Our dogs are hyphenated, though my husband and I kept the last names we came in with. My sister and her husband kept the last names they came in with too, but his dog did not get a new last name. It probably boils down to my husband and I got our dogs together; my sister’s dog came with the guy. Of our remaining…

Schools have been figuring this out forever. My husband and his mom only shared a last name for a very short time. Never a problem. A friend has three children by three different fathers AND she married someone else entirely. Not a problem. An ex boyfriend was a different race AND a different last name than his…

I kept mine; he kept his. Our kids will be hyphenated (mine then his): Spanish-Scottish. It’s up to them how they’re going to handle it going forward. But our kids will have the greatest soccer name of all time.

My mother was overjoyed to move from her 9 letter Polish last name to my dad’s 5 letter Spanish one. It didn’t stop the general public’s mispronunciation or inability to spell it though.

My brother was called “Chino” when he was a baby because of his curly hair. I haven’t thought of that for probably 30 years.

They could pull the 990s from any not-for-profit health system and see that (usually male) CEOs of those organizations make two to ten times as much as she does.

And Planned Parenthood health centers actually pay their staff fairly well because they have to compete for nurses and doctors and techs in the same…

Flipside tickets are weird. You send in a money order the week after New Years and hope your money order gets picked. If not, they send it back. I almost always get tickets from people selling theirs later on, and I don’t know too many people who haven’t been able to go because they couldn’t find tickets. A few years…

I’m not trolling. I was trying to engage, but again, obviously not something that you’re interested in.

ETA: You got pissed off because Burners use jargon, and then you swipe at me when I did what I could to avoid jargon or define it when I used it. And then you say I’m the one trolling.

It is wonderful. It’s very community driven, and it’s very participatory. I’m always so impressed that so many people do that much work for a small event. This year was particularly challenging because the site (well, most of the state) was flooded on Memorial Day, but the group persevered. It’s the only regional Burn…

I think your experience is very different than mine and I’m very sorry that you hate it and most of the participants so much. I’m also very sorry that to have engaged you because you clearly were not seeking to engage.

No, I’m genuinely curious as to your experience with Burning Man, because clearly you have some very specific beef with the experience and context is key to addressing your issues, if they are addressable. I haven’t been since 2008, though most of my friends are coming back right now. My experience is specific to the…

It’s been done.

It was in the 40s and 30s some nights this year.

Part of it is to enjoy it in spite of the conditions. Part of it is that you don’t really notice them after you’ve gotten there. Part of it is that you spend a lot of time preparing for them, so they don’t get in your way. I live in a place that gets just as hot or hotter, so the heat doesn’t bug me at all. I also…

What years were you there?

Our art car was a piano bar!! The Vroom Vroom Room is where my husband and I hooked up for our one night stand that’s been going for 8 years now.

(It’s bad.) :D

You know, it started as a regular feature on The Hairpin? Every two weeks or so AHP would release another story that was just as riveting as any of the stories in the book. Loved, loved, loved that series. Whenever one would come out, my sister and I would immediately start e-mailing each other.

WARNING: The series…

I DIYed most of my wedding decor. Almost all of it turned out great, and I didn’t regret doing any of it. I did a broach / baby artichoke bouquet, fabric banners, my ribbon veil, origami flower centerpieces, circle flower centerpieces, poof flowers for general decor, and made light boxes with our names. Almost all of…

Right there with you. Mine was a combo of stuff out of my own jewelry box, stuff I found on Ebay, and stuff family gave me. And I made it the day of my wedding because I also wanted baby artichokes and flowers from my mother’s garden in it. Plus cords from two of my dogs. (My dogs are pulis, and I have their…