I'm back, sort of ( Read more... )

But how many of us feel fine ( Read more... )

I’ve heard that there's an old joke in the D/S community about the difference between a slave and a spouse: the slave is involved in a consensual relationship ( Read more... )

Some alleged wonder pills by a company whose stock I'm interested in are on sale cheap ( Read more... )

This morning, after I'd been emailing and leaving messages for queenzulu for two weeks and receiving no response, she finally peered out from beneath her termpaper and deigned to call, only to inform me that she would be driving south on the weekend. This is, of course, when I'm committed to attend the book fair, along with everyone else who knows about it ( Read more... )

A popular youtube clip shows some cultural differences in how different people imagine Kate Winslet celebrating Thanksgiving:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0A8B-nNjh4

Has anyone else seen this show? I was channel-flipping last night and found William Shatner in a role I hadn't seen before, hosting a highly surrealistic game show called "Show Me The Money!" It was sort of a cross between Solid Gold, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and Hollywood Squares. Contestants answer trivia questions, choose who they want ( Read more... )

I've been wondering how to measure whether Calgary real estate is overpriced relative to other places. As far as I can extrapolate from articles that are three years old or so, the average two-bedroom rent in Calgary is a little over $800 (I'm assuming $830), and the average residential sale price is $325,000, thanks to a 30 per cent runup in ( Read more... )

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I have more lowbrow methods of communing with the local fauna. I feed them donuts. The shop on the corner sells them $2 for a baker's dozen late at night. There are usually about five in a bag that I want to eat, so a couple of days ago I tossed some out on the front and back lawns to see what would happen to them. The first couple of times, ( Read more... )