Me: Yes, yes, we'd all just discovered mousse. A very exciting time. Quite calling it a hairdude.

Ha!

Wait, I used mousse too. Now I wonder if I was using enough for Matilda to call it a hairdude.

Yes. We are terribly old. It is very sad. But we are still managing to straggle up to our keyboards so all is well. We are why I get all in a snit about people who disparage internet communities. We have been together through birth and death and marriages and divorces and illness and good fortune. It is not fake people! This is not a fake relationship. I have known you over a decade, as opposed to internet disparagers whom I have only known the merest smidgen of time. Harumph.

This was pretty beautiful.

Glad for good interview, smonster.

Contrary to my impression, it's not an automatic transfer to NOLA. But the org is expanding and there seems to be a lot of mobility, so I could make it happen. A friend of mine with a MAC is going to help me with budgety stuff this weekend.

Am at current job. Have not been laid off yet. There's been no announcement of the layoffs I heard about yesterday.

I have a slightly random request--does anyone have a link to a picture of Kim and Kelly Manners? Google is giving me no love.

Thanks to Christine O'Donnell, wanking is in the news! (Wait, does "wanking" apply to women too?)

Hot-button political issue: Solo sex

Craig Gross, pastor of XXXchurch, an online ministry that deals with pornography and sexual addiction, was talking masturbation earlier this week with legendary porn star Ron Jeremy at a debate at Sonoma State University in California.

"It's just so foreign to people to hear, 'Hey, don't masturbate,'" Gross said. "But if you have lust in your eyes, you've committed adultery in your heart."

To encourage people to talk about "the 'M' word," Gross started "Operation: Save the Kittens," encouraging his followers to spread the word that, "Every time you masturbate – God kills a kitten!"

The XXXchurch Web site poses the question, "Does God really kill kittens?" The answer: "You would have to talk to Bible scholars about that, but we don't think he does. It's just a great way to think about this issue in a non-threatening way."

It's just a great way to think about this issue in a non-threatening way."

I imagine the kittens would feel differently!

Yeah, I left off the last sentence:

Non-threatening unless, of course, you're a kitten. Or a person who masturbates.

Sometimes I wish Pearl could talk, so she could comment on this sort of thing.

"Every time you masturbate – God kills a kitten!"

I'd like to see the Biblical basis for this. In my translation, there were no kittens.

Timelies!

Nilly sighting!

ETA: Whoa! There were several sentences after this that just disappeared for utterly mysterious reasons!