Burt, you clearly mistagged this. It is obviously evidence that #TEAMCAT is winning at life.

Oh, good. There's at least one other person who feels the way I do about that inexplicable clusterfuck.

Fucking awesome.

Very nice, Farce.

Just screengrabbed that recipe. Oh gloria.

Wine, someone sexy to text, an exit strategy, and more wine.

Ooh, do you remember the name of the doc? Or where you watched it?

Victorian prostitution for you, the Victorian sickroom for me. Ugh, I'm obsessed.

Well, just completed my Amazon order of this book. I think your word vomit backfired, Yardley.

"and goddammit Louisiana"

Bumping this excellent comment.

Well my esteem for him and his mansplainy ways just plummeted. I had no idea. When did he drink the red koolaid?

I always do the wince-laugh. I then feel validated as a cynical but generally benign member of the human race.

Also, I don't trust filmmakers to not whitewash the bejesus out of her works.

Hsve you ever read Brian Francis Slattery's "Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six after the Collapse of the United States of America"? I totally agree with your praise of Le Guin but the books you mention lead me to believe you may appreciate that novel. It is my favorite contemporary novel (2008).

The Left Hand of Darkness is one of my favorite novels. This pleases me immensely. It is long overdue, however.

And while this shit happens everywhere, I couldn't be less surprised to see that it happened in an HISD school. That district has serious, deep-seated issues.

It's a big-city school but in a Western state, so the few girls who had their pics with their horses were very "rodeo cool", whereas mine was me and my horse hanging out in a white-fenced pasture. With obviously English stylings, like a leather/ brass halter and a hunter muscled neck and pulled mane. If that makes…

Oh early nineties, bless its heart.

Very sensible of you. I wish I had. Might have gotten some crazy partying out of the way before college...