Journaling is a way to deal with your life, and if your life doesn’t require it, or it doesn’t work for you, you shouldn’t feel bad. Turn your journals into notebooks, address books, whatever you like. 

This is exactly what the drug counsellors I know say. Because few social circles, even circles of junkies, will pressure you relentlessly over months to do illegal drugs with them when you’re clean, but smokers will do it every single day and not feel bad.

Will greed work? Sit down and do the math about how much you spend on cigs a day, a week, a month, a year, your life so far. That might work. Worked for my dad, who’d smoked since he was 9.

Sadly, sexual assault of patients is far more common than you’d think. My mother, who worked in hospitals her whole career, told me about a woman with serious intellectual impairments (to the point where informed consent was not a possibility) who was institutionalized and brought in to the hospital bubbling over with…

The government knows how much it pays these people.

Bartering what, sexual favours? We can’t all be Melania.

As someone who suffered a terrible injury resulting in memory loss, an inability to return to my profession for over two years, and other effects, and as a HUGE Steve Carell fan, I’m going to watch the hell out of this and the documentary.

Nothing about the Miss USA xenophobia?

He is not.

A bat literally flew into my mouth once when I was rollerblading.

I wondered where Pam Poovey was working now.

Okay, please tell me why this show has rabid fans. I can’t find it online or any way to start from the first episode, but my god is it popular. And from the outside, it looks like nothing but a bunch of cameras following around a bunch of surgically altered waitstaff. Is there more to it?

Right? My cousin was looking at them and flipped out. He literally didn’t think clothing could cost that much. I think he spent $100 at Mark’s Work Wearhouse instead and got something perfectly serviceable.

I live in a Canadian city that last winter averaged colder than the surface of Mars (Ottawa: also has fewer fun avant-garde cultural offerings than Mars). For the first two years I lived here I wore a size 4x massive hand-me-down puffer bought at Costco. Last month I spent $6 on a trim navy wool number with a hood,…

For women this manifests in expensive cashmere coats which have neither buttons nor belts. 

How is Korea different in this regard from anywhere else? My cousin decided to upgrade his look with a new designer puffer coat, and nearly expired from sticker shock when he realized the ones he was looking at cost more than his car did. 

Goodness, no. Buffalo Bill is so basic.

Thank you. I am here to serve.

Hey, I’m free in February and everyone hates me already! I mean, why wait?

He would look more approachable.