Oh, I’m that loser. Somehow that one escaped my perusal OR I forgot in the deluge of scary.

Dammit Kinja! Brief summary? ;)

Link? Please? :)

Submit this next year. You’d win for sure. JESUS CHRIST.

Maybe Denne gets shit mixed up sometimes. It’s hard to balance haunting this kid while also possessing Hamburger.

The toy ones always get me. There was one in a past year’s contest with a doll that would TALK and laugh. It ends with the dad burying it while it cackled. Yeah, that one stayed with me.

I’m very easily scared and thought it was over the top silly.

And I thought I was an only child ...

Devastating burn. But what do I know? This white girl is here for the sick Charlotte Bronte references.

Elon Musk tends to skeeve me out but count me in a thousand kajillion times before touching Cheeto Benito with my baby toenail.

I know, it wasn’t the sweet release of death by meteor but I felt a lot better after I mailed in my absentee ballot.

also my immediate reaction ... although I might go with brown boots/heels

Prrreettty sure that Jack Chick and Lynn Priddle are characters in an Annie Proulx short story.

Came down here to say this! That movie is a gem! It has Iris Dement for god’s sake! (And Janet McTeer, Aidan Quinn, and a young/adorable Emmy Rossum).

Will do!

Interesting take (I say this with sincerity). However, it was just us in the waiting area with a receptionist who was on the phone.

Yeah, I plan on telling her about it at our next check-in. The funny thing is that he was fired from the organization where we used to work. One of my work friends filed an HR complaint about him because of his open hostility. I know of separate incidents (all of them with junior researchers, all women) where he used…

A few weeks ago I ran into a former (senior) work colleague at my new workplace. We exchanged verbal greetings, and before I knew it, he was bear-hugging me. Keep in mind, we had never worked on projects together professionally and were generally cordial to each other in the office and at professional functions. I’m…

Or just get right to the fun stuff with Tipping the Velvet.

I’m probably spoiled. I’m so used to the light touch people use to write these experiences (or stories).