My cousin named her son Brighton. It actually seems like a really cute name to me.

Well my mom would never be rude or anything, unlike me. ;p

Some of these comments remind me of the hostile, hand-waving tone my mom would strike when she still smoking. It's amazing how addiction changes people. Ever since she quit 11 years ago, she's like a different person, and she's just as irritated by cigarette smoke as I've always been.

My best friend lives near the building used for the exterior shots in The Office. It's cool visiting and getting my own personalized studio tours.

Awesome.

This is also my experience. I learned to live without it so I never felt the need to get it.

One of my favorite books, man. I wish more people had heard of it.

Thank you so much. This is what the cheerleaders don't get. That excessive force is destabilizing. That's why it's excessive. All that guy had to do was tell them they couldn't be in that area.

It depends. Racehorses will certainly run you a good deal of money up front, but horses taken from public lands can be had for pennies in many cases. A lot of folks end up with horses they can't afford because they were cheap to get and expensive to keep.

Ugh, why can't pithy comments end up at the top? Why must I slog through so much ignorance and self involved fear to get to something that makes me laugh?

Just think of all the beauty and meaning we could be deriving from the universe if fear of not going to heaven weren't keeping parents from letting their children become scientists. If fear of other people creating doubt by asking questions didn't lead to the defunding of NASA.

Just got to this in my reading list. I think I needed a trigger warning. :(

After my surgery, I basically laid in bed for two weeks knocking myself out with half doses of painkillers and reading horror stories like yours.

When I had my bottom wisdom teeth out last year, I had to sign a monster of a waiver that literally absolved the surgeon of responsibility from everything that could possibly go wrong, including death.

Haha, I also got a shoutout on my favorite podcast this week. :D that feels pretty good.

By far it was a Tardis quilt I made for my sister's birthday a couple years ago. I posted a detailed description of the process on Tumblr that got picked up by BBCA's Twitter and Tumblr accounts and shared a couple dozen thousands of times. I've gotten innumerable requests to recreate it, too, but it's a huge expense…

My cats have a tendency to stare in the general direction of the television no matter what's on, but I have noticed that they become rapt (opening their eyes all the way, getting up, bobbing their heads) when the frame remains static as objects move through it.

I totally just started reading Stranger in a Strange Land today, so... cof this is the most appropriate first comment for me to see.

I pretend to punch my cats all the time. I announce, "cat punch!" like a street fighter character and push my fist into their faces in slow motion.

"Which is the less self-righteous city in the world? Rio de Janeiro!
The 14,30% of the population has declared being gay or lesbian."