Pain au chocolat, naturellement. However, why couldn’t Team Chocolatine pull a “champagne vs. sparkling wine” and insist only bakers from the regions of Aquitaine and Midi-Pyrenees, for example, could call it a chocolatine, and that the rest of the world had to settle for pain au chocolat?

This reminds me that Timothy Olyphant would often mention to Conan O’Brien that the underpants provided to guests on Ellen are quite good.
So now I’m going to think about Timothy instead and be happier for it.

It sounds like a present-day Zoltar.

They just took the same daytime concept and slapped a new host’s name onto it. Instead of Rosie throwing Koosh balls into the audience and giving away free makeovers, they just...whatever Ellen does.
Invite viral video subjects on and present them with a giant PCH check? 

I once worked in a hellhole in which someone who was going to Vegas to see Britney Spears referred to Spears as “my spirit animal”. That wasn’t exactly why I quit, but it was a sprinkle on the sundae. 

Same with referring to something as higher or lower on the totem pole. Just choose a similar phrase that isn’t shitty. How difficult is that?

That’s one thing I don’t think I could stand about working in entertainment: why do these middle-aged celebrities think pranking is fun and not, say, something they should have left behind in their frat houses? (Ahem, Clooney.)
There’s no room for that in a workplace.

Nice people don’t have to market themselves as nice.

pumpkin choc chip pancakes

I remember some director saying something similar re: Christine Baranski. Up until the last decade or so, she was always cast as these frosty ice queens (and she plays them well), but she’s apparently incredibly warm and kind in real life.

Why not just go whole hog and call themselves Lady Antediluvian? 

This is such a great get—congrats!
I was (re)watching Coel on Ways to Change the World last night and she is amazing. She also tells the story of why there is no Chewing Gum, Series 3 (itv are rubbish and didn’t handle the offer well). She’s a boss. And everyone watch Black Earth Rising if you haven’t already.

What a versatile muse. The Dali pomegranate and the Vermeer made me squeal with delight.

Back in late 2008, I saw a “missing cat” flyer posted in my neighbourhood for a “half black, half white” cat who answered to the name “Obama”. I hope they found him, but how very of the time that was.

Without further investigation, I’m guessing the cat is white passing.

I grew into a very unconfident young adult who constantly questioned my own feelings and experiences. I can only imagine this is a teeny fraction of how abused children feel.

It infuriated me hearing about how Henry Thomas’ mom was labeled as difficult because she was doing her job as a mother and trying to protect her son from the abuses of the industry and then he was labeled as difficult as well.

Caption: See, America, we’re completely fine being near [frijoles] negros.