Are most skates sized the same? Because in the ones I've tried, I've generally been a size 5 ladies or a size 3 in boys' skates, which is a full size lower than what I normally get in regular shoes*. I was thinking of buying skates online--just cheapo starter ones, since I'll never do derby and just want something non-skanky to wear to the rink-- ( Read more... )

What could make me post twice in one day? This. Totally safe for work--and, in fact, probably the subject matter for a calendar coming to a cubicle near you.

I haven't been skating in weeks--not since Shake'n'Bake, and I think that was on Superbowl Sunday, so almost a month ago. I was starting to get really stressed out about it. Partly, I was worried I would forget all my hard-learned skills (you know, the not-falling-down-very-much-and-kind-of-getting-some-forward-motion-going skills that makes all ( Read more... )

I wonder what kind of dipping sauce would go well with fried chorizo-and-cheese-stuffed wontons?

I'm thinking maybe a blood-orange reduction with a little chili kick to it, but I'm open to suggestions.

I lost a glove from two separate pairs this weekend. One I just left somewhere, as I am wont to do. The second, well, here
we have


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Having been raised in a Chinese-American household, I tend toward a sneering contempt for most of what passes for "Chinese food" in this country. In general, I find it to be oversauced, overcooked, underspiced glop--more Middling Kingdom than Middle Kingdom, and a blot on the honor of my, uh, step-people's fine culinary heritage.

Except.

Except when ( Read more... )

Sorry, I know this question gets asked over and over, and I should have just taken notes from what people said last time, but what do people use for wireless Internet service at home? Any advice welcome; thanks in advance.

For reasons that are too convoluted to go into (short version: I knew a graphic designer once who was too broke to buy Christmas presents, so gave his friends subscriptions to the publication where he worked), I wind up getting a lot of lesbian lifestyle magazines sent to me in the mail. The most recent one, called "Velvet Park," has a cover story ( Read more... )

You know how you generally get a cold: A day or two of sore throat, then it move down into your chest, then up into your head for another few days, then a couple days of lingering cough while it goes back to your chest for a few last souvenirs, and within a week or two, it's all over? Well, my current cold is on 'ludes or something. I had the sore ( Read more... )

So my neighbor, the one with the pugs? And another dog? And possibly a whole litter of pugs in the basement? We've reached a sort of peace, in which we communicate solely via text message ("Pls can I let Hank out?"/ "5 min" /"Thx"). Last week, he ended one such an exchange by asking if Henry was an akita, because he was thinking of getting one ( Read more... )