Pretend Mulling ⋅ 31
I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.
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My period is kicking my ass. How badly, you ask? I had take-out two nights in a row this week: Pad Thai on Monday and Domino’s yesterday. That never happens, ever. And it’s not like I don’t h...
Wonder what kind of mood I’m in in The Real Pretend Mulling
This song has been playing almost nonstop in my head for the last week.
*He defended slavery and opposed the notion of human equality. But he is not our enemy. By Agnes Callard Ms. Callard is a philosopher and professor. The Greek philosopher Aristotle did not merely...
Random Life Updates in The Real Pretend Mulling
My herbs, which I was trying to grow from seed, are either majorly struggling (chives), got sunburned (cilantro and basil), or were eaten by critters (everything else, including the dill, which h...
This is cool... in The Real Pretend Mulling
A compilation of songs that were either cut from Hamilton or changed before opening night. I think “Congratulations” is my favorite, but I can see why it was cut. That was Eliza’s moment, not A...
Working from home has its perks. in The Real Pretend Mulling
Example: I am currently not wearing pants. Underwear, yes, but not pants. Speaking of, I ordered three pairs of my usual jeans (Lee midrise bootcut, black, size 12) from Walmart, after not being...
The Joys of Subaru Ownership in The Real Pretend Mulling
I took my car, a 2010 Subaru Forester, in for basic maintenance today, and I also asked if they could check my transmission fluid. It’s been shifting a little too roughly for my taste, and since...
That feel when... in The Real Pretend Mulling
You turn in all of your assignments that you put off until way too late, fifteen minutes before all of them are due. I’ve got more to say, but I need to get to bed.
I met the Gen-Z’er at the Olive Garden, because if there’s anything that can bridge the distance between a Millennial and a Gen-Zer, it’s the pillowy softness and buttery, garlicky delight that i...
To lighten things up a bit... in The Real Pretend Mulling
*le very long, exhausted siiiiiiiiiiigh* in Politically Speaking...
I am so, so very tired of explaining to conservatives why their continued support of Cheeto Benito, or their apologism for his supporters, is losing them friends. At this point, it should be obv...
From the Our Lady of Lust and Grace Facebook page: Imagine: Its 2025. You’re getting pulled over. A community representative approaches to let you know you have a taillight out. They don’t ...
Dear scammers: in The Real Pretend Mulling
//clears throat// STOP TEXTING ME WITH FAKE FUCKING “JOB OFFERS” AND CLAIMING YOU GOT MY INFO FROM INDEED. Know how I know? Because you’re texting me. I have specifically opted OUT of text mess...
Necessary Viewing in Politically Speaking...
From The New Yorker: An American Uprising in Politically Speaking...
Who, really, is the agitator here? by David Remnick “A riot is the language of the unheard.” This is how Martin Luther King, Jr., explained matters to Mike Wallace, of CBS News, in 1966. That lan...
A horse loose in a hospital in The Real Pretend Mulling
Great Green Arkleseizure bless John Mulaney.
The only thing I'll say about Tiger King... in The Real Pretend Mulling
Has been said by Bill Maher. 2020 is a hell of a year, innit? A pandemic could collapse our economy, we have actual murder hornets in the US, and Bill Maher is the voice of reason on the most i...
30 Day Song Challenge, Day 10 in The Real Pretend Mulling
Basically anything by Randy Rainbow makes me happy. He is the hero we need. Drunk Survey-ing is back! And just like last time, I’m starting it on my third vodka-cranapple. Unlike last time...
30 Day Song Challenge, Day 8 in The Real Pretend Mulling
//side-eyes graphic// Dude. About 90% of all songs are about drugs, last time I checked. ‘Course, this makes today’s prompt easy. (Yes, I’m doing it way ahead of schedule, because I can’t slee...
30 Day Song Challenge, Day 7 in The Real Pretend Mulling
This song is the basis for one of my favorite throw-away jokes in South Park: After Wendy breaks up with Stan, Bebe tells him that he needs to stand outside Wendy’s window and play Peter Gabri...
30 Day Song Challenge, Day 3 in The Real Pretend Mulling
I might update this with more, but for now, I must away to my “essential” pizza delivery job, and hope that people are actually tipping tonight.
More quarantine survey-ing in The Real Pretend Mulling
Do you have a sister that steals your things? I don’t have a sister, period. What song is dancing through your think machine? “Phantom of the Opera”. For some reason, I can’t get enough of it la...
Story by Jesse Eisinger This article is a collaboration between The Atlantic and ProPublica. In 2008, the first of the once-in-a-lifetime economic calamities of most of our lifetimes engulfed the...
Teenage Boomers, they're only Teenage Boomers in The Real Pretend Mulling
This morning, my mother group-texted everyone to ask “are we getting together today?” As if there ISN’T a stay-at-home order in place, and as if there ISN’T a fucking pandemic happening, and as ...
