Right? Or, "we eat meat, but our meat isn't as cute as the meat you are eating, savages!"

So, WILL the circle be Unbroken? By and by Lord? By and by?

Are we talking about gin? I was kind of hoping we were because I kind of thought I hated gin and then I discovered cherry lime rickeys with Trader Joe's Tart Cherry Juice and they are really quite lovely.

I am seriously not mocking when I say some people are way more Catholic than I ever was. You brought up some really interesting aspects that I would never have considered.

Also, I typed people so many times, the word is starting to look strange. Is the word people actually a pretend word?

Is this about actual people? Or people pretending they are actual people? Or people who think they are actual people, but discover they are pretend people?

TV dinners. Are they still called that? No, I think they are just frozen dinners. Anyway, I have a weird relationship with them growing up in the 70's because they were so prevalent, but my mom wouldn't buy them because they expensive, to her. But everything in it's own compartment! Including desert! They were my…

Most rambling comment ever.

I find it some of Studio Ghiblis' choices of making movies out western literature to be interesting. I don't think When Marnie was There/Memories of Marnie got much of a US release and it really is a lovely movie about foster child learning about her family and what a family means, but it's a book that I wonder was…

It's Ronia The Robber's Daughter, published in Sweden in 1981. It was translated into english in 1983. For reference, Pippi Longstocking, her most familiar english translation book was in the 1940's. I don't think Ronia is really well known in English literature, I only ran across it as a book dealer because of the…

Having watched this in Japanese, I am curious where the narration comes in.

I would most definitely consider that a reason for leaving someone.

I can reshelf properly but I always feel I should do it surreptitiously so no one notices my subversive actions.

What do you mean? It's already the 12th of Halloween!

I can personally vouch for the validity of that statement

I refuse to be emotionally manipulated.

What exactly are vintage good looks?

"We have a new origin story that basically explains—we still have no idea where dogs came from."

Mika and Rika Jougasaki from The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls—which I think was a game that was then developed into an anime

Jougasaki Rika and Jougasaki Mika from The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls—which I believe is a game that was developed into an anime