People should read more Dickens. He’s just fun to read.

LOL slightly off-topic, but relevant: one year in HS our teacher assigned Julius Caesar, Lord of the Flies, A Separate Peace, The Return of The Native, and a fifth I can’t remember, but pretty certain someone was killed as well. By the end we were convinced she was a serial killer.

I love the ChangesNowBowie version.

TX enters the chat

Not to be That Guy, but I feel the need to clarify one very important fact:

It’s somewhat like the Watchmen quandry: Rorschach is intended to be a completely repellent psychopath, but Jackie Earle Haley did such a fine job in the movie that it’s hard not to root for him at times. (I’ll admit that I stop at the “You’re locked in here with me” line if it’s on.)

This solves one of the two reasons why I avoid nude beaches.

I’ve always chalked that up to how they were trained — to ask for things in a certain order.

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Unfortunately Chadwick’s story rings true. My mom died of cancer about two years ago after battling it for about three years. Was feeling fine* at Thanksgiving, so-so before Christmas, and passed away a few days after New Years.  So it can happen quickly.

The punchy, Ariana Grande-wannabe track

“We’re thinking of a catsuit,” and I thought, “Okay, you can guys can keep thinking that way.”

I mean, he’s pretty much been a d*bag for... forever? Even in his racing days? I caught fragments of this Friday, but as usual with Twitter I had no idea what was going on.

This... doesn’t make a lot of sense? More demand for pizza + pepperoni is one of the most popular toppings = naw, we’re not gonna bother?

Right?  Even here in Texas the State Fair shut itself down this fall.  I’m amazed this is going forward.

So yours is still serving breakfast? The two locations near me don’t even offer it, completely off the menu.

https://www.theonion.com/taco-bells-five-ingredients-combined-in-totally-new-way-1819564909

Thanks I needed a smile after all of this bad news (including Kelly Preston).

Yep this one got my attention. She’s not much older than me, and I fondly recall her from various 80s teen comedies.

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