The "giant book sales" like the one pictured above usually open as temporary stores and run from November til the first week of January or so. They consist of overstock and slightly damaged/defect books (every book I ever got at one was fine, perhaps a bit of spine scratching or something, just not *quite* perfect…

Vampires weren't sexy until Lord Byron got hold of them.

@cate3710: The only one I saw was Coraline, which had nice effects and will not, I think, lose anything in a non-3D format.

It's raining really hard here right now, and I went out and stood in it for a while.

@olliegrace: I fear the day I ever meet Neil Gaiman. I've met and talked to people of varying celebrity status with no problem before, but I think if I ever met him I would be reduced to idicoy and three-word exclamations that made no sense. (In true geekiness, I even have decided what I want to say to him if ever I…

@alicetheowl: I hope you get it! And "some combination of the above" just made me laugh out loud (the real kind, not the lol kind).

@lalaland13: A few years back, a friend of mine and I volunteered to work on houses in a town outside New Orleans. That has its own set of crazy stories, but...essentially you had two college girls driving there from Ohio and then back.

@envirodesigner: It's fine, I'm just knitting and writing for no money. Fortunately I have enough people around in similar situations that it's not TOO bad, until we all decide to throw in for a pizza and come with with $12, $2 of it in change...

@Lymed: See yeah, my first thought on a dissolving bikini is "oh that would be fun in the hot tub, does it come in flavors?" Not as a revenge tool...

Is it just me, or has anyone else NEVER seen the word "caveman" in a history book? Maybe I'm too young? My history classes always started with Mesopotamia. Any reference to a "caveman" would, in a textbook, be more appropriately replaced with "Neanderthal" or "Cro-Magnon" or something. I don't think I've even heard…

I still have to say, the best commercials ever were the Brawny men with the soft-porn music. Now there were some guys doing some housework and making it look good...

@amowls: Oh crap I must be one then! I'm definitely closer to 30 than to 20, and my last boyfriend was 20. heh.

@Her Grace: Also there are limits as to how recently they can get into history. I had an excellent world history course in college that DID cover a lot of things not normally covered, and I think the most recent thing we touched on was Ayatollah Khomeni, and that I think only because he came up in discussion.

I was going to complain about how it's physically impossible for the vast majority of women to build bulky muscles without steroids but then the video went a little further and oh my god what are they thinking I can't stop laughing.

@alexawesome: In the category of irony, I had a roommate in college who went off the pill because she was tired of being harassed by the PP protesters.

@halloweenjack, King of the Wild Frontier: I only play World of Warcraft now because nobody around here plays D&D. : / In my old D&D group I wasn't the only female either, ahh I miss those days.

@Dancingfrog: In the US, the most that the majority of anti-abortion people I've spoken to will do is offer up info on adoption. EVEN IF a woman would rather put her baby up for adoption than have an abortion, that's not covering hospital bills, post-natal care, Lamaze classes etc., and sad as it is, some of these…

@Wit is periodically disensouled: What, you never heard about the Christian Salt?

@AnotherJenn: Vogue Knitting is pretty awesome, and considering the number of 20somethings/teens knitting now, not a shabby spot at all.

It was what, about 2 years ago that I started seeing TV commercials for IUD's. I had known about them previously, simply due to my own research into birth control methods. They're not publicized, as the article states not often recommended or discussed by gynecologists, and before I started seeing commercials, the…