Seconded. I saw someone wear a “bloody Indira Gandhi” costume to a Halloween party in 1984. (And, no, it wasn’t me.) The unfortunate Mrs. Gandhi had been murdered only a few hours earlier.

Wait a second — Stephen Harper made fun of Justin Trudeau’s hair?

This makes me want to beat my head against the wall. I’ve harped on this before, but my maternal grandparents lost TWO children to childhood diseases — one to pertussis, another to diphtheria. TWO FUCKING DEAD KIDS, plus another one PERMANENTLY disabled by anoxia due to pertussis.

There was a little pizzeria in my old neighborhood (this was in the 1960s) that also sold really good pizza dough. My mother used to buy it there, then roll it out and bake it with homemade pizza sauce. Good stuff, but I doubt too many places do this any more.

It really is too much to expect the Fox News crowd to understand that much about human biology.

Movie theater popcorn, to me, smells like an open camp latrine. The smell makes me gag.

Wow! I once watched someone drink a chocolate chip Molson ale float, but (a) she was 19, (b) we were in college, and (c) she was already somewhat drunk.

Wow! I once watched someone drink a chocolate chip Molson ale float, but (a) she was 19, (b) we were in college, and (c) she was already somewhat drunk. And she made it herself instead of going out and inflicting that order on some long-suffering bartender.

I don’t know what was more bizarre — that they did it, or that they expected the waitstaff to provide grape jelly with their pizza.

I have to admit that the sour cream blondie sounded good. I’ve really enjoyed very sweet desserts with barely- or not-sweet creme fraiche on top. And I like sharp cheddar cheese with sweet pumpkin or banana bread.

Isn’t it weird and obnoxious when people try to tell other people how they should grieve after a loss?

Faces of meth ....

If they’re seriously concerned about the neurological health of babies, they have no business spurning vaccines. Polio causes paralysis. Whooping cough and diphtheria (which used to be called “the strangling angel”), can interfere with breathing badly enough to cause brain injury. Measles can cause encephalitis. And…

I don’t do nicotine in any form, but I don’t have any problems with people who like vaping. Maybe firsthand or secondhand vapor isn’t healthy, but when I’m around cigarette smoke, my eyes water, my nose burns and stuffs up, and I can actually taste the stuff for a few minutes afterwards. My smoker/vaper friends can…

Your unicorn kitty has viceroy wings! Yay!

I see what you did there! :-)

Whoa, that’s one helluva Scolopendra sp.!

I think I knew one of your grandparents!

Somewhere in this apartment, I have a picture of me standing next to a sheet under a blacklight in the Sonora Desert at night, in the company of several dozen fellow antenna-heads.. I have flying insects landing on my clothes and on my face. I think some big moths are flapping in my hair. And I’m wearing the biggest…

I dated this nice guy in college. Stayed together for two years. Like a lot of college relationships, it eventually ran its course. We broke up amicably and stayed friendly, though not at all close.