Body hair is deeply stigmatized. Bodies and bodily functions are stigmatized.

It’s the same reason why sanitary pad commercials use clear blue liquid for absorptive demonstrations and not body temperature strawberry preserves. Or heaven forfend actual uterine lining…

Smiling happy women reclining in a bath, shaving off foam to reveal glossy perfect legs, is shorthand for the reality of what actually happens.

It’s based on a comic series, so the bones are good and the critics are all weenies. I ♡ crappy derivative action schlock.

Priest. I recommended it in a terrible movies thread. It’s Paul Bettany and Karl Urban in a cowboy/ronin/faith-based militia versus vampires film. Critics gave it 16% fresh.

… seriously. Look at this.

Trump did.

in no particular order:

The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor’s Heroic Search for the World’s First Miracle Drug

The Wave: In the Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean

Among the Thugs: The Experience, and the Seduction, of Crowd Violence

Anything by Mary Roach or Bill Bryson

*I love a good subtitle. Read Stephen Jay Gould, too. The Burgess Shale one in particular.

… did I hallucinate you with a christmas-themed burner account, too?

True neutral. Who’s gonna fight such a nice balance?

Bake something super easy.

Fudge and/or peppermint bark make great gifts and are both pretty easy to make for any skill level. Dress it up with a dollar store Christmas tin and bow for extra appeal.

three ingredient peppermint bark

fudge

I did that with key west. Got one exit away and bailed. We ended up kayaking in mangroves instead. 10/10.

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow

He lacks the warmth and depth

Are you a plant?

Dollar store spices will help you thrive.

Lots of beans have lard or pork in them.

WTF was that movie? Did they buy the rights to the title, but not the content?

Half a pound of camembert so far.

… it was a long day.

Today I learned that there is an energy grid owned by the government in the Tennessee Valley as a 1950’s New Deal utopia project thing.

https://ourworldindata.org/water-use-stress

Water stress doesn’t get talked about enough.

Little late in the growing season to pivot.