Fashions of the future as imagined in 1893!
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The quiet radicalism of All That:
The original cast included four girls (Denberg and Reyes, with Angelique Bates and Katrina Johnson) and three boys (Kenan Thompson, Kel Mitchell, and Josh Server); three white performers, and four performers of color. Compare that to the concurrently running Season 20 of Saturday Night Live (1994-95), which featured a cast of 17. Only four were women, and only two were of color.
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The Nation takes on the Cecily McMillan case:
In her opening argument last week, assistant district attorney Erin Choi tried to use McMillan’s outcry during the arrest against her. Choi quoted McMillan asking onlookers, “Are you filming this? Are you filming this?” Choi’s implication was that McMillan didn’t want her premeditated attack on tape. But anyone who has ever covered a protest knows that this is what demonstrators say when they feel they’re being mistreated—it’s a call for documentation, not for turning the cameras off.
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Michael Robbins’ top five metal albums and their poetic counterparts:
4. Guns N’ Roses, Appetite for Destruction (Geffen, 1987). Yes, there’s filler, but this record’s had its hooks — and what hooks — in me since I first saw the video for “Sweet Child o’ Mine” in high school. Someone pointed out to me that there are more allusions to GN’R in my first book of poems, Alien vs. Predator, than to any other band or author. Therefore my own work is the poetic counterpart of Appetite for Destruction. If that’s too obnoxious, well, so are GN’R. But please also see, for destruction and appetite, Chelsey Minnis’s Poemland and Ooga-Booga by Frederick Seidel.
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Real talk, would you buy a haunted house? Not this one, obviously, but is that something that would be a feature or a detriment to you? I might buy one if there were NO apparitions appearing in mirrors behind you. That’s a dealbreaker, ladies.
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Oh, boy. Boy oh boy oh boy. Did Deanna Mauricio, formerly of Saint Patrick’s Elementary School in Kingston, Ontario, write this scholarly treatise while tormenting her peers who would grow up to be successful blog owners? YEAH, DEANNA, YOU WERE A REAL BITCH.
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I have a question for you! Do you take a long time to make decisions, or do you make snap decisions? I decide everything instantly, and the idea that people don’t always know exactly what they want is very curious to me, though it seems sensible, and also probably leads to better decisions. Do you need to think about things?
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I think Tyler was pretty classy, here!
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I’m giving you a Game of Thrones thread at 9:30am, so maybe go get coffee or say three things to your boss to buy yourself some time later. What other shows are you sufficiently into that you would like the occasional designated thread? I am willing to entertain the following options:
The Americans
Scandal
Mad Men
The Mindy Project
Nashville
My Cat From Hell
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Tags: feminism, link roundup, the internet
They weren’t far off about the 70s!
80s looks pretty right on too
I usually think about decisions for a long time, but lately I’ve been really impulsive.
Some decisions I mull for a long time (especially big $$/important ones), but when I get to the decision, I am THERE and DONE. Some things I just know immediately. This is a stupid example, but I was shopping recently and saw the thing I wanted. For whatever reason, I felt compelled to look at other items, just to make sure, even though I knew the original one was The One.
I always always go shopping alone, because I wouldn’t have any friends if other people saw how much time I spend going back and forth between stores, trying one thing on and then the other and then the first one again, taking out the calculator to find out which box of detergent is cheaper per ounce. . . and then I decide not to buy anything in the end.
When I’m shopping, if there are only 2-3 kinds of what I’m looking for, I can make a decision in a snap. If there are 10 or 12 or 20, forget it, I’m toast. I was always rubbish deciding on a movie in the video store.
TV thread votes, in descending order: Mindy Project, Mad Men, My Cat From Hell. I realize that Mad Men gets recapped/commented in every online forum known to the human race but I’d still like to hear from Toasties on the subject.
I don’t watch any of these. Please provide a weekly “shows featuring H Jon Benjamin” thread.
We all should be watching Bob’s Burgers and discussing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez1emdOiTXA
I just started watching Archer on Netflix, so I would be up for that, too.
the only thing about Archer is that the open thread would just end up being us rehashing every single funny line…so, all of them.
This.
Mad Men upvotes. During the course of season six, I discovered how much I love T&L, and can’t stand to read the commentary anywhere else. Clearly, toasties would bring the level of discourse to a much higher place than, say, stupid Slate.
