OK, but why the fuck do the rest of us have to be held hostage to the “authentic New York experience” bullshit? No pickle? I live in a largeish city famous for its food, but we’re also being pared down to elegant curls of vegetable matter rather than yummy sides. Suck it up, New York, and leave the rest of us out of…

WTF with all this fancy restaurants shouldn’t serve chips bullshit? Where exactly does one go for lunch that DOESN'T serve sammiches? They may be plebian farmer food, but they're portable deliciousness on a plate. With chips, damnit! Asshat snots. (not you guys, obviously)

A demonstration:

“I forgot.” Holy crap. Pre-parenthood this would have horrified me, now I completely understand. I drove my daughter in a giant pointless circle today on the way to a play date, for reasons I can’t explain. I got on the interstate heading the wrong direction because it was the easiest on-ramp to get to, then when I…

He & I went to the same gym when he lived in New Orleans. It was REALLY hard to concentrate when he was in the house. That man is HOT.

That’s OK, it’s no worse than the Pythons with Graham Chapman...

He didn’t read it, which is fine. The only author I know of who can get away with that is Neil Gaiman.

I was gonna say, I thought his last adult novel was Mr. B Gone from 2007. Glad I'm not completely nuts.

Kind of like King's Rose Madder was after the release of Weaveworld? :)

I recently bought the audio version of Weaveworld just for the pleasure of hearing it read aloud, as my very favorite of his novels, and was left kind of dumbfounded by the new introduction Barker wrote for the book's anniversary edition (30th?). It’s full of lots of grumpiness about how unattainable any kind of…

My daughter and I too. “I love you as big as the world,” “Well I love YOU as big as the universe.” “Well, I love you as big as the universe and to infinity,” etc. This was the book that always got me right in the feels when she was still little enough to be read to:

In my experience dealing with the same thing, it is 100% hoping to pay less child support. Also, nothing against the child, but who the hell names a musician’s child “Royalty” and doesn’t immediately think about money? If the mother named her, then maybe the dipshit could have seen the writing on the wall, and if the…

Ditto, but mine was the touch screen. They took it to fix and gave it back to me worse, then told me it was water damaged so it wasn't their problem (I live in South Louisiana - show me something that ISN'T water damaged). "I'm so sorry but there's nothing we can do, even though it's warranty. Why don't you take a…

Thank you! That makes much more sense!

"If convicted, Jorgensen could serve five to 10 years in state prison on the luring charge and up to 18 months on the criminal sexual contact charge."

Thanks! But now I can't star you... :(

I prefer Restaurant at the End of the Universe’s take on the management class:

I saw the headline and thought she had died! Holy crap, I think my heart just stopped for the amount of time it took me to read that article. Thank goodness it was short! Whew!

Yes, when I started getting three paragraph long responses citing more statistics than my graduate students use in their research, to my two sentence take on the issue, I stopped responding.

I would star you, but Kinja will only let me star people who already have stars. Don’t ask, I don’t know. Anyhow, here are many stars for you, as this is the most intelligent thing I’ve heard anyone say in a long time about the difference between labor and everybody else.