My user name is the title of a book by my favourite author, Jonathan Carroll. He’s highly underrated but also a cult favourite. I couldn’t pick between his books.

Another favourite book is an old humour novel by the writer Patrick Dennis, whose most well known book was Auntie Mame. However the best of his books IMO was The Joyous Season, it was written in the 1950s and so some of the language in his books is a bit antique (like using Negro as a descriptor), but honestly there’s not a funnier book in my opinion, I reread it last month, and I realized that I still routinely say lines from it in my daily life.

Finally a great book is The Speed Queen by Stewart O’Nan, it’s dark and a tough topic to read about but it’s so captivating. All of his books are really worth reading. Last Night At The Lobster, Snow Angels, Ocean State, Wish You Were Here, Songs For The Missing, Evensong, The Names Of The Dead, The Good Wife, The Odds, Emily Alone, are my particular favorites, all pretty gritty.

My friend lived there, I swiped this from him. He says the Rougarou festival is amazing and I would like to see that.

Omigod hahaha.

It was a clinical note so I had to choose, but I’m picky haha.

I just want to be correct, but it still seems like a white person who writes for the NY Times idea and not universal for all black people, and that seems… cringey.

I got myself into a tizzy last year as I was editing a document and it was on a person who uses they/them pronouns, and I wasn’t sure if I should use “themself” or “themselves” as themself isn’t a word, but plural also doesn’t sound right. Then I realized a person who uses they/them probably cared less about this than I do.

This was a decision that I think the NY Times made to start capitalizing, and I’ve never understood why, but editors of books and articles all use it now, I saw it in a Stephen King story recently.

Language does change, a book by the trans writer Jennifer Finney Boylan about her own transition published in 2001 used transgendered through the book simply because that’s what was used then, and now it’s proper to say transgender; Jenny’s book was released for an anniversary edition and she addressed that in the foreword, that she had left it as written but with some hesitation that people would be offended, which I think would be silly because it was never a slur, it simply was the language then, and before that trans people were called transsexual, and that also wasn’t a slur. So terminology can and does evolve, but it’s just so random in the case of capitalization and nobody has ever explained why.

My coworkers are almost entirely the same sex as me, and I’m not into it, so I never have this problem, but someone I follow on Facebook for reasons I can’t remember posted a private detective video of his wife cheating on him, and someone in the comments sympathized and said he and his wife had split after he discovered she was cheating with two of his employees of the business he owned. Talk about shitting where you eat.

I’m not American. I honestly just wondered because the first time I saw this used it was the NY Times saying they were doing it from now on.

I know, I am not very comfortable.

I was looking at weather reports that year for like, northern Quebec, to see if maybe I could move there for the summer and hopefully not get eaten by black flies.

However so far it’s been pretty temperate here this year.

I just only seem to think it came from some idea from the NY Times, and I don’t think anyone says White, so it just seems, off kilter I guess I’d say. Of course I will say whatever is proper, but it’s just, odd.

Just please don’t bring back the metal seatbelt that branded you in the summer months.

This photo is from 2016 so no, I found it in my Facebook memories.

You know what? I just realized there’s a fantastic grocery store downtown in my city that is in the mall and has an underground garage. I don’t know why I didn’t think of it.

Really? They are big plastic buckets with handles, rather than dragging a bunch of bags, you can fit most stuff into a bucket or two. They sell them at the grocery stores here.

Oh yeah that would. I have a reverse opening umbrella which is so sturdy, no turning inside out in the wind or dripping.

I just have grocery buckets.

Absolutely. That would be amazing.

I hate being in an air conditioned store soaking wet was my thing, it wasn’t all that warm yesterday.

That is very sitcom like!