My daughter contacted me SOBBING. I didn’t see anything on CNN, WaPo, nowhere. At that point only two outlets showed up in my google search that mentioned her passing: the Times and Mother Jones. I am so fucking heartbroken and came here for some sisterhood. 2020 is absolute bullshit.

as someone who survived multiple hurricanes, including rita, do NOT donate to the Red Cross, a fraction of what they get will ever reach folks who need it

This is rehashed every time the game is brought up I know but man I really wish there was a third person option for this. I have the same issue with stealth in first person and in general, have an easier time with perception in 3rd. I absolutely love everything I’m seeing about this, and if it even hits 1/100th of the…

I feel like your rating is in favour of newer games because they’ve still got that fresh feel to them. You even spoke really highly of AC1 right until you started comparing it to things that iterated upon it, and I feel like you lost the point right then. If I were to rate them based sheerly on just how good the game…

I’m better off not knowing things sometimes.

Plus, if you have jerks like mine, they'll dig all the way to the bottom of 80 pounds of litter to scratch up the bottom. The plastic liner will become plastic confetti - and my dumb cats would eat the plastic.

I have five cats, and this is the best litter scoop I have found to date. It’s light but solid, with a well-designed handle and scoop that let me pick up huge chunks without discomfort, and narrow slits that capture smaller pieces. The best feature though is the nonstick surface. Wet clumps that usually stick to…

That guitar solo... My heart.

Way overdue Wendy Melvoin moment but glad it came.

Honestly it sounds like Carol’s first husband at best died from a plane crash and at worst was killed in by Costa Rican Mob whom, as the documentary seems to gloss over for some reason, he had ties to.

I didn’t come out with an ounce of sympathy for Joe Exotic. I don’t for a second think he was the “best” of them. He pumped two young guys who weren’t actually sexually attracted to him full of drugs to get them in his bed. He almost certainly blew up his “studio.” He conned and bankrupted his own mother and then…

Thanks for the explanation about the “feeding lockout cages”. I figured there was bound to be some explanation, because it seemed totally nuts that she would be allowed to keep them in cages that small without massive backlash.

I run over to my bookshelf, offering cooing soothing words, “Don’t worry, I’ll never let this happen to you.” I say to my screaming, crying books.

I disagree. They hold memories and feelings and beauty just the same as any other work of art. I can look at the painting my kids made for me and evoke feelings of pride and love just the same as I can look at say the Narnia omnibus and be filled with the same feelings of joy and longing I had when I last read the…

I’m definitely sending this to all my library-worker friends, so I can watch them go all Fred Sanford.

If you have the skills to go ahead and rebind that book after you’re done with it then sure. Whatever. knock your socks off, but for the other 99% of the population Wow. No.

Because paper was the sole repository of texts in the past, people learned to fetishize paper. This was probably a good thing.

As someone on YouTube put it last night, “he’s your favorite drummer’s favorite drummer”

One of my favorite drunken conversation starters is to ask “Would RUSH have been more popular if, with nothing else changing (that is, Alex and Geddy still wrote all the music and Neil the lyrics), they had a more talented singer fronting the band.