“Getting better jobs” means getting more education or changing careers—which means goo-gobs of money. I’m working on getting certified as a medical coder, and that is going to run me a good $5,000—a chunk of change when you are on disability and freelancing. If it weren’t for help from my mom, I’d be in the soup.

Urgh. There is nothing more infuriating than getting scapegoated by family members, striking back—and then having the family “peacemakers” say you’re the one causing trouble and should make nice for disturbing everyone. Ask your mother straight-up if she’s cool with your husband dying and you being in unpayable debt.…

Wal-Mart doesn’t want cops? Why?

It’s been a while since I had Hydrox, but they weren’t as rich in chocolate-wafer flavor as Oreos. And they had less cream.

That question is best put to Rossi, Reid, Garcia, and the rest of the BAU crew, no? ;)

If it had been Wal-Mart, they’d have been doomed. :)

Mangos work nicely, as well...

My all-time-favorite iced tea recipe. Addictive as sin . . .

Gaaah. West Virginia in a “holler” at night. My grandfather had to pick up soemthing from a customer down there (and probably grabbed a friendly drink or two), so he left me and my cousin in the truck. The only light was on the guy’s house a good hundred feet away—no street lights, nothing. For thirty increasingly…

Ehehehe. Guillermo del Toro stores his huge movie memorabillia collection in a separate house in LA. IIRC, he’s got comforting items like Mother Bates’ corpse and the original full-size Alien mechanical figure. His family refuses to sleep there, for some odd reason. ;)

Oh, man, GET OUT’s director’s next movie is LOVECRAFT COUNTRY,based on a terrific horror novel about a black family searching for a vanished father in 1950's America. Can’t wait!

Hee. I first saw TC in an huge, oddly-unpopular theater in a lonely strip mall. Swear to God there was only one other person there (sitting way in the back) on a summer Saturday at noon. The theater had just gotten outfitted for Dolby, which I had never experienced. And that place was ice-cold with drafts. So between…

You’re welcome! TC is online?!? Thank you!!! ATB launched Finn—and has one of my favorite lines of dialogue. “This is too much madness for one text!”

I take it you will _not_ be the one to clean their house out if (God forbid) something happens to them. :)

And for olde-schoole scares, try THE CHANGELING, from 1979. So many flicks have ripped this off, and it takes time to build, but it still packs a punch.

It suffers majorly from the “people separate/get unaccountably stupid when they see loved ones that are millions of miles away on a creepy ship” syndrome. But it looks terrific and really works your nerves.

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night is da good stuff. And What We Do In the Shadows is a terrific horror satire. And for a change of pace, Attack The Block is nifty action-horror-social satire.

Yep. To many older black men, accusations against Cosby are an attack on a hero they grew up with—and flashbacks to the vicious (unjust) scrutiny they endured.

Yep, that insufferable self-righteous complacency really started getting obvious about three seasons in.