oh wow, i really hope it’s about the end of her singing career. wouldn’t that be nice?

i am so here for it. boseman really did have major presence. i never would have thought i would be done with a cumberbatch/swinton movie before it’s even out (motherfucking tilda swinton!) but this whitewashed orientalist chinese government appeasing party palace can just get out of the way, please and thank you, so…

that is the look of a dog who is going to bite you if you take one more photo, i swear to god, you had a perfect one five minutes ago and you’re still telling me to stay, goddamnit just give me the pupperoni already.

dude’s been handed an indictment. not holding my breath, here - liang was “convicted” and he didn’t get a single day in jail.

sorry, babs. the correct answer to 43 across is ‘alive’

so we’re no longer satisfied with charging someone who asks why they’re being arrested with ‘assaulting an officer’? now we need a hate crimes statute to add onto it?

i said something rude about that racist turtle mcconnell once - how soon can i expect my senate inquiry?

so, when you write a long, insightful, deeply-reported piece of excellent journalism like this, and people want to come and comment at you about whether an artistic portrayal of gears used to metaphorically convey the condition of your subject is sound from an engineering standpoint... do you have a laugh at that,…

this guy’s got a deep background in pr. what he’s doing is acknowledging the material facts of the problem while simultaneously trying to minimize the intensity of it. the objective is to get as many people as possible nodding along because of the well-documented phenomenon that if you get people to agree with you…

your ‘relationship with jesus’

if it’s a text quote from another article, “caucuses” should probably be [sic]ed. i suspect what he said was Caucasus, i.e. the mountain range in eastern europe between georgia & azerbaijan on the south, and russia on the north.

it reminded me a lot of rattlesnake, the one time i had that. which, taxonomically speaking, makes sense. the rattlesnake was more shrimpy in texture but, uh, ‘unique’ in flavor.

this is a man who made the soundtrack to a campy batman movie more listenable than most of top 40 radio - one does oneself a disservice only listening to singles or chart hits

a-u-t-o-matic

i was allll set to press play, and then gottwald showed up.

gator is about halfway between chicken and shrimp, weirdly. and not just in flavor, in texture too. i don’t know if that makes any sense but i don’t know how else to describe it.

remember that time we swam naked
in your father’s pool
man, was he ever mad
but man, was that ever cool

and wait

she is coming to the red rocks amphitheater at the end of june

we’re also using sexually-transmitted infection for the sake of accuracy. a disease, in a medical context, is a set of symptoms with a specific known cause. many people with STIs are asymptomatic, so it doesn’t actually qualify as a disease.