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Whooping Crone
whoopingcrone

Ugh! Did your chunk of thumb actually come all the way off? I had that happen with a piece of middle finger last year. I still use my mandoline, but with gloves.

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It's a mishearing of hubcap diamond star halo. Perhaps an understandable mishearing given that it was a T Rex lyric.

I want to hug all of you tonight. I'm not a crier, but there are a few songs that would make me cry if that's what I did.

Seconding the advice to (a) talk to your spouse and (b) get a therapist, for the two of you together if you can. If your partner doesn't want to go, that may tell you something about the relationship.

I'm a Mackintosh! I didn't find that out until about 10 years ago, and somehow I have gone until today not knowing what a cool coat of arms we have!

Louise Erdrich, whom I don't think has been mentioned yet. Joanne Harris. Joanna Trollope (semi-guilty pleasure). And +1 for Atwood, LeGuin, Munro, Butler, Tan, and Kingsolver.

Five times out of six they were. At Sasquatch in 2008 Robert had a cold and they were less than awesome. I'd still see them again though.

We have a considerable amount of overlap in taste. (I have seen Bloc Party, Death Cab, and Tegan and Sara twice, and the Cure six times including following them across the Midwest in 2000.) With that in mind I'd suggest Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Decemberists, and Franz Ferdinand. And for something different,

Go, baby, go!

Thanks! When I was growing up in the '60s I wanted a Rex because I thought it would be cool to have a cat with curly hair; I didn't know that there was a Cornish kind (possibly there wasn't then) or about their temperament. I'm a cat person for life but when my son and his then girlfriend visited for a week with

Is your precious little kitty a particular breed, and does that breed have a particular fondness for sweaters and walks on leashes? Because FUN! I've known a cat or two who has accepted a leash, but all the cats I've lived with have been very inclined to stick to their own territory and not at all into travel. And

Age: 16 years, 11 months

I had that kind of spotting with Mirena, though it didn't start till about nine months in. I was diagnosed with uterine fibroids and was scheduled to have a myomectomy (operation wherein they would scrape the fibroids out). I had my IUD removed in December in preparation for the operation, but when I found out it

+1 for submitting a complaint. That shit needs to be stamped out. I'm so sorry that person exists, let alone that he subjected you to his shitty self.

This is me. I'm not a native Oregonian but I have lived here most of my adult life, which is a very long time.

I started on antidepressants 19 years ago, in my mid-thirties, after various life stresses (chiefly being forced by marriage to move halfway across the country and having a midlife crisis) led to my not seeing the point of life (I only didn't kill myself because I didn't want to burden my kids with having a mother who

Michael Chabon, Gael Garcia Bernal, Tom Hardy, Viggo Mortensen, and Gotye.

I've rarely worn makeup in my life. After passing 50 I noticed that my lips were looking a little pale so I bought a tinted lip gloss. I remember I have it once every three months or so. I don't like the feeling of stuff on my face, I don't like to bother with putting it on and taking it off, and my boyfriend

+1 for the kid most likely just being 3. When my daughter was 3, or maybe a little younger, we lived in Whitey McWhiteTown, and we were big NBA fans. One evening, rather than a basketball game, the movie Out of Africa happened to be on the TV for a few minutes while I was folding laundry. My daughter wandered into

I had hellaciously bloody periods in my perimenopausal years. I went on the Mirena for birth control and my periods got lighter for a while, then after about nine months I started spotting in between periods, which increased until I was bleeding three weeks a month. I was diagnosed with uterine fibroids, which is