Ann Tandy-Treiber

I think the comment you all are looking for is "bless."

and then you both laugh and you tell her again how great she looks and she says you too and then you scurry off to catch your bus

and tell her how great she looks and she's like I'm sorry I can't remember where I know you from and you look closer now that she's taken her shades off and you're all OMG YOU AREN'T Holly Vanderhaar AT ALL and she's like no my name is Gwen

So you know how you run into a friend you haven't seen in ages and she's sitting on the bench at a bus stop looking all glamorous in her vintage shades and spring coat and you give her a big smile and a HEY YOU IT'S BEEN AGES and she smiles and you sit down and ask her how she is

20+ years ago I wrote my dissertation on four novels, two of which were Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights.

Spoiler alert: everyone is awful.

This says A LOT MORE about Chris Rufo than it does about these women.

You can use one pillow too, but 2 just feels better!

I’m going to refrain from answering, but will say (apropos of nothing) that when smothering someone in their sleep it’s best practice to use TWO different pillows.

Why yes I am explaining dualism and materialism in my Lit of Science and Technology class today why do you ask

this is completely insane and more people need to say that doing this is completely insane

I only bring this up in class if a student makes this mistake; I gently point out the difference in usage and then say “and now you know the difference between a man who has been thoroughly hanged and a man who is well hung.” I have students from 20 years ago who still remember this.

People say that the GOP is all stick no carrot, that they forgot the bread and circuses.

But the thing is these guys are all incredibly cooked in the CSAM slop Nazi bar, playing to a tiny but loud group of utter freaks for whom murder and cruelty *is* the carrot and the bread and the circus.

Vigil at St. Anthony Park tonight in Nordeast. Being with neighbors is healing. (That’s the wife, a church choir member, leading with the lyrics)

Sat at 7pm (Tonight) Block Level Vigils with your neighbors all over Minnesota. Grab candles (extras for others) and head outside to show respect for humanity and to respond to the murder and abductions of our neighbors. Make it visible from space. See you outside!

Canada Announces Divorce from America And rightly so.

"This is the diplomatic equivalent of a wronged spouse telling their partner: No, I am not asking for a break or a trial separation. It’s time to move on."

“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house." 

Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...

Well everyone beat me to the “eye bath” guess so I’ll instead suggest that it’s for mixing your child’s nightly gin and laudanum.

Them: if you wake up with a good idea in the middle of the night be sure to write it down so you don’t forget it

My brain at 3 am: what if the Pam Dawber did a whole extra season of Mork and Mindy where Mindy was writing a musical for Pam Dawber called Pamelot and she played both herself and Mindy

I got my first “olden days” from a student talking about the 20th century this semester.

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Prosperity Gospel is a helluva drug.

Die Hard adventure calendar of Nakatomi Plaza, with Hans Gruber falling down, marking the days until Christmas.

Generally I am a traditionalist when it comes to advent calendars. I make an exception for this work of absolute genius.

It’s the “throw everything AND the kitchen sink at it” play for reals. (Students just proposed an adaptation of it as an ep of “Smiling Friends.” It totally worked.)

Oh I forgot antibiotics!

Before modern medicine (sterile surgical techniques, anesthetic, vaccines), roughly 50% of people died before age 10.

What would have killed you?

I would have been still born.

Oh damn

[stares in Minneapolis]

An excerpt from an essay by E.B. White: "I confess to a disturbed stomach. I feel sick when I find anyone adjusting his mind to the new tyranny which is succeeding abroad. Because of its fundamental strictures, fascism does not seem to me to admit of any compromise or any rationalization, and I resent the patronizing air of persons who find in my plain belief in freedom a sign of immaturity. If it is boyish to believe that a human being should live free, then I'll gladly arrest my development and let the rest of the world grow up."

Using E.B. White to name the horrible shit they're doing is particularly galling considering

(From his essay "Freedom" published in July 1940, it's available in the collection ONE MAN'S MEAT, but you can find the whole thing online. I recommend picking it up.)

Hey, you just admitted you were up anyway!

Woman passed out on fainting couch

CAN CONFIRM COUCH IS SUITABLE STOP
AVAILABLE FOR FUTURE FAINTINGS STOP

Victorian fainting couch

HAVE FAINTING COUCH.
REGRET TOO LARGE TO BRING.
WILL FAINT ON YOUR COUCH IN PERFORMATIVE FASHION.
AFFIRM IF ACCEPTABLE.