Reading Terminal Market is a genuine treasure.

Oh man, FANTASTIC bar, though!

I’m a Pats fan, but I’m from Philly (it’s just I’ve lived in Boston for 25+ years now; and thus when I say I much prefer Boston to Philly, I’m making an informed statement). But all my family are still down there. I plan to just... lay low. They outnumber me.

It would take a LOT more work to scrub TJ Miller’s voice. He voiced a recurring character with a lot of lines.

I don’t know why you think the term “shipper” wasn’t invented by grown women before the web was even invented.

Ah. :) Well, yes, the ghost-turtle is also pretty much perfect for McConnell, isn’t it?

Well, I mean, of course. Come on. Where is Trump from and where did he first start to operate? New York and New Jersey. Think about Atlantic City’s mafia ties for two seconds. Think about the culture’s fascination with the mafia during the 70s, when he was starting out. Trump has admired the model of the mafia for…

(starring you just for the obscure Gravity Falls reference.)

Oh my god. Completely off-topic, but GOD I’m with you on this.

(weirdly enough, when I was a kid in the 70s in New Jersey, everybody called them “thongs” as well. I realize it’s no longer the fashion in the U.S. to call them that, but it sounds perfectly natural to me.)

But see, the thing is, you really have to go out of your way to the place where the bears are. They don’t just wander around most of the U.S. (Offer not valid in: Alaska, certain parts of the Rocky Mountains.)

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…