THANK YOU. Jesus. Was coming here to say the same thing. 

I was actually in Moorhead, but nobody has heard of that. Culturally, you had it good.

She was paid a lot of money to come to Fargo, ND back in the day (when I lived there, god help me), and all she could do was insult Fargo and read her poetry. Nobody spends an evening with JCO to hear poetry. It was like the fucking Vogons. 

All four of my other toes would end up broken within a few hundred yards of walking in those things. But, uhhh, you only need a fifth of a pedicure, I guess?

As long as he’s got his phone in his hand with Twitter on the screen, it could take days for anyone to notice.

Why are you warning him? Let the robot do what we want it to.

They are the this guy of chairs.

Started watching it at midnight when I thought everyone was asleep. Surprise!

Boogie Nights. With my mom.

You would think that being able to barf up all that (pseudo)science so easily, Grimes might have let the nine year-old in charge of Adidas’s Instagram know that the word is “regimen.”

Hope dies hard.

Classics and “canon” literature also used to be available in mass-market sizes, which kept them cheap and accessible. Now the best one can hope for is a trade paperback that not only will set you back $20 but also is heavy as hell and can’t really be held up with one hand (while the other hand puts your lunch into…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/02/06/children-raised-by-same-sex-couples-do-better-school-new-study-finds/?utm_term=.fb5f8413f5a8

“I’d just wear a diaper and blow bubbles and scream a little bit,” might be my “beavers and ducks!”

I actually saw the series on PBS first and then read all the books. My memory of the show may be colored by my love of Allingham and her comparatively astringent writing. 

I’m sure you’re right about The Last Detective, but really Peter Davison was meant to be Albert Campion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campion_(TV_series)

Do you have room in your basement for my wife and me? We’re very tidy and good cooks, and we would LOVE to be looking southward at this shit show rather than living in the midst of it. 

A girl like I agrees with you.

A Farewell to Arms is an very queer book. Not only does Sparks suck as a writer, he doesn’t read good either.

I’ve been at events where people tweet their questions using a specific hashtag created for the event. Someone (usually not the moderator) filters them and passes them along. It works like a charm.