ever since i had occasion to wonder what dogs would look like if we’d bred them for intelligence and verbal ability, rather than e.g. making bulldogs, i can’t shake the thought

rangers at volcanoes national park will tell you. they get rocks mailed back to them constantly from people who took one and swear they suffered misfortune as a result.

when he was younger, my dog would move around a lot more in the car. at the time i was also taking him to work with me regularly, so i got used to him bumping into the back of the driver’s seat, where he usually hung out.

it’s hard for us to understand just how much money is involved

was coming down here to say

you know, innsmouth, the fictional town created by h.p. lovecraft, is on the massachusetts coast. maybe something even worse than aliens...?

that’s danged adorable, and also very eerie for me. i posted my story last year, and while i chalk it all up to hypnopompic hallucinations, the figure i saw looked a lot like you’re describing goldie - staticky and illuminated like that.

the article: “At Variety’s recent “Power of Women,” lunch, where Carey was being honored for 25 years of Camp Mariah,”

that looks like melania prime to me

the age problem might be solvable, although the ‘everyone is way too famous for this now’ problem would probably remain intractable

if game of thrones had done that, there’s no way any of those actors would still be available all those years later. brienne of tarth is in space now, for crying out loud. and lyanna mormont would be a full adult.

i’d like this better as a checklist

it wasn’t a first date, but i saw ‘hard candy’ in theaters with a guy. that was an interesting choice.

i mean that suggestion is as crazy as the idea that the way to reduce abortion would be to provide birth control, healthcare, and childcare to any woman who wanted it. what kind of backwards logic is that???

it’s probably her job to attract that hostility. nothing riles up the ‘white moderates’ like a threat to the ‘precious flower of white womanhood’.

this is customarily how that narrative plays out

*woman cat

i see so much of my older brother in this. the circumstances are very different, but the combination of untreated depression and a perceived failure to live up to masculine gendered expectations is almost copied and pasted. as far as i know, he’s still alive, but my father is the only one still willing to talk to him,…

burger king mac and cheetos were the bomb and i don’t care who knows it

i would say that disappointment is second only to tucking into what you thought was a delicious oatmeal raisin cookie, only to find that some repugnant barbarian has made an oatmeal chocolate chip cookie and foisted it on the unsuspecting public with no warning