Hang the hell on there and never mind if it’s on anyone or not — you’re actually peeing for FREE?

Do people still believe KJ’s lips and nose are ‘make-up tricks’, the kind of thing ‘anyone can do’?

Everything you said should be well understood by now, but unfortunately, nah. My youthful-appearing sister (w/her successful career) is childless and at age 50, is still fending off moronic questions. I’m like, a societal dropout (and proud of it) but people still have the gall to ask me if I’ll ever have a kid (if…

No, you’re not — you’re blaming the victim here.

Bah, not your imagination. Goddammit. }-(

I missed you. With so many seemingly gone, it's just not the same.

Somewhat related: The future of loneliness (regarding the Internet):

Good on you for having Shammy come home w/you from a shelter. I’m the same way; our international kitty Peter* made it over the ocean w/us in 2001 but didn’t make it three years later when it was time to leave EU and live here. That totally messed me up (‘messed me up’ is a euphemism). We found Hunter after Peter…

Ooh, what a beautiful face! We seriously wanted to share living space w/a middle to large-sized dog but sadly concluded the size of this flat would hinder any creature’s exercise and overall contentment. You’re SO right about the companionship as well as the responsibility one must provide. I mean, there’s no way I…

Dude, it has to. I think I would’ve gone crazy after he moved, especially w/o Hunter but definitely if I weren’t interested in so much other stuff. I left out that basically, I’m alone in a foreign country (well, the UK) but it’s all good since I love it here. Under any other circumstances (if I hated it, if Hunter…

Great article, thank you. I’ve considered myself alone but not lonely for ages and never really cared about it, not as much as others seem to care. Then again, I see my BF in town every weekend (I bring our cat w/me).

Totally. I’ve lived alone w/our cat since 2007-ish when my BF moved to another city. I bring Hunter in to town to stay w/him at weekends, but during the week, he and I are alright together (I wouldn’t have it any other way).

Probably when their PR said to use a cross cause it looks 'more churchy'.

I was in a narconon and everything you said is true (at least it was 30 years ago). However, I discovered how to game the cans as well as how to go 'clear' (think happy thoughts and they'll believe everything). After purifying my ass off for nearly six weeks, I was asked 'Are you done? Are there any toxins left in…

Give him my number and tell him to keep up the great work. :-)

Just in case you ever need to know this (and I hope you won't), permit me to say it's easy to game the meters as well as 'go clear'. I did it soon after I got there when I realised (by accident during a session) that as long as I thought happy shit whilst on them, I could say anything and it would be believed.

Yup, that's part of their thing. Apart from other bullshit tactics, they've got their own language habits, words and phrases they've appropriated to mean whatever (like, 'SP' = suppresive person). It's easy for them to promote the fucked thinking that they're this 'in' group (and the rest of us are morons who should…

I think more than 30. In 1980 or so, I lived at a narconon and they were already telling me how they owned Clearwater.

I'm surprised to see this near the top of your comments page, but anyway, I'm pleased it's there:

I'm sure Alissa Walker and every other Gawker media writer who's ever written about them are considered 'fair game' or at the very least, labelled 'SP' (or 'suppressive persons'). I lived w/a bunch of them in the early 80s and don't think they've changed much from the very defensive assholes they were back then.