I don’t know if this is still true, but I had a friend in college from Chicago who used to warn us that Playboy insignia had been adopted by a certain notorious gang, and if you weren’t affiliated with that gang you should avoid it. I think it was the Vice Lords IIRC.

Not much of a surprise, then? I’ll have to look into that.

A friend had a blind cat, and I don’t think I would have realized he was blind if she hadn’t told me — he ran around and played with her other cat as if he didn’t have an impairment.

Can we talk about Charlie Tuna’s death wish? He’s been around ever since my childhood, and ever since I was a little one I have wondered: what the hell is wrong with this fish? Why is he so desperate to be accepted by an institution that makes no secret of what it does to his kind?

Hair color is OK but too matchy-matchy with her sweater, which looks weird. As for the food, maybe it’s a deconstructed wrap of some kind — an unwrap?

I often think about this, decades later. The public high school I went to was fairly decent at the time — a few people from the honors/AP set went on to places like Harvard, Yale and MIT — and some of the teachers were quite good, even if their methods consisted of generating pages and pages of notes. Lately I am…

It’s the dismissive way he said it that disturbs me. What’s a killing, or two, or thousand between friends?

It doesn’t hurt the snails to collect their slime, I hope?

I love that words like “lewd” and “deplorable” are getting some play these days, even if the things they apply to are pretty foul.

I am reminded of a sad but catty before/after photo-feature in some magazine titled “Sunken Dreamboats.” I don’t think he’d earned that title yet but I distinctly remember Mickey Rourke and Val Kilmer among them.

You think “they” hated “us” before all this.

That was how we dealt with this issue when I was her age. You’re also not forcing her into wearing anything she doesn’t like.

дурак

Let her pick out a few things that she likes, possibly without you, and then you review them and “curate” the selection.

Why did I want to leave Istanbul again? Oh, that’s right. Fark etmez.

I meant generally, and not in this case, but I didn’t add it.

There are some situations where you can’t reply otherwise without being unnecessarily super rude, so ‘wa alekum salam’ to you too. (I am often tempted to add “ya-habibi” after that)

That, and she has to give up drinking because alcohol is haraam.

Seriously I didn’t recognize her without it.

That’s what I mean. I am not yet a true cat lady — I am still catless as I believe that that’s a bigger commitment than getting married.