When I was a little kid my mom took me to the beauty school for a “pixie” — which was supposed to be the Winona cut, basically. (Of course this was the 60’s so the “pixie” predates Winona’s existence on this earth.) Pictures confirm it was just a crew cut. Still haven’t forgiven her.

I’d been with my current place eleven years (in two different cities) and it was time to move on for reasons (they actually closed shop a couple of years later, after 115+ years), but I wasn’t quite ready, and I hadn’t interviewed in many years so I decided to get some practice in with a big company in the same…

That’s exactly my experience of the Vega — my ex, an excellent mechanic, inexplicably loved this car. LOVED IT. Back in the day (early- to mid-80’s) he’d find them trashed/non-running, buy them for $350, put $350 into them...and sell them for $350.

Statistics. My brain just does not work that way. The instructor was a graduate student and not really a teacher (very common in undergrad), and could not help me “get it”. I dropped the class the last day I could, figured I’d take it after I’d completed everything else. Then I got the genius idea to take it in the…

My brother, when he was a little kid, would literally only eat things that were brown. White-edging-toward-brown would sometimes be acceptable.

My mom grew up on a farm in Kansas in the 1920s, so she had a really different attitude about pets than the rest of us. My dad loved all cats and dogs, and so did all of us kids, and we did things that drove her crazy like let them on the furniture or on the bed. In my mom’s opinion, cats should really be mostly…

My mom wasn’t a “bad”, “abusive” parent, and I have some real empathy for the situation she was in, but on the other hand she messed me up good, and it’s best for me that I limit my interaction with her. At this point she’s on the road to dementia so there’s really no point trying to get “closure”. I don’t bring up…

A while ago I was channel flipping and came across some college gymnastic things — stopped long enough to screengrab the names of the girls on the team: Dallas, Kayla, Elideth, Cayla, Kalley, Kalliah. I’m basically desperate for a Susan or a Nancy, or a Michael or a Steve.

9. Please don’t be late. We work on a schedule that is to the half hour or even 15 minutes.

I hate/love that movie so much. It pushes a lot of the same buttons as “Hoarders” does with me, somehow. The focus on things and stuff while human beings, and helpless animals, are being treated so terribly. The hoarders, as awful as they frequently are, at least have the excuse of crippling mental illness. This gang…

My theory: this parade of hilarrible GOP candidates is a plot to make GOB, I mean, JEB, seem reasonable and mainstream to swing voters.

Those are some dead eyes.

I don’t think they hurt him or messed him up, that’s what I truly think, but I do think they should have called a medic.

When you go into the “den” after dinner (with your wife and three little kids) and spend 8-10 hours on it, every night...not as long as you might think.

A nephew-in-law of mine blew $400K on phone sex. My niece is still married to that POS.

Last time I tried I got tomato hornworms. Still have PTSD. Will never try again.

I dislocated my shoulder in a yoga class — the guy leading it knew right away and put it back in himself — he said the longer it was “out” the worse the recovery would be. That...may have been bullshit. Someone took me to the ER and they just gave me a sling. I couldn’t raise my arm above shoulder-height for weeks,…

A bunch of Mariners put on those inflatable sumo wrestler suits one time — Joey Cora ended up on his back and couldn’t get up while the rest of the guys watched and laughed. I can’t find video unfortunately! Still the most hilarious thing I’ve ever seen on a ball field.

Agree 100%. You can have a big, perfect one for a relatively little. I understand (layperson here) that they’re indistinguishable from a natural stone, except they lack minute flaws. I don’t know why anyone would prefer a smaller, less perfect, natural stone.

The San Diego station did this during the very last seconds of “Lost”. There had apparently been a VERY MINOR earthquake, and they broke in say that there were no reports of damage or injury. You know, whatever-junior-varsity-station-that-was? there are earthquakes EVERY DAY in California that cause no injury or…