Thanks for that. I was wondering about some of the anger stuff in that piece.

Thank you, Seabassy. I’ve long appreciated your comments, and this was a wonderful summing up.

EDIT: Well, it’s disturbing to see my post show up grey. Haven’t seen that since Rachel Vorona Cote (remember her?) followed me back in 2017. (Other than for a brief timeout after an asshole came after me!)

Interesting NYT column from last May about the rise and fall of Jezebel (and her online contemporaries):

See ya, FA. Actually, I guess I won’t. Take care.

Well....bye, everyone. This sucks. It’s been fun. That’s all I got.

Well, shit. I guess Jezebel is the latest victim of the unknown* serial killer who has been wiping out all my favourite sites. I’ll miss a lot of the smart, fun commenters, and I hope they all find somewhere else good to land. I hope the shitbag trolls find something else upon which to waste their sad little lives. It …

The responses in this thread make me very concerned.

I addressed this above, but I should add that I see people doing it “the right way” with “a cheap pressure washer” all the time - they’re basically sandblasting their cars. Others don’t keep their wash bucket/mitts/rags clean enough and they end up giving their rides a hell of a hand-sanding.

I did that back in the ’90s to my Talon (not a full shatter, but a big honkin’ stress crack from top to bottom). Just wasn’t thinking about the temperature differential, which would have been huge.

What is it that you think beats up the paint job? The one I use starts with a gentle spray of water and soap to loosen things up, then a firmer water/soap spray, then a rinse. The pressures aren’t any higher than what one would get with an aggressive garden hose nozzle. It’s really no different than how I do it in my…

When the boat starts floating, it pulls up on the strap and on the trailer, which takes weight off the boat’s rear wheels

Either you’re being deliberately provocative, or you’re blissfully unaware of the fact that cell service is going to be one of the first things to fail during a disaster.

Kelce is on someone else’s team in my fantasy league, so I need her to stay home when he plays

A baby?

While it’s nice that Taylor Swift got to hang with the girls this weekend, we must not ignore the damage done to Travis Kelce’s performance [i.e., the football kind] as a result of her not attending the Chiefs game this weekend. Seriously, would it have been too much trouble for her to just pop over to Frankfurt…

Or how people in Victorian novels speak of “making love” by which they meant simply chatting affectionately with their object of desire

Oh, but he has shot someone.

a Nobu Martini starts at $22 plus tax and tip, and comes in three varieties: lychee, pineapple and grapefruit.

Yep, a real pro would’ve engaged Carrie Underwood as his creative consultant.