I’m laughing because this is sad and true. Relevant:

I’m constantly tripping over the low bar for men.

That is so fucked up. I feel so bad for the daughter.

This is beautifully sad

HGTV by way of Faulkner is the single best descriptor I've ever read.

After being dead for 18 years, my father in law still has a stalker.

Alright, I obviously was not there, but this is one of the best funeral/memorial stories I’ve heard to date:

I remember trying to make certain everyone knew I was OK with sex workers (since obviously it appeared they were OK with the concept) but that I just wasn’t one, just like I’m OK with dentists but I’m not one (I’m pretty sure I actually used that exact analogy), and that I didn’t have sex for money. Because that…

Just this summer, my uncle died. His cremated remains were brought from his state of residence to SC for interment. The graveside service, attended only by family, was held in the middle of the day during that godawful heat wave we had. It was 108 degrees. Three generations of my family stood around in our Sunday…

I didn’t have sex for money with your relative, not that there’s anything wrong with that.

I basically babbled. Something along the lines of, “I’m so glad he has such an open minded and loving family, but I’m not a sex worker and I really only know him from the amazing stories my new coworkers tell me. I’m so sorry for your loss, and I’m sure I would’ve loved him but maybe not that way but maybe that way…

Totally. I wouldn’t even want people standing over me watching me sleep, I SURELY don’t want then doing it once I’m actually dead. For their sake and mine.

So a week after I started this job, a guy who no longer worked at the publication I worked for died in a car accident. I never met him, and he was a copy editor so it wasn’t like I was familiar in any way with him through what he wrote.
But nevertheless, the EOC said everyone needed to go. So I went. And somehow the…

And now I’ve won pissing contest twice, Madeline! And my one post got starred over 1000 times! CAN I PLEASE BE OUT OF THE GREYS NOW?!

I’ve seen dead bodies at them.

I love Best in Show and am embarrassingly happy that Mindy Kaling gave it a shoutout.

Your dad is good people. Howe and Lee’s drawings are so fucking great. Please tell him he is very cool.

My dad was a pretty serious LOTR nerd before it was cool, i.e. before the movies came out. He read all the appendices and books by Tolkien’s son annotating his father’s notes and books about the linguistics and collections of artwork about Middle Earth. Two of these artists were particularly considered to be experts,…