‘You’re sixteen now, it’s legal. You should get a piercing.’ Ah, young, impressionable Emma. I nodded eagerly, imagining myself walking into class the next day with a Madonna piercing (a ‘Madonna’ is a stud above the right side of your lip, where Madonna’s beauty mark is. All of the coolest kids on MySpace had one.[…])

In some surreal and inevitable moment, some jingle-jangle wee hour of morning, they may even have shared billing on the same campus stage: joined harmonics and harmonics, strummed out some plightful version of Musee des Beaux Arts …

Why do we misprioritize when it is self-defeating?

A portion of the fermented paste may be mixed with three parts of water and boiled, resulting in an absit.