lol

my grandfather was on a train full of soldiers being transported to a navy carrier in WW1. A large number of them had the flu, and were taken off the train and left in a barn. When he came to, half the soldiers in the barn were dead.

Would love to hear more. bathrooms/toilets/baths/sinks give insights into where you are

Someone more witty than I could segue to Toto Toylet

Enough to ensure that they have deep-pocketed donors

My 2 kids slept on the floor next to our dog’s bed during her last week. Sad, and deeply meaningful

A Prufrockian gambit

I have a friend who takes his 7 pills per day in one waterless gulp. I have to avert my eyes.

It really cuts down on the sensory delights of bill-paying.

Ummm…intellectual rigor has not figured prominently in conservative writing for a long, long time

Reskilling for non-existent jobs?

for forty years I have fed upon dry salted fare—fit emblem of the dry nourishment of my soil!

CHAPTER 132. The Symphony.
Paragraph 12

What kind of toilet are you talking about?

A heavenly body

Don’t jinx them!

absolutely—I never write the beginning until I have completed the rest

Veggie Dog:

Or, “how to serve Jerry”

That’s THE tiny chef army

also, mail-order brides for American frontiersmen

we must cut NASA because it has failed to earn the trust of some of the public.

You probably won’t be seeing him in recovery

Ein Foto von ihm am Schreibtisch, er hat einen Brief in der Hand, schaut nach oben, hat ein glattes Gesicht und einen kleinen Oberlippenbart. Er trägt einen dreiteiligen Anzug mit Hemd und Krawatte.

„Denn Dementieren gibt es heute nicht mehr, die Lüge spannt frech ihre Flügel und die Wahrheit ist vogelfrei; die Kloaken stehen offen und die Menschen atmen ihren Gestank ein wie einen Wohlgeruch."
Stefan Zweig in einen Brief an Thomas Mann am 18. April 1933 als Teil ihres Briefkontakts


terrifying if literal,

NECK OF THE WOODS

Terrifying if literal: all eyes on the blackboard, please

three days after I lost my wallet, and the day after I cancelled all my credit cards, I found it under a bag of spinach in the freezer.

I hope she hasn’t been deported.

I should clarify: he was a child, at the time.

my mother-in-law ran over my husband’s legs. Fortunately, she wasn’t an influencer.