You do OK.

I'm assuming she is about convincing women to come out. But either way, it's a strange sexual/gender identity

That's very weird indeed. Especially for a work poster, honestly. I mean, I know a lot of people with kinda odd sexual/gender identities (including someone who identifies as a "gendernaut"), but...probably wouldn't necessarily use those for a POSTER AT WORK. (Also, I find that poster a little odd. I mean, really?? It's nice to know I CAN come out at work, but a poster sponsored by work ENCOURAGING me to?? I'd be like "save the money and give me a bonus instead...seriously...")

Lesbians hardly need to be evangelists, men do fine on their own.

Just came back from a neighborhood Italian restaurant, and I'm still kind of shocked at how far yelp is from reality if you've been to an actual good Italian place. I was in the mood for red sauce Italian, but still. If you ask a waiter what kind of reds they have by the glass, and he rattles off "merlot, cabernet sauvignon, chianti, pinot noir," who confidently chooses from that list? It's just dispiriting.

Juliebird, good for you on choosing the right words. and good for your brother on recognizing them .

and for the record, I don't think anyone has the right to ask me to comeout about anything, unless it directly effects something

There's this poster up at work encouraging coming out at the workplace. It has thumbnail pics of people that did and apparently felt better.

I find that very odd. Especially the photos. I mean, I know that many workplaces have photos of workers who've done things, but aren't they usually work-related?

There's actually a shelf of books in the lunchroom touting coming out at work. I hadn't realised it was a market.

What's the definition of red sauce Italian?

I don't know thing one about wine, but I can tell when a restaurant is talking to my level of savvy.

I have everyblock for my zip code in my RSS feed, so I get to see every time someone yelps a business in my neighbourhood. People are weird, yo.

Traditional American Italian food -- veal parmesan, eggplant parmesan, meatballs, shrimp fra diavolo, things that combine chicken and broccoli. I didn't make it up: [link]

I think most of my Italian familiarity is of the red sauce sort. Except I don't think I eat anything with chicken and broccoli.

I dated a woman who divided Italian restaurants into Red Sauce, White Sauce and Fish.

"What about risotto?" I asked.

"That's different."

As it turns out: lots of regional variation in Italian cooking.

As a general rule of thumb, Northern California tends to have more Northern Italian type food, and the East Coast tends to have more Southern Italian type food.

I had pear-cranberry pie this afternoon! So now I have tasty proof of the existence of pear pie. Which appears to be very filling, as I wasn't really hungry for dinner.