I vote Mindy too, but I’d like a subthread talking about how I can’t decide if I LIKE IT but keep watching anyway? Like, it is an “edgier” New Girl but not as good as Parks and Rec?
However, I would ABSOLUTELY like a thread about my odd attraction to most of the men on the show, especially Chris Messina, and especially when he is doing Aaliyah oh my god you guys you guys you guys.
I mean, do you understand??
This scene broke me. I don’t even want to know how many times I rewatched it.
I have a lot, a lot, to say about The Mindy Project! I fully support open threads or roundtables (like the buzzfeed one, that was on point).
A friend of mine lived in a haunted house, I think. Every tenant who lived there had haunted experiences, and most were not told beforehand that there was a ghost. Luckily the ghost seemed to like my friend and her family and would open drawers for them or move keys to convenient places.
I never witnessed anything but on top of that it was a gorgeous house on an island in Maine and they kept miniature donkeys so let’s all move there.
The old coaching inn I lived in when I was about 7 was haunted. Not maliciously so, though.
I think we have a ghost cat in our current place.
I lived in a house that I guess may have been haunted, but it was the most boring, non threatening haunting ever. I sort of don’t believe in ghosts (although I like to entertain the notion for funsies) but I honestly could never explain the things that I heard at this place. So I’m like a ghost agnostic now.
I mean, I guess it’s better than the house waking you up at all hours to bleed at you or yell at you to get out. I guess. But you know…*kicks can*
There should be a word for the opposite of a poltergeist. Other than Casper.
I’m liking this place for a potential Toastie enclave! Helpful ghosts, next to the sea? Sounds perfect.
Snap decisions _and_ poor impulse control.
Those imagined fashions, wow! The 1930s were all about Little Bow Peep. I like how this guy just can’t imagine a world where women don’t wear 800 layers of clothing.
TV Discussions: Mindy!
I take forever to make decisions, which is why I never get anywhere. I look at everything from every angle. I wish I were more impulsive.
People have trouble imagining the world that’s that much different from their own. There are postcards from 1900-era France depicting life “in the year 2000.” They portray individual flying machines, but everyone is still wearing 1900-style clothes. My favorite? “Heating with Radium”…glowing out from a Victorian-style fireplace.
That bullying pamphlet is SOMETHING ELSE. What the crap!?
Also I would definitely also love dedicated threads for Scandal, just because the soapiness and drama on that show make for great conversation.
BE GRATEFUL AND THINK THEY REALLY CARE ABOUT YOU. What.
It seemed pretty obvious to me that the bullying article was written as a joke, and some lazy administrator didn’t bother to read it closely before CTRL+V and PRINT.
DId anyone else get a super-Jesus-y feel from that pamphlet?
MADMEN MADMEN MADMEN MADMEN
(I am in the UK and haven’t seen the series opener yet, and would be four days behind any thread discussion, so I probably wouldn’t contribute, but whatever, regardless. MADMEN MADMEN MADMEN.)
SIGNED, Alice, All- Capsing about Madmen at any and all opportunity since 2007
seconded!
MOAR UPVOTES AND CAPITAL LETTERS!
YES to Mad Men! would looove to hear what Toasties have to say about it.
YES PLEASE MADMEN MADMEN MADMEN MADMEN.
Yessss.
Seconding Los Hombres Enojados as well! Did anyone hear that episode of Comedy Bang Bang with Nick Kroll and Jon Hamm? I don’t know why it cracked me up so much but it’s really stayed with me. A thing like that!
Mad Men, The Toast style!!!! I didn’t even know I wanted it until right this second, but now? I WILL NOT BE DENIED!!!
I always think about decisions for an incredibly long time, to the point where I’ve just paralyzed myself by waiting, and it’s not the best thing. This happens even with things like dinner. I very much appreciate the ability to choose things quickly!
Making decisions and a panic disorder do not go well together.
I paralyse myself by trying to predict and control all possible outcomes.
A sort-of therapist told me once that negative emotions come from the intersection of what we expected to happen and what actually happened. Sometimes that helps me – definitely not always, but sometimes.
Same here, with the paralysis! I seem to have a hard time envisioning my own future, which makes it even harder. Like, I’m in the midst of a big life decision now, and I am totally stuck at trying to figure out which choice is best.
Luckily, I’m married to a guy who is my exact opposite in that way, which is probably the only way any change happens around here.
