Felt the same way about the 4runner, visibility was poor, interior was too utilitarian and full of econo plastic and cloth. Then I drove it and things got worse, noise diving on braking and body lean, all of which comes with the territory of a body on frame SUV and gives the 4runner its deserved rep. In the end I…

Pretty neat shed village, though!

One of my advisers in college went on Trading Spaces with his wife, his sister-in-law, and her husband. No one liked the renovation and my adviser and his wife divorced 6 months later. Later conversations indicated that the show played a part in the decision to divorce.

I have a friend who lives in San Francisco. A 400 ft Sq studio. $2700. The bay area housing crisis is terrible.

OK the first response HAS to be a joke. “Well-digested creations” *wink wink.*

Didn’t Uncle Phil and Aunt Viv have an in tact, successful family on “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air”? She was a professor and he was a lawyer, and they had enough money to have not only their own children, but their nephew in an elite private school.

The sad part is, that’s only half of his alleged victims.

This is a haunting image. They’re standing strong and united but I get a sense of deep pain in their demeanor.

Well that, and also... “in a few generations the Huxtables will have been just a fairytale.”

... the thing that saddens me the most because in a few generations the Huxtables will have been just a fairytale.

That’s incredible. When I was in high school, my chemistry lab partner was gay, overweight and liked crystals, fantasy and was a little Goth. Everyone told me that I should be careful not to let him get my hair because he would put a spell on me. We were in the Northeast and no one was even that religious. He ended up…

Yeah, I’m from the deep south, and my older sister started high school at a brand new school back in ‘92. They were trying to be cutting edge, focused less on grades, and other “hippie bullshit” as my sister called it.

I know right? When I came across the anti swearing people I was fascinated by them, especially the American anti swearing peeps, they have all sorts of interesting ways to get around not swearing. What’s baffling is that they can be wearing the most revealing sexy outfits or having a big fight and saying awful things…

Ergot + misogyny + long winters + overly-vivid Jesus-freak imaginations with too much time on their hands = BURN THE WITCH!

Apologies for going off topic, but I’ve read that the cause of all the trouble in Salem was ergot poisoning from bad rye. People really were having visions and other odd symptoms, but not knowing moldy rye was harmful, they blamed witches. It was also a way of getting rid of troublesome women.

Not to make light of this woman’s experience but on my work record from a previous job is an official write up admonishing me to “stop stealing coworker’s hair and doing magic spells with it”.

I live near Salem, MA. The downtown is full of shops that sell crystals and Wiccan charms. On the other side of the crazy fence are all the local conservative christians that won’t drive through there for fear of “lingering spirits”.

Ugggh. Of course this is the Chair Force. I don’t know why, but the worst Compulsory Christianity stories always seem to come from them. I have a pet theory that it’s because their academy is in the same town as a particularly aggressive mega church, and a sizable part of the faculty has gotten their loyalties…

May Lakshmi bring Ms. Schoenfeld lots and lots of lawsuit money.

It would appear that life in great swaths of this country is a hell of ignorance and superstition. Sorry to be so blunt, but seriously, thank fuck I live in western Massachusetts. Not saying we’re better than anyone else because of where we live, we’re just humans fortunate to have the benefit of an excellent public…