"What's that, prof? I should feel free to come up with my own examples based on what I think would be interesting? I know just the thing...."

We didn't end up going, but the reviews described it as "a time machine to the 80s." Maybe on the way back....

Would that I could "ignore financialization." There were a lot of gems like this as I finished up papers for the semester. It turns out that working on academic papers requires that you use a lot of words that aren't in the dictionary, whether you're using other people's coinages, your own, or just verbed nouns. This one, though, I think is an Apple dictionary problem.

fb as nosy acquaintance

When documentaries about declawing cats are in the "Recently Watched" section of Netflix, you know several things. 1) You're in our house 2) A lot of tears have been shed in the last forty-five minutes 3) Starbuck and Boomer are hiding under the bed cause they want us to stop hugging them and saying we'll never let them go.

All those Santas, all those elves.... It's less that I threw a shoulder or two and more that I didn't move a shoulder or two. So to have my impotent rage superseded by an elf thrown bodily through the air, well, it was magical.