I hadn’t fully realized that, but now I want to do a set of the opposite, if I have to write the books myself. (They will be poorly written.)

Both! There’s a lot of cunning folk/Native American/African American overlap in Appalachian folk tradition. I have my great-great-grandma’ copy of The Long Lost Friend, and the 6th and 7th Key of Solomon (along with some books she got through the Pack Librarians...and never returned bad great-great-grandma!) she was…

In this case at least Kim Richardson’s is a third or fourth book in a continuing line of “Appalachian stereotypes that are now novels” all of them have convoluted nonsense plots and portray Kentucky Appalachian populations as very stereotypical to ‘outsider’ accounts (Appalachia is myriad. Black, Melugion, etc…

Authors who work in similar genres or styles probably also listen to the same radio shows, read the same newspapers and magazines, and have friends in similar professions. I feel like the process where writers generate ideas is less like picking up signals from the universe than having ideas from other media implanted…

This reminds me of the story in Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert where she and another author, unbeknownst to each other, had been developing an idea for a book that dealt with the same subject matter (I forget what specifically). The ideas were coincidental but there were enough specifics about each project for it to…

I mean, it’s pretty on-brand for an American teacher of the French language to be linguistically pedantic and a religious bigot in equal measures.

CATASS AND I DEMAND THE CHIEF QUEEF BRIEF!

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EXACTLY. I don’t know when the “I don’t need no stinkin’ expert” phenomenon began and I can only hope it’ll reach its zenith soon, but I wish people would even consider the notion that a layperson cannot correctly assess everything. If you are even remotely familiar with diagnostic criteria, let alone discerning it in…

Wait, is this a thing? I once had a 15-year-old boy in my summer school class who made me feel uneasy for some reason I couldn’t put my finger on, and he turned out to be a 22-year-old Ukrainian national who’d overstayed his visa and was paying some family to “adopt” him. He’s now in prison on a bunch of charges.

I’m with you on the adopt a puppy front, but I just have to say that borador is one of the most bad-ass dog names I’ve ever heard. It sounds like a dog that would run through a brick wall to save a baby. Or just because.

Whatever he’s begging for with his eyes, OMG GIVE IT TO HIM NOW!!! GIVE HIM ALL THE THINGS!!!

Nah man, you guys are the ones raising badass Zoomer kids. Us Millennials had fucking BOOMERS as parents; what chance did we have not to be total fuckups?!? We owe you guys a debt of gratitude.

Speaking as a parent, I hope her parents are collapsing from pride every 15 seconds or so. Speaking as a human being, Yes. Just yes.

Cool to arrest a kid so young she should’ve been in a booster seat on her ride to JAIL. Why the fuck is a cop who has been reprimanded for excessive force allowed to work with children????

Watching Queer Eye is always a boost to my mental health. Whenever I’ve been binging it, I hear him in my head as I’m getting ready, chearing me on, and it gives me such a lift.

It makes me so sad that there were probably so many bubbly JVNs in the 80s and early 90s who got the same news at 25 and didn't live to see 30. Thank goodness (science) for HIV/AIDS research. 

“So we beat on, tents against the current, borne ceaselessly into the past.”