Sort-of a place.  My ex took me to “Love Actually” (when it came out) as a last-ditch effort to save our marriage (arguably the only effort she ever made in that enterprise).  I probably wouldn’t have been a fan anyway, but seeing even a moment of that film makes me mildly nauseous.

I did enjoy the typo, “she politely hands a role of paper toweling to a dominatrix so that she can clean up some ejaculate...” That’s great that Emma ended up directing, though I can’t imagine it was a very exciting role.

I could have predicted the longevity of Dave Matthews. I taught a World Music course at a major university from 1990-2009, and I began every semester by talking with my class about their uses for music and what they liked, as though I were an ethnomusicologist studying them. I would ask them, not for their favorite…

My dog destroys my art all the time.  He’s a border collie and I’m a musician who records music in the house.  It’s one thing if a sharp, “Let’s DO something!” bark screws up something of mine, but it can be a problem if it’s a client.  Fortunately, Paddy is a pretty adorable dog (to the extent that b.c.’s are…

You could unzip it and her brain would fall out.

Fool. I did that. A friend and I pulled every damned one of those suckers out of a quarter acre. Made huge piles. Burned them. It only inspired them, and they came back twice as hard. Feel free to come here to Eastern Washington and start your salsify plantation. Downwind though. I purged those monsters and their spawn…

Just no. Salsify is an awful invasive weed that I have struggled to remove from my property for decades. It’s like a dandelion on meth. I don’t care what it tastes like.

I’m seriously tempted.  I wrote a piece once that had a few tuned wineglasses, and I’m curious what putting a bottle of wine in it and rubbing your thumb?  palm? on the rim would do.  It might sound pretty cool.  I’m easily amused.

“Ploom”? I think the collective noun you are looking for is “Blerry.”

1) She has a Native American ancestor (and therefore, “ancestry”), and it was part of her family’s story. That’s all she said and it’s true. It’s not hard. Most Americans in fact could not claim Native American ancestry—you are misinformed.

I would say that if you had Native Americans as ancestors and said, as a result, that you had Native American ancestry, you would be telling the truth. But you go with that straw man fallacy. Making it the equivalent of wearing blackface or committing sexual assault is dumb.

I don’t know... This is a BFD because the GOP stormtroopers dug into every nook and cranny of her past and found, what, one place decades ago where she checked the box, and they’ve inflated this one error in judgment into a vast straw-woman fallacy. She has not “used this” in any significant way. And finally this vast…

What perfect timing! I don’t have a $500K bottle, but my wife was given a bottle of $1.5K wine, decades ago. A magnum of ‘93 Harlan Estate Cabernet. We decided that we had to choose a special occasion to drink this thing. We chose the day when I finished rebuilding our 1880s farmhouse. Which, after 27 years of work, I…

...and yet, we’re still fecked...

Picking off Cruz and getting O’Rourke would be so delicious, though.

Heck, Mary did it with God while betrothed to Joseph. Now THAT’S an affair to remember! Evangelicals LOVE that stuff!

Huh? You’ve got a lot of fallacies going on there. If you avoid weed, you are likely a sphincky sort who avoids a lot of fun stuff, but I suppose you would probably also avoid cocaine. And absinthe—you probably wouldn’t do absinthe. A lot of people addicted to opioids started when they were prescribed them…

Thank you.

Arguably, acting skills, a telegenic presence, and the ability to assemble a team of good advisers are more important to success in elected office than a master’s in political science. Of course, there are plenty of examples to demonstrate that being intelligent and well-read doesn’t hurt.

To be fair, spending $934K on antique oriental rugs would be pretty fun, though. The sad thing is that Manafort is so dense that I’m sure he managed to spend that much without getting anything good. Still, if he wants to add to his collection, I’m sure I could hook him up.