I nearly got the cranberry last time! But I went for my old reliable, the lemon, instead. And am literally drinking it now...

My local grocery is pushing this brand called Bubly real hard right now and I’ll admit to getting on the wagon. I like how consistent the carbonation is, and they make it in every fruit flavor under the sun, with varying degrees of success. Anybody else tried this one?

I think so? The creamy center filling basically tastes like cheesecake. I’m not much of a baker and I’ve never tried to recreate the recipe.

Not my pic. I eat them with my hands like god intended.

Down with frosting! A local bakery makes these “marble cupcakes” pictured below, and they are the best cupcakes in the world because you get the creamy center with no sickly sweet frosting to battle through!

I kind of hustled some guys in a swimming race. I say kind of because I never actually said I wasn’t a good swimmer. I just let them make their own assumptions. Anyway, I was the only girl in my lifeguarding class, and right from the first start, the two alpha frat-bros in the group and the instructor (a mid-20s…

Holy shit. I’m not even going to bother to tell my story. Pack it up, everyone, this is the winner.

Lets have a moment of silence for their 5-for-10 underwear bin, the source of my first “grown up” panties. I cleaned my underwear drawer yesterday and unearthed an aqua and pink lace thong with a Charlotte Russe tag that I’ve had for at least ten years.

This Harry Potter reference is an insanely deep cut.

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Maybe they’re trying to discourage baby-turtle-mill situations? I wondered the same thing, but they’re apparently invasive, so the state is probably trying to limit the number kept as pets. With the age restrictions in place, you have to house and care for the brood of baby turtles for more than three months,…

When my older sister was more than a week late being born, my parents asked the doctor if it would be okay for my mom to go to the college football game they had tickets to the next day. After verifying that the seats were in the nosebleeds, the doctor said he recommended it, as climbing all those stairs might induce…

0:27. These elephants’ butts are very clean. Did someone wash these elephants’ butts?

Julianne has it right. That is def a guy whose number I want in my phone, but for the drug connections, not sex.

Tor did a retrospective of Disney movies based on literary sources a while back, including this article on the Hunchback of Notre Dame. They go into the history of how/why the movies got made, and are quite interesting if you have a few minutes to get into them.

The issue with your classmates just sitting in silence: I doubt its a generational thing. I’ve encountered that kind of mentality in groups of students who are really laser-focused (as I imagine most law students are) and don’t have a lot of patience for the “learning how to lean” approach to education that liberal…

He also identified some ghosts of victims of the Venture Millinery Fire of 1800-something. Another insanely deep cut, being a call-back to Rusty mentioning that he thinks his great-grandfather was a milliner in Escape to the House of Mummies Pt II.

For another non-english old-timey Billboard Top 100, below is Sukiyaki (real title Ue o Muite Arukou), which hit #1 in 1963.

I don’t know, I’m actually kind of charmed by this spider that cared so much about cleanliness and hygiene.

I saw a cockroach* come crawling out of the overflow hole in a sink once. I was brushing my teeth over sink and I witnessed the whole thing in the mirror, like a particularly fucked-up scene in a David Cronenberg movie. Sometimes I still have nightmares.