I dislike the term cougar because it implies there's something predatory about an older woman with a younger man, while men go after women a third their age without having a similar label.

Yeah, Demi Moore is 16 years older than Ashton Kutcher. It was a very Stop The Presses sort of thing when they got together and was mentioned for a long time. Bruce Willis (who is 7 tears older than Demi) is married to Emma Hemming who is 23 years his junior. Not a peep, really.

Emma isn't as famous in the states as Ashton, but she's modeled all over the world so she isn't exactly entirely unfamous.

So, yeah, until there is some sense of ::gasp:: parity Imma have to reject the whole cougar notion.

Yah, I have to partly agree with you, but partly say some of it has to do with age at wedding, Trudy...looking at it, she was 30 when she married Bruce Willis, whereas partly the Ashton/Demi thing was so "oooh scandal!" because he was so YOUNG...he was 28 when they got married, but only like, 25 when they started dating.

IIRC, Callista and Harrison were made noise about. I can guarantee you I'm not going to remember Bruce's wife's name, but Ashton was that guy who'd just played a teen.

My neighbor throws bones and dikon in stock pot.

I am fascinated by the Gus talk. Mostly because 1) I actually flirted with him on the board. 2) i really disliked him sometimes 3) I believed things even when they were very odd 4) I did morn him and then find out he was a fake

Dolley Madison was really amazing.

I've got that American Experience ep on dvr for watching later this week! She's probably the earliest prominent woman who was photographed that I can think of (she lived until the 1840s, and so was able to have her daguerrotype taken), and that just fascinates me to no end. She and Abigail Adams are my favorite not-modern First Ladies.

I'm just climbing out of the rabbit hole of threadsucking the archives.

My eyeballs are bleeding.

Lalala, not going near those archives. You can't make me. Once was enough.

Though believe me, I understand the compulsion. Must...resist....Lalala, can't hear you.

Maybe if we get a snow day tomorrow I'll thread suck the older Bureaucracy threads. (Maybe someday I'll be able to spell "bureaucracy" on the first try, too. Maybe.)

I love my walking distance farmers' market and hippie grocery store. Neither deliver, though.

I'm finding myself getting more interested in Chicago. I miss the Midwest, and Chicago probably has the closest thing to a lively economy in the area. But I love my current job and apartment complex, so nothing's likely to come of it. Still, a 5 hour drive to see family instead of a 14 hour drive or making plan reservations? Tempting.

I'm still pissed about that crappy New Year's Eve. He OWES me an angst-free champagne holiday.

Really, this is where my butthurt was. Anything lingering is just not liking being played, but initially it was about the timing and then realizing that it was all manipulation.

I suspect that there are buffistas still posting* who are not what their pixels claim. But it's the internet. It happens.

* So not an accusation, just that it happens. Everywhere. And we're overwhelmingly awesome but we're not immune.

I suspect that there are buffistas still posting* who are not what their pixels claim.

It's true. For instance (and I apologise for not mentioning it earlier), I am in fact the Fendahl.