As My Chemical Romance opined in their song of the same title, I'm not okay... But then, I find myself not NOT okay... I'm not entirely sure what I am. My grandma June is dead. It wasn't necessarily sudden, she's apparently been racked with cancer, and doing nothing whatsoever to treat it. But at the same time, to listen to her, she's also been ( Read more... )

It's a self-destructive headspace, big part of me is like, dude, you got up early for a reason, but you haven't done fuck all in two hours... Which is not actually true or fair; I made the coffee, I have run two loads of laundry, I've been doing some recycling, breaking down boxes and the like, and organizing the light bulbs in the basement cabinet ( Read more... )

There's a lot to be said for situational awareness in your own home. You know the noises it is supposed to make, and the noises it is not. And we prioritize these in our heads. Take, for example, this morning. I started a new loaf in the breadmaker, trying multigrain, which is a wheat bread with oatmeal. I subbed some of the oatmeal for sunflower ( Read more... )

Salve Regina, mater misericordiae ( Read more... )

Kyle Rittenhouse... And there's a lot I could say on this, but we're going to just strip this down to brass tacks. Kyle Rittenhouse had a gun in his hand, and someone was shot, and they are dead. He had to pay a fuckton of money to not rot in prison, and he's currently in the fight of his life to keep from staying in prison for the rest of his ( Read more... )

That by some numbers, the purported false positive of the COVID rapid and PCR tests is somewhere in the neighborhood of 80 percent? There's a lot going on here, but one of the problems is that while these tests are pretty good at telling you if you're sick, or if there's a presence of a virus in your system, they are in fact really BAD at ( Read more... )

Justice Kavanaugh apparently has COVID. Now, he's vaccinated, and he has no symptoms, so were it not for the fact that they apparently have to have swabs shoved up their snouts on a regular basis, well, he and everyone else would have no idea that he was even "sick ( Read more... )

The people of Paris sleep in their beds ( Read more... )

Seriously, I really need to see Les Miserables on the stage. It… consumes me. But anyway. Last weekend, wedding… It was… You know that scene in Princess Bride where the king and queen are walking her to the honeymoon suite? “Strange wedding…” “Yes, a very strange wedding…” That. For our case and purposes, well, we were the ones helping set ( Read more... )

It’s no secret to anybody who follows this blog, or talks to me, or hell, interacts with me in any way whatsoever, that I’m not a fan of commercials, and more to the point, commercials, or things in general, that insult my intelligence. I don’t claim to be the smartest guy on the planet, but I know that I’ve got some good analytical skills; if I ( Read more... )