Also a librarian and they were a sleeper for me, too. I’d never heard of them until a friend wrote a piece on Ferrante’s depiction of Naples for a travel blog, then all of a sudden it seemed like I kept seeing them everywhere on the book blogs I read (I assume both things happened because one was recently published,…

And how the heck did Jesus get on the roof of a moving vehicle? Does he teleport when offscreen like the zombies do?

I’m sorry you lost your kitty (also sorry you no longer share space with Winston, I hadn’t known). He sounds like he was the ultimate cat combination of cuddly and asshole.

The brown embroidered one she’s wearing walking in the garden!

Same, although I don’t live in MA anymore, I grew up in the Berkshires and never saw anything stronger than the weed all the landscapers/ski area employees were smoking all day long. I had no idea drug use, especially a heroin epidemic, was even an issue there.

I don’t know what she’s got in the bottle but I’m guessing it’s “toilet science” as in “toilette” as in your personal hygeine routine, not specifically the commode.

An art major probably would have been able to make that a complete first sentence, though.

I’ve heard of it but never seen the video until just now and...really? He moves his arms out of sync for like ten seconds?

I know a Carob. It always mystified me because his parents were not the kind of people you expect to name their kid Carob.

A lot of stores let you use a store coupon (if they distribute them - I know Target does, for example) and a manufacturer’s coupon (the kind you find in newspaper circulars).

This is why I might buy an extra jar of sauce when it’s on sale, and use a coupon or two most times I shop, but I could never do EXTREEEEEME couponing (sorry, I always hear that like Mountain Dew ad voice in my head when I type it). Most of the coupons I see in the circular are for stuff I don’t buy. So yeah, these…

I LOVE this.

Oh, this is just like “We can go to Disney World when your brother is six, he’s too young now”.

Same! My mom told me this when I was a kid who always wanted to read in the car.

OMG. I just realized that when I was a preteen I hated tomatoes, onions, and mushrooms until my mom told me I used to love them when I was a little kid. So I started eating them again. JUST NOW.

When I was a grunge and vintage loving teen in the 90s, I found a box of my parents’ old clothes in the attic and started plundering. There was one really cool band t shirt that had a perfectly round hole in the front shoulder. “Oh,” said my dad, “that’s where your mom shot me.” I believed him for YEARS - all the…

That must have been someone else - I did have a class with her (her seminar presentation was TERRIBLE, she had no public speaking skills or presence, but she was nice enough to chat to while waiting outside the professor’s door once a week. She did make fun of my scarf once though.) but no really good stories, sadly.

I read your comment and just knew you were a fellow alumnus/a. Although in my day the school-wide emails were about not giving press interviews about William, and the school-wide rumors were about Bill Murray.

Rippled? Stippled? Nippled?

Coulda, but the smooth continuous outline of the face, neck, and hair is something my pretty-good-at-drawing six year old would have trouble with. Not to mention the staying-in-the-lines of the lips and eyes! I’m gonna say it was a guided art project like someone else mentioned.