I have to constantly remind myself that it’s entirely possible to have a good outcome regardless of what I decide. In fact, if I’m torn it’s probably because both options are equally good.
Saaaaaame. I’ve been having to make some really, really huge life-altering decisions lately and it has been paralyzing and agonizing and horrible, even though I am choosing between good things! I feel like my decision-making is getting worse, too, and I am losing confidence in my ability to choose what is best for me. Which is so stupid, because if I don’t know, who does?
Maybe I should go to therapy about this.
Irrelevant to all the links, but MPLS Toast meetup tonight! 8pm at Zeke’s on Lake street.
I’m pretty decisive. Maybe it’s linked to being a more intuitive person, like in the capital N sense of the Myers-Briggs? I feel like I just know what’s “right” in a given moment (which is not to say it necessarily winds up *being* the right thing to do) and make up my mind quickly based on that.
I have a small impulsive/reckless streak though.
It varies from decision to decision for me. I’m a big ol’ N, and in work-related decisions (or math problems), the conclusion is so obvious to me from a mile away that sometimes I don’t even realize that a decision was involved. Conversely, I can take forever on personal decisions (whether to make a purchase or writing an email to a friend). I think it’s just the pathos side of my brain mucking things up. Logos and ethos are usually cut-and-dried, it’s stupid ~emotions~ that hold my life back.
Oh my goddd I’ve been trying to make an enormous decision (which law school to go to) for weeks and it is Killing me. I think I have a real problem with feeling like there is a Right decision, and I just need to figure out what that is, but how do I know for sure if it’s the Right one? The world is unknowable!
What are your considerations? Generally you should pick a better law school over a worse one; unless you’re going to a top 10ish law school, try to go to school in the same geographic region you want to practice in; and unless you’re going to a top 10-ish school, be very wary about taking out big loans, because you will likely have difficulty finding a job that pays enough for you to pay them back comfortably.
All good & common advice. I would say geography over ranking unless one is much higher or much cheaper. That said…I had no idea where I had no idea where I wanted to live, applied to schools based on my desired specialty, and ended up not practicing that type of law but getting out cheaply (thanks to scholarships) and loving my random city.
Really, this is the first of several decisions you will likely make in the next three years that will leave you totally uncertain. You have to roll with it.
This is all excellent advice. If you want to try to climb the prestige ladder by transferring after 1L year, it can be done, with probably better employment prospects but little to no financial aid. Wish I had understood the geography piece better when I was picking schools meself! If you *know* where you want to practice after, factor that into your decision for sure.
I didn’t understand the geography issue before I went to law school, and it worked out, but it was stressful and took a lot of hustling on my part.
With regard to transferring — in my school, the top 3-4 (of ~200) students transferred to better schools, I suspect that’s about typical? I wouldn’t go into one school expecting to transfer to another after a year, because unless you want to move down the prestige ladder, you’re going to have to be at the very top of the class to transfer higher. I certainly couldn’t have transferred up after my 1L grades. Also, if you have any scholarships, you might have to pay them back if you transfer.
@Marty – “I would say geography over ranking unless one is much higher or much cheaper” – I agree, but only within the tiers. I wouldn’t pick a Tier 2 school over a Tier 1 school, even if it were substantially cheaper and in a better location.
I would buy a haunted house. The price on them would be really low.
In fact, when we were looking, there was a 5 bedroom going for £75k. It sold before we could even get a viewing, but I reckon that was haunted. I don’t care how agressive the ghost is, for £75k and 5 bedrooms, I will put up with a lot of bloodstained walls and 3am wailing.
Low price. Exactly. We move often, and I would love to buy an otherwise nice house for a price deflated by public perception regarding the supernatural. This includes houses in which murders and suicides have occurred.
However, I cannot buy a haunted house because we are still moving often. A couple of years after the purchase, I would be stuck trying to sell an otherwise nice house to a superstitious public. Cannot afford that kind of delay. We end up with bland suburban houses, lovely but aesthetically safe, to ensure quick sale. [sigh]
My thought and decision-making processes are incredibly meta and fraught, and I consider it a detriment.
Oh good, not just me then? Though I don’t consider it a detriment as such, it means that when I do decide, I generally feel pretty ok about that decision. The few times I’ve made impulsive decisions, I’ve fretted for weeks afterwards.
I really only find it a problem when trying to decide things with my partner… who’s pretty much the opposite.
