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  1. I couldn't find an existing thread anywhere but the show's in its second season (Hulu) so let me know if I just missed it. If you couldn't guess, it's kind of a mashup of elements from different stories in the Stephen King universe. Season 1 was great, but season 2 has been phenomenal. Imagine Annie Wilkes' (played by Lizzy Caplan) origin story combined with Salem's Lot. Fantastic supporting cast, too, and lots of Easter eggs for King fans. They release episodes every Wednesday. Just watched the latest one (The Laughing Place) and wow.
  2. Yep, because none of us deserve dogs. That pic was from a few days ago - this was today. Bella's belly kills me. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  3. My parents inherited my grandma's cat when she died in 2010. He has always been the meanest bastard ever - he wouldn't let anyone get near him except my mom, and even then it was years before he stopped hissing at her. Of course he's always hated their pugs, even though they keep trying to play with him. Well, he's pretty sick and likely has kidney failure. He's all skin and bones. But apparently he has become the friendliest thing in the last few weeks. He would never give the pugs the time of day, but apparently Bella is his new BFF and he hangs with her on her bed every day. I guess at the end of his life he decided to make amends. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  4. "How are these not the same person?" Anyway, Greg's girlfriend lives in our old hood in Leander. I guess he used to be a personal trainer at that gym in the Rail Yard, and he was my friend's trainer for a while. She was so happy to hear this news.
  5. I thought these were the same person at first.
  6. Whatever the reason for the attack, even if it's retaliation for something, I will never understand how someone could kill children. Two of them were infants, for god's sake.
  7. SO CUTE! He looks just like my Rocket when he was a puppy!
  8. Just got an email from Beto's campaign. He's dropping out. I like him but I think it's the right call.
  9. There is so much wrong here. And not that it is the worst thing in the article, but McKamey outing that woman for cheating and then using it against her in her...experience is so bizarre. Yeah he straight-up says that in the article. If anyone gets close he'll just keep moving the needle.
  10. What in the everlasting fuck would compel someone to want do this? I mean, Jesus Christ. I got jumpy walking through a dark room in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, after watching the TRAILER for Paranormal Activity.
  11. So regal. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  12. Yeah I'm nervously waiting to see what he ends up saying. Wouldn't be surprised if it's something like this. RIP, Rep. Cummings.
  13. Is she literally the only woman at the table?
  14. RIP Bridget. Good girl. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  15. That rug is machine washable. I'll never have another type of rug in a common area while I have dogs and kids. This brand. On a related note, I've found the best plush dog toy for heavy chewers - I know some of y'all also have dogs who destroy any toy within a few minutes.The brand is Fluff & Tuff. They had a booth at the AHS Puppy Bowl in February and we got a stuffed hippo, fully expecting it to get shredded quickly. That thing lasted for months. Subsequent toys haven't lasted that long now that Rocket is huge, but any toy that can make it more than a couple of days is a winner. I tried every "tough" brand I could find and nothing has worked as well as Fluff & Tuff. Everything at Petsmart had the stuffing pulled out within half an hour. In Austin, I buy Fluff & Tuff at Kriser's on Great Hills, but they're also on Amazon. Of these, the best one is the beach ball because it doesn't have any head, tail, or limbs for them to chew off. Second best is the caterpillar.
  16. Sometimes it's hard fitting your 80-lb, 10-month-old puppy body on the couch. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  17. He graduated during WWII. Insane. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  18. "Live to 97 and you can do anything." Love it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  19. He also has the best name ever. I first spoke to Dr. Goodenough back when I did PR for the UT College of Engineering, when he won the Japan Prize. I was tasked with writing a news release about it. I didn't realize that at 97, he is still technically a professor there. With this prize he also becomes the oldest Nobel laureate ever. Link
  20. He's gone full Bond villain. Oh, so THIS is what could make him lose the mandate of heaven? I can't tell which bizarro world I'm living in these days.
  21. This is the fault of the millennials, right? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  22. ...that is completely fucking terrible. Thought it was a joke at first. Looks like whiskey in Gusher form.
  23. The jokes really are just writing themselves at this point.
  24. When all this is behind us, years from now, I'd love to look back and fully investigate the role social media played in this whole thing, especially if tweets end up being evidence. I started my career doing fairly old-school PR, where NOTHING hit the airwaves without being approved by several folks up the totem pole. It's so crazy to me how little people consider the longevity of internet content and how quickly information is disseminated online, especially when you have upwards of thousands of followers. I worked at one of the bigger tech companies in town for a long time and wrote their first set of social media guidelines (which I'm sure have been updated since then) and 99.9% of the shit I see these morons post violates basic, BASIC tenets of social media use when users affiliate themselves with the companies they work for. I first heard of Twitter at SXSW in 2007, when someone described it to me as something you'd use to basically mass-text your friends and arrange spontaneous get-togethers or let people know where you were, using basic location services. I bet that for all their forward-thinking mindsets, the founders of Twitter never predicted the critical role it would take in affecting news dissemination and politics.
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