what a great dog and a good story. thanks for sharing.

Time to recommend Hachi, a Dog's Tale, Lasse Hallström's 2009 film.

If you want to completely undo yourself, watch the neorealist film, Umberto D., and weep. It's about a pensioner and his dog. It's a great film that I will never watch again.

oh, crap. the vet/ptsd dog video again. Are you trying to keep me up crying?

llama spit is stinky.

okay, in general, I am opposed to exotic animals at weddings, but the Lion Habitat Rescue is this weird thing that might be okay. The person who started the place was, I think, a mistress of Benny Binion and ran a pretty rag-tag big cat rescue in the heart of Vegas in the 1980s (now it's in Henderson). She took in…

not the well-designed parking lots, the lovely ambient lighting, and the well-organized aisles?

how in the world did you find this treasure?

I'm curious about the researchers came up with the hypothesis/question.

that's because standard poodles are in high demand and don't stay in shelters very long. as opposed to a breed like poor pitbulls, who are a dime a dozen.

what is wrong with you?

one of his newer collections, Full Dark, No Stars, is really pretty good. There's a wife-of-a-BTK-ish-guy story and a really icky mother/son novella that both got me. I liked all of it, even the weakest and shortest story in the collection, "Fair Extension." And I just read Dr. Sleep, which is some ways is a…

I have great, great affection for King, but he does have some questionable gender dynamics in a number of his novels:)

I wonder how many of us watched Pacific Rim for just this reason?

I'm kind of mesmerized by the idea of a "sex spotter" (in the gymnastics/weight lifting/athletics kind of way).

Really? I learn something new every time I visit Jezebel:)

I'm just going to point out that It has one particularly skeevy scene where 12-year-old Bev has sex with all six of the boy members of the Losers' club. Not exactly mean twin sexscapades, but troubling, nonetheless.

Not all men are so self absorbed and self-focused. My partner is probably a lot more empathetic than I am.

I know you can't possibly be married to my father, but this sounds so, so familiar.

yes. I totally agree with what you are saying—Oher was a desirable recruit. The Touhys did enable him to get the tutoring/support to get into college, though, yes?