Yeah, that is an upside. I research, research, research, so when I do finally make a decision I tend to feel satisfied. But it’s so exhausting, and I know it’s overkill for most decisions.
That fashion dude is sure into hats.
I like how everything in the future will be a variation on the dunce hats. The people of the 20th century will get the idea of the cone-shaped hat and never let it go.
The All That link isn’t working for me and I really want to read it!
I would love a thread to talk about the Mindy Project. In my experience it’s pretty underdiscussed and I have a lot to say.
heres the link that works: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/…
My decision making process has consisted of waiting for someone else to make a decision, but (thankfully) that is changing. I’m getting to where I make
decisions and people just have to live with that.
So… progress?
I like talking about Mad Men and would relish the opportunity to do so with Toasties (i.e. internet people who aren’t awful) but I haven’t watched this season’s opener yet and am honestly feeling kind of Over It. :-/
+1 for Toasties’ Mad Men.
I hope this isn’t spoiler-y, but I found the season opener to be bleak. And the bleakness to be fitting.
I think I’ve just finally reached White Male Antihero exhaustion. I wish they’d kill Don off early then turn the rest of the season into Peggy and Joan Go On a Buddy Road Trip.
Me too, I’m much more excited about everyone else’s storylines.
I was Over It about halfway through last season, then finally caught up a couple weeks ago and now I’m 100% INTO IT again. It’s okay to take a break and catch up later (or never catch up!).
I felt the same way – give it up, Don Draper – then I started reading the recaps of the season premiere and I changed my mind. Season 7 will pile up in my Vudu queue as the episodes are aired. I really do want to see where they take Peggy & Joan’s characters.
I sort of want Roger to become a monk. Anyone with me?
I have seen exactly one episode of My Cat From Hell, but I would still very much like a Toast discussion thread on it. Because this is The Toast and it is the best! Also, Mindy Project, Scandal, and Mad Men.
I feel like the two important factors in decisionmaking are whether or not you have enough information to make a sound decision and how high are the stakes for the outcome.
Work decisions? I usually need some time to gather data and weigh outcomes, but then I will decide like a decider.
Personal decisions: What kind of sandwich do I want? What should I be for Halloween? What shall I do this weekend? Should I reply to this OKC message? Bam! Decided.
Social decisions: What kind of sandwich do WE want, what should WE be for Halloween, what shall WE do this weekend? I’ll give you 2-3 options I like and ask you to narrow it down. Worst case scenario: I’ll flip a coin to decide, and if you’re sad that it lands on heads, we’ll do tails.
This method makes me both kind of valuable and very annoying as a friend.
I do your coin flip in a different way! I’ll tell the other person to pick a number, and in my head assign one option to even numbers, the other to odd. Same thing in the end though — if disappointed in the result, you wanted the other one anyway.
I would like to say that I would buy a haunted house, because I ~technically~ don’t believe in ghosts. BUT I still can’t look in the mirror at night, and sometimes run from the bathroom to bed in case there’s something chasing me, so for my own sake I would probably make up some other reason NOT to buy it.
decisions: usually mull over the bigger things to myself for a while, then just do them seemingly (to others) out of nowhere.
tv: my cat from hell! love that show. mad men also gets a vote.
I would not buy a notorious haunted house.
I don’t believe in ghosts, but there are a handful of entirely rational reasons not to buy a putatively haunted house. Are the “hauntings” actually hallucinations brought on by a toxicity present in that place, or by vibrations below our conscious perception but which we still unconsciously perceive? Are the local stories about the place or its events widespread enough to generate interest in people as morbid as I am, but with poorer boundaries and social skills?
That said, I lived and worked for several years in a place where most of the staff agreed that we seemed to have a ghost. I agreed, a bit grudgingly, that something weird was going on there. I saw a figure who would disappear, as did my co-workers, though never at the same time. Sewing needles and thread and scissors routinely got moved even when no one else was in the room with me. Once, only once, when I went into the downstairs to investigate a noise, I saw the flimsy office double doors swinging in and out apparently on their own, then they slammed a great booming sound… and I have to admit, I fled rather than investigating.
But most of that can be explained one way or another, and a lot of it could just be the confabulation of my confused brain trying to make sense of nonsensical input. Until there’s better evidence than my own uncorroborated “I SAW THIS THING!” (because we all know how terribly eye-witness events are corrupted in one’s memory), I’ll continue not to believe in ghosts per se but to keep an open mind if convincing, consistent evidence should be presented.
