I wish I thought he had that much capacity for shame and self-awareness.  But I feel pretty sure he doesn’t.

Multiple exit points to a large building absolutely makes sense.  I think what is tripping up a lot of people (as it did me) is that it specifically says “two front doors”.  Of course any house will have multiple doors to the outside -- front door, back door, garage door, side door, patio door, what have you.  I think…

(this is the first comment that explained this in a way that made sense to me, thank you.  i was stuck on another image.  but yes, an “airlock” design makes much more sense.)

Like... I’m surprised the “illegal underage drinking” aspect isn’t getting more play?  But at the same time I guess I’m not surprised at all.

(Just, completely aside, but... god, I hate his face.   Look at that.  What even is that expression.  Every expression he has is worse than the last.)

Well, that too. This whole thing is ludicrous.

I mean... especially parties at which there will be illegal drinking?

Listen, I’ll say this: I do still have some papers from high school. I know that I have a notebook in which I took notes from senior year biology. I probably have more random shit, too. They’re in a box somewhere in my apt. I haven’t looked at them in over 30 years, except for brief glimpses when I’ve repacked…

I’ve heard of your transcript mattering in ninth grade for college, but I didn’t know your ninth and 10th grade actions could really reflect on what happens in the Supreme Court.

Kodachrome.

Huh, yeah.

Sorry, bit of a tangent here, but... I was wondering upthread if that character wasn’t actually based on Harry Potter (or, not fully), but rather on Timothy Hunter, a DC character who debuted in the mini-series “The Books of Magic” about 7 years before Harry Potter came out. Tim Hunter is a 12 year old boy who…

Wait... was it ACTUALLY HARRY POTTER? I never read the final one, but from what I saw around, I always assumed it was Timothy Hunter, from the Books of Magic? Since Timothy Hunter was wizard-like, already a DC property, and looked EXACTLY like Harry Potter... despite that mini-series first appearing in 1990, seven…

To this day, that makes me angry.

(I still honestly like this movie.  Great cast.)

Yeah, goddamn, but Hammer to Fall is a great song to blast in the car.

True story: my father had been a lector in our home parish for a number of years (i.e. one of the congregation who gets up to do some of the readings, and helps to distriubute communion). When he died, his wish was to be cremated, and then given a Naval burial at sea, which he was entitled to as a veteran of the…

Geez. Deep cut. Have a star because, darnit, I really liked those movies.

Do you imagine that children aren’t absorbing messages about heterosexual “romance” (as distinct from desire for sexual activity) from the moment they are able to absorb stories? I mean, what are all the Disney movies that are shown to children — and especially the princess movies that are shown to girls — but…

*sigh* The biggest problem with this article is that I DON’T have any scrapple in the freezer (always buy a brick of Habersett when I’m home visiting), and I don’t know where I can reliably get it in the Boston area.