HOT PRIESTS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD!

I didn’t think the CIA had it in them to be so salty. Bless.

For more on the death business, I highly recommend Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, a half-memoir, half history of death by Caitlin Doughty (of Ask a Mortician fame). It’s incredibly illuminating and beautifully written to boot.

This is the Candy Man that scares the bejesus out of me:http://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-lost-boys/ (By weird coincidence, both Candy Men operated in Pasadena.)

The Pixystix incident is discussed in a documentary called Urban Legends, which I believe is still on Netflix? It also discusses the Texarkana murders that inspired the movie ‘The Town That Dreaded Sundown’, and a few other urban legends that had some basis in fact. It’s actually really interesting and made by the…

An Oreo is also offensive slang for a black person who is “white on the inside.” Usually reserved for someone who “acts white”, but even people who are part white get called this.

I feel like forcing the participants and viewers to face the reality of the times should be, like, 95% of the point of these shows.

I wish more people were familiar with Gloria Naylor. You don’t usually see her name mentioned with the heavy-hitters like Toni Morrison or Angelou, but you really should. She should be on alllll the syllabi! Linden Hills is a work of complete genius- it’s a razor-sharp indictment of the Black middle class, structured…

People from Seattle:
Step 1: Buy a new pillow.