"Why the FUCK am I in Nevada?"
Happy (or “happy”) 2022, everybody! I took almost a full three weeks off to watch TV, take naps, and play Slay the Spire, and now I’m back. “Fully rested and refreshed?” you ask. “Um,” I say, looking at the state of the world. But at least we still have funny and interesting things on the internet to look at.
It’s erotic thriller month on I Hate It But I Love It
All this month on our podcast, Jocelyn and I are discussing erotic thrillers and their weird moralizing. We began last week with Single White Female and Bridget Fonda’s most ‘90s haircut ever, and this Wednesday’s episode will be the Jennifer Lopez flick The Boy Next Door. You should subscribe, if you wanna be cool! (You can find I Hate It But I Love It in all the usual places, including Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, and Pocket Casts.)
You need to watch the “Official Cast Recording” episode of Game Changer
I’ve written before about my love of CollegeHumor’s Game Changer game show (where the rules change every episode. You may have seen clips like the one above of their most recent episode, in which Jess McKenna, Zach Reino, and Zeke Nicholson improvise an entire musical — if you’re not subscribed to the Dropout streaming service, it is worth the price to watch the entire episode. I’ve already watched the whole thing four times. (Zach and Jess have a podcast called Off Book, on which they improv a musical every dang week. I love it.)
TWEETS!
REDDIT!
This one starts out bonkers and gets even MORE bonkers as it goes on — this guy really destroyed his family because of something EVERYONE tells him he’s wrong about:
When my husband and I got engaged he asked if I would like to be a stay at home mom for "Lizzy" and any future children we had. At the time I politely declined. I was doing well in my career, loved going to work and the thought of being home all day with a kid and doing nothing but housework and typical SAHM things didn't really tickle my fancy.
Fast forward to now and I am now 6 months pregnant with our son. I am on cloud 9. I was (am) always in a permanent state of bliss. And something in me changed.
I started thinking about being a SAHM. And suddenly, it didn't seem so bad. I am in love with my son and want to spend as much time with him as I can. I know it's not all roses and champagne, there is actually a lot of poop, drool, screaming and exhaustion involved but I can't really stand the thought of having two weeks maternity leave and then handing my son to a stranger in daycare…
So after I put little Lizzy to bed tonight I asked my husband if we could talk and excitedly broached my idea.
I was VERY unprepared for his reaction. My husband is FURIOUS.
This person has a boyfriend problem — his friends are dicks and he doesn’t stand up for his partner:
The tension started when one of them started making remarks about the way I dressed, I sucked it up but another friend started interrogating me about my degree then implying I was an ignorant for my food choice (wtf?). An hour later another one asked if I could leave because they wanted to discuss work stuff and it's confidential. I was so shocked I laughed asking why he thought it was appropriate to discuss work during a party and he replied that I had an "attitude".
You know it’s gonna be stupid when the person writes something like this with no sense of irony:
I said, perhaps in a somewhat curt tone, that it was impolite and inconsiderate of her to do this in front of others, and that, as a woman, she should be more graceful and polished in her manners.
An adult man sulking and retaliating against his daughter because she didn’t want him to teach her how to drive a car:
I said, "I need an explanation for why my own daughter was so against me teaching her to drive, or just even being the car with her while she was learning."
She said, "It wasn't personal. I just wanted to learn how to drive on my own. And with my friend. That's it."
Even my other daughters said, "Yeah, but you could have at least let Dad teach you one time." But she said that she was going to at one point, but then she felt pressured by everyone trying to push her into doing it that she just rebelled against the whole idea.
I said, "Well, what's done is done and you don't ever have worry about driving me around because I will never in your life let me drive me anywhere. I will never get in a car with you if you're behind the wheel."
TUMBLR!
(via thereddestglass, thread found here.)
(via eternal-fractal, thread found here.)
(via trash-like-me, thread found here.)
(via foulserpent.)
TIKTOK!
I have never seen a more Scooby-looking dog than this.
“Thanks for letting me borrow your time machine.”
Heaven made a mistake with Betty White.
They call this a terror planet, but is it really all that much worse than it is here?
The problem I face every day of my life.
Another very good kitty.
A wholesome display of non-toxic male friendship.
“It feels really good to be seen.”
I love this dog more than I love some of my family members.
ARTICLES!
Sidney Poitier Was the Star We Desperately Needed Him to Be, New York Times
F.B.I. Arrests Man Accused of Stealing Unpublished Book Manuscripts, New York Times
They bought a blender. Three weeks later, their cats continue to hold it hostage, Washington Post
I Got a Camera Up My Dick: A Memoir, GQ (this is from 2016, but it’s new to me!)
The Best Horror of 2021, High Drama
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That’s all for me today, gorgeous! Talk to you soon.
Love,
Kat