Maybe start with a few light colored dresses, and then gradually dye them darker and darker colors until Labor Day when the last dress is dyed black?

“I think in summer, it’s nice to never repeat a dress you wear to work.”

I clicked and thought this was going to be about Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri, another superlative example of great writing in a video game, also from 1999.

I’ll take that recommendation of Rilla of Ingleside, and to that I’ll add that people should get over their “isn’t that for 13-year-old girls?”-ness about Anne of Green Gables and just read it (if it helps, Mark Twain was a big fan). I never looked into any of its sequels because I recall reading that Montgomery…

And lastly, but most importantly, Kevin’s parents were $$$. They absolutely have wi-fi cameras in their house now, so that can obviously see that Kevin is there in .3 seconds. Unless somehow the city of Chicago is hit with an EMP and both the internet and phone services are down simultaneously, this movie doesn’t work.

In the movie, the mom calls the police and asks them to check on Kevin. They were all, “yeah whatever who cares.” Then the cop who does show up half asses the job.

I’m a 40-something parent, so I grew up in the latchkey era (but I wasn’t a latchkey kid myself), and yeah, what you could take as plausible in 1990 in this movie would just not work today. Some because of changed attitudes, some because of technology. I could buy an 8yo without a phone, but probably not without an…

This. I’m also a newish thirty-something parent, and so many of the things I grew up with I’m now like, wow this would never fly these days. My fave example is the book, Good Dog Carl, in which, if you’re not familiar, a mom goes runs an errand and leaves the dog in charge, and the dog and baby do fun things like…

Well, then never said it would be a long movie.

The simple solution is to not have the family be upper class New Yorkers, then Kevin won’t have his own cell phone and the parent’s cricket plan could be out of minutes this month.

THIS.

As a Canadian, I often look at our two countries as essentially the same. Sure, we have our quaint little differences (“sorry”), our superficial ones (km or miles), and our rather significant monetary ones (we don’t, ostensibly, pay for health care), but we, generally and frequently, speak the same language, with…

Tired: Boat Shoes

Absolutely agree, credit monitoring (and keeping it secure, fixing errors, etc) should be free for however long the agencies have our data. They make so much money off it already, either to recommended products on to us or whenever lenders check our history with them.

It would be better if they had to pay $20k to everyone whose data was breached whether or not they have had to deal with fraud or anything else. The fact is the information is out and at any time now there is a potential for it to be used illicitly.

“You know, who even cares anymore? I thought that’s what we’re all learning. Nothing matters.” -Veronica Mars

I think it would be better if people stopped looking so hard for biological connections, and instead made those connections with the people they have. If you find out that your father couldn’t possibly be your father, so your aunt isn’t your aunt, and that means you can’t talk to your aunt about things, that’s a sad…

Now they’ll replace him with some common bitch.

YEP. I am currently addicted to HomeScapes - I blame my best friend, who suggested it in the middle of a 7-hour roadtrip last month - and have spent nearly $200! My strategy at present is just to only allow myself to spend money on the game once a week, if then, so we’ll see if that helps.

“Example 2: This summer I’m going to eat nothing but corn on the cob, boiled to perfection; mozzarella, tomato and basil sandwiches; and endless bowls of fresh strawberries, blueberries and cantaloupe.”

How to use a Harvard (or Oxford) comma: add one each after “tomato” and “blueberries.”