It's good to know that people are still taking their trash and recycling out in the zombie apocalypse. Hooray for municipal services.

What amuses me is that between Silicon Valley and True Detective, there are now two HBO shows where an adult male threatens a child that he will kill his mother and rape his father. Erlich's was way better than Colin Farrell's, though.

Because of the latest episode of Documentary Now and since my better half hasn't seen it, I watched The Thin Blue Line. Yeah, that still gets my blood boiling any time I see it. That detective had such a hard on for David Harris that it was unbelievable. And it still gets me to this day that Adams' name was never…

Me too. My wife gets mad at me when I say stuff like that, that I'll kill myself if I can no longer wipe my ass, or if I have stage 4 pancreatic cancer or dementia, but I'm serious. Hopefully death with dignity will be the law of the land by then but if not, I am going to take an entire bottle of sleeping pills and go…

My paternal grandfather was a pedophile, and even though almost everyone knows it, people pretend he was the greatest guy ever. It boggles the mind. When my aunt the nun had her 50 year jubilee celebration, there was a slide show that had a bunch of photos of him in it, and me and my cousin had to escape with our…

I'm so sorry about your grandmother, and I hope her ending in painless. I don't know what your faith background is; I'm an agnostic with Buddhist leanings, and there is an old Buddhist saying that I find to be very appropriate for these times: What the caterpillar perceives to be the end, to the butterfly is just the…

I really appreciate it, and thank you.

I agree. It's Tribe or GTFO. Sabra is garbage hummus made by garbage people.

She is. I'm going to spend as much time as I can with her before she passes, hoping there is at least one more flicker of light where she knows who I am.

I really enjoyed "Roll the Bones" too, when they had the Trailer Park Boys and Peter Dinklage as part of the video presentation. The biggest highlight for me was that they played about 4/5ths of "2112". Any concert video I've ever seen of them has them just playing the overture and "The Temples of Syrinx."

I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me.

Thank you.

It's really sad to see her lose her sense of humor and weirdness, too. I remember she used to drive me around (she was an AWFUL driver) and would just come to random stops. Then she would throw her arm across my chest to try and keep me in my seat, as though we didn't have seatbelts. She swore that that was the reason…

My sympathies to you too. My Aunt Dolly's sister is suffering from it as well, and it's just so hard to watch. Her husband died last year, and she still calls out for him. It's awful.

Oh, you get no argument from me there. But Figaro is worth it, even if I do have to spend over a hundred bucks on his medicine every month and he requires frequent blood testing. He's my little sidekick. He cuddles with and sleeps under the covers with me, follows me everywhere, and has given me years of priceless…

Fuck dementia and the ravages of old age. My Aunt Dolly is 92, and is on her last legs. I went to visit her with my mom, Busia and Aunt Paulette, thinking that if she saw me, my mom and Busia together, she may be able to figure out who we were. Well, she thought I was my mother, had no clue who Busia was, thought Aunt…

It's funny, the things we do for our pets. Figaro gets better healthcare than many people in this world. But as long as he's here and he's not in pain, I am going to do what I have to in order to make his life as healthy and happy as possible.

They played it at their show in Columbus in June, too. I was ecstatic.

Yeah, we tried that with Figaro and he was having none of that. And he has to take a pill and a half twice a day, so now I may as well turn it into a treat for him. He hears his pill bottles shake, and he has this Pavlovian response to it. Thanks for the tip though!

Man, I wish you were my friend back in those days, and I would have a magical fairy filling my fridge with free Tribe Hummus. I'll have to check out the Trader Joe's stuff.