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West Hollywood is a famous gayborhood. It doesn't seem unreasonable that a house like that in WEHO would go on the market for 2 mil.

I've never made it, and whenever it turns up it just always seems bland and gloppy.

Standard holiday fare at out house when I was a kid. My father always made it for Thanksgiving and Christmas - no other time. We loved it. A few years ago, I wondered if people would like it and took it to a Thanksgiving potluck. Instead of mayo, I made a blue cheese dressing for it and added green grapes. Reaction was mixed. Most really liked it. Some obviously didn't like it at all. I wasn't surprised by the people who didn't like it - distinctly meat-and-potatoes types.

Right. Since you didn't know there was even such a thing as gay men, it is doubtful it would have even occurred to you to look in the dictionary for an alternate meaning for the word "gay." You didn't know what you didn't know.

Well, no, it woudn't have. It wasn't in general use then, but it was used by gay men to describe themselves.

You're not THAT old. The expression has been in use at least since the 50s.

The massage scene has changed so much that you never know what you're going to get, no matter what you pay for. I 've gotten so that I always book a therapeutic massage and if it turns into more, great. If it doesn't, then at least I got what I paid for.

When I started my own practice, I considered doing contract work for the firm that handled most of the business for one of the prepaid legal plans. I searched yelp reviews of this firm and found one bad review after another, most of them from subscribers to this particular plan.

I had a taste of a 1948 Gattinara that retailed for several hundred dollars a bottle.

I like tattoos on men because even as a small boy, I found them very erotic. I would get little-boy boners over tattooed men.

I like it all. Especially fond of bearded men, though.

I read her first novel "surfacing" as an assignment for a class in existential literature in college. Found it really lame. I was surprised at what a good author she became.

Not the best time of year to start a hike on the Appalachian Trail.

I've never had much success with them, either taking them or feeding them

If you had thought of some of the foreign words for "news," it might have cleared up your confusion: les nouvelles in French, die Nachrichten in German, etc

I used a walker after both of my spine surgeries. It seems like the PT fitted it. They were just average walkers with rubber feet. I also had crutches, but I can't remember how it all worked with the crutches and the walker.

I was under the impression that the learning curve was fairly steep.

OTOH, maybe it's a literary device.

Yet another I don't travel by air unless I just can't avoid it. I'm really lucky to live in one of the world's more desirable places so I dont feel a strong need to get away from it very much.

Wasn't the emphasis on surrogacy intentional? Everyone living a fake, virtualized existence?

I love the sound of Mandarin spoken by western non-native speakers. It makes me want to run out and sign up for a class in Mandarin.

The world very often isn't the you way you would have thought it should be.

What was the point of your story? Living in San Francisco, with such a large population of foreign-born Chinese, one learns to roll with cultural differences. If you weren't able to do that, it would be a difficult place to live. There are plenty of rude, bad-mannered American small business owners.

As is most international diplomacy.

Of course it is. I'm a lawyer, so I'm in the habit of using weasel words.