neighborofthebeast
NeighborOfTheBeast
neighborofthebeast

Every day, I think that your comments couldn’t possibly get any better, and then you do this.

Who’d have thought that the 1981 Ryan O’Neal romp “So Fine” would be so prescient?

Sweet diagram.

The next generation PrEP drugs being tested block the CCR5 molecule.

Honestly IME adults are the fucking worst. The worst flights I’ve spent have always involved entitled asshole adults being rude and annoying. And adults seem to be the ones that start fights after being asked to stop doing something, I’ve never had a 7 year old curse me out or threaten me for asking them to put their

I see what you did there and I like it.

It was smart to scale back.

I’m so glad I’m not the only bad person here.

Airlines can be awful. Sorry for these people & I hope the airline compensated them for their inconvenience, time & embarrassment. She shouldn’t have had to have a letter, her last name is Flake. (Genuinely sorry for that joke but could not resist).

Yeah some really unfortunate synergy here, and thank you for being brave enough for all of us whose fingers were hovering over the publish button, as shallow as we are

Name-puns are the lowest form of humor, but...

This is from years ago. I was attending a writers’ conference 1000 miles from home and a group of us had a session with a real agent from the Big City (NYC) who listened attentively and spoke encouragingly to an aspiring writer who wanted to do a memoir about her (really interesting) growing up years in Harlem, then

When I was a kid, elementary school in my area was K-7. One lunchtime in grade 5, I caught a grade 7 boy picking on one of my grade 5 classmates, a boy. There was no way that my friend would do well in a fight with this guy, and nobody messes with my friends, so I marched my tall ass over and gave the older boy a shove

Sorry for the length, and that I’m not a very good writer. But this is an important story to me so I’ll do my best.

I got the shittiest, most disgusting manager fired at my shitty job *after I left it.*

None of them. I don’t want my kids or pets to grow up to be politicians.

What the hell?!

Don’t drink bottled water.

“The sea was angry that day, my friends...”

The correct take is that lox, cream cheese, capers, red onions all belong together... on pumpernickel toast, rye if you can’t find any pump. You’re welcome.