Rowing has prepped his entire upper body for the upcoming war. Can’t run very far though.

Oh, man, when you wrote “10,000 Dresses,” I was thinking of “The Hundred Dresses,” and I was VERY confused, and thought I maybe totally missed the subtext about a gender non-conforming child in a children’s book written in 1944.

Why would you send a marine biologist on a trip to the end of Universe?

Don’t! You’re not going to like what’s out there.

I love this in no small part because it reinforces the idea that I have in my head that all of my favorite nerdy celebrities are good friends with all my other favorite nerdy celebrities and do fun weird shit together all the time. See also Lin-Manuel Miranda writing a My Brother, My Brother and Me reference into…

There’s a link at http://www.desiquintans.com/oldblog/231 to Vasily Grossman’s account of Treblinka, written in 1944, one of the very first accounts of a death camp. Grossman was a journalist with the Soviet army when the remains of Treblinka were discovered. For strong stomachs only, especially for the detailed…

It’s beyond giving no fucks. Someday we’re going to see a whole movie about the band of scrappy rogue Imperial engineers who try to organise the demise of the Empire by designing for them just really shitty working conditions.

The most positive response to his death was something along the lines of “I hope you find the peace and salvation that you denied so many in life”.

So it turns out this was actually him just breaking the fourth wall?

My cat punched me in the eye once. Without claws. So for like a month, I had 1/3 of a normal-sized black eye going on, and had to tell everyone I was punched by a cat.

I don’t remember why we were learning about what different religions believed in health/gym class when I was in 7th grade but our teacher (who had her doctorate) gave us a handout that said “Hindus believe that the Earth rests on the trunk of an elephant standing on the back of a turtle”.

Wait hold up. I know the Brooklyn comments are silly but, um, worse than Chet Haze? Worse than Charlie Sheen?!

You’re fired too!

Damn.

If that’s the case, they should hire Rachel Dolezal as a consultant.

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@LaComtesse: But this doesn't even have to be cynicism. Many people who advocate for alternative medicine have convinced themselves that doctors don't care about their patients. Hold them in active disdain, even. In their minds, doctors are greedy butchers and whores who poison our children and carve up our bodies…