There’s a Sunday night jam I’ve been meaning to go to - only women, only rock. I aim to go there to shove it back in his face.

I think part of the reason he probably isn’t called on it is because there just simply aren’t enough women in these environments - it’s like a chicken and egg kind of thing. In my friend’s case, I hate to admit, but he really isn’t inviting that many women period, and when they are there, he doesn’t welcome them up to…

Well... it probably just gets down to personal preference at some point. I, like you, like the American social realism of Steinbeck, Faulkner, McCarthy and Proulx. I also like the satiric post-modernism of Delilo, Vonnegut, Zink and Kennedy Toole, or the science fiction of Butler, Dick and Munro... But I have a real…

I think Adele has to deal with it in her own way, too. Also, don't forget, she got her start in the UK before crossing over to the States. While I think her extreme pop success is notable for many many reasons, I wonder if she'd been American if she would have been stuck writing tunes for Beyoncé or Rihanna.

It shouldn’t be like that. I do some sound editing and play guitar, a little piano. I really enjoy all three, but really don't take it too seriously. Makes me think that my Christmas present to myself oughta be some dj software.

I don't think that's the reason. I think they might like her music, personality, message as well.

AMEN! I have a couple of good friends who are musicians, one of whom runs an “open” jam at a bar where I meet up with him sometimes. One night I commented on how he rarely has female musicians participating, he responded in all seriousness: women don’t rock.

I don’t think she made it because of her image. I think she probably would’ve preferred to have made it because of her songwriting ability. She does right really awesome and campy Broadway type ballads. I think that's what we see more of now. I think in the beginning she was working with that producer (guy) who helped…

No, he just lies firmly and squarely in the footsteps of his predecessors.

I know I’m responding to this late and all, just to say there’s something really spineless about Franzen. At least with Philip Roth you’ve got white guilt and self-loathing served up on a platter - delectable! Or with Updike, his casual racism and sexism is so delightfully unaware. Heck, even Paul Auster’s gimmicky…

That’s how I feel about old garde Jews who are Republican... Of course they’re remembering to ‘60s when the Republican Party was the party of blue bloods and “the landed gentry” and the Democrats were a bunch of union-organizing factory workers.

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It is NOT constitutional

Don’t need to, made it all the way to menopause without pro-creating. Now THAT’s how you do it!

I think I just like that Sandra Dee is responding to Olivia Newton John. Nice!

I was just remembering those cotton sweaters. They were cable knit or anything, but they were CHUNKY! And thick, and they'd bunch up if you tried to wear a blazer or anything over them (also popular at the time). I had one in a bright cobalt blue, almost purple color.

What they need is for humans to back the fuck off. What we need more than in vitro for dogs is sterilization for humans. Populations have decreased because their hunting grounds have finished.

I swear... I had the same trajectory. Sitting at my corporate desk right now ;-P

Yup. Sounds about right. Even when I was a full time reporter I was working three nights a week as a bartender. After I got laid off, I took a couple of those unpaid internships (thinking it would help). Full-time work + unpaid internship to get a job in a field that more than likely wasn't gonna pay me a living wage?…

I remember feeling frustrated when I got fired from my first newspaper reporting job when I couldn’t move out of my home town. I was 22, had worked as a reporter for a year, but apparently didn’t have enough experience in other markets. That’s when I learned how unpaid internships worked and felt very ashamed of my…