I am with you - open floor plans suck. They’re noisy, and they won’t let you hide your clutter. You also can’t escape your partner, roomie, or kids when you desperately need to. This is also why I think the current fad for tiny houses is stupid and unlivable in the long term.

Fuck. One of my friends and colleagues is there. She’s safe for now, thank goodness.

That’s a plot point in a book called When She Woke. It is a great book, but just as with Handmaid’s Tale, I am mildly terrified to reread it right now.

....Huh. If this works, it might actually make me stop hating the devil-lettuce.

He just watched the first half of the first movie and talked to the Cover Girl folks who authorized the Capitol makeup line. 

If anyone is allowed to, after the raft of NDAs he’s making people sign, and if anyone even has 1st Amendment rights after he’s done...

I know it’s terribly petty of me, but I thoroughly enjoy how you’ve chosen the most unflattering pic of Giuliani here (and for other articles). These and the Biden-Obama memes have been the only things getting me through the hell of the past week or so.

Tell me you read the Mid-Century Menu! That’s where I first learned of this abomination :)

The Elvis special!

I can’t say I ever had those, and we ate some weird shit growing up, like that grape-and-mayo salad that my family still trots out every holiday. (Ugh.)

That and the “June’s Jams” episode are my favorites to rewatch on Netflix. Damn, I miss that show.

Why not both?

BWAHAHAHAHA.

I am coming home for Thanksgiving to my almost-fully conservative family. I will likely be spending my non-family time at Avondale or Good People, right after the first relative makes some shitty comment about sore losers or an even worse racist/misogynist comment. It gives me so much happiness to know you and the…

My home county! Yay for not being completely fucked up in this one situation! (Seriously, Kelly, thank you so much for writing this - I hadn’t seen this yet, and it warms my cold, dead heart a fraction.)

Except he’ll just jail everyone who’s scrutinizing him, so why worry, right?

It was! This is the first time I’ve ever lived in an area that’s gotten such sustained attention, and I’m trying to go to everything I can.

Y’all, I was at the Katy Perry-Hillary Clinton rally last night, and that first KP outfit was resplendent. It paid homage to colonial women’s wear, boxing robes, and Clinton herself. It made me wish Halloween were still ahead of us...you know, except for the fact that we all need this trainwreck of an election cycle…

Completely understandable. I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you!

I grew up in Alabama (outside of Bham) and no longer live there (because of my job), but it gives me hope when reasonable, compassionate folks move there to balance things out. Where will you be moving in the state?