This is me giving you all the stars right now. Thank you for this awesome response!

Many American public libraries put sturdy bookbindings on magazines and put them in what we call ‘bound periodical collections.’ They can’t always be found in the online catalog so you might have to ask the librarian about them. San Francisco Public Library has everything from Ebony Jr! to On Our Backs. They aren’t…

You get a star even though I had no idea what you were talking about until I googled.

Yeah I could figure that out from context, but it seemed like a slightly weird choice — it is obviously an industry term, and this was written for a general audience. Like, if you came into my library and asked how long you could check out a video game, I wouldn’t say the realia loan rule is 3 weeks because ‘realia’…

In a profile published by New York Magazine’s culture vertical Vulture 

Ugh stop telling the world about oxtails! They used to be the cheapest possible cut of meat at the grocery store, and I cooked them in an old-fashioned jiggle-top pressure cooker. Now as the old cheap/weird cuts of meat are constantly being ‘discovered’ by food hipsters, they become expensive. Oxtails are bad and will…

Look — I can either keep myself occupied by stacking plates, or I can give in to the urge to stand up, flip the table, and scream “I AM DONE EATING AND NOW SOCIAL ANXIETY HAS TAKEN OVER MY BRAIN I DON’T WANT TO BE HERE ANYMORE AAAAAUGHHHH!!!”

Your choice.

Crazy Lady Known For Saying Crazy Shit For The Past 40 Years Says Some Crazy Shit — stop the presses!

It is fascinating to see all the male regulars around here posting that Pompeo is terribly gauche for hurting Dunaways feelings. So many knights in shining armor saving women from themselves! I mean don’t get me wrong, that comment probably stung Dunaway like a motherfucker, but it isn’t Pompeo who took the money out…

Wasn’t it just October when Jez ran that series of stories in conjunction with Rise Magazine, all about the despicable Child Welfare System and the misguided do-gooders who call CPS, which then cruelly forces those parents to temporarily relinquish custody of their children?

I keep trying to kick my young teen out of the house to go get up to no good where I can’t find her. But she and her small circle of friends continue to be well behaved homebodies who play on their phones and draw. It is like I live in a Twilight Zone episode and the twist ending hasn’t kicked in yet.

Kerfluffle is bullshit and kerfuffle is perfect and now I hate you.

How does sharing my love of editing imply that I never make mistakes? I am a mediocre speller and a pretty terrible generator of homophones while typing — but I edit like a motherfucker.

Are you a librarian? You should be a librarian. This is exactly how our conversations go, and we all just accept it and expect it from one another.

Please edit this before I make a cruel joke about how the incorrect use of an apostrophe in the plural speaks to the quality of your Greek system education.

Yeah, it is horrible. A bunch of frat guys forced this pledge kid to drink an insane amount of liquor, and he fell down the stairs and smashed his head. Instead of taking him to the hospital they put him on the couch, and he would slowly try to crawl to the door and they would pick him up, punch him, put him back on…

Straight-up thought this was going to be a Black Swan parody on Funny or Die.

Whoa, wait a minute — I hate the Greek System and wish they would all get litigated out of existence, but the hammer came down on this case because there was a death. Just like the 10+ white frat bro assholes who have been charged in the death of a pledge at Penn State.

Wait, are you under the impression that the Chappaquiddick bridge crosses the ocean?

I know eggnog is slimy and disgusting and yet I love it.