nice little pick on the lips there. Jeeze. what kind of robot engagement is this?

you’re likely a MRA troll, but i’ll bite. you know that women have jobs and stress over finances and career options too, right? and women have to put EVERYTHING on hold right? please. women, as the main actors here, can discuss pregnancy however they damn well please and you’re just going to have to get over it.

Maybe a combination of both. I feel like, on paper, I’d be a classic target Sedaris fan, but for whatever reason I just zone out whenever he tells stories. I get that his schtick is the real and mundane, but I don’t believe his stories half the time and I just find him a bit grating. He just reminds me of that guy at…

I think I’m the only person on earth who dislikes the Sedaris stories. I WANT to like, but I just can’t for some reason.

Big Radiolab junkie. BIIIIG Radiolab junkie. But their treatment of the Yellow Rain episode was jarring and uncomfortable, especially how they failed to rectify it after (even with the cooperation of the offended subject). That being said, I still want to be Jad Abumrad’s BFF.

I LOVE Snap Judgment. I think it goes even bleaker, although largely un-factchecked. I have been downright gutted by some of the stories. The guy who had to run meth to keep his family afloat and ended up in prison for life? The Croatian terrorist dupe!? Oh, man. Rough commutes home. I am also a Radiolab geek.

I LOVE TAL, but my true first loves are Snap Judgement and Radiolab. Any coddling you might get from TAL is pretty absent from Snap and some of the stories are downright jarring. There was one from a couple of months ago, in particular, that left me crying on the 5 while stuck in traffic. (yes, I’m a white liberal.…

I took an extravagant uber the other day because I had to come back to sleep at my parents’ house in the burbs outside NYC (it was Thanksgiving weekend - I promise I’m an adult). I didn’t want to take the train home alone at 4AM like my stupid drunk ass used to do when I was younger. So, OK. It was $100. That’s a lot…

That interview was heartbreaking and incredible. And Josh Homme is my boyfriend*.

I certainly feel like an alien here, being a born-and-bred NYer, but I also thrive on that a little bit, to be honest. I don’t like feeling so far from home. That being said, the lifestyle is incredible, and I have found that SD is full of transplants, so people are generally more welcome and open to meeting new…

always check commenting history. This guy is kind of an MRA

I was downright terrified moving to SD from NYC because people were pumping me full of the “people in SD are so flaky and dumb and unsophisticated”. There is a small measure of truth there, as it is partially a beach town, but come ON. There are many other misconceptions I’ve discovered about SD that I’ve been happy…

adding a +1 for Outdoor Voices. I’ve been loving that brand lately.

can we fit Rob Lowe a la Behind the Candelabra in there somewhere? Just cause.

That’s good to hear. I’m from the eastern end of Long Island, and had the weirdest set of doctors in NYC. “Hmm, maybe it’s a spider bite”. I’m like guys...it’s not a spider bite! Come ON! Finally, after a few weeks of desperation, I found a derm who took one look at my rashm re-tested me, and said “...girl, you have…

I too grew up and until recently lived in an endemic region (the east end of Long Island), have had it myself, and have watched other family and friends suffer from it, too. The problem is, there ARE quack doctors out there who blanket everything under a mysterious Lyme blanket when it isn’t clinically convincing. I…

THANK YOU. I come from the east coast originally, but now live on the west coast, and any time I tell people about the time(s) I had Lyme people always think I’m some kind of Yolanda Foster. Now, I believe in chronic Lyme, especially as I’ve seen the effects of late diagnosis in people. I also believe you have to live…

No, it is a bacterial infection. A nice kick in the ass from doxycycline will do just fine in most cases. Source: me, twice, and my whole family, who live in an endemic area. (AKA not los angeles)

Oy, I feel exactly the same. I also, as much as i LOATHE religion (and I was a religion major in college and am a lapsed raised-Catholic-turned-athiest) think that a lot of our present societal problems occur because of the decline of organized religion in our society at large. The structure, the social ties....people…

I only attended Catholic high school, which I think is less intense than elementary, and it was a great experience. I Fred Flintstoned right out of Catholicism and straight into the warm bosom of atheism, but I remember my time and training there fondly.