You think that's bad, my mom once took care of a patient who lost his legs and part of his torso due to his drunken frat buddies throwing him down a garbage chute. They didn't realize there was a trash compactor at the bottom of it.

Claudia and Binky, you two crazy kids are bright rays of sunshine that just improved my day completely. You are amazing. That is all.

They are. I no longer consider them family. Her daughter died right after her husband died, so there are three kids to split the bill. It will cost them about $600 all together to break ground to bury them (because remember, plots are already purchased) and engrave her death date on the head stone. Between the three…

Fuck my cousins. My great Aunt Dolly died a few weeks back. Her husband died over a decade ago, and she held onto his ashes, wanting to be buried together when she finally died. She owns a plot and a headstone that only needs her death date engraved on it. Her piece of shit children are absolutely refusing to break…

TAKE MY MONEY!

I understand that this was really something that was made out of necessity due to the technology of the time, but silent film. (And no, I was not a big fan of The Artist.) So many of those films were gorgeously shot, brilliantly acted and directed, and just incredible spectacles to watch. I would love to see people…

I am sorry for your loss, as that is truly awful as well. People suffer so much in this country for simply being ill or having mental health issues, and the hospital bills are staggering. When people need a safety net like disability, it often takes several months, if not years, in order to get on it. It's shameful.

One of the most messed up things was when she went to get on disability after months of waiting. She was at death's door at this point, and my mom and aunt had to carry her to the car. They called the office and asked if they could possibly postpone the appointment because of her condition and they said no, she has to…

This is very true. I have a perfect example in my godmother. She had a heart attack that required a quadruple bypass and had no insurance. She was left with insane medical bills. A couple years later, she lost her job and became a shut-in, completely cutting off contact with everyone in the family. She ended up with a…

This was in 2012. They came in with food, did presentations, and left samples.

No shit. When my wife was doing her clinicals in nursing school, she was put at a pain clinic for a semester. Every fucking week there would be a pharmaceutical sales rep, bringing in inhalable fentanyl samples, something to help opiod induced constipation, Opana samples, etc., along with nice pricey meals for the…

People on the FBI side know Stan meets with Oleg, so people in the Rezidentura must know about this too. It won't be too hard to put two and two together.

Not Dylan fucking Baker! I am going to miss him!
I also have a feeling that if Oleg decides to leave with Tatiana, he's not going to survive very long in Kenya.

Yep. And that's the bottom line. I saw The Mountain Goats a few weeks back, and John Darnielle came out afterwards to sign autographs. People asked if he would take pictures with him, and he said "I really don't like taking pictures with people anymore, so I'm sorry, but no." And people totally respected that! They…

Same. It was so sudden, and they have a young child that he now has to raise as a single father. It's so sad.

I watched Patton Oswalt's stand-up special. It was really good, though I found it really hard to laugh in light of recent events. His wife's death made such a funny special a very somber viewing experience.

I watched a bunch of Weimar films. Again. Turner Classic Movies had a Weimar marathon on Wednesday and will have another two marathons on the two following Wednesdays. Those films are such an easy trap to get sucked into.

That was one of the most troublesome episodes of the series for me. Not because it was bad- it was a great episode- but because of how much of our darkness it illuminated. Even more than The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street, where someone actually dies, this one shows divides in communities, people's sense of…

He mentioned Mr. Roboto being cool, which is why I made the comment I made.

It's a song! It takes you literally five minutes to listen to!