And maybe this is dumb that this all is important to me, but I love handing out candy. Especially to adorable excited kids! Because WOW THE ONE NIGHT they can be whomever they want, beg for candy, and talk to strangers without consequences. It’s fun, and I want to be out there giving candy out for as long as possible and I don’t want to give it to undeserving wo/man-childs because then I run out for the kids that actually are participating.
So PSA:
When ToTing, of any age or life stage, follow the rules and be polite.
I don’t care if you’re 45 and Trick or Treating but you darn well be wearing a costume. A REAL costume. Not all black and a beanie “I’m a robber” costume. Not just wanna show off your trashy outfits “I’m XXX celebrity” costume (unless it’s an ICONIC OUTFIT). Not just a mask you bought last minute at the leftover costume section.
I hate when parents use the whole “I pay for your food and clothes and everything else!” Excuse to make their kids feel guilty. Its like, oh, yes, sorry you decided to have a child and actually have to care for that child. What a horrible thing for a small human to need those things and for the birthgiver to care for them. Poor you.
“God damn it!” i yell as i stub my toe on a table. suddenly from the sky, i hear god reply “okay”. the floor splits open, revealing a pit to hell. god pushes the table down into the pit, and then it seals up. he actually did it. god damned it.
Dante goes up to the counter and orders a caramel frappucino. However, he doesn’t have enough money to pay for it. He needs to walk nine whole blocks to his friend Virgil’s house, borrow the change, and come back before he can finally get his coffee.
Who know Dante would turn out to be my least favorite person.
Frodo goes up to the counter and tries and fails to order a cup of tea. Samwise, who is accompanying him, says, “Master Frodo will have a grande green tea with room for cream, please.” The barista hands the cup to Frodo, and the entire shop cheers. “Huzzah!” they cry. “Look at Frodo Baggins, ordering that cup of tea all by himself!” Later, Sam puts out a fire in the kitchen and Frodo is given the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
“While early voting at the Schaumburg Public Library today, I tried to cast a vote for myself and instead it cast the vote for my opponent,” said Moynihan. “You could imagine my surprise as the same thing happened with a number of races when I tried to vote for a Republican and the machine registered a vote for a Democrat.”
While using a touch screen voting machine in Schaumburg, Moynihan voted for several races on the ballot, only to find that whenever he voted for a Republican candidate, the machine registered the vote for a Democrat in the same race. He notified the election judge at his polling place and demonstrated that it continued to cast a vote for the opposing candidate’s party. Moynihan was eventually allowed to vote for Republican candidates, including his own race. It is unknown if the machine in question (#008958) has been removed from service or is still in operation.
“Clearly, I am concerned that citizens will be unable to vote for the candidate of their choice, especially if they are in a hurry and do not double check their ballot,” added Moynihan. “I cannot say whether or not this was intentional, but Cook County voters deserve better and should not have their right to vote suppressed.”
It’s Illinois, this shouldn’t be a surprise. When I moved to Illinois the first thing the locals said was that they didn’t trust any of their politicians, they were always being investigated before they even got into office. Did they care to do anything? Nope. They thought that this was just how things were. It was so sad.
“Only Americans” is a gross exaggeration of the universal instability of mankind. There are people like this everywhere, maybe it won’t be video games, but books or a tv show.
Today I had a guest ask if we had anymore vanilla sweetened milk boxes for his baby and I honest to God lied and said no, because it was because I didn’t want that much sugar in that baby.
So instead I just filled up the baby’s bottle with regular milk for free.
I can’t bring myself to be a part of the diabetes epidemic in children lately, it’s so heartbreaking. I will honestly be fired before I let one more parent put a grande caramel frappuccino–extra caramel!– in their 16 month old. Not from my hands, no sir.
Wulver: a werewolf in Shetland, that is said to have had the body of a man with a wolf’s head. It was reported to have left fish on the windowsills of poor families.
That is the nicest Werewolf legend I’ve ever heard of.
“In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek
in high school to teaching Remedial English in college.”—Joseph Sobran (1946-2010) American Journalist (via philosophicalconservatism)
Stop hating on and generalizing teen fiction. They are great sources of reading material if you just take your time and choose wisely.
Can I have teen fiction WITHOUT any romance, period? (Or very little… but is not focused on as a plot point)
That would excellent.
I’m super picky about my romances, I generally find most fictional ones to be uncomfortable or problematic. Looking for a good YA without it is difficult, not impossible, but certainly difficult. ESPECIALLY if it’s female lead. I actually actively avoid most female-lead YA novels for this very reason. Sad but true…
Any suggestions?
(As a side note, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was a good book without pivotal romance, but I don’t think it strictly counts as YA. Also, Le Guin’s Earthsea novels dodge the romance trap. LOVE those books.)
