I actually think this is ok. I knew a couple who both were the only child. When they had their first baby, the helicopter grandparents swooped in. They were knee deep in toys, clothes, the wrong kind of diapers, the wrong formula, sweatshop baby clothes and competitive grandparenting. When the baby was about three…

I hear ya. I was 120lbs and hated my muscular legs. It bordered on dysmorpic disorder. I thought I looked like a man. It was totally ridiculous. I was an athlete! Of course I was muscular. I almost quit sports because of it. Then I saw Ripley.

She had a non-traditional body type for the time. The fact that she was thin was the last thing I saw about her. She looked strong. She's almost 6' tall. She had short hair cut in an indifferent style. Big hands. Short fingernails. She was the anti-Farrah Fawcett.

And 14 year old me — a girl. To see that a muscles and small breasts and no make up was beautiful went a long way toward my self-acceptance.

I'm sensitive to scented products — even the ones that claim to be I scented. I've found that plain water in a spray bottle releases wrinkles just as well. And for odor, about a quarter cup of plain old rubbing alcohol mixed with a cup of water in a spray bottle.

CORNWALL.

Yeah. Tripping through small town America just ain't the same experience for black folks. Every time we stopped somewhere to eat or rest, the local police showed up soon after. It was pretty damn scary. The looks. The poor service. Being ignored at roadside museums and such. After getting pulled over by the cops…

Nope. It will be awesome. Your dad will be along for the ride. Do you have a dog? If not, borrow one. This is a trip to take with a dog and the ghost of your old man.

This is my favorite post, ever.

Oh my god. Crazy Love was like standing at the bottom of a hill and watching a boulder hurtling toward you.

Holy shit, I miss Roger Ebert. :(

My father was raised in Carlsbad New Mexico and was 11 years old in 1947. He says that he was awakened in the middle of the night by crazy loud thunder and lightening. He thought it would be really cool to go out in the back yard and get struck by lightening like Frankenstein's monster. He's in the yard looking up,…

And

She looks kinda Borg Queen-y.

The nails on each of my fingers grow at different rates.

A man walks down the street in that hat, people know he's not afraid of anything.

Join a fandom. A Trekkie is never alone. Instant family of multi millions. Seriously.

Can you take a leave of absence for a year to see if you like the fellowship? Can you do both? Cut back on the fabulous life for a few years and do the fellowship? Let me tell you, the academy ain't what it's cracked up to be. You'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villiany. Can you study in your field,…

Can you take a leave of absence for a year to see if you like the fellowship? Can you do both? Cut back on the fabulous life for a few years and do the fellowship? Let me tell you, the academy ain't what it's cracked up to be. You'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villiany. Can you study in your field,…

Two things that I learned today: There's such a thing as a Department of Superstructures and a thing called a cesium-vapor magnetometer.