I’ll bet money he didn’t.

Obsessive piano playing and fixating on an object are common symptoms of kids with a Taipei personality.

Apparently, he got lots of attention from his parents until JB was born a few years later. Then Patsy started taking JB to those grotesque pageants and Burke basically was left to entertain himself with Nintendo. There definitely is a possibility for some deep seeded resentment.

Yes, this. When I lived there I had to carry my own supply because the only thing they sold was 10,000 different kinds of old-school maxi pads.

If an Olympic athlete is doubled over in pain from her period I assume it was awful. Props to her for competing and being open about it. Every several months or so I get one doom period where the pain makes me sick and shaky and completely nonfunctional - I can’t imagine doing anything besides turning weird colors and…

Ahhhhhhhhhh, fuck, that sucks. I get that sometimes because of fibroids. I hope she doesn’t have that. Or endo. 😔 poor thing.

I looked at the picture and was like WHO THE FUCK IS THAT. I don't like this new look either.

they also both potentially employ a rushin’ leader

Garbage and Wizzardry! Also the name of my new band.

Zork for the win. I bow to you.

Ah. We had a less romantic version of that when I did field work back in the day. Everyone was required to carry a snake-bite kit, which included this little suction device that covered about 1 square inch of skin to extract snake venom out of a bite ( know that myth has been sort of debunked, but back in the day…

also

Jason, you are the master at choosing obscure, yet relevant computers. Presumably you know the NeXTSTEP system is what Tim Berners-Lee used to develop the World Wide Web.

not just vote. They are the Carolina Trump ground game

The *massive* difference is that Westminster is still owned and run by members of the same religious order that built it.

I remember that! Happened in the development (or ‘complex’ if you will) near my parents’ place.

“He’s been bit by those lizards quite a few times,” he said. “I used to kid him, ‘one of these days you’re going to wake up and your arm is going to be missing.’ “Chilling foresight from his MeeMaw

Oh, it is certainly methodically crappy. Meanwhile, I am not even sure what to call Sturgill Simpson’s latest album (it’s country, but so much more than that), but I will call it the best damn thing I have heard in a long, long time.

True... and Komodo Dragons are really big monitor Lizards, and they’ll bite you and wait for you to die from gangrene, over the course of a day or two.

But the really dangerous denizens of Australia are the snakes, and maybe Cane Toads.