“She comes back to tell me she’s gone. As if I didn’t know that, as if I didn’t know my own bed. As if I never noticed the way she brushed her hair from her forehead.” from Graceland. It’s such a small and seemingly insignificant thing, but really beautiful and devastating.  

This one is probably related to one of MY favorite weird NFL stats:

You should try dancing - it’s fun, and it turns out nobody else gives a shit what you look like when you’re doing it.  

I was just talking with a friend about how the best writing tells you something about yourself you didn’t know before but is completely true... Holy shit, I love warm-ups!

This goes well Beyond Thunderdome.  

A long discussion of the best state mottoes, and no mention of Virginia?

Oh, that happened already. They got absolutely annihilated by the three fats and a skinny from Canada. They had no match answer for the speed.

Agreed. Although an autopsy by the state medical examiner would include significantly more substances than a standard drug screen, K2 is an umbrella term for hundred of substances. It’s often sold legally at gas stations, etc, because of legal whac-a-mole, where one specific chemical gets banned then it’s on to the…

Sure! You said that you suspect, or “believe” if you will, that she is telling the truth. Credible means “able to be believed.”

You keep using the word credible. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Follow up question - are you joking or just lying to make him feel better? Having two kids sucks at first.

Dad, is that you?

When I was a kid my parents told me that the pipes from the toilet went to a separate place from the pipes from the shower, and I didn’t realize they were lying until I bought my house.

Tie my lifeless body to James Dolan’s ankles in the middle of the Atlantic so I can take him on a Straight Shot to hell.

To save anyone else who’s never seen this before the time of looking up the rules, here’s what I found:

5150 is a fantastic album. Come at me, bro!

You know, I used to think that too, but it turns out that they rule.

I had one line in my kindergarten play (a romp through the solar system filled with facts about the planets, spaceships, and astronauts) in the spring of 1986: “We dedicate this play to Christa McAuliffe, who encouraged all children to reach for the sky.”

It’s hard to be humble when you’re stunting on the JumboTron.

“We understand that some people who are not familiar with our bonfire tradition could mis fairly interpret photos or videos they may have seen on social media due to the current charged social and political climate in the context of centuries of racially motivated violence in our state and around the nation.”