you this 40+ got a booster shot this month because I also came back low on the titer test.  So I’m trying to do my part for folk like you who can’t get the vaccination.

I tried that with my son.  They won’t do it for people under age 18.  It’s very convenient for adults, but not for kids.

That’s awesome! My stepbrother is 5'4" and left a string of broken hearts in his wake before he met my sister-in-law (not because he was a dick, but because the women really wanted to marry him and so were pretty sad when things ended). Genuinely liking women is the best charisma a guy could ask for.

That’s a great story, and wishing you an excellent next chapter in your life. The great thing now is that you clearly have a sense of who you are and what you want out of a relationship, and that’s a great space to be in.

There’s a Jules Feiffer cartoon (I think Jules Feiffer, but I’m reporting this second hand, so I don’t know for sure) that shows a woman leaving a guy, and he’s shouting after her, “Men don’t hate women! Men NEED women! Men hate NEEDING!” It makes me laugh, but it also makes me think, “And dude, that is not my…

Fabulous read.  Great work.

The fact that your friend isn’t interested in women in his own peer group (working class, look their age) and wants a trophy girlfriend is the key to his problem right there- he doesn’t like women. He wants a possession to show off to other men; it’s got nothing to do with actual companionship.

It’s nice that there are many cis guys in the thread trying to be considerate by saying, “I support women’s freedom, but I don’t want to insert myself into the discussion,” but it’s not helpful. Because they’re missing what they can do, which is insert themselves into the discussion with other men. Just as we white…

Yeah. Not just you and me and my idiot friends, too, but millions of other people. NYC doesn’t have 8 million millionaires. (I’m committing the double cardinal sin of raising a kid AND owning a dog here, and somehow we’re managing on a lot, lot, lot less than $1 million a year.)

Yeah, fellow NYC’er here, and I rolled my eyes at the $2M number.

I remember it in our local mall, which, back when I was a child, had a Woolworth’s at one end, a Kmart at the other, and somewhere in the middle, along with Fashion Bug, et al, a sit-down steakhouse.  The interior of the steakhouse was completely hidden from view and I am sorry I never got to see what a mall…

Ha!  Taupe and navy... that is VERY 90s.