Could have been worse: She could have quoted Neitzsche or Kierkegaard. That would have been disorienting.

That was a real head-scratcher, no doubt about it. WTF?

Here’s the deal: Hotels, B & B’s, Inns, etc (ie any property licensed for transient rental) must comply with specific safety requirements and undergo periodic inspections to insure that they actually comply with those requirements. Random people renting their bedroom to other random people follow only the requirements…

Can't wait!

Meh, the grail was appropriated by Christianity from the cult of Mithras or from Druidical practices. Most of the legends of Merlin nail him as pagan rather than Christian (when he’s not being accused of being flat-out demonic), so the grail legend falls in nicely with that aspect of Merlin’s so-called history. So,…

As an extremely depressed college student I went to see a doctor to get a prescription for anti-depressants, and the doctor (who I had never met before) proceeded to do the usual new client intact stuff, asked me if I believed in gawd. Blink-blink-blink, “I guess so.” He told me that if I truly believed in and prayed…

He’s a recovering addict living in a group home. I’d guess he wouldn't be big on social interaction in strange places, even in an emergency. That behavior sounds about right to me for that situation.

I shared this elsewhere, but it seems appropriate here too...

...and the weeping dog, too. Because the Metairie weeping angel apparently isn’t enough.

Fuck. If I actually felt hungry and thought I could keep it down, I ate it. I think I actively avoided blue cheese just because it seemed like such a flagrantly bad idea (moldy food from other countries), but otherwise the sky was the limit. If anybody ever suggested otherwise, I probably would have eaten them too.

To be fair, I'd guess only the first commenter was an actual customer, the rest were just zombie members of a trollific narco-syndicalist-collective.

As an only child, I take offense at that! Besides, it's obviously middle child behavior.

Aide-memoire:

Yeah, but I’m sure there’d be a loophole in the rules allowing them to job out the actual fighting to somebody else - maybe wearing a mask of the candidate they’re representing? - so billionaire Trump could just hire Jeffrey Dahmer or Hannibal Lecter or somebody way more ruthless to eat Christie. And then they would…

No, it was the Gallier House. Hermann-Grima House is fabulous too, though!

Half Catholic, half Mormon. 100% white.

I think that head is the dictionary definition of the term "pinhead".