Reminds me of the old days in high school during football season, when we would paint our school’s initials on our cheeks before games. Lots of people had a friend do it, but there was always one person who did it in the mirror and got the letters backwards. My solution was to write the initials on a slip of paper,…

My talent caps out at stick figures, so I’m not sure . . . also I’d have to come up with clever dialogue.

You beat me to it! I would definitely prefer that men ask outright, because then I will know that there will be no more dates.

I FORGOT ABOUT THAT!

I feel like I’m becoming more of a socialist every day.

My mom showed me the article about a house being sold here that is about the same size, and I had the same question. Two bowling allies? Three home theaters? She pointed out that the article says there is an indoor tree house. That is just perverse. There was one multi-story area covered in windows, so I want to…

Thanks for the info. I’d heard of the Azuza Street revival, but I didn’t realize that it was largely African-American. I only know a bit about the Pentecostal church and it’s all second-hand. My great-grandfather was a shiftless Pentecostal preacher (you know the type. Grandma quote: “He was not a good provider”)…

The guy who rents a room from my brother has discovered that he is some kind of natural sharp shooter. They have an air gun for killing rats that they trap, and it turns out that he can shoot a running rat from several yards away. I told him he should try and star in a hunting show in the hood.

Now I learned something, because I associated clapping on the 2 and 4 as being something Pentecostal people do. Is it another thing co-opted by white southerners, like gospel music and fried okra?

Couldn’t agree more. Granted, there are a lot of people in Indy whose families migrated from the south for factory jobs, but the rural racists are not them.

It makes me think of A Girl of the Limberlost when Philip asks Edith to dress either as a Luna moth or a Yellow Impirialis.

Huh. I never had any interest in Monster High, but I appreciate this makeup choice.

It’s some oldies station in Chicago that has a pretty random playlist. He likes it because it isn’t the same stuff all the time, but sometimes they play some pretty obscure shit that deserved its obscurity.

No kidding, my brother recently showed me this video because he had to share his total disbelief with someone. He was listening to the radio and heard it for the first time and was like WHAT IS THIS SHIT. And then had to look it up and inflict its horror with me, naturally.

Spring in my imagination is glorious. Flowers blooming! Birds chirping! Spring in reality is never-ending rain and the 3 max beautiful days that I can’t enjoy because I have to work. April is the cruelest month.

Did you catch the point when the supervisor said “your policy is interfering with my law”?

When it comes to sending out tons of applications and not getting one single reply, I’ve been there. One thing I’ve found helpful is the site Ask a Manager. There is a lot of advice on cover letters and resumes, and the advice is from an actual manager, not an “expert” who bases the advice on workplace experiences…

What a great program! I think it’s fantastic to house all those resources in the same place for so many reasons: it might be hard for an abused woman to go somewhere without her abuser knowing, so it’s good to have just one location to go; if someone gets followed, there are cops right there on hand; there are…

Well, finally! Now, how about those others?

Yeah, I know it’s practical, but it always feels like “look at this fool” to me.