Thiiiis. I was thinking about the Cop Discount and was like “huh, that sounds like a protection payment...” Hadn’t thought of that connection until now.

I had a sobbing meltdown over getting an onion bagel instead of a plain bagel (I hate onion) at lunch one day. The difference is that I was proofreading comics at the time and was able to clean myself up, take some Pamprin, and go back to work without the fear of injuring anyone.

I’ve never had to interact with Scientology or any of the followers, but Robert Evans’s episodes on L Ron Hubbard on Behind the Bastards Podcast are fascinating. The whole thing is a giant scam and we need to view it in the US like Germany does: as an abusive business.

I would love to hear an American doing a British accent from native ears. When I hear someone doing an American accent, it’s so jarring sometimes and I wonder what region their coach was from. I assume it’s the same pain when we go the other way (and even better when the actor slips into Irish/Australian/South African…

Have you watched Prodigal Son? It’s a pretty bloody show, but Sheen is a delight in it (really, everyone is pretty solid). He walks that fine line of brilliance and madness SO well. What’s your fave from him? I always forget about him until he’s on my screen then I think “I need to see more”.

My Pixel fried at 18 months and the repair guy said there wasn’t anything I could do to get it working again as it was a motherboard issue. After some Googling to see if I was alone in this issue, I found some law office in CA that had a class action suit going for this exact build problem so I signed up and jumped…

That must have been amazing! I saw the Gorillaz at The Apollo, but my friend and I assumed there’d be an opening and we stupidly missed at least a quarter of the show cos they were filming it for a DVD. [facepalm] I’ve never made that mistake again! What I did see was awesome in the literal sense of the word. (Plus I…

I feel like a more normal “ok, bye, thanks” symbol right now is an outward-facing open palm. Aka a wave. I would hope that cops would be aware of white power hand gestures since they will pounce on a POC for what they’d assume are “gang symbols” but may just be a deaf person signing...

Hey now, I love boybands and have seen NKOTB at least 3 times as an adult. BUT I also can say that the Foo Fighters put on one of the best live shows I’ve ever seen and Dave Grohl seems to be a legit good guy.

I love that Jon is like “nope, not gonna do a video if it’s not in my contract”. 

This is amazing timing cos I was just reading in a national paper about a woman I know from childhood who referred to herself as a “mama bear” as the reason she got out of NYC during the virus. She’s insufferable about her “mom” postings on FB so your comment just made me laugh cos it’s been proven true this morning!

In seriousness, I wish you well in coming through your depression sabbaticals.

I’m dismissing him, but to respond to covid’s comment that my grandmother was a Nazi, the story I understand is that she was actually deported from the US in part because of xenophobic sentiments and her hospitalisation due to what’s now considered post-partum depression. I never had the chance to meet her. So fuck…

Also the flop between being tan meant you were lower class cos you had to work outside and now being tan means you can sit on a yacht deck and do nothing but post pics and “inspiration” on Instagram. History is fascinating to see how shit like that has changed. 

Ooh! This is all so fascinating. My father is first-generation American of German parents (born 82 years ago, tomorrow) but I never really talked to my grandparents about their German history. I had a credit on Amazon so I bought a book Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler and can’t wait to get into it.…

But women are the hysterical ones because of their [whispers]...hormones.

Oh, I’m going to have to listen to that tomorrow (don’t need the nightmares tonight). To add on to Hitler’s clear psychosis, this was a fascinating look at his military choices, which he seems to have based on a YA book series that was completely fabricated but presented as truth. 

I’ve seen some trump posters on balconies and know my super hates Hillary (my coop is a lot of older white people, though a lot are nice) so FBI Surveillance Van works well! I’m also thinking maybe “Hillary Clinton 2020” or “Shadow Government Office Shhhh” could be fun...

So question on the IG algorithm...I just went on and everything in my feed was from 21-48 hours ago, nothing in the last day. This morning, my feed was filled with black squares and links to places to donate, now those are all buried.

Lololol! This can’t be real. Please tell me it’s not real. I love when I see completely “inappropriate” Wifi names show up--that’s one of the fun things about living in an apartment building! Which reminds me, I should really come up with a good name for mine...