Texas, DFW area. Also had a Hancock's fabric clerk tell me that she does not celebrate Halloween as it is pagan. Pagan sounds pretty good to me, actually.

I had to burn up a gift card, so I went last week. Tons of orange pumpkin and harvest crap, scarecrows, more harvest crap, gourds, straw and rag doll shit, etc. No witches, ghosts, skeletons, vampires, glow in the dark stuff, skulls, bats or anything cool.

Speaking as a slut, emboldened after shutting down the entire US government today, I could give a rat's ass about newspapers.

Gonna grab this gif and post it for "Who are all the sluts responsible shutting down the gubmint tomorrow?" Ahem, ME.

I don't care, Mom, this makes me look like a dork.

Yes. Or "that pank wine", as we say in Texas.

Or pumpkin pie. Homemade. I make a double recipe of filling and bake the overage in custard cups. Crap. Now I want to go home in the middle of the day and make some.

Pretty good practice, BTW. I'm sensitive to tree nuts and get mouth blisters/cracks in the corners of my mouth/etc. Hoovered down a lot of M&M peanuts (which are clearly marked that they are produced in a factory with tree nuts) and broke out in blisters. I was surprised, but cross-contamination from nuts to peanuts…

You know, I was going to ask for pics of this, but now I think I'm just better off without.

My mom died unexpectedly 6 years ago, and "WWMD" is part of my life. Sometimes I ask her aloud what I should do, and I can hear her response in my head clear as a bell. I find it a huge comfort. I was lucky in that she died when I was 48, and had the chance to see her grandsons grow up.

Knowing that that is his actual mouth makes him much worse.

Oh do. There's a lot of awwness in there.

Veneers? I thought it was a sports mouthpiece.

Yes! Sniffing fresh baby head! I could never get enough of it with mine. And other people's fresh baby head is just fine. It's very close to nuzzling, which I think is another lizard brain response to get close in and recognize/protect your babby.

Oh man, I loved Betsy McCall. The ones I remember from the 60s were a lot more detailed. She had terrific clothes.

Hate sex counts, right?

Whaaaaa? Always wondered about that. Any sources? Not that I doubt you.

That's what I thought, and was puzzled by this racist crap. Ugh. Not liking this Twitter in-your-face stupidness.

Serious question (god forbid I use the google) but haven't we had any other brownish or tinted Miss Americas? Of any ethnicity other than fake-tan Caucasian?

Widdle flippy ears!!! I die.