“Considering all the wars and all the rapes and pillages that happened throughout all these different nations, I know that I can’t say that I was not a part of a product of that.”

Seriously. I can’t even imagine what he thinks but doesn’t say.

I love Southern California for a lot of reasons, but the Midwest has far superior architecture, cost of living, and fall foliage. And it would be great to add mine and my husband’s votes to the blue column there as well.

Ye gods, I need to rewatch that episode. Because moving from Beverly Hills to Minnesota is like tripling your salary at least, so literally doubling your salary and moving from Beverly Hills to Minnesota is like suddenly sextupling your salary. They could easily buy a house in Minnesota outright with the equity from…

“...reassigned to cover poverty and the social safety net...” Wonderful, just what poor people falling through the social safety net need: a sexual harrasser’s attention.

Sincere thanks to everyone who nicely explained the joke to me. It’s been one of those weeks. :)

August is totally Halloween Planning season for me. :) 

Exactly. PSL, just like all of Starbucks’ sweetened beverages, are a bit too sweet for me if I am in the mood for coffee, but they taste perfectly fine as far as sweet drinks go, and I find the backlash against them so absurd.

I don’t even understand this. Fredo is not an offensive word for an Italian. It’s what you call the dumbest, most useless member of a family (esp. a crime family), of literally any ethnicity. That’s why people keep using it to refer to Donald Trump, Jr., and Eric Trump. And then some people say the Trump family is…

That is exactly how I read it, and I was like, “This is the opposite of boring.”

Several years ago, I was at CVS, and I got into that mood where you suddenly realize that CVS has all of the little things you’ve been meaning to buy, but you haven’t, because you don’t want to go out for just one nail clipper. This was before bullet journals, so I didn’t have a running list handy of things I needed…

I think it’s because our memory works by placing facts in a mental map we create. People who memorize things competitively even construct “memory palaces” inside their heads to hold the things they are memorizing. A book gives us a ready-made mental map, in which we often remember about how far through the book, what…

A small sampling would include: The Grand Palais in Paris; The Chrysler Building; I find myself unable to choose just one Second Empire Victorian home, so we‘ll just take all the ones in the Midwest collectively; the Bradbury Building in Los Angeles; Grand Central in New York; the Musee d’Orsay in Paris; the Hotel…

I don’t even like Olive Garden, but if I had one near my office, I would definitely try for this, and then eat there every day for lunch. I have a dream of free restaurant lunch forever.  Sadly, the nearest Olive Garden is 18 minutes by car, and I am really looking for something that is walking distance.

I feel bad about myself because I can tell you are making a joke, and at least 76 other people got the joke, and I do not get the joke. Now I feel dumb (or tired? let’s go with tired.).

I watched The Dark Crystal in 8th grade English class, I and definitely don’t know why (but I am happy about it).

Too much animation, not enough puppets.  But I will still watch the entire thing.

Beth sucks.  I didn’t cry over her.

In both book and movie, I am always relieved that Beth dies, because she is a drag. Not because of her illness, but her sickening sweetness. GTFOH, Beth.

For reasons I cannot understand, the interview did not print the questions that were put to Cattrall.  I’m certain she was asked specifically about it, and answered it.