Some Thoughts on Wilford Brimley’s Final Tweet He was a man who brought joy to generations of people, an intractable grump walrus-man who was seemingly born a grandpa. He was Ben Luckett and Pop Fisher and Uncle Douvee and Dr. Blair and the Postmaster General. He was simultaneously the face of...See More »
All Star, but it's all They Don't Stop Coming I made the mistake of watching this, and now you must too.
Magical Girl Shows! Who’s your favorite? Poll (10) See Poll Options And I ain’t talking about which one is best or which one is most important, I’m talking about which one is your favorite.
Anyone else ever do this?Anyone else ever spend an inordinate amount of time (say, 5-10 minutes) wondering where the song “Buddy Holly” fits into the Grease soundtrack and why a show set in the 50s would reference Mary Tyler Moore so much, only to then remember it’s a...See More »
Does Anybody Else Remember This Game? [I Play Video Games] It feels like some weird fever dream I have from freshman year in high school.
Isn’t it weird?Isn’t it weird how almost every woman has a story of an angry man calling her a whore for not wanting to talk to him and then trying to follow her home, while somehow almost no man has ever seen this or done anything to intervene?
John Lewis Here’s a photo of John Lewis leading a sit-in in the aftermath of the Pulse shooting. He was a man of strength and conscience until the very end. We need to keep doing the work he started, and one of the best ways to do that right now is to restore...See More »
Battle of the Unlikeable Protagonists! Poll (7) See Poll OptionsBattle to the death, which doofus would win, and how?
Exercise BikeLast night, I spent an hour and a half hauling and assembling the exercise bike my wife ordered—including figuring out how to put the whole seat back together after it came apart in my hands—and now she doesn’t want to use it because she doesn’t...See More »
Vote early!Voted early in some runoffs in my state today. I guarantee Texas is going to be a shitshow if you wait till the day of, and we’re pretty awful about allowing mail-in ballots in general, so vote as early as you can.
I Hate It When Guys Dont Take A Hint That Im Not InterestedImagine being such a fragile, delicate little flower that you think someone criticizing you for your actions must hate all men, or that all men must be just like you.
I Wonder Who Will Go to My FuneralI finally got home last night, after my sister’s death turned a two-day trip to tidy up my dad’s estate into me legitimately asking whether the funeral home did family discounts on cremations. They don’t, but LifeProTip: you can get a “direct...See More »
I Will Answer Anything You Dare To AskBut that is no guarantee you will like my answer, or that my answer won’t be “no” or “I don’t know,” or that I will prioritize any given question.
I Love British ComediesI can't help but wonder what Dr. Rick Dagless, M.D. would do if COVID came to Darkplace.
I Am a Daughter of a Mentally Ill MomI know addiction is a painful disease to have and that nobody ever asks for it, but I also remember all the ways she hurt me while under the influence, all the times she sabotaged our efforts to help her, and how damn smug she gets whenever she...See More »
Who else is done with 2020?Welp, today alone, the toilet backed up and flooded the shower and the rest of the bathroom with crap, and my fiancée and I had our first quarantine fight, and my dad checked into the ER with COVID-19 symptoms and lives hours away, and my company...See More »
I Have Done Voluntary WorkWhen the volunteer tax prep outfit I was working with announced they were closing due to COVID-19, that’s when I knew how serious it was.
On a Scale of “Meh” to “Wild” ...How weird is it that I’ve had a better and more enjoyable time with my girlfriend’s late husband’s family than her own parents?
I Am Curious, Who Was The First Celebrity You Had A Crush OnMary Jo Pehl, or more accurately Pearl Forrester on MST3K, because I was a complete and total goober. After her, it was Norma Stitz.
I Like Terry PratchettThis is dumb, but I know nothing about Morris Dancing apart from what I’ve read in Discworld books. Anyone have a link to what a real Morris Dance actually looks like?
I VoteWe had runoffs in my city yesterday. I think that was the ... sixth (?) ... election we’ve had in about two years? At least this one was on a weekend.
I Like Terry PratchettThis quote got me through college, no ifs and or buts: (Quote) --I Shall Wear Mighnight