Pretty sure Target Field sells chicken finger baskets in a full-size souvenir helmet, although it would not fit anyone in my family of Giant Head People, alas.

Love to spend hours (or days!) in the airport waiting for a new flight because I didn't want to "waste time" getting there 40 min early for the original one.

Also, I can't remember the last time I was on a plane that wasn't 100% full. "Just get on the next flight" is not that easy even with $$$.

Like, apparently your god hates a LOT of people and thinks it's cool to blow up schools and wants you to support a child rapist in destroying the world. I don't know that God. He sucks balls. I don't want to sit next to someone who's worshiping him.

People like to say the church should be a place of healing not division, and maybe in an ideal world that's true. But what they really want is to keep their rancid beliefs and never be made to feel bad for it. After a point, we're not even worshiping the same God, so why are we in the same pews?

Waited for this book from the library for almost 6 months. Devoured it in ONE DAY. This is the kind of book that makes me keep writing. Like, look what someone can do with words! Just ink on a page, spinning fear and despair and triumph out of thin air. What a magic trick. Magnificent.

Thank you!

Let's just say someone's jumping or someone's getting pushed

Eagerly awaiting the Spotify version! (Don't rush yourself tho)

This is no way to live, man

A small, fluffy gray cat is curled up on a lap. She is almost perfectly round.

This, uh, never happens. This is our third cat, the oldest and most evil, and she does not sit on my lap. Ever. It feels vaguely ominous given the Concerns, but also kind of nice.

*love not live, lol

..as if it was yesterday, vividly but no longer as intensely. "The memory hurts, but does me no harm." My childhood contained a lot of live and beauty, but looking back there's such a sense of betrayal and innocence lost that colors the whole thing.

I feel like some of his more esoteric songs can be interpreted very differently depending on what you yourself are bringing to them. Like, I doubt many people connect Abstract to religious trauma. But for me, it's like standing here in middle age, long past the childhood pain but still remembering..

This part made me cry and I rarely cry. I was so tense the last 15 minutes, trying to keep it together so my kids wouldn't be weirded out. I used to LOVE space and NASA as a kid myself. Now I get to watch with them. They've been making spacesuits for their stuffed animals all evening now.

Hozier, "Abstract (Psychopomp)" has that kind of aching solemnity, a remembrance of and meditation on past pain. Healing doesn't mean it doesn't hurt. I find the song very moving as an exvangelical.

Pretty sure it means willing to have sex literally any time he "needs" it. Could also mean he can yell at or hit her and she won't fight back.

This is the guy AI girlfriends are made for, except even Chatgpt probably doesn't deserve that.

Sure, and if she says hello, next he'll whine that she didn't stop and chat "to be polite." Then he'll complain that she refused to get coffee or give him her number. Then that she didn't put out on the first date. He's never going to be happy, so just stop it at hello.

Why should he get to be US SENATOR for his very first job in any kind of government ever? An ex-merc with a reluctantly covered Nazi tattoo and a bunch of anti-semitic friends? I refuse to believe there isn't one actually progressive youngish bearded dude somewhere in Maine they could sub in.

Thank you!! Like, the absolute *best case* interpretation of that dude is that he has mind-bogglingly bad judgment and cannot accept correction without pouting like a toddler. Pass. Let him be a state rep or smth for a while if he really wants to prove his good faith and desire to serve.

Must be Pigeon!

Right??? "She's talking back to her father! I don't want you to learn that kind of behavior!"

Lol, the reason I was given was that the Simpsons kids were rude and disrespectful. Same reason my mom didn't like The Little Mermaid, although we were still allowed to watch it.

My family calls the red-bellied woodpecker the Rodman woodpecker because "red-bellied" makes no sense and at the time, Dennis Rodman had his hair spray-painted red exactly like that. So now we all call them Rodmans and forget that's not really their name.

Profit and Lace! My pick too. I refuse to watch it ever again because cringing that hard a second time would probably kill me. Frankly I skip most Ferengi episodes except the one with Iggy Pop.

Same reason I was rooting for Alcaraz in the Australian Open. Yes, of course he was going to win it eventually. But youngest ever Career Slam! That's incredible! (And I can't stand Djoker. I accept he's the GOAT but I don't have to like him.)

Yup. Same raccoons in a different trenchcoat. Look how fast Mamdani became a household name! If you get a good candidate and give them the right opportunities, they can MAKE the name. We don't have to settle for Newsom just because more people have heard of him right now.

"My party uber alles" is literally why we're in this mess. Generations of people hammered into the iron belief that the worst Republican is still better than any Democrat. Party is a place to start, not the final word.

Outer burbs here, about 10 neighbors went out with candles and stood along the road until we couldn't feel our fingers. It's not much, nothing really. But man, being together really helps, even if all you can do is mourn. I'm proud to be a Minnesotan. Never more than now.

I live in Minneapolis (outer burbs tho). My brother lives about 2 blocks from this morning's murder, haven't been able to get ahold of him. I'm hugging my kids a lot and basically saying yes to anything they want. I don't know. This is just so fucking awful.

6 is probably REM, 8 is Rage Against the Machine, 12 is Goo Goo Dolls. I can't figure out the devil bed one or the last one. Is that a water bottle? A flip phone?