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This is a brutal sculpture! (Pink spree) The sculptor is 74 years old. Most excellent.

Hey! I'm joining a web ring! It's extremely classic.

One of the things that was stopping me from withdrawing from social media is a worry that people will forget about me. Many of my friends are overseas, and we don't see each other on a regular basis. But I've decided that this is manufactured FOMO; my really meaningful relationships will continue regardless of which social networks I happen to use.

Yope. I also feel the same way about the rest of Ben's post.

Despite it being freezing, it was incredibly good for us to get outside after an entire day indoors. Also, we've hit the age at which almost everything at the Children's Museum actually applies!

Three days after I got sick, I think I'm finally recovered. Never again

I've been reading even more about Kenny Dennis and ended up finding the script for an entire movie (you have to click About). It is quite the read. I read it all despite the annoying gimmick animation playing on top of it.

It swings between ridiculous and funny and depressing and too-real. There's even "a let's get the band back together for a benefit concert" scene. The appearance of this comforting trope gives you hope, only to pull away to a really dark truth.

I am incredibly impressed by what Serengeti has done with this character. He could have kept him simple and pure in order to not put off everyone that liked the Dennehy song. Instead, I think he followed the grain of the character, even when it went somewhere less fun.

A story like this bites harder when it is about a character that at first seems bright and problemless. This is how things often unfold in life, too. Big happy pop stars turn out to have a lifelong history of depression. A guy in viral video with a funny accent turns out to be a serial abuser. A confidence-building invisibility ring turns out to be a phylactery and beacon for an evil demi-god.

About 3 weeks in these symptoms hit me pretty hard.It felt like I was in a haze and just couldnt concentrate. I'm no doctor but my guess is it's the 3999 other chemicals in cigarettes leaving our bodies for good. In 25 years of smoking, I wouldnt be surprised if I had bult up quite an excess of them.

Brian has quit smoking. He is starting out by switching to vaping. It turns out there is more in cigarettes that causes withdrawal than nicotine. He catalogues the effects of quitting on other habits, like caffeine and social media.

"Benedick" is not just a hilarious misspelling, it's a real name used in Shakespeare!

The guy is saying "Fill your hands with swords!" I think that's from the Hobbit? If it was, I don't remember him remarking on it before.