At this point I'll take anything even remotely good. My personal and professional lives are falling apart and I pretty much hate everything. It's been really difficult to not just give into my meanest, nastiest impulses out of frustration.

I'll be moving on to Bring Up the Bodies again afterward.

Tonight I'm gonna have a soft-shell crab sandwich made the way God intended: a blue soft-shell crab seasoned with salt and pepper and sauteed in butter, on white toast with a big sloppy piece of ripe tomato and some crunchy lettuce.

Oh yeah. Halfway through a mug, I've got to go.

ShulkieSmash was fragged by her own troops in Vietnam.

Simon and Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy in New York
Rolling Stones - Happy
The Killers - On Top
Amy Winehouse - Wake Up Alone
Nina Simone - Plain Gold Ring
The Stooges - Real Cool Time
Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
Dum Dum Girls - Bedroom Eyes
Foo Fighters - Overdrive
The Who - Pure and Easy
Aaron Neville - Tell It Like It…

I have a second date on Saturday.

Fuck all that shit.

I'm rereading Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and enjoying it just as much this time as the first.

Cis has nothing to do with archetypes and everything to do with gender identity. It's not a slur or anything, it's just a descriptor of us as non-transgender.

I had a brain fart and forgot about it temporarily. In my defense, I still haven't had coffee today.

Oh dang, I totally forgot about that. I have no idea how, because I actually am really looking forward to it.

You and most of us.

We can have both!

Well, you're an indie kid. It's sort of essential to your being that nothing excites you.

Me neither. Aside from Black Panther, my give-a-shit is broken.

I bet we could get Justin Tucker to sing opera for us at the unveiling ceremonies, too.

Just give him a goddamn Nick Fury and the Howling Commandos movie already, Marvel, you cheap fucks. It would make a billion dollars and it would be so amazing.

I like your characterization of them as whiners, because really, isn't that what it comes down to at the end of the day? My boss used to tell her kids, "sorry, I can't understand you when you whine." Maybe we should start using that on anti-abortion protestors.

I'm a Millennial and one of the most irritating things about it is that my generation thinks that if you're "only" gay or lesbian, you're somehow not progressive or open-minded enough than you are if you're bisexual/pansexual/etc.