I saw what looked to be a grey, hairless, quadrupedal alien being or chupacbra taking a shit right in the middle of the very well manicured front lawn of a charming arts and crafts bungalow in a very nice neighborhood in Pasadena. The closest I could find to it on Google Image search was this picture of a mangy…

Yeah, a friend of mine who's an English professor was interviewed for a faculty job there. Among the questions they asked were "Could you describe your relationship with Jesus Christ?" and "Who takes the lead in your marriage?"

Has anyone else used the word "bro" with someone my parents' age (i.e. 55-70) and then had to awkwardly explain that it is not a vaguely insulting term for black people?

Maybe it won't win because it's in French or doesn't have a name actor, but Avant Que De Tout Perdre was fucking amazing. It's a half-hour short about a woman in a small French town making good on her plan to escape her abusive husband with her kids, which makes it sound like a Lifetime movie (LOL that movies about…

If you ever get a chance to see her Wishful Drinking one-woman show, it's totally worth it, and she cheerfully discusses her drugged-up past. At one point she mentions that John Belushi told her that maybe she used a bit too much cocaine, which, wow.

I went to Cornell in the mid '90s and was not in the Greek system, but knew people who were. Someone told me (yes, this was second hand, but this guy was interested in the subject and had researched it) that Cornell's traditionally black frats had a higher percentage of white members than the traditionally "nonracial"…

True, though by the period of the Old West, most of the Cherokee had been expelled to Oklahoma.

marky mark just straight up s-ing his dh about this

Won't it be nightmarishly loud when it rains? Fortunately, this is Seattle, so that won't happen very often.

I mean not like I was ever a superfan or anything but "'Thor' director Kenneth Branagh" makes me :(