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Vanilla needs to be on the menu.
Q I’m a 21-year-old female and I know the my-boyfriend-has-a-diaper-fetish thing has been done to death. But… We’ve been together for two years. When he mustered up the courage to tell me about his fetish, I was supportive even though it did seem odd. To be completely honest, he’s so good looking and such a […]
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Bros before hos
Q My two roommates are in the same frat. Roommate A and his GF have been going out for about a year. Roommate A is a great guy, but maybe a bit too nice: Recently, his GF cheated on him and he forgave her. Her infidelity did not come as a surprise to the rest […]
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Share the bacon…
A Dan! I can’t believe you wrote that response to Hawt And Royally Depressed! He wrote because his wife of 10 years had “let herself go.” Men and women were hitting on him and he had to resort to stoning before he could be with her. And you told this asshole to “be honest with […]
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Alternative astrology
Spend quality time in your personal hell, Cancer, says Rob Brezsny.
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Life free and DIY hard
Kyla Francis Picture Kyla Francis wandering in and out of secondhand stores “like a junkie looking for a fix,” she says. “I love looking for treasure and then finding a fun way to add my own inspiration to it.” She took excess stackable white cups from the Delta Barrington (found on the Agricola Army Navy […]
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Eat, drink and be eco-friendly
Ah, Christmas: “tis the season for conspicuous consumption. Environmental principals begone—let’s go shopping! But baby Jesus wasn’t born so you could make a mess of the planet! From bird-strangling tinsel to garbage bags filled with shiny paper and plastic bows, does waste really need to be a prerequisite for the holidays? Your annual holiday party […]
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No purchase necessary
The fictional day that the Grinch’s heart grew three sizes is one of the most unforgettable fictional days of all—right up there with the day Doc and Marty hopped in the DeLorean, and the day that mayor Peter Kelly sent us all home-baked pie in the mail. After all, that day, our curmudgeonly buddy Mr. […]
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Indoor delights
Top 10 Books by Sue Carter Flinn 28: Stories of AIDS in Africaby Stephanie Nolen (Knopf)If that John Lennon/Yoko Ono Christmas song—”…And what have you done?”—speaks to you, read Stephen Nolen’s book, and buy one for everybody on your list. Comprised of 28 stories—one for every million Africans living with the virus—of ordinary people doing […]
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Plenty of pa rum pum pum pums
Two-thousand of anything is a pretty healthy number: dollars, pairs of mittens, shrunken heads…. But 2,000 Christmas albums is especially impressive. Who knew there were that many out there? “People grow up with these albums—it’s the soundtrack to their childhood Christmas,” says Sean Passmore, referencing his mammoth, 24-year-old assemblage of holiday tunage— and counting. “People […]
