Regular Twizzlers do indeed suck, but the filled varieties are pretty good, especially the orange and cream. Same with Hershey’s Kisses, I like the cherry cordials and the peppermints.

Am I the only person who thought the movie was better than the book? I thought the novel showed a lot of the creaks and groans of a first work (and not one that would be described as a “stunning” or “assured” or “polished” debut novel). I thought the movie was a perfectly fine “group of people trying to survive the…

Aw, man. Hearing the weird intensity of “Misirlou” playing over the opening credits of Pulp Fiction (I was deeply stoned at the time) led me to seek out more of his work. I once played one of his songs for my brother, who refused to believe anyone could play a guitar that fast and said it sounded like someone had…

Personally, I don’t see it. Bundy has very obvious crazy eyes that are giant flashing neon warning signs. It’s like bright colors on a snake, some primitive part of my brain goes “nooooope”. Maybe it’s hindsight; maybe it’s knowing he took giant bites out of his murder victims before fucking their corpses. The extent…

There’s a plug in you can download, but it’s pretty imperfect, I think it just blocks the content/replies of whoever you put on it, but they can still see and reply to yours. I saw one other comment about him though, so I guess he has actually fucked off to greener pastures.

For that matter, where is Prince Ruprecht? Haven’t seen that asshole or any of his smug posts in forever. Maybe he blocked me.

In reality, watching people on drugs while you are not is one of the most boring activities on earth.

Good. It’s a terrible idea to allow alt-right goons like Mike “Gorilla Mindset” Cernovich to weaponize “cancel culture” for their own twisted agenda.

Both of those beers taste like cold pot liquor.

Danica Roem was elected in 2017. I assume it took them this long to scrape together bus fare from Wichita.

I’m at least as confused by the header image, in which Romney appears to be celebrating a birthday--his? someone else’s?--in the coach section of a mostly empty airplane.

Yes, I have that contacts thing, too. I think that’s all cell phones. It’s been 2 or 3 years since a number that was in my contacts appeared as an incoming call. Like I said, those people know to text me instead. (I have a couple friends who prefer to use Facebook’s DM instead of text, which seems weird to me, but…

I’ve never read any of her series books so I have nothing to compare it to, but I like it. The protagonist/narrator is kind of unlikable, which I don’t love, but I know that’s not always a problem for readers. It moves pretty slowly, the skull doesn’t fall out of the tree until well over 100 pages in. It needs to be…

99% Invisible just did an episode about The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (apparently the Vietnam War soldier was later identified and his remains returned to his family), and the best part was the recordings of the guards hollering at people for laughing or sitting down. Apparently there’s a whole series of YouTube…

Wow, that far north? Alexandria is where my family evacuates to in a cat 3 or bigger. My grandparents lost their house in Rita (I’m on the other side of the state, near Lafayette), but no one in the family has ever died in a hurricane that I know of, at least not in the last 50 years or so. I think a great-great-uncle…

I can say without exaggeration that virtually 100% of the calls I get are spam, not including the occasional wrong number. My friends and family know I hate talking on the phone--as do most of them, except the older generations--they text me if they need to tell me something. They’d only call if someone was dying and…

I have Lovecraft Country on my list but probably won’t get to it until later in the spring. Right now I’m working my way through a stack of books I won in a Facebook giveaway from Bas Bleu Booksellers; the first one I went for was Tana French’s The Witch Elm, which was on my to-read list and why I bothered to enter.…

His alibi was being at work, which is questionable since his manager was his mother, and that day he was working at another store managed by the woman his mother eventually married. This never comes up in Serial, which is why I would not describe that podcast as “granular”. I would apply that descriptive to Undisclosed…

Remind me to thank my Catholic-raised mother for the thousandth time for shrugging and telling me “That’s something everyone has to figure out for themselves” when I asked her about god.

I seriously thought before I started reading the piece was going to be about McConnell and his “China family” (to quote some dumb racist piece of shit who ran for office in West Virginia). It really does look exactly like him!