Even he has people who love him, who would be broken by his loss.

Thank you for these, Shulkie. I'm glad you're here.

Simmons, maybe, but is Hank that heartless?

At one of my lower points, when the knife on the table started looking very friendly, I managed to start an online chat with a suicide prevention person, because I couldn't bring myself to actually talk to someone. Even the online chat helped me enough that I'm still here to report that the online chat helped me.…

Thirded.
ETA: I mentioned this below, and Shulkie linked to it in her post, but even if you're like me and can't stand to talk to people on the phone, there are chat and text people who can help. Please reach out.

Jesus was a brown-skinned hippie liberal. Of course they wouldn't listen to him.

What an im-bessil.

She was the Sixth Maroon.

The FOXy witch?

Welp, he'll be missed.

I read Cook's Illustrated's Slow Cooker Revolution, and while I don't directly remember any recipes, I do remember they recommend cooking chicken for fewer than 6 hours so it doesn't dry out, so no overnight chicken recipes.

I could describe them all to you, but I'm not sure you want me to. Discretion may be the better part of valor in these cases.

Consider yourself lucky?

The light is Mike Pence.

I'm coming in close to 1,000 this week. Magnitudes!

I haven't slept well in a couple of weeks now, partly from stress over one of my employees, partly from the weather (too cold for the A/C to kick in but too warm to be comfortable), and partly from my mattress being 12 years old and pretty beaten up. I'm really starting to feel the effects of sleep deprivation,…

I'm weeding the comics at work right now (even being very aggressive with the weeding, I'm still only pulling like 5% of the books — they just keep going out!), and I found some interesting stuff in the collection to read myself. The one I've never heard of at all is Gail Simone's Clean Room, of which I grabbed the…

De La Soul — Ego Trippin
The Rutles — Living In Hope
Shonen Knife — Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
Dj Qbert — Scratchdome
Stone Temple Pilots — Still Remains
Soundgarden — Blow Up The Outside World
The Magnetic Fields — Reno Dakota
Peter Gabriel And Deep Forest — While The Earth Sleeps Long
The Who — The Kids Are Alright
Jamestown…

I'll take "How Batman was created" for 200, Alex!

You know what they say: light a man a fire, and he's warm for a day; set a man afire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.