> the assignment was given to students at Saugerties High School last Friday and asked them to craft a bold “thematic” statement in the same format as state exams by using the examples provided. One of the examples stated that Floyd didn’t die from Derek Chauvin’s knee on his neck, but instead from a heart attack.

I love fresh pineapple and I’ve never had that problem, but I also don’t eat more than a quarter pound in one sitting.

Pedophilia *is* a mental illness, often the product of traumatic upbringing (and very often from insular, ultra-religious households) but sometimes your wires are just crossed. Most of the people who suffer from it know it’s wrong and they do not want to feel that way. Most them do not get help - and become more…

I have a photo of my cat entanged in a ribbon toy when he was about ten weeks old. That was about the same week I found him with six inches of it down his throat and scared the bejesus out of me. I think it was an accident and he learned his lesson, but thank Dio I was home.

I accidentally boiled milk in a kettle (don’t ask) and it took me weeks of scrubbing to get it off the stainless steel base. I think I had to resort to a citric acid cleaner.

The part of New York where I grew up has a large Polish population, but I have never had a Chicago style dog - white hots/red hots are the local thing - but man, I love good Polish sausage. It’s snappy and savory and great in breakfast.

All my adult life, my rooms have mostly been a variance on green, gold, and rust. When I moved to a new place with two bedrooms instead of one, I decided to make the back bedroom/art studio beachy blue, teal, white, and its bathroom is emerald and purple. The latter ended up that way because I found this awesome…

Sour skittles have nothing on Warheads, at least as far as my mouth is concerned. And I love Warheads. I haven’t had them in a few years, and if I don’t eat them semi-regularly, it takes me a little bit to work my way up to keeping the candy in my mouth until the sour coating wears off, but I will eat them until they…

Embryolisse lait-creme is my go-to right now (it’s French, but you can get it on Amazon), and also Lush’s Dream Cream. Embryolisse has more staying power, but Dream Cream is light and inoffensive for those muggy days when you need SOMEthing but can’t handle a thicker cream.

Family in the next building was regularly out on their porch upwards of 1am - they were just having a good time, but sound carries here and they were so loud that I could clearly hear their conversation and laughter through closed windows and the sound of a box fan. After 3-4 incidents of this, I left a polite note on…

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He was released yesterday!

Ooh, yes, the green dragon sauce is great. I squirt it in sour cream and use it as dipping sauce for generic frozen taquitos.

Those mango slices are the BEST, and they’re so cheap.

I LOVE cilantro. Pungently fresh cilantro chopped up in guac, pico, on top of tikka masala, in a nice lime dressing - yum. If I sit there and chew on a leaf a bit and really think about it, I can sorta see how people get the soap/bug spray thing, but it absolutely does not affect me. (For the record, I am wholly…

Moderna 1st shot: arm was sore for two days, but it was “a wuss punched me in the bone” sore, not like a tetanus shot where the pain woke me up when I rolled onto that arm overnight. By the third day I didn’t even notice it unless I poked it. I did not check for a fever, and I did sleep a little harder for a few days,…

“I’m so over Sookie and her precious fairy vagina and her unbelievably stupid name!”

I’m voting for naan. A nice flaky buttery slab of naan - or Malaysian paratha in a pinch - that you can eat all by itself, sprinkle with harissa or just smoked paprika, slather some saag paneer or chicken tikka masala on it... mmmm.

I wish Coke would bring back regular Coke with lime. Those drink machines at movie theaters and Firehouse subs that have lime injections are an okay substitute but they’re not quite the same.

I was in Baltimore the last time this brood emerged in 2004. The screaming of the idiots as bugs bumbled into them was almost as annoying as the screaming of the bugs themselves. It was two straight weeks of hearing the distant sound of weedwhackers, 24 hours a day, and the messy molts (including a few on my window…

That article talks about traveler’s constipation. I am very familiar with it to the point that I expect it and can now plan around it, after a sweaty experience wandering a city in Germany on a Sunday when I got the T minus Ten Minutes gurgle in my guts and a whistle from my ass. (If you’ve ever been in Europe, most…