And here I was thinking it was just a bullshit crappy landlord phrase, but you’re right, it signals his whole intent.

Cool, if it’s also Art Nouveau.

I hate to be a nitpicker but…

Agreed. Non-cowboy jobs in The Old Wild West included Prospector/Miner, Builder, Gunslinger/Bounty Hunter, Sheriff, Saloon Owner, Blacksmith, Wagon Train Leader, General Store Owner, Barber/Surgeon, Doctor/Veterinarian, Horse Dealer, Saloon Entertainer, Midwife, Schoolmarm, Farmer, Laundress… and of course Native Americans just trying to preserve their own society/way of life…

It’s probably shows like “Rawhide,” where the main cast of roving cowboys encounter all the above, that got us thinking of it all as “Cowboy Life.”

Oh please. Bad enough he did it now we gotta listen to him rant about it? And whatever 27 other subjects he drags into it? It’s all lies anyway.

So beautiful and soft, it looks like embroidery!

Oh! I looked, if you want to embroider a cecropia moth but aren’t up for doing it freehand, there’s patterns out there! You’d need to know the technique for getting the red part realistically furry.

Maybe they’re counting Gilbert the golden retriever? Who the asshole shot and wounded so gravely he had to be euthanized?

Their executives have been given military titles of Lieutenant Colonel already! Without any military training or fitness test.

https://defensescoop.com/2025/06/13/army-detachment-201-executive-innovation-corps-meta-openai-palantir/

You gotta put down the duckie if you wanna play the saxophone 🎷🎶

In a fair world he’d have been allowed to stay in the town he grew up in. But I kinda wanna see him make a futbol career for himself and come back to score the winning goal against the US in the World Cup…

But tea made without heating the water can have botulism or other bad bacteria.

Amber bot is shit at poetry.

The idea of an onion as a metaphor for heartlessness is intriguing, because it’s layers all the way down, but there’s no poetry in the approach.

Any two socks that feel comfortable together on your feet are a pair. Not so different in thickness that they make you walk in circles, though. Color variety is a plus. Did you know you can buy packs of deliberately unmatched but coordinating socks? For girls with style!

I don’t think that’s possible in my 1970s building. My water heater is in the kitchen and the tub/shower is way across the apartment so I get 2 gallons. I have a big balcony with lots of happy plants.

I feel like that title calls for a joke but I’m too tired

Tonight’s news has a story about a new variant that can cause “razor blade throat” if you need another incentive

Yes, although the mass disposal of bodies in a septic system under the building was discovered in 2017 so it’s been known for awhile. The new part is that they’re finally being dug up, identified by DNA and/or matched with the death records if possible, and will be properly buried.

Paring and shaving away all excess, leaving only the simplest way, is what Occam’s Razor does.

I would differ with the chart though, and say that if a razor is visible in the first act, someone’s throat will be slashed by the end.

They might also mean “deserving to be protected from harm” like a sacred cow, although 1. That term is usually used ironically, and 2. Plenty of assholes think it’s fine to harm trans people. But it’s well-intentioned.

Wait, this is not from The Onion!?

Fucking idiotic timeline.