Jesus.

No fist fights, but he did nip a dog during play the first month or so we had him, so we paid a vet bill (both dogs were playing rough, and our dog got nipped, too—just not as bad).

It was weird—part of the black head/plug popped out, and the rest just got absorbed/went away over a few months (or maybe, as you point out, it was leaking on her sheets, and she never told me). At its biggest, the lump was over an inch high and 3-4 in diameter, so it wasn’t a tiny thing.

I have a baddish rescue dog that we’ve been working with, but he came with a boatload of anxious/weird behaviors and even the trainer has struggled with him. He’s 75% better than last year, but he’s still not great—leash reactive, gate reactive, a nightmare in the car, not 100% consistent with recall or not jumping…

Oh how I yearn for the days when we had that man as our president.

Have you seen The Tale, the Laura Dern movie directed by Jennifer Fox about her own grooming and sexual abuse by a coach and his mistress/enabler?

good for your grandfather.  What a nice bit of closure for all of you.

I’m late to SNS and Krispy posts about kitties, so I won’t repeat all the Bruce stanning.

Her turn as Oscar’s mom in Fruitvale Station is amazing—she doesn’t have a lot of screen time, but she is phenomenal. She also takes a throw-away role as a pet psychic in Dinner for Schmucks and imbues is with a bit of gravity.

You probably have a good artist’s eye—my training is in cinematic history, which includes aesthetics but is also really focused on economic & technological histories of film—so I don’t view with an artist’s mind/eye (more the pity).

Academy ratio (1:375) was a response to the shift to sound, but it’s a step removed from the original ratio (1:15) that came about with sound on film (the image was narrower because of the part of the filmstrip that encoded sound).

Revel in your nerdiness!

even copy/pasted whole passages out of other novels (mostly out of print fantasy novels) and then said it was a game for clever readers who could “catch the references”

thank you for providing context.

I socialized with his family casually while growing up.

I’m just sad at all the time he lost to that lifestyle. All the time we all lost.

I feel terrible for the poor, drowned woman, but your comment kind of made my day (as a “book-first-please” kind of reader/viewer).

God, I hate that I went there, too.

Advice from an internet stranger. Your legs are fine. The widest part is not very wide at all:)

Wear the skirt.  It looks fine.  Your legs are good.