That was my cat as a teeny kitten. Her purr was absurdly loud for her little body. But then she met other cats, and turned put to be a pretty skilled mimic, so now she has a much broader range of noises.

My parents tried really hard to pick middle names we kids could use if we didn’t like our first names. Obviously this doesn’t work if kiddo hates their middle name too, but I appreciate them doing that even though I do go by my given name.

Love the ring, and your manicure too!

Dan Savage once responded to a woman whose husband wanted pies thrown at him for sexual pleasure, counseling her to make sure her needs were being met too, but keep on throwing those pies if she didn’t mind and it was good for the relationship. He basically said, “pie-throwing might sound weird, but think about it. As…

He rapes her AT GUNPOINT and some asshole still wants to argue it’s not rape because she’s a sex worker? This woman could have died. She may be traumatized for life. But some asshole just has to clarify for the rest of us that she is the “wrong” kind of woman and therefore unrapable.

And child porn is ALL over the regular porn tube sites where people just trying to jerk off to consenting adults can stumble on it accidentally, obviously. Definitely not buried in the dark web.

I would have started crying and never stopped.

I was not a vegetarian in high school, although I’d considered it, and the fetal pig dissection was what broke me. My lab group had kindly done most of the actual cutting on all our dissections, and I’d take notes and fill out the worksheets. Even sitting a safe distance away, even knowing it was just a preserved…

If that’s real, it’s fucking wonderful.

This seems to be true across the board in film, not just dance movies — filmmakers are fine with showing black men with white women, but not black women with white men. Showing Asian or Latina women dating white men seems to be allowed though.

It sounds like we have similar hair, and mine gets the same way. I can sometimes go two days without washing, if I’m not doing anything very physical, But more than that and it’s not cute anymore.

The “no-shampoo” thing is a bit of a misnomer, actually, people just use natural cleansers they make themselves — it’s a baking soda paste that’s massaged into the scalp/roots, then rinsed out with diluted apple cider vinegar. I can’t say how well it works — I’ve never tried it — but people aren’t, like, NOT washing…

I picked up Scotland, PA mainly to giggle at and was surprised at how great it was. The casting should’ve given me a clue but damn. Excellent dark comedy, would recommend to EVERYONE.

Much as I love the Branagh/Thompson Much Ado, there’s something about the overall vibe of Whedon’s film I just adore. These people all feel like real friends with shared history (I guess because they are!) Amy Ackers’ Beatrice is so warm and prickly and vulnerable at the same time. Her responses to Benedick feel like…

Have you ever seen Scotland, PA? It’s a surprisingly enjoyable adaptation of Macbeth, set in a fast food restaurant.

Yeah, except unfortunately, he waited till after her 18th birthday to release this, so he has plausible deniability. And her family seems to be totally fine with this situation so it’s not like they’re going to call him out.

I’m pretty sure it’s edible glitter, in corn syrup or honey.

Yeah, my parents sort of did what you describe — they’re divorced and had a joint custody agreement where my two brothers and I would sort of cycle through the two houses (so that only occasionally did one parent actually have all three of us and have to live like . . . well, a single parent of three.) To help deal…

Yes! I’d love it if we caught glimpses of some heroes who (so far) don’t have their own movie franchise/shows, too.

Or if your three-month-old kitten steps in her own poop and starts frantically running around the apartment because oh my GOD there is something on her paw WHAT IS IT. And then the cat blames you for washing her, of course.

Not that this has ever happened to me.