The crying towel. Jesus effing christ. It's been noted about her many times many ways but I think Tom summed it up the best this weekend:

"Leigh loves to wring the crying towel and beat her breast with grief about the state of the world. It's one of the first things she'll shove in your face -'Oh how I ache for the injustice of it all, I bleed with ( Read more... )

Your pant leg is on fire.

Hmm?

Your pant leg is on fire.

OH MY GOD MY PANT LEG IS ON FIRE!!!!

I know, I'm the one who pointed it out, remember?

There is an episode of Sesame Street in which Cookie Monster expresses a fear of monsters. But how could this be when Cookie Monster is himself already a bona fide monster? Here is how Hegel might have answered:
Self-consciousness is both a subject and object to itself, even within childhood, and monsters enter both sides of this mediated reflection ( Read more... )