Nope nope nope. Have you ever been close to a grizzly? I got about 3 feet from one - he was caged, thankfully - and I could see him thinking "I'm not hungry now. But maybe later." It was so not cute. It chilled me to the bone - honestly terrifying.

FUCKING BEARS. You cannot trust them. They show up in cartoons and as plush animals, but they are savage horrifying beasts who are not our friends.

I can see that. It's like "Hello, can I poke you in your sore spot?"

That shit IS pretty nice.

Well, you do earn 500 extra Exotic Location Travel Points if you go there.

You did what I was going to do. Of course Gwyneth has a Deep Affinity.

I'm one of those people, and I would so much rather get the invite and have a tonic water than be stuck at home!

I donated about $100 through Donors Choose to a high-poverty high school classroom so they could buy some little digital cameras for their photography class (other donors contributed too). I just got a package of the nicest thank you letters. The kids were so happy and so sweet and sincere. They're already using the…

I'm white, and I'm annoyed as hell on your behalf. What are people doing saying you look something or don't look something, especially when they are plainly ignorant? It's like when people are surprised Latinos can be blonde. Idiots.

Folding a fitted sheet isn't a basic skill. It is some kind of strange wizardry.

I'm so mad right now. I have lived in my house 7.5 years. Never paid rent even one day late. Have put up with my cheapass landlord and his crappy way of doing everything (for instance, the inside of my shower is painted walls, not tile, except for the bottom foot, because he is too cheap to buy tile).

I have had both, and I agree that the spendy part of Wordpress is annoying. But I love all the widgets and for me, anyway, it is pretty intuitive and fun.

Ah, the pain of being an idealist. I know it well. I don't know how people just plod along and don't think "But this could be better!" Our company just put out a new "corporate values statement" and one of the values is "transparency." It is such a pathetic lie that every time I see it, I want to burst into bitter…

It might just be a photographer thing. Look at the work of the highly lauded Vivian Maier. It looks like many of her shots were without the subject's consent, and they are gorgeous.

Call me crazy, but I have a suspicion that some of those Kids, Inc. singers might be lip-synching. Just maybe.

You win.

My old boss worked in DC and was at a meeting in the White House where he claims Bill basically was coolly polite to everyone in the room (mostly senior staffers) and then just stopped down to full-on flirt with a gorgeous young woman, introducing himself "Hi, I'm Bill." Gotta love him.

It's a good thing he got famous. How else would he ever get a date?