The first time I saw the trailer, I turned to my friend and said, “Okay, now I have to decide whether I want to ugly cry in public.” I still haven’t seen it because of this. I just noticed it’s available on iTunes, so now I have to figure out when I can dedicate an evening to it so I can watch it in the privacy of my…

When I was in high school/college many years ago, my family had a black lab named Stormy. He was a good boy and my bestest buddy during some of the worst years of my life. Therefore, any variant of that name is a dog’s name.

Ireland would be the daughter who got the irate voicemail from her father calling her “a rude, thoughtless, little pig.” She was eleven years old at the time. I’m not sure *anything* is worth dealing with his bullshit.

Timely podcast plug: Getting Off (a podcast from a couple of defense attorneys) did a pair of episodes earlier this month about bail and why the current system is pure unadulterated bullshit, and it was immediately followed by a two-part deep dive about Kalief Browder. I’m actually listening to the latter two-parter…

I need to take a look at his Insta feed. I’m a sucker for cute doggies and kitties, especially if rescues or shelters are involved.

On the same day she spewed this bullshit, Oregon (very quietly, considering the fact that I haven’t seen/heard this mentioned outside of local news sources) closed the boyfriend loophole that allowed people convicted of domestic abuse but who didn’t actually live with their victims to buy guns. One teeny tiny bit of…

I’m celebrating Presidents’ Day by watching the third season of The Americans! It seems like the most appropriate thing to watch today. It was that or the second season of The Man in the High Castle, and I’m still trying to convince myself to return to that universe. It’s a hard sell for me right now.

At the time, it was widely reported that Chris Evans was at the end of his contract and wasn’t planning on coming back for another movie, so a lot of people in my circle were trying to figure out how they were going to sideline Steve Rogers because at this point, you can’t have Steve Rogers without Chris Evans. This…

It’s quite frankly the only reason I could think of for them to have her there. From even her first scene in the lab, I assumed that’s why they were putting such an emphasis on her brilliance. I’m trying to avoid spoilers, but there just doesn’t seem to be any other reason for her to be presented and handled the way…

Here’s another take on the yeah-they-were answer: Boring is a Pacific Northwest logging town, just like Aberdeen, aka where Nirvana is from. Those of us from PNW logging towns held onto Nirvana for a long, *long* time because they represented GETTING THE FUCK OUT OF THIS PLACE, even if we had in fact already gotten…

Holy shit, I just got through the grays, and no one has mentioned Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville! That was *the* GenX breakup record. But my personal go-to is the Posies’ Dear 23. That one always feels like it goes beyond a mere breakup to a scorched-earth divorce.

I hated those things when I was a kid, but I loved them in my twenties. Now I can’t eat beef (except Taco Bell chalupas, which I maintain simply proves they don’t use beef in those things), but, damn, I get McD’s cheeseburger cravings once in a while. I think I just miss the ‘90s, and these are part of that.

And if you don’t drink wine, you end up with my username.

Thank you! I’ve tried neti pots, but they just don’t work for me. It’s like my sinuses are *so* blocked that they just won’t let the saline solution flow through. I just can’t figure them out.

Nothing because I’ve been so sick that I’ve basically been eating saltines all week, so I haven’t wanted to even think about what to make once I’m over this sinus infection, but I think I may finally be recovered to the point where I’ll spend a chunk of tomorrow planning for next weekend. I got an Instant Pot for my…

Blech, not-the-flu illness solidarity. I’ve been sick as hell this week with a sinus infection. I actually stayed home from work most of the week (and really should have stayed home yesterday, too, but I was going kind of stircrazy and feeling guilty for being gone so long since I pretty much never take time off due…

You’re confusing the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul with this year’s Winter round in Pyeongchang, and you’re confusing Pyeongchang (in South Korea) with Pyongyang (North).

A bunch of my coworkers at my old job used to make fun of my curling obsession — and then the Olympics rolled around, and they were completely sucked in. And didn’t tell me they were watching it during the workday because those motherfucking assholes claimed they had no clue I liked it despite the fact that I was the…

I don’t know what’s better: the fact that the song exists or the fact that this video exists.

HIS LITTLE BOW TIE!