Yes on your take on the art world. Different medium, but I was disheartened to learn that a very prestigious (and huge) mostly 2D art show in my area didn’t look through all the submissions. Instead, let’s say they had a quota of 150 pieces, they’d just shuffle through the pile until they reached 150 pieces they liked…

It’s the morning-after so I’m not sure if you’ll see this but here it goes anyway: I never thought I’d get married, but here I am, married. I got married in my 30's, and much to my surprise, I really like it. We don’t have children (on purpose), and there were many surprising (legal) benefits that have helped us out.…

I’m so glad you commented, I was always so curious about your username!!  So sorry about Pumpkin Andy.  He was a good companion.  <3

It’s all fine. We’re all weird. Such a strong and specific craving though reminds me of pica (not that you had this, because you were eating actual food. But have you heard of pica? It’s so interesting: it’s a disordered eating where the person who is usually deficient in some vitamin/mineral craves some non-food…

The name of a Bob Hope movie (comedy/suspense). I lost my ungreyed burner when my old laptop died, and I had recently seen this gem of a film a second time. I’m a fan of old movies (and new movies! And all genres of movies except horror - I’m squeamish.) Loved so many charming lines from the movie:

One of the main reasons I’m not on linkedin.

There are two types of influencers: one is the vapid sort, about which this article is written. People who happened to luck out in the genetic gene pool, are very attractive, and start getting followers because of that. People will follow their every move just because they’re nice to look at. Then the sponsorships…

Yes . I just spoke above about my giant library at home (collected across decades). I purge some every year. But I keep 90%. And I own a kindle AND physical books. And I didn’t keep any of my college textbooks. So it’s not like every book owner is walking around without discernment over what to keep/what to toss in…

Preach! I have a HUGE library. I purchased floor to ceiling shelves to line two long walls with bookcases, and I also have bookcases in my bedroom and my office. I use them all the time. I have a big reference collection and rare books I’ve collected (as well as signed books that are now worth $$$).

I don’t care how old this gets, 1984 quotes are endlessly applicable to the current Presidential regime, and they get creepily more applicable every single day.  

Was scrolling through hoping someone would point out the evils of bottled water and the bottled water companies. All pure evil. I was a teen when bottled water came out, and I remember thinking it was the biggest scam I’d ever seen in my life. I was not wrong.

Yep. Even when they’re let go they’re allowed to save face and have references. Not so with the women they’ve harassed, who are forever branded, and often won’t get any kind of reference.

“The office guy gets fired from his job,”

Oh yes they do.  They definitely excuse Joe Schmoe in accounting with the same language they use for hollywood stars.  “But Joe’s always done his reports on time.  He’s the only one who can figure out x...”  etc.  Men who do this sort of thing are excused in every single industry with very similar language, no matter…

It was a multi-day obituary.  One day is already extremely $$$$, but because they wanted it to run for multiple days, it increases the cost significantly.  Also the length of the obituary causes the costs to increase, and they included a lot of personal anecdotes in their obituary.  Most people can only afford a name,…

As a person who has paid for 2 family obituaries - yes. They are in fact really gouging people, and it sucks. It’s the only gauranteed way everyone still interacts with newspapers (and before anybody says “just post a tribute on the internet and be done” - let me remind you that newspapers are forever, they get…

Yes - I mentioned above that the Chris Pratt of yore (parks and rec, first Guardians of the Galaxy, etc.) was not religious. He became religious after his son with Anna Farris became gravely ill. He prayed about it desperately and his son recovered so he took that as a sign and threw himself into christianity after…

The Chris Pratt of yore (i.e. the Chris Pratt of Parks and Rec days) was not religious. He became uber religious after his son (with Anna Farris) became gravely ill, underwent medical complications, and survived after C.P. prayed about it. Chris took that as a sign and became a born again. I’m going to completely…

“He’s that guy we all know who was pretty liberal in college but once he realized that his own behavior wasn’t accepted by that group, switched to the dickhead contingent.”

Same.  Had several friends think of him as hilarious, but when he was talking about changing his daughter’s diapers I was so grossed out by him.  I felt creeped out by him from the word go.  Also, never was cool with his material on race.