Hmmm, very good points. I’ll keep this in mind as I scream at my TV for the next couple months until I can filter out his blather without being fearful that I might miss a(nother) national security crisis.

Yeah, I’ve been working on de-gendering my language lately, and I find that “asshole” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in the last week or so. Oddly, the one person I still routinely refer to as a c-word, is the man we’re (hopefully) about kick out of the White House.

Your opening sentence alone is worth a star :)
I also love the word ‘psychopomp’, although I normally associate it with birds.

Ah, different occurrences then, but I’m still pretty sure I know the light you’re talking about. Here’s a fun list from a local radio station:

Near Rockford, you say? Depending on the time frame, I may have seen the same light. It ran parallel to my buddy’s car for a while, then took off, jinked in a few odd directions, then streaked off incredibly fast. My friends and I always joke about it being a true UFO - a flying object that none of us could ever…

Ok, here goes. Names have been changed to protect the innocent and all that.

How about Sugar Smacks and Super Sugar Crisp? Can we get those back too?

That you are a normal human being who knows that woman is never to be trusted?

SHERIDAN: What’s in there?

Yup. I’m exercising more than I ever have in my life, but still been chasing the same 10 pounds around since March. Part of it is boredom snacking, part “eating your feelings”, and a not-insignificant part is the munchies from one of my other pandemic vices.

Well... I guess someone had to pick up the baton from Shirley MacLaine.

This is such hypocritical manufactured outrage, but dammit, Nancy! WTF did she think was going to happen? Woman can’t stock her freezer with her preferred brands of ice cream without a Fox News exposé, so what exactly was the expected outcome here? Stop scoring own-goals!

These points are essentially where I’m at. Had she gone with the bikini top without the hairstyle, then it would almost certainly have been fine, eliciting little-to-no commentary. But with the Bantu (TIL!) knots? Not great, Bob...

Purely personal story, take from this what you will.

Fantasy Flight Games has the IP for Arkham Horror and other Lovecraft-mythos-related games, and they are surprisingly good at giving you diverse characters to play. Whether it’s one of your Investigators, or some of the human menaces they have to face, there are a lot of faces of color. I think there are also at least…

I was lucky enough to see Dead Again in a nearly empty theatre when it was released, and it was just enthralling. Every part of that movie felt so fresh and original to younger me. I wonder if the twists and reveals in that inspired Shyamalan in his films? 

One of my kids was reading this for school here in Spring, and so we watched the Brannagh version. I tried to explain to them that the most “Household name actor” in the movie at the time it was released was the guy playing Dogberry. I’m not sure how successful I was. The wife and I were also DYING at how bad Keanu…

I generally stay away from astrology as much as possible nowadays, but I’m often uncomfortable at how much my personality is so very, very, very CANCER. Moody? Check. Introverted? Check. Creative, but afraid to show off that side of myself? I like to think ‘Check’. Plus, it’s a water sign, and I am rarely more content…

Thank you. They were like little chunks of cardboard flavored with Splenda and ass...

The wife and I just watched MI 2 & 3 for the first time over the weekend. The script for MI:2 was god-awful, but Woo’s visual style saved the movie itself from being just as awful (one of his gifts as a director). I still found it more entertaining than 3, and a lot of that credit goes to Thandie Newton. Neither movie …