I feel you all over. My cat passed away last week and everything about the world is wrong. (I had my morning cry about it when Grumpy Cat met Lil Bub).

Also, holy crud, but I just realized that his campaign slogan is "El CandiGato", which may be the greatest thing I have ever heard.

“I’m pro-cat, but this is absurd.”

Now I'm wondering if they made the shirts for the pillow, or if they just have a warehouse full of single shirt sleeves hanging around somewhere.

This makes me think of my poor baby 15 year old cat who passed away last week, who was easily the sweetest cat ever.

I would lose SO MUCH SHIT in that mattress.

Nope.

For the *ahem* abridged version

Gah. I remember this. I didn't really watch after Buu either.

Well, in my situation, I am perfectly capable of paying for my own dinner, and of paying for my date's dinner if I want to. So if a guy refused to let me pay ever, or refused to believe that I was capable of paying, then that would be a red flag. It wouldn't be a courtesy to my financial status, it would be…

I think that is true. When I was 15, we went on a trip to Japan, and one of the places we stopped at is the Hiroshima Peace Memorial museum. It is one thing to hear that all those people died in those bombings, but it is a completely different thing to stand next to a shadow on a wall that used to be a person, while…

I'm not a big fan of Chivalry in general - I AM a big fan of respect and politeness, but Chivalry takes being respectful and polite and then piles on a whole bunch of extra gendered assumptions and codes.

I am with you on that one - First dates are one thing, but if a guy never ever let me pay it would be a red flag for me. It would be a signal that he was more interested in preserving strict gender roles (and a position of power) in in the relationship than the actual relationship.

Oh god, is that picture going to move, because I am going to freak out if it does.

No - supposedly you can only use one $10 card per in-store transaction, which I assume they will also enforce online (Most places I know will only let you use one promo code per transaction).

I think the magic thing is a symptom of a deeper problem with fantasy movies - which is, they fail to establish a world in which magic exists, or where you can believe that magic exists.

This is not such a bad strategy for such a visible product - because if you have it and you are using it, you will also be seen to have it and to be using it.

Yeah.

... Yeah I'm with you on that one, since I was about that age too. Lucky for me, Ursula is my middle name, not my first, but when that movie came out I was reeeeaaaally upset about it. For a while I told people I didn't have a middle name. I feel for you.

Yeah, I like that a lot too - There is so much junk you have to keep around that is just plain unattractive to have out. Or would take way too much effort to make attractive.