My cat from hell is ridiculous, and I would support that. Also, The Mindy Project! I have totally given up on Scandal though, I fear it cannot return to being a sensible, suspenseful show (but I would appreciate a discussion on whether or not it glorifies abusive relationships).
I actively try to think less and just fucking do it – I can overanalyse myself into total paralysis and my risk-aversion has caused some proper problems over the years.
My giant midlife crisis when my ex left was responsible for kicking me out of a lot of it, in the ‘I’ve lost everything so fuck it, doesn’t matter’ way – and then I realised I was having so much fun I have carried on. When I realise i am starting to default to dithering and saying no to things rather than saying yes, I kick myself up the backside and make a conscious effort to stop it.
And i would probably buy a haunted house as long as it wasn’t going to be a horrendous ghost. I’d happily live with Phantom Dennis.
My default is dithering and saying no too! I really like routine and stability and having a plan and anything that throws that off can stress me out, so I end up saying no or waffling on stuff that I should just say yes to. I’m working on getting better at that but my progress has been minimal.
Me toooooo! I am genuinely so much happier though, having the control freakery under control (as it were) and coping better with unexpectedness and routine changes. I don’t recommend how I got there, as horrific breakups are never fun, but I’m much more ‘the person I want to be’ now I’m out the other side of it. I will always be the person who plays devil’s advocate, who thinks about what might go wrong and makes plans for every eventuality, but I’m much less likely now to let the prospects of what might happen stop me doing fun stuff.
I grew up in a (supposedly) extremely haunted town in new england and my friend LIVED in a haunted house that was built in the 1600s and SEVERAL PEOPLE reported a man in a top hat, standing just outside the living room, watching them watch television.
This is how I would spend MY time as a ghost, sad about all the cool stuff they will invent after I’m dead.
(we also had a town witch LOOK AT THIS SHIT http://www.damnedct.com/hannah-cranna)
Hannah sounds great! I would for sure put a hex on someone who denied me a fresh-baked pie!
I don’t even believe in ghosts, and that is SO SAD to imagine.
I vote for The Americans! Nina: are her decisions/actions from strategic planning or from trying to keep her head above water? Or we could just admire her lips.
This is my comment on pretty much every Cat From Hell episode: dump that asshole! He hates your cats!
Yay for The Americans!
I love watching Nina’s character; I don’t know what her ultimate motive is, but I love watching her get there. I do think both Beeman and Mother Russia are underestimating her, and to their own detriments.
I make most decisions right away – people, houses, cars, pets. But some I take more time about. In Behavioral Economics they say there are two kinds of decisions: Cognitive, and Emotional. About Emotional matters I am quite fast, money or Cognitive stuff, I think about a bit. Fast or slow decisions are neither good nor bad. Everyone is different.
I would love to chat about Mad Men (Betty is JUST LIKE MY MOTHER) my Cat From Hell, and VEEP, because I live and work with these people
I used to live in a supposedly haunted house, but our ghost was quite benign. She would suddenly open doors and make the floors creak
If I have money in the bank I can make decisions pretty easily, because there’s almost always a way I can buy myself another chance. If I’m broke any decision is agonizing.
I’d like to vote for The Americans. I would love to have some good conversations about that show.
I’ve lived with…well, unexplained presences before, and for the most part they were tolerable. So I think I’d buy a haunted house, as long as the price was right and the ghost wasn’t violent or messy. I’m enough of a slob that I don’t need to clean up after a poltergeist as well as myself and my youngest (my husband and eldest are pretty tidy).
I make decisions, big and small, almost instantly…and then I dwell on my decision’s shortcomings and second-guess myself repeatedly before I act on said decision. :/ In my ideal world, I would be instantly confident of my choices and stride forth like a shieldmaiden of legend to make all others bend to my will.
I feel like I would probably buy a haunted house, but then again: Yesterday I was looking on-line for hotels for a weekend getaway. I came across a cute motel that seemed nice, but in looking for reviews of it I stumbled on the fact that a few years ago, a man killed himself there. He killed his wife and child at their home, then fled to the motel and did himself in. I promptly decided that would NOT be staying there, so maybe no haunted houses either?
I’m aware that no one else in the universe watches it, but I vote Nashville. Don’t Put Dirt On My Grave Just Yet is my pissing people off anthem.
