Shit, the first racoon I saw was the height of a medium dog, but fat with little legs. Probably outweighed me at the time. And I had to walk past it to get to my apartment. It was just...staring.

Not even close. I said that one person over 40 is less mature than one person under 20. I said sleeping with the more mature person was more fun.

Until there's a word shortage, I'll talk as I wish.

Where do you stand with respect to the box?

Was he unhappy before he raped her, or just afterwards?

I think what *you* mean to say is that 13 is the average (mean? mode? what's the standard dev look like?) age at which humans currently enter this Puberty of which you speak. You don't mean to say all humans, and you don't mean to imply you know if she had or not. And you don't think that it's a hard line of sympathy…

The idea that muscle tone holds some insight into personality is just as sensible as "ugly people are boring."

Or maybe the things they are fulfilled by give them that—I've rarely managed to exercise for the pure health of it, but have put in scattered 40 hour weeks of martial arts with glee.

They hand you a short term plan to look buff, but apart from wedding prep, when is the expectation of beauty normal women are encouraged to live up to temporary?

Try Walgreens.

So you're saying 150 years ago there wasn't brutal fighting for audiences? Violence has been fetishised since forever—there wasn't a break of total harmony between the gladiators and the MMA. And mixed martial arts have never had anything to do with fighting philosophers. There have always been MA practicioners who…

I don't know anyone who wouldn't.

Yeah, I got into that—pointing out natural black gingers. Sometimes that helps people express their real problem.

Wilson's Leather. They're extra handy if you have a tablet, because it will carry most ten inch

You have a very different internal thermostat from mine. It was cardigan weather for me this morning before the sun rose fully.

Just big enough for a 10.1" tablet—does that violate the rules?

I'm clearly lazy, is what I am. But is there a rule that if you don't spell it right you can't wear it? This is all so very complex. Which is the greater faux pas—over/underdressing or wearing what you are too lazy to type correctly?

Do *not* speak ill of my leather backpack.

What a perfect ruination of a pretty snazzy bag.

I live in LA, and about 1/5 of my hanging space is coats and jackets. Two never get worn here—the goosedown and the Russian Army overcoat, but the handy thing about LA is that most of the year the nights are chilly or you're near enough the ocean to be caught in constant wind...I get much more variety out of my coat…