Ugh, the bloody aliens. So many dangling plot threads... That's been my major problem with AHS, the writers don't seem to have any confidence in their characters and settings, so they keep piling on the gimmicks and useless subplots (the Black Dahlia? aliens?). Coven was probably the least gimmicky, iirc most of the…

I truly thought that my opinion of Snyder could not sink any lower... What an asshat.

I did not know that! And now I'm glad she's never made that noise when coming after my personal limbs. Which she does with depressing frequency.

Our younger cat, who we hand-raised after her mother disappeared, makes these strange, purring/chittering noises when she's stalking something. We're glad she doesn't have to hunt to survive...

Didn't Doonesbury have a whole thing about him hiring people to find quotes for him? I seem to recall that being screamingly funny once dad explained it to me. (Watergate-era Doonesbury strips were some of my first reading material. Mom recently told me that neither parent had really expected to have to explain the…

I prefer Ella, myself, especially her later collaborations with Louis Armstrong:

I think I have problems listening to Billie herself is because the pain of her life was always there in her voice, no matter what she was singing about.

I suppose anything is possible, especially if they're as well read as I was at that age - maybe laying the groundwork for an insanity plea? It's something I would have thought of at that age, had I been inclined to commit such a crime.

Wait til someone at Fox does any research... Slenderman (and all the other related/derivative stuff) is NOT for the faint of heart. I've edited some of my husband's writing in one of the derived 'verses, but he's told me that most of his stuff would disturb me, and i take him at his word.

Double post...

I now have an odd sense of hope for humanity. I think my heart might be growing, Grinch style.

I'm pretty sure I've been to that Denver diner - the food was decent, but Pete's University Cafe holds a special place in my heart.

I love my home state, I really do, but shit like this makes me ashamed of (and for) Michigan.

There was not a single person between his dressing room and the stage who could have clued him in?

Yeah, that shit does not fly with me. Talk about disrespecting boundaries!

Those guys would not like me, then. I've elbowed my husband in the solar plexus when he snuck up behind me. Anyone who knows me for more than twenty minutes knows that I react very badly to unexpected touches.

That is not food, that is congealed existential horror.

Given that Shrub&Co worked very hard to keep Cheneys VERY REAL health problems out of the spotlight, I find that comment very ironic.

Congratulations on your elevation to the ranks of asshat wastes of oxygen! Your parents must be so proud.

When I graduated in 1995 (yes, I am an Old), our principal told us that girls would wear skirts or we would be sent home to 'change into something appropriate' - which, given that we had to wear white outfits under white gowns, would probably have been a problem. Since my friend and I had already bought pantsuits, we…