About a month ago, I was at CVS and they had cute little hand sanitizers in fun scents like gummy bear and donut. I bought a dozen of them because I thought they would make cute little “add-on” gifts. I am, to say the least, thrilled that my childlike glee in candy-scented items paid off.

Jayden also said he thinks his grandfather should just go die (which: yikes, considering Jamie’s recent health issues) and that he told his mother she shouldn’t quit performing because she “makes bank”.

If Laura Dern was my “mom”, I’d stay alive as long as I could too.

I am thrilled that someone was excited enough by that comment to try it and report back!  Your enthusiasm makes me quite happy.  I’m going to give this a whirl too.

You put this so beautifully. After my mom died, I just remember watching people walking around laughing, looking happy, and thinking “Fuck you. It should have been you.” Which I know is a horrible thing to think, but grief doesn’t have much of a moral compass.

What has this dude been smoking and is it legal where I live?  I couldn’t afford COBRA when I got laid off and thank fucking GOD for the ACA because it meant I didn’t have to panic when I broke my hand or have to choose between going to the gynecologist about a worrisome symptom or eating anything more substantial…

JFC this is so embarrassing but, to paraphrase Carrie Fisher, if my life wasn’t funny it would just be true and that’s unacceptable.

I don’t get it either.  I used to have an iPhone, now I have an Android, and the only thing I like much less about the Android is that it takes far inferior photos.  I agree with the poster below who said iPhones are such a status product that maybe that accounts for the derision.

[my grandmother opens the tin]

[my grandmother opens the tin]

Why is someone’s toe censored in a lot of the screenshots?

That sounds right up my alley.  Thank you for the recommendation!

My favorite novel of 2019 was The Need by Helen Phillips, about a woman working on an archeological dig who finds several anachronistic items. Then her home is invaded by a stranger in a deer mask, and then things get weirder from there. It’s creepy and riveting.

YES, THANK YOU. I was shocked at the hate for Days Gone. I rented it from Redbox because I wanted to at least try it, and that way I’d only be out 5 bucks instead of 40, but I loved it so much I wound up buying it after all. I think perhaps a lot of the hate was based on the fact that it was so buggy upon release, and…

Let us not forget “My year sucked because I kept having missed connections with a hot dude so I was going to spend Christmas alone but then I forgot cranberries and went to the store and he was there and finally we gon’ FUUUUUCK”:  “Christmas Wrapping” by The Waitresses.

FYI: most snail slime doesn’t involve the snail being killed or crushed. In general, they are allowed to roam freely over a mesh screen and then the mucus is collected from that. However, some other methods (poking them with a stick, irritating them with chemicals) are not quite as nice, and many companies don’t want…

I think My Favorite Thing Is Monsters came out about 3 years ago. The second volume was supposed to come out this year but has been delayed. I’ll have to reread the first volume again before reading the second; I know it ended on a cliffhanger but I don’t remember what! Not exactly an onerous chore; I read fast and it…

I read Pumpkin Heads last month and really enjoyed it!  It made me want to go to a local fall festival and eat ALL THE THINGS, but I didn’t get a chance. And This One Summer was great.  Mariko Tamaki also did a terrific graphic novel called Skim. 

I’ve been reading at least 2 books a week this year due to my job search getting pushed back over and over again (long and depressing story, but hey, reading!). A few I really liked (bonus: all women except one):

A fictional character.  He does die at the end, so I guess he could be a ghost?  A sexy, sexy ghost.

Yeah, Wendy, I think I’ll take a pass on Jason Momoa as sexiest man alive. Not a damn-ass thing against his looks, which are quite nice, but I prefer a dude who doesn’t rip my books up if I’m not paying attention to him. (cf: Amber Heard’s anecdote about filming Aquaman)