News The Best, And Perhaps Only, Response To An Article About One’s Family That Opens With “Black Arts: The $800 Million Family Selling False Hopes”
She deserves whatever's coming to her, but what panache!
Mallory Ortberg
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Books “As if I was looking at something illicit…at the end I felt as if I had a fever”: Self on Villette
I wrote the introduction for the new edition of Villette and you ought to buy it, if you wish to, and also have the funds.
Books Ayn Rand’s The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe
You know the shtick at this point, guys!!
Family What To Expect When You’re Expecting A Changeling: Forum Names On Message Boards For First-Time Mothers Of Changelings
What To Expect When You're Expecting A Changeling
science Scientists Confirm: Plenty Of Water In California, It’s Just Over There
Recent studies suggest the water in California, there's plenty of it, and you shouldn't worry so much. Where's all the water? Just look at it. There's some right here, and also just behind you, from before, when you turned around and you weren't looking, but it was there. The water's plenty of it.
History Dirtbag Karl Marx
Karl Marx, teenage dirtbag.
Family Everything My Grandmother Said To Me Last Night As We Watched American Ninja Warrior Together
She's a great lady.
Books Let’s Talk About The Books That Didn’t Change Our Lives
It doesn't mean they're BAD, necessarily.
Interviews The Convert Series: Kima Jones
Talking with Kima Jones about her religious conversion.
Television The State Mondays: Macbeth
Finally making subtext text.
Television Kickin’ It: Freaked-Out Behavior Both Chronic And Recent
Kickin' It may be better than the Monorail song.
Music Torch Songs Where The Word “Me” Has Been Replaced By “Bees”
It's a formula for smiling, you guys.
News “Go back to the Church of Satan that you run”
The sheriff of the county whose custody Sandra Bland died in doesn't take kindly to peaceful protestors.
Books Ender’s Game
Ender's Game, probably.
Animals Thanks For The Heads-Up On The Los Angeles-Specific Subterranean Lizard People
I thought I knew about every kind of lizard person there was, but I didn't! Now I do!
