Amazon should have the equivalent of the end cap on the checkout page, when you only need a couple of bucks to get free shipping. "Oh, you're short a few dollars? These items cost that much, why not throw one of these in?"

They used to do that, didn't they? I've been Prime for a long time now, so I never have to make those decisions.

Congratulations and best wishes for the future, Laga! I'm thrilled for you!

What part of that word describes what those words do?

When did most words (in grammar or out) start fulfilling that requirement? Verb, noun, adjective, adverb...where'd that expectation come from?

Kat: She must know my cousin M. That world is not that big. I have some guys I'd love to rate on Lulu, and some I'd like to look up (overlap there) but neither group includes my one ex. I'm sure he's fine. Sometimes you find out some douche stuff not dating them. Once you're no longer bound by buddy confidentiality rules, why not go all out and rate on the internet?

"verb" is a noun. But then, so is "noun."

I may need more cold medicine.

"verb" is a noun. But then, so is "noun."

Nah, you can totally verb nouns.

See what I did there?

I've called directors out on being insulting to the entire design staff by telling the cast that they just have to suffer through tech and then and I quote "get back to the real work."

I've mostly found that in the educational world.

Also, the deal that I am making with the director, and hopefully that the entire design staff is making, is that if the show can be given to us for one or two tech rehearsals for us to do our work, then we will give it back at the end of that.

Yes! Exactly. Which includes costumes and quick changes and everything. Don't short change the early parts of the tech process and you're more likely to get a run or two under show conditions before you have an audience and we can be finessing the design elements instead of frantically fixing.

I'm not a fan of dry tech (or tech without costumes) for that reason. Asking me to light a show without the actual actors and the costumes means I'm building the lighting equivalent to rehearsal props during that time and that I'll have less actual tech time to turn them into real cues. I'm happy to dry tech big moments that involve a lot of coordination between design elements, but a whole show? No thank you. Ditto cue-to-cue.

It is weirding me out a little that I am watching football that is brought to me by KFC while eating KFC.

I should probably be used to that sort of thing, but I guess I'm not.

One woman’s struggle to reuse her penis cake mould. [link]

That's great!

This is why you just buy the penis cake.

I am ridiculous: I want to have chips and dip for dinner tomorrow, so now I'm browning some onions.