Keep making shitty people uncomfortable, Michael. You do a service to those of us who aren’t as good with words but who feel just as passionate about our people and causes important to us. Major respect brother.

Noooo NOOOOO NOOOOOO!! I know you’re a baller and a poet, a writer and destined for greatness (while being off the market & married to a doctor!) but I can’t handle change right now! So stop, call it off, come back and keep The Root’s continuity! I haven’t even read your post but I’m upset now for the rest of the…

Xanadu is a beautiful, awful movie... and the title song is the ring tone on my phone when my wife calls. I guess that makes it clear where I stand. :)

I was going to nominate 1941. It’s so fucking dumb, it’s a riot...

I definitely had a better time laughing at Xanadu than I did watching half of last year’s best picture nominees. (The edible helped.)

I’m sorry to hear about the changes at your shelter. The kitties are why I started, and the kitties are why I stayed. Fortunately, they take *very* good care of me, as you can see.  ;)

Thank you, Maya. <3

I excel at sensing vibes, and these are the highest quality. Thank you.

Your words are heartwarming and comforting. Thank you.

Thank you, Selkie!

Thank you, OW. I’ve managed to maneuver through the quagmire relatively unscathed. But this one, it hurts. And the best way to get back at them is to continue to do what I do and do it well. 

Thank you so much. I know what I do for the cats, but sometimes it helps to hear it from others, and tonight is one of those times. Many of you over the years have told me what the updates mean to you, and that makes my work at the shelter even more rewarding compared to a lot of the other volunteers.

My computer crashed and I lost Shelter Cat Update. I’ll have to start from scratch. This is especially hard because I talked about what happened this past week. I didn’t do my clean-and-feed shift today because it seems to be official - I have been terminated as a cleaner because of petty reasons. While I am still…

Everything fails at least once.

I don’t doubt the collusion. (The first words in my comment are “I doubt anyone is surprised by this” and the second paragraph is about how they are turning on each other.) but I simply don’t trust Rolling Stone. That’s what happens when a journalistic outlet fails on a scale as epic as the UVA story. It’s the same…

The RS has been right FAR more times in its history than wrong.

I doubt anyone is surprised by this. I’d also like some corroboration from a news outlet that didn’t completely fuck up a story about rape at UVA.

Anyone watching American news from November 2020 to January 2021-onward knows this. And we know those exact people named we in on it. And we know that Roger Stone had a hotel war room set up to manage the coup and we know that some military and police (did!) and were ready to do their part. Y’allQuaida just didn’t…

Aw man I’m not bummed and glad there aren’t many “real life” scares this year. Those are always way scarier for me than the "got a bad feeling and later learned this house had something happen here" stories, but then again I'm also glad fewer people are being traumatized by like, the scary landlord creeping in through…

My favorite one from this year was the “time rub” story, where the author’s grandmother saw her friends, from the future, in her living room during a bad electrical storm. Her friends (in the present day) saw her grandmother, from the past, where her living room used to be at the old farm ruins.