saw a near miss of the kind of event that caused this excruciating summer for me and it sent my heart into knots..... please, for fuck's sake, look before you open a car door into the street. a cyclist hitting a car door means they go over the door and their head hits the pavement. it's catastrophic

making guided meditation/breathing app audio recordings that include prompts for smoking a cig

the moment in S5E5 when Jinkx Monsoon announced that she'd be doing Little Edie for Snatch Game was the first time in the entire run of the RuPaul franchise when I was absolutely certain that a contestant was my exact precise species of gay

not going to do the astrology thing because I don't know it very well, I just know that every time an astrology gay has convinced me to fill out a form and show them my chart they've responded to it like psychics in horror movies do

I do agree that we expect sitting US Senators to mark the passing of a colleague in a collegial fashion as a mark of decency, and I also think this is about the absolute most stink you can possibly put on it

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Meanwhile Tina Smith said this, and a million brain dead boomers still think she was a downgrade

first thought on seeing that photo was they put the man in a button-down to hide the big red FALL RISK wristband that I know damn well is on there

on the one hand since brain injury impacts the body's capacity to manage heat stress I'm glad for the "Great Indoors" (TM) of the Mall of America to do walks under temperature control; on the other hand, if I look over a vista point from an upper floor I have instant Liza as Lucille 2 vertigo

can't go to the beach in my condition but I can put on a tank top and sit on the porch

they should package a gym membership with physical therapy I want my health insurance paying for this shit

I blithely assumed the two Lutheran liberal arts colleges in small southern Minnesota towns were pretty amicable but was strongly corrected that one is a Norwegian Lutheran liberal arts college and the other is a Swedish Lutheran liberal arts college and they have a bitter hatred of one another

at the point in summer where every time my eye catches sight of a coat in the corner of a closet I sigh wistfully and think "soon, baby"

Silky Nutmeg Ganache is literally the number one problem I have with Chicago

DR. BRONNER'S SPONSORING RUPAUL PROGRAM THIS IS A MOMENT FOR ME SPECIFICALLY

one of the worst things about city living is how the soda fountains at gas stations/convenience stores aren't maintained as well as they are in even low-rent suburbs

I was taken by ambulance to a regional trauma center to receive emergency brain surgery and my health insurance company has responded by sending me mailings tut-tutting me about how the ER is so expensive and maybe I should make a more budget conscious choice next time I have a fractured skull

becoming a physical therapist is how jocks exact their final revenge on the nerds

oh, people are right btw. you do not have the range to do "Total Eclipse of the Heart" at karaoke

this comic is about physical therapy

it's one of the most anticipated days of the year: the Minnesota State Fair New Food Items list for 2026 is out, on first pass my absolute must-haves are the Hmong Corn Dog, Pumpkin Bar Funnel Cake, Cheese Curd Lumpia, and Banana Butterscotch Barnraiser www.mnstatefair.org/new/food

RuPaul program S3 exercise video challenge: I think all the time about the specific hand motion Susan Powter makes when she's dog-walking Mariah to the camera

one of my strongest and most borne out as correct by time brand loyalties is in fans. Vornado or fuck off. periodt. that thing will be with you as long as you want it to be

my 99.6% of cases effective advice for assembling things is that if some part of it seems harder than it ought to be: stop what you're doing and look at the instructions. stop the moment you have that thought. the very millisecond you have that thought, stop screwing and look carefully

the most "???" change in my brain plumbing since the injury is for some farkakte reason using the stairs makes me have to pee

they should make a vacuum cleaner for summer that doesn't heat up your house with its exhaust (kinda not joking)

what if it was a RuPaul Says thing and one time she went "good luck...... and do fuck it up" and the girls panicked and tried to make mistakes but accidentally lip-synced good and there was a double elimination but then "..... I didn't say 'RuPaul SAYS do fuck it up'now did I" and the stage imploded

"Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman!" is one of the most surreal pieces of media in history, an absurdist comic soap opera with near-daily frantic episodes (325 of them!) helmed by the incomparable Louise Lasser who we just lost, I wish I could sit you all down and watch this show with you, thank you Louise

was made aware recently that the Minnesota town of "Ely," spelled just like that, E-L-Y, is pronounced "EE-lee," two English long "E"s, ē-lē

"OOMF" isn't enough letters

why am I the only person everywhere I've ever lived who has even the faintest fucking clue of what does and does not belong in the recycling bin

the only place I deviate from my Virginian loyalty to the Reynolds family of roll-based food preparation and storage technologies is Her. She. she.