So brilliant — just pitch perfect. NP and JSF can’t touch the wonderfulness of “skeletons of the sugar and booze we allow to slither down our throats to dull the ache that comes unannounced at a summer barbecue” and “Like your loving dog’s cyst, our corporeal existence will eventually be popped and our souls drained…

Old School, for two oldsters (each past 40 at the time) married 16 years ago this month:

Serpentine!

Agreed — a terrific book, telling a great story.

Howard Kremer, from the Who Charted podcast, way ahead of the curve. https://howardkremer.bandcamp.com/track/gay-for-…

You are painfully correct. The double standard is so obvious. A war story from 20 years ago, but it could have happened yesterday. I am appellate lawyer. There is a defense verdict in a birth injury case. Plaintiff’s counsel (old white male) moves for new trial, arguing that defense counsel (a woman) committed…

“War starts at midnight!”

“Current students, faculty and alumni went through a submission process to select names for the new colleges before Yale trustees reached a consensus.”

Thanks for posting this — made my day! (Big Walk Hard fan.)

An amazing, and insane film. Watch it, then listen to the How Did It Get Made podcast on the film, for a full on and hilarious, Zardoz experience. http://www.earwolf.com/episode/zardoz…

I once heard a comedian describe the textbook Nicolas Cage script as one where the lines alternate between being whispered and shouted.

I take your point. I decided to studiously avoid reference to Matt, for the reasons you suggest... (Just not within hailing distance of his mother’s abilities.) I always loved the fact that when Gray Davis was being recalled as Governor, March Fong Eu put her hat in the ring for the post and she was in her early 80's.

Oldster here. I remember when March Fong Eu subsequently ran for California Secretary of State in the mid-70's and as I recall her campaign slogan was “I Gave A Dime,” referring to her campaign to eliminate pay toilets. She won, and served around 20 years in that position, and one election carried every County in the…

It wasn’t his being on his phone that was so disruptive:

“the ending, with Damien living on to bring about world destruction, seemed less like a contrived twist than a reflection of reality.”

Per Einstein’s theory of rectaltivity of course.

You have my sympathy. It is very difficult to be in that situation. The hardest thing I ever had to hear was in a parents only group therapy session at one of the centers (maybe even Monte Nido, I don’t recall) where the head of the center essentially told us “Look, your child can die, and there is absolutely nothing…

The How Did It Get Made podcast had a particularly good episode discussing the mess that is Theodore Rex:

My heart goes out to you — I almost lost my daughter to ED, she was literally at death’s door. In an out of various residential treatment centers, including Monte Nido (which was very good), over a four year period. with plenty of outpatient treatment along the way as well. She is doing much better now, but it is a…

I’ve now bought two cars using the Consumer Reports online program with TRUECar, and both times I got a very good price —well-below MSRP, and no hassle or up-selling when I went to pick up the cars. In fact, both times (at different dealers) when I was filling out the paperwork with the finance person, each remarked…