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Eva Porter's avatar

Chuck Wendig! I love him. I’ve read about four of his scary/creepy novels and they vividly stay with me. His blog is very amusing too. How awesome you got to meet and hang out.

Thanks for the dingus of the week. It makes me smile in an evil smile sort of way.

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lyz's avatar

truly a great writer and a great guy!

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Dana BC's avatar

where is all this fentanyl I could very well use? ???

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Tristen Bonacci's avatar

HA! I have a theory that it's given out in little party sachets at every Congressional get-together, Cabinet meeting, and Mar-A-Lago golf outing.

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Robyn Weisman's avatar

“Wait, you hate marriage, why do you watch The Bachelor?” To which I responded, “That’s such a stupid question.” <— I live for exchanges like this 😂

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lyz's avatar

Me: “The Bachelor? That famous show that upholds the institution of marriage??”

God forbid a feminist watch a tv show

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Rocky's avatar

I also watch rugby but hate pornstaches, I contain multitudes.

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lyz's avatar

I actually played rugby in college! But also yes.

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Robyn Weisman's avatar

My partner and her colleague, both of who are intervention specialists with at-risk teenagers, live for Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. They find it —wait for it — entertaining!

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Beau!'s avatar

"That's such a stupid question" could be on some merch.

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Rebecca Coates's avatar

I don't think there's actually another answer to that question. Because it is, in fact, such a very stupid question!

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Rocky's avatar

More men need women to tell them this. And nobody is watching The Bachelor for the marriage. If you were, you'd have stopped watching many years ago.

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Yowza W's avatar

truly "That's such a stupid question" is such an amazing and complete answer, I need to remember to use that

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Crone Life's avatar

Pam Bondi was born a dingus

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Georgia Zeller's avatar

Are dingii born, or do they hatch, or are they created in a lab, or are they products of AI, or ... ? So many questions.

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Sarah McKee's avatar

I just got well-deserved and long-overdue Social Security for having been married to my late former husband for more than 10 years. Would like to share with the writer(s) of this blog that I love. Not to everyone would Check Wendig say "an anxiety of writers," I am sure. Lyz, please, how do I make a perfectly straightforward gift?

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DrBDH's avatar

That photo of Pam Bondi’s soul is truly horrifying.

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Joan's avatar

What we have here is a case of Lies, Damned Lies, and Pam Bondi with Statistics.

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Karen's avatar

You have reminded to me ask which one of my family members survived the Fentanyl Apocalypse. I really hope I’m not the survivor; I’m tired of paying taxes to support Dingi.

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Jay Reding's avatar

Chuck Grassley has been in the Senate so long the first couple that met in his office were trilobites.

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Tristen Bonacci's avatar

HAAAAAAAAA!

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Jgeffe's avatar

The man is so damn old, that my father interned for him when he was in the House of Representatives and has since passed away at 67, which is an entirely reasonable age for death.

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Sherri Nichols's avatar

I think Bondi just got confused. 258 million is how many the administration plans on deporting/killing/putting in labor camps to get down to just the True Americans.

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Tristen Bonacci's avatar

MIC. DROP.

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Tristen Bonacci's avatar

Pretend for a moment that I am Della Reese in Harlem Nights: Pam Bondi can "kiss my EN-TIRE ass!"

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Tristen Bonacci's avatar

Oh, also - I am stealing what Chuck said to you, “The collective noun for a roomful of writers is an anxiety of writers," as I start an MFA in creative writing in July. ;)

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Dina's avatar
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OMG, lyz. You knocked it out of the park this week. I’m glad nobody was home to interrogate me about my rapid fire guffaws. As a public health professional and someone who can math, I wanted to point out a few things to Pammy. First, ppl don’t fiend for Tylenol such that they buy it on the streets. Second, people also likely do not split their individual fentanyl-laced pills so let me help you math. If you seize 22M pills, you will not prevent 22M deaths. There’s a probability that it will be tolerated by the user or that they will be revived from an overdose with narcane or other medical intervention. That would leave you with fewer than 22M deaths not 119M, ding dong. The math just doesn’t math, ma’am.

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Kevin Alexander's avatar

Only in 2025, could we have an AG screaming about saving 200 bazillion lives *and* a budget proposal calling to eliminate funding for Narcan.

Worst. Timeline. Ever.

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Rebecca Coates's avatar

The "Cure to Male Loneliness" x Conclave joke made me choke on my La Croix (a drink that I am now realizing was super fitting to have choked on while reading a Catholic/social commentary joke 😂)

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Rocky's avatar

Imagine thinking people are out here in the streets getting loosie Tylenol? Maybe ignorance really is bliss.

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Casey Kelly's avatar

Tylenol PM tho

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