For context, this is what her psychotic dog did to Sophie, and you can’t even really see the hole in her neck that was so big it required 3 staples:

Plagiarizing myself from GT, because this story makes me so happy:

I’m going on vacation! Kidlet and I got some cheapie air tickets to Vegas, and we’re heading out in late August after his summer school session wraps. I feel at once elated and horribly, horribly guilty about taking some of our precious ‘life raft’ savings and spending it on something so frivolous, but this past year…

I tried the horseradish-pickle cream cheese at Kossar’s for the first, but certainly not last, time on Monday and oh wow, is that ever some life-changing cream cheese.

Agree. We were allowed to take out child home to die, in part because all we had to do was bring her home. Her body did the rest. She wasn’t hooked up to machines to exist. Had she been hooked up to life support, she would’ve died in the hospital. I’m forever grateful for her peaceful death.

I would totally eat that.

welp its not quite cream cheese...but i had a brie n pineapple baguette today (not a combination i would have thought of)..... was tasty as hell

Cream cheese is life. I literally just ordered a cream cheese and cucumber sandwich on squaw bread and I cannot wait to shovel it down my gullet. Nom.

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”