“Scalability” will be a curse word in the future, I hope. 

I read The Godfather the first time when I was in third grade and had tested out of all the reading levels, so they sent me to the library, made entirely out of donated books and no librarian (ah, private religious schools . . .) and was absolutely horrified by that scene.

Ha! I’ve started using “fam” because of them.

Your indigent population is ambitious! In Atalnta, I regularly get asked for .47 to .78 cents.

Was anyone else disappointed that the human to mess with group wasn’t PillBoi? I would have loved several episodes where Jason thinks about malatov cocktail-ing whatever is going on and PillBoi convinces him otherwise, thus proving the system is fucked up. 

Drugs and NAFTA.

This was one of the few weeks’ worth of bakes that I felt an American-trained baker would have crushed the competition. Every time they do American-style pies or baking in this joint, half the time I’m just left with, “but that’s, . . . not . . . The hell??” But throw an American (probably Southern) cook in there with…

If only I could figure out a way to get my job located to New Zealand. I’ve been a lot of places, but the South Island is one of the most beautiful in the world that I’ve seen.

I’m in Georgia and when you leave metro areas there aren’t a lot of non-Trump signs and I just have to remember: land doesn’t vote, people do. It’s my civic duty to make sure my neighbors in our godless urban center get to the polls. 

You know, I don’t recall, but humorless asshole that he is, I can completely see him boring a seven-eight year old to sleep with those lists and waking me up to listen to more biologically inaccurate information about whales.

My dad read “Moby Dick” to me as an eight-year-old but it wasn’t til college I realized how much he’d skipped the men-holding-hands-in-the-whale-sperm bit.

I may be wrong, but I think rush hour for Walmart is more after regular work hours and Sunday night. That’s when I go when I can’t avoid it and it’s pretty hectic. 

Ah, you see, this may be the difference. We have no self check out and they watch you like a hawk and check your receipt as you walk out the door. Rather unpleasantly police-state-ish. 

I don’t like giving my money to Walmart, but I’ve used this in panic shopping and party-planning situations and it was a life-saver. Walmart is my closest grocery store, but I avoid going in person as much as possible. Is everyone’s Walmart an instant stress zone where everyone seems pissed to be alive or is that just…

I want to be in charge of an experiment like this, but with kittens. I would skip to work every day.

The response to the lawn-mowing kid made me so goddam mad. In Bluebrain world, they put a Ph.D. candidate who is a single mom who had to gofundme to support herself to go to do an internship with NASA on the cover of the school’s magazine LIKE IT’S A FUCKING INSPIRATIONAL STORY AND NOT A-FUCKING-NOTHER SYMPTOM THAT…

It’s exactly right that this would happen on the anniversary of 9/11, which I think is the tipping point of a good bit of the fuckery we’re now living in. The seeds have always been here, but 9/11 accelerated the cancer as Fox more and more explicitly embraced its watch us for things to be scared about programming…

I want to star, but your spelling of y’all makes me suspicious . . .

To be fair, if Steve McQueen was an option, a lot of people would get left. 

I’ve got friends who have been legit, hardcore in love since they met as undergrads and spent over a decade as “friends”, living in other cities and keeping in touch juuuuuuust enough to shut down any other possible real relationships because one of their dad’s said that if they got together it was like “spitting on…