Kleptocrabsurdity

Is Mitski’s Be the Cowboy a reworking of Mitsou’s classic Bye Bye Mon Cowboy? Did Mitski not realize the very niche Canadian jokes that would be made by Canadians who translated Bye Bye Mon Cowboy in French class in the late 80s/early 90s?

Miniature horses are less allergiffic than dogs? Not to me! Unless mini horses are significantly different than regular horses with the allergens. If I was stuck on a plane with a horse I’d be wheezing and sneezing non-stop the entire flight! And then I’d fall asleep from the anoxia. Cats also give me the same issues,…

I only now realized that he wasn’t Ben Stein. Because I don’t watch American news so how am I supposed to tell virulently right-wing Ben S’s apart?

They also shrink when washed and tossed in the dryer, and they get caught on EVERYTHING! Buttons, doors, the person next to you...

The Ravenmaster at the Tower of London is also on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ravenmaster1

Calpurnia (my parent’s cat before I was born, so named because their best friends’ cat was Caesar).

I found the nameplate article really interesting, because when I was a kid in the 1980s those nameplate necklaces were a staple of every tourist spot from Toronto to the southern tip of Florida. Every place we went there was someone cutting custom nameplate necklaces next to someone making lampworked glass animals.…

It’s on Netflix in Canada. I made it halfway through, when it just got too anxiety-provoking. Seriously all the chaos was just too much for me

Adult tone? Considering the amount of effort that parents put into stopping their kids from swearing, doesn’t that make swearing, by default, adult? (I say this as someone who doesn’t swear much, but appreciates the way it can be used to emphasize a point, as in the question ‘What’s your fucking deal, Jesse Singal?’

It is obviously a tardigrade

Wait, what’s this about Elizabeth Moon?

He tries to, and she knocks him unconscious. He was genuinely perplexed that she *didn’t* want to have sex. But there is some indication that one of the other characters gets Kris drunk in order to have sex with her.

I make stitched paper historic clothing (flat, to hang on your wall as art, not 3-D. https://www.instagram.com/judithpudden/, if you’re interested), so I’ve ended up following all sorts of costume historians and historic costumers. There are some truly amazing artisans; @walking_through_history is epic. And I really…

One of the criticisms of the Hunger Games casting was that it took a character that implicitly not-white and turned her into Jennifer Lawrence: https://jezebel.com/5781682/the-imminent-whitewashing-of-the-hunger-games-heroine

This happens to Americans a lot. The confusion, I mean. Because Kinder Surprise Eggs are illegal in the USA, and so very few people there have any real-life experience with them.

Demi is totally thinking “Dammit, I invite her to this thing and SHE HAS BETTER HAIR THAN ME!” Because those are some Duchess Kate-level Shinylocks.

Also Taika Waititi, and he’s currently got a HUGE movie out!

I have Bright Eyes Christmas record, and it’s all dirge-like versions of Christmas songs, and therefore awesome. It’s one of only two Christmas records I will listen to (the other is Roger Whittaker)

Does anyone else find it hilarious and wonderful that they included the hall tree seen in the background of the famous picture of Margaret Hamilton with her stack of code? That is some ace attention to detail