Here are some pretty flowers my sister gave me yesterday:
They are in the crystal vase from the consignment shop I love in Wheeling, Sibs.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.
Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.
“But what about the lurkers?”
Tick tock motherfuckers!
Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?
Nothing worth doing is easy.
Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.
Fuck these fucking interesting times.
Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?
Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.
I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.
No one could have predicted…
The words do not have to be perfect.
I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.
🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵
So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.
Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.
If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.
When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.
Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?
We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.
Why did Dr. Oz lose? well, according to the exit polls, it’s because Fetterman won.
You can’t love your country only when you win.
Damn right I heard that as a threat.
Mary G
Your title doesn’t go with your peaceful picture (except perhaps for Thurston standing by the fridge looking for food or trouble).
NotMax
Bonus brownie points for having relocated the trash can which stuck out into the passageway to the kitchen.
Gin & Tonic
Everything is great at my house.
Major Major Major Major
I assumed there was going to be a second picture with the flowers eaten and the vase destroyed, given the author and title.
bad Jim
That is one violent floral arrangement, a grand finale in flower form. Wow!
Corner Stone
Why does the fridge have such a sad look on its face?
Mnemosyne
G finally got me to start watching “The Good Place,” and it really is a great show. I already know what the twist is at the end of the season, but that’s the thing about a truly great twist — it works even if you know what it is ahead of time, because you can look for all of the hints that the writers dropped along the way.
M. Bouffant
@Corner Stone: “Why the long face?” indeed.
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: now I didn’t know about the twist but I knew there was a twist (and one detail) and for the life of me I didn’t see any hints.
ETA specifically I was looking for Arrested Development-Style impossible-to-see-but-in-retrospect foreshadowing.
Eljai
@Corner Stone: I think it looks more pensive than sad.
Mnemosyne
@Major Major Major Major:
Really? I’m seeing a million of them. But I haven’t gotten to the end of the season, so who knows? I may be assuming some things that don’t end up panning out.
It is a little distracting that a lot of it was shot at the Huntington, but I’m assuming non-LA locals won’t have the same problem.
ETA: Yeah, it’s a different kind of foreshadowing than that. More of a slow crumbling.
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: yeah my impression was that they played it straight with a twist at the end. Maybe it is one of those arrested development style things, I’d really have to rewatch I guess. Maybe some day.
eta just saw your eta—that I get!
Corner Stone
@Eljai: I don’t know. He has such beautiful eyelashes. But it seems maybe he was stood up for a date? Maybe it is more in consternation than sadness.
Duane
@Corner Stone: Maybe it’s from looking at those countertops all day.
Major Major Major Major
omg I finally see it in the fridge you guys are right
Mnemosyne
@Major Major Major Major:
I’m only five episodes in, so I have a ways to go, but I’ve developed a suspicion about a character that may be correct.
(I asked G and he said, “Well, how much do you want me to spoil it for you?” So I’m probably mostly right in my suspicion, but I’ll watch it and see.)
M. Bouffant
It is awful that people keep killing flowers just to watch them rot in a vase. One step above trophy hunting.
Corner Stone
@Duane: Nothing in that kitchen makes sense. But I’m starting to think Mr. Fridge is wondering where Igloo Cooler went? Finally, after struggling for so long, Fridge had finally found someone who totally got him. Igloo Cooler worked so hard to keep the special event special. Just like Fridge did every day. Because it meant something, dammit! But then through some carelessness of the Fat Man, Igloo was gone. Just gone. Now what is Fridge supposed to do? Just keep on chilling like nothing fucking matters anymore?
Mnemosyne
G also made me watch a couple episodes of “Documentary Now!” Bill Hader and Fred Arminsen took their Grey Gardens parody in an unexpected yet logical direction that slyly referenced a different fake documentary.
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: i just couldn’t watch that show. Me and the other mister tried and figured it was either bad or operating on some level we weren’t familiar with.
rikyrah
The title of the post is confusing.
Major Major Major Major
@rikyrah: maybe it’s written from the perspective of the fridge.
efgoldman
@Gin & Tonic:
Everything was great at my house, but the kids and granddaughter are going home (NOVA, DC) in the morning.
As somebody (Ruckus?) snarled at the pack o’jackals last year, It’s a lot more time consuming and much harder work trying not to die and get healthy than the opposite. So, yes, I’m working at it; yes, I’m still snarling; but there’s only so many hours in a day.- 28 or so.
John Cole
@Duane: wait- what is wrong with the counters?
Mnemosyne
@Major Major Major Major:
It helps if you saw the famous documentaries they’re parodying in film class like we did. If you never saw Grey Gardens, that episode will make no sense.
Also, in the one that takes place in Chicago, two characters have the most Chicago argument ever about where something was located. It put my dad’s infamous driving direction of “turn where the gas station used to be” in a whole new light.
efgoldman
@Mnemosyne:
Your dad’s from Rudd Ey-lund?
JGabriel
@Corner Stone:
Because the black helicopters are laughing at it.
Mnemosyne
@efgoldman:
No, he was a dad. ?
Major Major Major Major
@efgoldman: @Mnemosyne: worst directions I ever got were more or less just a series of “if you hit ——— you’ve gone too far.”
Fenix
All I see in the face of that fridge is judgement. Pure judgement.
Stop judging me, Fridge. You’re not the damn boss of me.
opiejeanne
@efgoldman: Or the midwest. Or maybe Washington. Geez, people, I’m not from here so I don’t know where the barn used to be before it burned down 20 years ago.
Zinsky
Not everything is awful, Cole. I am going to make a bold prediction here and prognosticate that Donald Trump will not be president this time next year. I am not sure if it will be impeachment, resignation or a massive stroke, but I’ll bet this guy isn’t in the Oval Office on Thanksgiving 2018.
bemused
@Zinsky:
Or carted off in a straitjacket.