I disagreed with Baltimore's place on that map for cultural reasons. I know it was numbers-wise, but B'more metro is more culturally identified with DCVA than to the north.

I'm tired. One of the stupid recurrent cystic zits that sits right on a nerve that gives me headaches is workin' it. HOWEVER, I got another locker room compliment on my legs. Which, odd, but I'll take it.

And after a couple of weeks it's all fermented & bubbly, but I'm still eating it. Is this going to kill me?

I think you'll live, but it might give you a grumbly tummy.

sj, I wasn't talking about

About the fact that she killed the Initiative woman? That didn't surprise me much either, but I love when she said "I'll go first."

FRIV!!

But I'm no role model in this regard. I have clearly designated "oh, nothing practical" spends from just about every "unexpected" bounty. And who the hell really has unexpected bounty? Not me.

Here are three classes of people Acura thinks are too unreliable to advise you about your next car:

• spray tanners
• mix tape makers
• re-enactors

Damn, man. When I tell people that there are loads and loads of people who can't tell Star Wars from Star Trek and may know who Chewbacca is if you tell them, but will never think of him themselves...but no--apparently everybody is totally up to date with basic comic and sci fi background, and that's just so not true. Not only is this stuff not important, it's remarkably accepted that thinking it's important is dodgy.

Consuela, nah, but I hate it when that happens and I don't eat it because I don't like the... fermented and bubbly.

Cheese, you can always carve the mold off. But then, the cheese rarely lasts long enough in my 'hood, with our wine nights. Someone always makes sure to have the carmelized onion cheddar, the spanish goat-sheep-cow one with the port rind, a fruited stilton..and usually one other new-to-us.

Olivia's swimsuit for doing furious laps on Scandal would make her bobbly bits hurt the way she was swimming.

huh, so fb is crapping out.

Yeah, it's being pretty flaky.

That reminds me, I have some Roaring Forties in the fridge that's almost 2 months old. I need to get some crackers and eat it before it grows its own appendages and escapes.

Suela, are you mad? Moldy rice in a tube!

Jessica, if you are still looking for examples of spontaneous speeches the engender compassion, there's the one RFK did on the day King was shot. I can't remember where he was, on the stump, but he was in a predominently Black area and gave a very emotional speech about not giving into the anger that was causing riots in other cities. Whatever city it was didn't have the unrest that happened at other places because of his appeal.