Getting back in the groove

stop the surveillance on bears! well i guess they got their comeuppance.

I kinda want all my recipes to look like this in form.

i thought this article is basically professional woman catnip. but i thought "startup that helps American companies outsource digital work to women and children in developing countries" sounded terrible. is it a good thing to outsource that work abroad?

partyism is the new racism. i read another article that linked to this article that said "I'm still going to judge people based on their parties because that shows if that person has any morals at all!" so i don't think that person understood this article.

punny costumes are the highlight of halloween for me. if i came up with an original, i'd probably find a halloween party to go to just to show it (and my incredible wit) off.

because...puppies

tasty ideas - even though its veggies pretending to be pasta it's a far better sight than tofu trying to be meat

responses to "well rested bear"
1. i had heard this from someone a long time ago. she said she didn't drink the full 8 glasses but she wasn't thirsty and i think she may have said her pee was clear but i may have made that up. i, however, am always thirsty.
2. i mean, the postal worker was just scared. he didn't say anything negative about the bear. he didn't know the bear! it's just like running into a strange man.
3. that's good. wasn't expecting it even though it needed to happen.
4. i still don't get that show. even after reading that. 
5. creepy.
6. well, the ending was strange, for sure. but the whole idea is weird. like the idea is that the best defense against bullies is living a good life. and that you're not supposed to care how the bullies turned out- they're all ugly and stupid and wrecked because of how badly they treated you in the past (see, e.g., the kids that used to bully taylor swift). you're never supposed to go back and actually see them! also it'd be weird if i was hypothetically a former bully to be confronted like that. you have this person trying to get you to start crying and asking for forgiveness. i think i might play a few mind games with this person as well.
7.  2 bullying articles in a row - but this one is less clear cut bullying. i guess you mean it's bullying the announcers but if it's deemed an obscenity, they're not allowed to say it. and it doesn't seem like bullying snyder because it doesn't really reach him?

responses to "the end is the beginning"
1. i would totally get hbo on demand. i keep hearing about this game of thrones business.
2. i'm kinda tired of chicken wings. maybe we can move on to thighs?
3. seems a little terrifying. but that's probably because i'm afraid of scooters and motorcycles.
4. coq10! just in case.
5. these odes make me feel incredibly old. but then again i wasn't old enough to watch this when i was younger or old enough to request the uma thurman haircut at any point in my life. (although honestly, that kinda was my haircut growing up).
6. i don't actually know why the current sitcoms are so bad. what happened to the people who wrote cheers or frazier or sex and the city? those were really good shows that were funny and thoughtful. then again, maybe we're to blame as there are good shows that get cancelled (community, happy endings) or criticized to death (arrested development 4th season). i saw a wapo article about tv shows that ended badly and it said that no one was satisfied with how i met your mother's ending (clearly she doesn't know us. but if she's talking about the last half of the entire series, yeah, that was pretty excruciating).

r2r "check the therapists"
1. it was in a comment on the billfold. the guy is the commenter's grandfather or something.
2. the experiment seems a little convoluted and also a little too "on the nose" but it's kinda fun to injure through hot sauce. i guess it's like the benevolent way of conducting the (Zimbardo?) volunteer shocking experiment (y'know, the one where they tell the volunteer to press the button to shock the person - well i guess that's not revenge so much as watching people suffering but it seems similar to me).
4. so you would flip that to say it's never necessary to record one's life or one's near death?
5. thanks bear. *bunny beaming*
6. do you think the recommended minimum 1 massage/month is being brought to us by the evil masseuse lobby that is trying to make us calmer than we need to be?