*long, luxuriant fart*

I think that was the joke? Ruprecht is constantly accusing Americans of insufficient liberalness of supporting various bad people/things.

I had a Cybiko! Man, did I really pay $200 for that? I was living paycheck-to-paycheck in 2000, I must have gotten a check from my parents for my birthday or something.

Yeah I think he was on a steroid treatment, which can make you gain a lot of weight fast. It was real, he tweeted about it a couple of times. It's more the rapid weight loss that's making him look a bit haggard, plus the whole "recovering from cancer" thing, he'll probably even out eventually.

Ashley's back! And involved in some kind of feminist sex worker social work! I wasn't expecting to see her again on the show, certainly not in any kind of situation where she seems to have gotten education and a cause, and I was surprisingly cheered to see her and Abby exchange that smile.

You guys can’t even fucking take it that people are walking away.

Which side of the proud of/not proud of divide do you think Tiptoes falls on?

Not to be all “Everything was better when I was young!”, but the Creme Egg filling changed at some point around 20 years ago and it’s an inferior product to what it was in the 1980s. It used to be thinner and run all over the place, like a real egg, and it was just more fun to eat.

I didn’t use the term, but even as a 13-year-old I knew there was something uncomfortable about my literary crush on Mr. Rochester (the guy who locks his crazy wife in an attic and lives high off her money, then attempts to commit bigamy). I turn 44 in a couple of months so yeah. As a concept it’s been around longer…

Yeah, I wasn’t impressed. I didn’t hate it, and I can’t point to any one instance of it falling particularly flat. But I found myself checking to see how much was left, looking for something else to do while it played (I watched it on HBO, I don’t like movie theaters), and basically shrugging when it was over. The…

I just started The Secret History by Donna Tartt, which was mentioned in a Lily (WaPo’s “chick stuff” supplemental; I tease but actually I usually find something useful in it) article about female authors recommending books that remind them of autumn. Too soon for an opinion, although I thought it had a hook-y…

I felt it hanging over all of season 1 even, so I expect that feeling is really going to ramp up, especially with the election of closeted mayor Ed “AIDS? What AIDS?” Koch.

Crusty old white assholes: “Get a job, lazy black people!”

Y’all are just running through Drunk History episodes. One of my favorite parts of the Smalls story is that after he bought the house where he’d once been a slave, the former mistress, now suffering dementia (or possibly some form of PTSD) used to wander in asking “Don’t I live here?” Smalls and his wife eventually…

You totally misunderstood my comment, my dude. People have moved on, read the comments. No one actually likes or buys these trash apples.

I remember her episode of Intervention. Partly because the therapist thought she was over-medicated and took all of her medication, which seems like a pretty bad idea—going cold turkey from anti-depressants can cause suicidal ideation, and I’m pretty sure the therapist didn’t have a medical degree. Guess the help…

“Do you hate your kids and/or have huge life insurance policies on them? Be sure to get their birthday presents at Academy!”

They’re a bit much alone, especially as they’re so big, but I love them with cheese. I either cut them into wedges and smear some goat cheese on them, or into slices and eat with slices of mild cheddar. Also once I had a couple slices of bacon that no one ate at breakfast and added them to the slices and it was…

Red Delicious apples are a perfect example of the late-stage capitalism nightmare trash world we inhabit: thousands of acres of land, water and pesticide and fertilizer and labor, shipping and its attendants costs (gas, pollution, wear and tear on the highways), to produce tons of produce that no one actually eats.…

That looks awful, but not as confusing as Troom Troom, which I just discovered (and assume most people already knew about, because I’m 43 and to me YouTube is mostly for watching old Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes and not “original content”):