Man, the late 80's/early 90's were great for gloriously cheesy vampires! The Hunger, The Lost Boys, Forever Knight, Interview. Decadently, wonderfully overwrought. No wonder teen me was completely into them.

Legal expert Glenn Kirschner has been calling the GOP handling of the pandemic (both federal and state) NEGLIGENT GENOCIDE, but I think at this point it’s just straight-up MASS MURDER, because they're quite specifically cognizant of what they're doing to engineer all the inevitable death.

Wouldn’t be surprised. Heard more than a few are moving Covid patients out of hospitals to elderly care facilities so they don’t have to count them as ‘official’ Covid deaths but could pin them in a grey area of ‘possibly related’.

PSA for almost every single employee: your company is not a ‘family,’ even if management likes to say that it is, and they won’t treat you as such when the chips are down. I tell this to my younger team members when necessary: the company looks out for itself, and you should look out for yourself. This isn’t bad, it…

Oh look, I have something in common with Grimes’ mom!

Sorry for losing your friend to the dark side of the force, but +1 for the cornfield reference.

You had me until ““soft” pet issues like childcare or reading or hunger.” These aren’t soft issues, 20% of all children in America live below the poverty line, which is $17k for a family of 2. Similarly 1 in 4 kids grow up not knowing how to read. 85% of all juveniles who interface with the justice system are…

I eyeroll Kate’s popularity because she’s the epitome of the “ideal” woman: white, non-threatening, no complaints, no opinions, no controversy, sticking to the pre-approved talking points, never showing off intelligence, never speaking up, always being nice, never going off script, always compliant with what TPTB ask,…

I’m convinced that’s a shot from Madame Tussaud’s. If that’s really how stiff she looks, then I suppose Jared isn’t the most haunted doll in Trump’s inner sanctum.

Yes, that’s it! I was trying to figure that out.

It’s hard to believe in a God that would let this administration happen, but maybe I’m doing this religion thing wrong.

Don’t forget Mario Batali, Guy Fiere, Wolfgang puck, or Robert Irvine. And why the Asian ones and not Paula Dean or Rachel Ray or Martha?

I fucking LOVE my giant cast iron I got from Cravings at Target. Seriously, I use that damned thing every day and I got it on some wild sale (so, under $20!). I’ve had it for months and months and it is still chugging along great, despite me not properly taking care of any cast iron thing any time. It tolerates my…

Marie Kondo changed my life. That is all. 

I am thinking back on Gaiman’s work and largely being baffled at these constant references to steampunk.

American Gods isn’t steampunk. Neither is Neverwhere, The Sandman, his good or bad episodes of Doctor Who, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Good Omens, Anasi Boys, Coraline, The Graveyard Book, Norse Mythology,…

1) Thank fuck

It must have been a living hell for Neil to share quarantine with Amanda and a 4-year-old. One of them would be running up and down the halls screaming “LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME! PAY ATTENTION TO ME!” all day long, and the other one is a 4-year-old.

Man, I hope not. I have had several really lovely interactions with him both during fan events and random encounters in public and he seemed just like a quiet introvert. I was in school for writing at the time and had a fair share of interactions with the type of male writers you’re talking about-- the publishing…

Be right back, using up a Cards Against Humanity blank for “Theater Kid Turned Steampunk Cosplayer.”

Palimpsest and haberdashery are entirely cromulent words and I will not have them so scurrilously impugned.