I hate when people do this, but I’m going to do the “I haven’t read the article yet but....” It’s been A DAY and my brain is being a slippery fucker so reading this made me think of Amazon Prime and then made me think “I want Jon Hamm to be the voice of my Echo instead of Alexa”. And then skimming the comment that…

Lois Smith was in one episode of The Americans. She was only in part of that episode and her entire performance was talking while sitting in a chair at a desk in a dismal office. Her acting was so astonishing she should have gotten some kind of Emmy / Oscar / MacArthur Genius Grant / Peabody award. If you saw it, you…

Most qualified politician in Alaska for the last 20 years.

Oh, it’s worse than that. They try to sell us ranched salmon. It’s repulsive and an environmental nightmare. I fought against it twenty years ago when I worked for Greenpeace. Do not get me started.

That looks so GREAT! Major jealousy here! By the time the salmon gets here to us in New England, it is generally not so fresh. I do like the frozen vacuum-sealed packs, though. But fresh, it is to die for!

I bake sourdough bread and it is a three day process, so this was an interesting read. I would never try to replace my yeast though. With sourdough you use a start, so you feed the yeast and it rises and triples. You use one part and keep another- so theoretically the part you keep is really old. Supposedly, mine is…

Why is no one talking about the real victim here? Poor Melissa McCarthy has to go back to being just a regular old movie star now. Sad!

Yep.

And remember, she did it before there were on-line communities available at the touch of a keyboard. Just came up with that shit al by herself in her own damn house. She fought breast cancer and a horrible heredity kidney disease (polycystic kidney disease causes chronic excruciating pain). At the end she had dialysis…

OMG she STILL breaks me up when I read those old columns/essays today— even at her very corniest, just her manner of saying things absolutely bonks my funnybone in the sharpest & most wonderful way. Her dry deadpan-hyperbole tone was terriffic.

Yes!! “Never go to a doctor who has dead office plants”

Offish topic: Erma Bombeck was awesome. The moms of the kids I babysat always had her smarty/snarky columns/quotes cut out and stuck to the fridge. “Seize the moment. Remember all those women on ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart” and “House work is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop offs at tedium…

Sheela is so pretty! And I love her name. Give her lots of scritches from me.

So I’m having a really hard time. We just learned My poor little doggie has cancer and had about 6 weeks left. We’ve been together for over a decade, through 5 states, two marriages, and 8 homes. I can’t imagine my life without her. I’ve had her my entire adult life and it’s like the end of an era. :(

The Toast covered this and it was HILARIOUS:

I read Skye O’Malley when I was 12. It was very...educational.

Kathy Bates is a goddess, who could rock any hair style. Love the look, but I live where it’s hot, so no long hair for me. Went to a glorious silver about 5 years ago, and am currently sporting a sassy asymmetricl short cut. Seeing my hair person tomorrow and may have her do a little shave on the short side.

I just adore her! Might grow out my hair and let it return to gray as an homage.

Srsly, women of a certain age just look better in the natural hippie look! I swear it’s true. Too much struggling to keep up the makeup and hairdye and the mainstream ‘rule’ of no long hair off after 35, bah humbug, it makes women look older & dowdier & more raddled than they need to. I hope witchy loose grey hair…

I was thinking the same thing! Finally someone didn’t feel the need to make her look as dowdy as possible.