Sad news for Thrasher
 

Likewise, I am sure, for breeders who hear from nonbreeders how boring and unfulfilling the life of a breeder is. Choices. I assume that everyone is happy with his or her choices unless I am told otherwise and then I say "shut up, it was your choice."

Sad news for Thrasher
 

Alright, I meant despite the lack of a gaping hole, that is. Better now, pervs? [Yes, bilmore, I saw your reply too.]

Um, gory birthing stuff
 

Hey, Paigs asked. What part of "Um, gory birthing stuff" in the re: line wasn't clear. Choices, people, choices.

birth and rebirth
 

I'm convinced that the childbirth video they showed in highschool was the most effective tool in the anti-teen pregnancy arsenal. If they were really serious about preventing teen pregnancy, they'd plaster the schools with vidcaps from The Miracle of Life.

Speaking of birth, a band will be reborn next year. http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/147...headlines=true (spree: Pixies to reunite, tour next spring)

So, how about those Mets?
 

I found that show painfully embarrassing, which probably explains why I don't watch reality TV much. Why is Queer Eye not on until 10 pm? Oh the humanity! More importantly, when is the board going to come together to buy me a TiVo?

Sad news for Thrasher
 

Not everyone has a choice by the way, that's why I always thought it rude to ask WHY a person had no children. A friend of mine had endometriosis (but I didn't know for years -of course, none of my business but she eventually told me) and it was not for lack of trying that she and her husband didn't have kids. They desperately wanted a child and it did bring her to tears when people asked her why she didn't have kids. Why people have the nerve to ask why is amazing to me. And when someone starts to cry after you've asked - shouldn't you just drop it? But no. There are people who will "offer advice" about how to get pregnant (as if you've never looked into it), one lady at her church WOULD NOT STOP. Even tricked her into going to her chiropractor because she said it would help her ovulate. I'm still dumbfounded by this. My friend was so angry about this that she had to change churches.
Why is this your business? Leave them alone. Eventually they adopted, but they really really wanted to do it the natural way first.

Um, gory birthing stuff
 

Has anyone here looked during a C-section? I kept my head down -- I was too worried I'd hit the floor.

Miscasting of the century
 

What part of AP did it for you? The threesome with the two hookers he ends up killing with a nail gun? Or when he makes his girlfriend eat the urinal cake covered in chocolate?

str(big Bret Easton Ellis fan myself, seriously)8

Sad news for Thrasher
 

With your ass obsession, you're highly unlikely to reproduce either. You DID read about how the birds and the bees works in your jr-high sex ed class, right?

So, how about those Mets?
 

Maybe if you install an Amazon link we can all click through and help with the.....
or what the hell - just use your fucking bonus and drag your ass down to the [insert electronics store here] and get one like the rest of us.

Paigow poker
 

Hey Str8,
You just got back from Vegas, what the hell is Paigow poker?

Bennifer to wed in Santa Barbara
 

First of all, I can't believe they used "Bennifer" in the title. Second - I thought location was a big secret?
Third - Is this a red herring?

NEW YORK, Sept. 10 — Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are getting married Sunday at the Four Seasons Biltmore Hotel in Santa Barbara, Calif., according to the mother of another woman who’s getting married there the same day.
“IT WILL BE at the hotel,” Vivian Terhark of Spooner, Wis., told ABC News Radio. Terhark said she knows this because guests at her daughter Julie Ann’s wedding are being told to carry their invitations at all times to avoid being mistaken as crashers at the celebrity nuptials.

So when does the death pool start for these two?link

Sad news for Thrasher
 

I cannot fathom a satisfactory answer to that question.

What's worse, when someone offers to show you a baby book, which at first is just "baby's first moments in french-fry warmer" and such, but then, hidden in there (in manner of crouching tiger...) are a bunch of graphic delivery room photos -- and mom isn't even wearing one of those hospital gowns -- good GOD! I couldn't stand to look at my own pregnant body as the delivery date drew nigh (I'd avert my eye in the shower), why do I want to see someone else's? (Not to mention the spread eagle and baby's head popping out -- a little too up close and personal, if you know what I mean -- and I think you do!) EEEEeeew.

Photo albums like that ought to have warning labels (as one sometimes finds on record albums or similar).

So, how about those Mets?
 

Lighten up, Francis.

Miscasting of the century
 

The only thing I dug about AP was the protagonist's suits. I recall thinking "Damn, that cat's got sweeeeet threads." I almost bought a double breasted job because of that flick, then I came to my senses. You gotta appreciate the spread collars they all wear. We Americans can't dress for shit - the point collar is an abomination.

Less than Zero was boring. "We're rich, we're decadent, we're wild... we're dead." Fitzgerald did that bit nearly a century ago 100X better. You have to be nuts to try to rewrite Gatsby in Bev Hills and make everyone a cokehead. Contrived.

AP was a much better read. I plowed through that over a weekend at the beach and couldn't put it down. Wasn't great writing, wasn't a great story, but Ellis turned the shock meter to 11 on that one... When the protagonist offed the kid in the zoo I said "Jesus, fuck this guy's got no soul." Then I realized, that's exactly what Ellis wanted - revulsion at both the protagonist and the novelist... smart way to make a wheelbarrow full of dough...