she had some pretty cozy white collar digs for her insider trading bid, as i recall. even when the aristocracy does give up the occasional sacrificial lamb to keep us poors placated with the illusion that the law applies to it, they can’t let her actually suffer or anything.

suitably cute. i could see the visual element making the entire process enjoyable rather than dull.

chilling, truly

octopus’s garden is a song i could happily go the rest of my life without ever hearing again. due to my own personal emotional defects, i have a tendency to listen to an album all the way through in order, and my distaste has to be pretty substantial for me to skip a track. the song in question does not quite rise to…

i did not pretend to like any bands as a youth, primarily because it was abundantly clear that my pretending to like a band would not sufficiently positively influence anyone’s opinion of me to actually cause them to suddenly start liking me.

shit they’re probably more afraid of books than of battleaxes

it’s a fact*. every time you light up a ‘doobie’, or ‘score’ some ‘hashish’ - an evil muslim word which actually translates as ‘kill white people and steal their women’ - an isis member gets into the united states.

if these kids were hiv-positive, mightn’t some of their immune systems be somewhat weakened, if they haven’t got their viral loads down yet? so then the gloves would be acting to protect the children and not the adult?

i friggin’ love that dress. that color is amazing. on my complexion it would make me look even redder, in a deeply unhealthy way, but i wouldn’t even care.

google image search will let you search by image, thus:

ooh, i forgot about matchbox 20

so, is it a casual relationship, like smoking in movies and kids smoking are just hanging out occasionally, a little light necking if the mood takes them, not assigning labels to anything? or is it a causal relationship, in which it’s been proven that smoking in movies causes kids to smoke more?

if it was just, like, press a button and humans are zapped off the face of the earth, that would be one thing, but we stand a strong chance of doing greater violence to the biosphere than it can recover from, so we’re well on our way to eliminating all life on the only planet in existence that we know contains any,…

train. that’s the one i’m most embarrassed about these days. cake is fine even if john mccrea is a bit of a he-man woman-hater type, and coldplay is just bog-standard generic pop music, unworthy of either contempt or praise, but train is just the sort of empty, saccharine nonsense that makes me shake my head in…

marge piercy is the best. woman on the edge of time is also amazing. i realized after posting that in her book, the environment was destroyed more by climate change than nuclear war - back in ’93 we thought the threat of nuclear war was more or less licked, haha, weren’t we so innocent then. but governments have…

someone already wrote it (in 1993, no less - ever a visionary, our ms. piercy):

he got in. they don’t care what you think of him now because he’s not going anywhere until he dies or his four years are up. they’re trying to promote ivanka now so she can run in 2020.

i lurrrrve lorde. her new album is fantastic. taylor is not really my bag but i can’t help noticing how the same people writing breathless profiles about her a year or two ago couldn’t wait to get out the long knives the moment there was a whiff of public embarrassment/scandal. really giving me flashbacks to britney.…

excluding any rich person from any thing ever anywhere that they had even a passing fancy for

one is a deranged homicidal maniac clown with nothing but contempt for all humanity, and the other is a fictional character