Ryan Hansen: will watch. He was good in VM but hilarious in Party Down.

"none of us are likely to get serial-killed"

I second your recommendation, The Devil in the White City was fantastic.

I enjoyed Devil in the White City, too. "Thunderstruck" by the same author is also fascinating (and also involves a murder).

Devil in the White City took me all of two days to read - it would have been less but I had to go to work. It was absolutely gripping. The juxtaposition of the drama and personalities behind the World's Fair with the horror of the hotel proprietor just a few blocks away was mind boggling. One chapter: Ferris Wheel!…

May I ask: do you have a plan in place should you ever find yourself the hostage of a serial killer?

I had a conversation about this last month with a few friends who obsess about serial killers so they will know how to escape. The answers were "hope the killer gets pulled over for speeding while I'm still alive in…

I have read about the Bath School Disaster no less than 83457394578 times. We're a little sick, you and me. To be clear, it's not like I get joy out of it—I just find it more interesting than I probably should.

I would even posit "biased" as even better than prejudiced. But then again, what is the impact of hundreds of thousands of personal biases/prejudices if not racism? The individual dating preference is a bias (or perhaps a true prejudice or even actual racism in some cases, I'm sure) but the large-scale societal effect…

I think "prejudiced" is a better term than "racist" in this situation.

Are we really going with the word "racist" to describe dating preferences or attraction? Clearly in many cases these preferences are the result of historical and contemporary attitudes towards men and women of different races and ethnicities. That's an important discussion to have. But I'm so uncomfortable with the…

Me too! Whenever I hear a public service announcement on stroke symptoms I seriously wonder how I'm supposed to know. That shit's normal for me.

I have fantasies about trepanation… /sigh

yep, and migraines and seizures look a lot alike on most scans—they look like seizures a lot more than they look like headaches.

(And, realistically, the side-effects that come with some [not all] migraines can make you think something *really* serious is wrong with you. And there are times when even when you know…

Sing it. My first migraine came out of the blue. I had no idea what it was. Visual shutdown, massive pain... Oh, and don't forget that sometimes migraineurs need a drip to rehydrate because another symptom is throwing up.

Yeah, plus if it was his first, or worst migraine, I can totally understand thinking something was seriously wrong. Not going to the hospital for a headache is what killed Luther Vandross.

Not to mention that a migraine can cause hallucinations and seizure-like symptoms. If he'd never had one before, it could be indistinguishable from a serious medical event.

As someone who gets stroke like symptoms with her migraines, (slurred speech is sexy!) I concur!

Yeah, head pain like that is no joke. When I was in college, the health center nurse sent me to the ER when I had a migraine that wouldn't let up for 4 days (I get them chronically, but that one was abnormally long), "just to make sure you don't have an aneurysm or a tumor or something". It was sort of alarming, but I…

Before people get all huffy about going to the hospital for a migraine, intense head pain can be a symptom of stroke, even if no other 'classic' stroke symptoms are present. Maybe Kanye is being over cautious, maybe he has family history and is being suitably cautious. Either way, health worries blow for everyone.

Even if their individual stories seem off, there have been multiple accounts from witnesses at the party for years that line up much closer to her account of what happened.