AdamSmith

Well, legalize sex work. ...But then, ah, rational social policy. Not always the strongest suit of our Shining City on a Hill.

Just so. As you say: Food? Nicotine? Also: Other drugs? At-risk sex? Violence (to others or to self)? ...Has always seemed to me a stroke of psychological genius that somebody thought to lump together the particular vices overseen by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

That was based on field work. But the FBI lab in Quantico, VA has yet to complete its investigations. I know some folks who work there; they are among the best forensic scientists anywhere. We'll see what, if anything, they find.

Lara Parker's (Angelique) reminiscence... http://laraparkersite.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/jonathan-frid.html?m=1 And from Kathryn Leigh Scott (Maggie Evans)... http://www.kathrynleighscott.com/?p=2190

Dick Gephardt remarked that GWB was not unintelligent, just "the most un-curious person I ever met." ...maybe even a bit more charitable than what James Baker III answered when asked if GWB had any core beliefs: "Yes -- God and exercise."

One suspects GWB would be the bottom. Remember Condi's hint about the presidential endowment...

That would place my doctor in the vicinity of Alpha Centauri.

What is the Pope doing on here?!

Warm reflections on Frid and Dark Shadows by William J. Mann... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/william-j-mann/jonathan-frid_b_1438196.html

FourAces, we may be agreeing with each other? Your post about it def being Photoshopped made me think: did AK find it amusing to engineer the "leak" of this whole string of photos? First the tease poses, then the (faked) reveal shot, then the "whoops" modesty-towel pics. Too many cute coincidences in that visual narrative.

Back to the pix for a moment. Given the coy choreography of the whole series -- could it be that we've been punked?

I confess I had never before conceived of this as a paraphilia. But count me in!

Pity. Frid so wanted to see the new movie. He seemed spry as ever at the DS Festival last August. RIP

Charlie, your riff on La Fiorina is dead-on. She was a hard-charging (as the bidness writers say especially of women) Lucent sales exec who was Peter Principled to the max when she was hired to run HP. She was much more than just a scapegoat for how it lost its way in several regards under her. During a good bit of her tenure, half of all HP's profits came from -- ready? -- toner cartridges. Nice work if you can get it. But then there is this thing called the future. As for the pile of cash she squandered buying Compaq, the only beneficiaries I know of were her and Compaq CEO Mike Capellas, both of whom received handsome "completion bonuses" for getting the deal done. And so on and so forth and so on.

"Center around" is as annoying, and as ubiquitous, as the misuse of "comprise" for "compose" and vice versa. Even many periodicals that supposedly employ copy editors seem rife with that gaffe.

...Declare their online characters as gay, that is. The Guardian has its usual rip-roaring snortle over the resulting rightist uproar... http://m.guardian.co.uk/ms/p/gnm/op/sikswNibDWduuj41C1_S3Xg/view.m?id=15&gid=commentisfree/2012/apr/15/charlie-brooker-gay-video-game&cat=most-read

That was the joke. Such as it was.

Electrifying. Hair-raising. Conducive.

Schlumberger is headquartered in the Netherlands Antilles. ... Just a random observation.

NP! Cf. your "twink sandwich" observation some time back. Who (not "whom" ) do ye think was in the middle? P.S. Hitoallusa, you're invited too! ... Choose your position carefully; this is becoming a club sandwich.

Think I saw one on the waterfront in Laguna Beach, back in 2008. But no recall of name or where. Try Googling; it's the kind of merchandise that is so appealing and enjoyable to see in person that there are bound to be some physical stores left.

P.S. We will not speak of that stillbirth known as The Chicago Manual of Style.

Actually I jumped Charlie. Care to join me?

Likewise. In high school editing the newspaper, then in several jobs editing others' writing, I have followed a hodgepodge of the style books of AP, NYT and WSJ (and sometimes, for archness and just plain fun, The Economist). But my prime directive has always been: does it sound right? E.g., Richard Lederer points out that "don't split the participle" is a rule from Latin, where it makes sense, that got dragged into English for no good reason. I was glad to read that, as I had detested that rule forever, and had been ignoring it ever since I could get away with it.

Madam, that is the sort of thing up with which I will not put. "Proper English lovers" is ambiguous but not technically erroneous, surely? A hyphen between "proper" and "English" would remove the ambiguity but then we would have to answer to Fowler's well considered diatribe against all but the most essential use of what he termed that "regrettable necessity."