This isn’t sleep paralysis, but your story made me think of my worst dream/tv interaction. I lived in a studio apartment in NYC by myself in law school, and I slept with the tv on, muted, because I am occasionally afraid of the dark when I’m alone and I have nightmares. I had a terrible nightmare one night, and as I…

When I was a teenager I had a series of dream/sleep paralysis combos where I would be in my bedroom and something weird would happen, and I would suddenly be filled with the knowledge that I was pure evil (incarnate, maybe? I feel like there was another word - it manifested as a sentence in my head). I would try to do…

The giggling makes me wonder if he was high as shit? Which, note, is still messed up - you’d have to be an asshole to break out the good weed if you’re taking care of a bunch of other people’s kids, but giggling, crawling - it just sounds so high.

Gallery Place and Columbia Heights? And it’s weird at Columbia Heights because sometimes (before one of the two exits was closed for renovation) it’s Hebrew Israelites at one exit and Jehovah’s Witnesses at the other.

Saladin was a friend of mine (I mean, we were friends in grad school and just haven’t been in touch in a long time) - his Twitter is a mess right now, and if you want to head on over and flag some of the insanely racist threatening shit he’s getting, that would be a nice thing. He’s a great guy.

I want to bring you along to parties. :)

Yes, yes. W seems like, on a very personal level, he is a nice person. He is literally the guy with whom you could have a beer that they made him out to be. Hell, Michelle Obama appears to like him sincerely, and there is plenty of photographic evidence where you can tell that she doesn’t like someone (Boehner).

Formerly headed by (and has not gotten better since) professional terrible person Erick Erickson.

I think a lot of people don’t realize how genetic t2 can be. My husband is in the military, so he has to keep in shape for his position - he has a sweet tooth, but nothing drastic, and we don’t keep junk food around, but he is borderline for t2. His mother is the same, and she’s a tiny 100-lb lady who definitely does…

I can’t imagine going up to someone with cancer or MS or asthma and telling them how to fix it.

When your nationalism = white supremacy dog whistle is broken

I’ll repeat my answer to The Armdancer, since I’m grey and it’s quite possible you’ll never see it.

Don’t reach out to people with whom you are not currently friends and apologize to them for shit that women spend a lot of energy trying to put behind them. That kind of gesture, no matter your intention, comes off more as trying to make yourself feel better than anything for her (your reference to “uncomfortable with…

It was during a “guest hosting” period, but she guested for a decent chunk of time (like, less, than a year, but multiple weeks, I think?).

Emmylou Harris is pretty wonderful, too, and I don’t even like country music.

Haha, I was thinking of that section of Christmas lights while I was reading this. I didn’t notice the fall stuff so much, but was pretty pleased that they acknowledge that Halloween is still 8 days away and thus still relevant.

I remember hearing so much about what Besh was doing in New Orleans post-Katrina, and I’d liked him when he was on the “Next Iron Chef” competition (I think he was first season, and who I wanted to win) - scrolling past the headline and seeing him definitely elicited disappointment from me.

I <3 my security system. I got it after my mom (who lives with my dad in our “English basement” in-law apartment) awoke to the sight of someone bending down and peering into their ground-level window in the front of the apartment. I was a basket case between that night and finally getting the alarm installed.

Glowing red dots - night-vision goggles, maybe?

I keep remembering a million years ago when Cindy Crawford briefly hosted “Later,” the third NBC late-night show (after Bob Costas left it but before Carson Daly joined) - it was mid-90s, after Goldblum and Davis divorced (and after Crawford and Richard Gere divorced). Jeff Goldblum was the guest one evening, and I…