I'm hoping that Scott Stapp is in Clearwater, Florida and that he gets better so that we can say Creed's Clearwater Revival.

I'm guessing this photo was NOT taken at a Limp bizkit concert in 1997.

Maybe your letter to Richard got lost in the mail? Let's go with that? (I have no potential excuse for the Twitter rudeness, though—ack!)

PS: I love that you mentioned your friend wrote to Michael Damian. Hiliarous... I remember it all like it was yesterday. Rock on! Oh, the late '80s/early '90s were a time of wonder!…

I "met" Michael Damian when I was 8 or 9. I looooved him and had just seen him in concert the night before. I lived in a town that has a little "walk of fame" and I went to see him put his prints in. I asked for an autograph and he didn't even look at me. He grabbed my paper and signed it while still walking and I had…

Even FotF thinks it's a little over the top.

The abuse part is the abuse of power on the part of the teacher. This child may not have been forced into having sex with an adult, but it doesn't make it right, or less wrong on the part of her teacher. He is the adult, it was up to him to set boundaries and control himself. I don't understand how anyone tries to…

Eww. Just eww. As a JHS teacher, allow me to be very clear: if a student shows any kind of inappropriate interest (and sometimes they do), YOU BE THE ADULT. You tell them it is not appropriate. You arrange for the two of you to never be alone in the same space. You let your department head/supervisor/administrators…

I think the idea is what you mentioned: essential services. We suppose that nobody "needs" to be shopping on those days.

Does she leave out the stuff about Polanski? How she knew what had happened but didn't want to deal with it? Or that she did know what was going on with Nicholson but liked being in a power couple?

I did a secret shopper gig once - paid lunch for two with alcohol required, yeahhhh I can swing that. The restaurant was okay (apart from the waitstaff who hovered and then vanished) and the bartender was a genius and a gem, but I did have to report the bit where I had to ask the shabby dude smoking weed in the…

I work in a supermarket, in the meat department. I had a woman come up to me, asking the usual questions. It turned into an interrogation. I gave her tips, recipe ideas, etc, and the entire time she kept creeping into my personal space, staring hard at me. I got very uncomfortable. When I later heard that a…

I worked at a pet store chain that customers would commonly refer to as "PetDumb" in fits of rage. One of those secret shopper mouthbreathers got the entire crew written up for "yelling at [her] daughter". The kids was climbing up one of those huge rolling stock ladders and a concerned clerk asked her to please come…

My store once had most of the staff call out, so we were stuck with a skeleton crew. Aka, one cashier, one floor sales person, and one shoe fitter (me). The floor sales person was on break, and I was helping about five people with shoes. I let someone into the dressing room, but couldn't really do anything else. Two…

I one time got hit with a somewhat negative mystery shop. At my store we had them every single month and almost always the same person asking for the same thing so a lot of people started to know who it was. Anyways, I was really surprised I did bad and I relooked at video. I arrived in the store at the same time…

We had one of our cinema mystery shoppers phone us up to ask what film was on at about 8pm 'cos that as when she was "planning to come in and mystery shop us". Needless to say we got 100% on that shop and an extra £50 bonus in our pay packet for hitting top marks...

oh man, that's a crazy one. but yeah, the people doing secret shopping aren't actually hired for their observation skills!

Dustin Hoffman cock blocked Jack Nicholson!!

I hate to white knight Madge, but, having been through a similar situation, sometimes you just have to stop trying to fix someone's life. That doesn't mean you stop caring.

I was a young women in the middle of the grunge zeitgeist of the 90s, and that is the single worst song of that era.

Ya know, I don't see the cuteness or whatever in Black Dahlia anything. I've read the book "Severed" and have seen what was done to her. It's not cool. It's an unsolved murder case, a horrific murder case. There are so many other things to be. 100 years from now will it be okay to be Hannah Graham? Or Kitty Genovese?