Linda Holmes

Booooooooo.

Note that I did not *announce* to them “SHE’S LIVING WITH MEN!” I was like, “Oh, she lives with her friends A and B.” Grandma wasn’t mad about it, but she was kind of exasperated, like, “Did you have to say that?” Oh, Grandma. (She loved us. It was fine.)

Thanksgiving with my grandparents at their friends’ house (during college). I was casually chatting about my family, and I was talking about my sister living with roommates, who were both platonic guy friends. My grandmother later expressed that she had NOT wanted me to tell this to her friends.

If the business model includes posts on Bluesky that don’t link to anything, that’s concerning business-model-wise.

Yes, the substance of that instruction is not the issue at all.

The part where he gleefully says you can tell it to “use forbidden words” made my faith in humanity shrivel.

Of course. People can think whatever they want about what other people wear! As is so often the case, the question is what to do with that opinion.

Nor would I ever tell anyone that the most fun you can have at a party *as a grown adult* is using an insult generator based on people’s looks, because I would be afraid that I would spontaneously be sucked into a vortex that would transport me immediately to jail, and I would know I deserved it.

I will admit to many frailties and flaws. I am far from perfect and have made plenty of mistakes and there are plenty of things I am bad at.

You could not pay me enough to declare that I am incapable of composing my own insults.

There are a lot of weird things going on, but the Secretary of Transportation giving lil talks on how to dress and when you can take your shoes off is right up there.

I thought Rogue One was so boring.

I have one of these. Recommend.

My takeaway from the last week of my life is that everyone over 40 should be entitled to a routine foot consult.

There you go.

This makes the non-spiked the default, and it allows people who want to spike to go very light on the booze if they want.

I am not a big party-thrower, but when I do, if it's fall or winter, I put a pot of warm cider on the stove. It makes the whole house smell great, and people gravitate to it like crazy. You can put some whiskey next to it and tell people to spike as they please.

I absolutely adore everything the Tiny Desk is now, but I also loved and admired this early REALLY preliminary version when this was not yet a famous thing to do.

YouTube video by NPR Music Jimmy Cliff: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert From The Archives

Jimmy Cliff did one of the very very early Tiny Desks in 2010, when the whole thing was still really getting figured out. youtu.be/QYtIT6J7G10?...

IT’S HERE!!

No.

There are so many productive ways to be interested in people! It’s not necessary to be so weird!

On the contrary, many of the movies are perfectly charming! It is for that reason that when I see a real head-scratcher I even bother mentioning it.

The same is true of eating, to some degree. Whatever somebody is eating—more, less, or simply different than you expect—there’s probably very little chance they want to be asked about it if they haven’t volunteered anything.

I got it. Please carry on!

It is not fun.

No, it was my fault. I apologize; I pulled you in a different direction. Like I said, I am probably more skeptical than I should be of people with a hook. I should have let your point be your point; I’m sorry!

Sure, but I freely admit I don’t know her deal. Just on a quick look she does seem to want to promote a whole philosophy of having less, which is certainly not a bad thing at all! It may just be that I haven’t listened to enough context for that comment to make sense.

I get that totally. I would struggle mightily! But yes, I do understand why this makes it far more reasonable for you to have a freeze dryer than it would be for me to have one just so I could laugh at what a freeze dried KitKat looks like or something.

But I am incredibly skeptical of people who have a bit on TikTok, I admit, probably more than is warranted.

This is what I was going to add and should have and didn’t—it could totally make sense if you are very far from a grocery store. But just sort of doing it because you believe in principle in running out of things is puzzling to me. With that said: Props to anybody who can benefit from her stuff.