I can make big decisions almost instantly, but small ones take an AGE. This is why I’ve had a $20 everlane credit since December. Colors are hard!
I haven’t watched like, half of the last season, but YES NASHVILLE!!!
Nashville! The soundtracks are my guilty pleasure. Also, BRING BACK LIAM!
SO late to the party, but yes, yes, yes to Nashville. I’m torn over the Juliette/Rayna relationship (loved the juicy “saucy young upstart vs. seasoned veteran” storyline that was season one and now…, what, Rayna is Juliette’s wise mother figure? Gah!).
I want a Scandal thread! Nobody I know in real life is watching it and it’s the sort of show I just want to talk about! I have one friend who’s a season behind but that’s almost worse than not watching at all.
I used to live in a haunted house in college, one of those big rambling 1840s Greek Revival mansions, up in the attic where access to the cupola was. The story went that the original owner had a daughter that he locked away up there and she ended up hanging herself.
I never saw anything and don’t really believe in it, but the house did creak and shake in weird ways sometimes.
No Orphan Black? So excited it’s baaaack!
Seconding Orphan Black! So excite.
Nashville and Mad Men, for sure.
I refuse to make decisions when someone else is involved – I get so paralyzingly stressed that I’ll make the decision and it won’t turn out well and it’ll be all my fault and the person will hate me forever and and and. You get where this is going. I’ve gotten better at this with like, people who love me unconditionally, but I’m still not good with friends/acquaintances.
I am better at making decisions when no one else is involved, but sometimes I end up agonizing over what book I want to read next or what TV show to watch on my Saturday afternoon because WHAT IF I DON’T ENJOY IT??? Then I wasted time I could have used to do the other thing and enjoyed myself! etc etc.
TL;DR I have lots of anxiety about making decisions and would prefer to have a robot friend who makes all my decisions for me.
I’ve been trying to train myself to make decisions faster, to respond to opportunities more quickly, and in general to stop dithering over everything.
But when I do respond quickly, I often realize after the fact that I’ve failed to make the most of the opportunity, that I’ve overlooked something crucial or inconvenient, that in fact responding quickly means I made decisions that are worse for me.
And that’s useful information: I wasn’t “dithering,” as I’ve always thought. I was examining different facets of my choices and giving myself a chance to see the whole chess board*. This means I’ll be much more patient with myself in the future, I hope.
*more revealing typo ever: I initially typed “cheese board.” Gotta see every cheese before you decide where to start.
I would legit participate in a My Cat From Hell thread. It’s amazing how much I can talk about cats now that I have some.
Agreed wholeheartedly!
I am the worst at decisions. Even decisions like “what kind of toothpaste should I buy” require multiple trips to the store because they keep closing before I can pick.
I agonize.
I dunno, I think I’d approach buying a haunted house like I’d approach getting a roommate. If the ghost is polite and keeps to its ghostly self most of the time? Fine, really. If it likes to make loud noises, or scare people for kicks, or murder them in their sleep, or cover the walls with blood? Bad ghostly roommate situation, no sale.
Also, MAD MEN!
“The Americans.” Only I can’t participate until a day or so after the episode airs for … certain reasons. Let’s just say I need to wait that long to see each episode.
1) One of the symptoms of my Depression is that I don’t give a fuck, don’t ask me to decide anything, I have no opinions about anything. I’ve been taking Bupropion XL for a little over a month and I’m starting to have opinions about stuff other than character motivations in books/tv shows again. Let’s talk about what to have for dinner! (pizza) or what to do this weekend (see a movie). OPINIONS. I GOT ‘EM.
2) I would totally live in a haunted house. I’ve lived in several spooky apartments that I have great stories about (foot steps, cold spots, voices, water turning on/off by itself, things vanishing/reappearing, vibrant recurring dreams). I don’t REALLY believe in ghosts but I love ghost stories. One of my best friends/housemates is a total skeptic but he’s experienced some of the same spooky shit I have while living together. I grew up Catholic so if I ever moved into someplace that was hard core haunted I would call in an exorcist. But first I’d make sure the electrical wiring was all grounded.
"Christ on a cracker!" and "Not great Bob!!" are two that I use regularly.
A thing like that!
He is my favorite little shit.
I think I have to start using “It's a shameful, shameful day” more often.http://www.vulture.com/2013/06/supercut-pete-campbells-mad-men-rant-supercut.html