OH DEAR LORD. therapy for years. I hate those fuckers. I found a dead one under the pillow on my bed once. I just...

(same sort of experience, i walked into an outdoor shower and there was a hairy spider hanging out on the faucet handle. I just took one look and was like, “you were here first”, and retreated. No shower was worth that.)

jesus, earwigs freak me right the fuck out.

To your “see also”: false. Even when he was younger, and svelte, Donald Trump never looked like anything except a used-car salesman.

(EXCELLENT deployment of Gravity Falls gif.)

This, too. I mean, I would say that I don’t understand how Republicans, supposedly the party that worships the small-businessman, don’t understand this... but I totally do. They understand, but they don’t CARE, because their donations are not coming from those people. Those people don’t have lobbyists.

Right there with you. I love the parks, and am trying to get to as many as I can. (This past summer was Redwoods and Crater Lake.)

Right. :) Raven or Coyote in some American First Nations traditions; kitsune in Japanese tradition; Puck in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, which is coming out of a Celtic European tradition; Reynard the Fox in European tradition; or Maui in Polynesian tradition. (So often cultures have more than one, or more than one…

Just to clarify: the trickster figure archetype does not come exclusively from African-based story traditions. You would be hard-pressed to find a culture in the world that doesn’t have trickster figures deeply embedded in their storytelling and religious traditions. (Sometimes tricksters are depicted as troublesome…

Ah yes, there it is. My daily dose of “THESE MOTHERFUCKERS...”

I’m astounded that any of the adult members of the family are even in the running. My guess would have been the most popular Trump was Barron, just based on the fact that it ought to be very hard for most people to dislike a child.

Yes, that’s exactly it. :) Stuffing (or “dressing” - another regionalism / folkloric thing) style is another of those things that people frequently fail to discuss, and yet are so important. “Will there be stuffing at all” is one piece, and “but what STYLE of stuffing?” is another equally important piece. And if one…

(Really very off-topic, but: when teaching folklore, one of the light-bulbs that often goes off for people and makes them realize what folklore is and how it permeates people’s lives is to explain that “foodways” are part of folklore, and the best example is “what does your family traditionally have for Thanksgiving? …

SAME. I kind of understand why they do it the way they do it, but I really really wanted those to just be actual historians talking about their favorite things.

Oh my god, Kelly, thank you for this. Off to YouTube!

Real answer: usually there is one person who is getting drunk (with the host, also drunk), and recounting the historical story. (They brush up on the story beforehand, but then have to retell it while drinking/drunk.) The audio from their telling of it is then the basis for the reenactment. They get actors to do…

Please. I would pay money to watch that, for real.

OH GOD, I KNOW. I hate that their heavier tees are so short? UGH. (Actually it’s also because I’ve been spoiled by Duluth Trading’s longtail tees, which are a nice weight, and I only wish they had even more colors.) I’ve taken to buying the LE supima tees (grumble, still too thin), but in “tall”.

Oh god. Oh god. Don’t get me started on my bitterness about how every company’s basic clothes for women have gotten more thin and flimsy as time has gone on. (This goes for jeans as well. Just TRY to find women’s jeans that are heavy denim, rather than thin and full of spandex.) Haaaaaaate.

My god, you have taken me back, and for that I thank you. I LOVED that catalog. In my mind’s eye I can still see the one that had the gorgeous drawing of Machu Picchu on the cover. When I was in college in the late 80s I did a whole parody spread of college-student clothing in the style of the catalog (posed clothes…