The store brand at Harris Teeter in Virginia was called Dr Smooth.

Absolutely. But their airy assurance that this is all true is hilarious.

The heights we could achieve were absolutely startling.

I grew up in St Catharines Ontario, home of Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo the serial killing couple who abducted, raped and killed teenaged girls, including her 12 year old sister, for a while in the 90s. It was EVERYTHING in my world for a long while. I was extraordinarily fanatically careful about where I went from then on, never travelling anywhere alone, etc. Bernardo also raped a great many women at bus stops before escalating to murder.

And one night I hit my twenties and said fuck it and decided to walk home from the bar we were doing karaoke at, and isn’t there a man with a car idling at the top of the small hill I was climbing waiting for me for what seemed like hours. It was plain he intended to take me, and I think it was only the stark terror on my face that made it clear I’d be a very unwilling victim and fight back and that I was sober as a judge. He told me he was just going to offer me a ride, and I said no, saucer eyed, and he paused for a minute and then said “sorry, I didn’t mean to scare you” and drove off.

They’re also heavy on Mastodon and the clone I use, Catodon.

I would have handed you my panties, no question asked. There wasn’t a boy with long hair that I did not have the hot pants for.

You filled it with hairspray and teased your bangs to the ceiling.

Well she died in 2012 in her old age, so no.

I really like Jay Hulme. Glad you like!

My tablet decided it was going to send me reminders that my exorbitant phone or cable bill was due, and it took a lot of figuring to turn that shit off. I know when you rob me blind, Bell Canada, you also email me.

No we’re Canadian.

May the Lord look down upon us in favour.

Even my Trump loving coworker thinks he’s psychotic now.

My dog makes this whistle noise and also a meow noise when it’s morning and it’s time to start the day, when he’s just happy to be awake and walking.

I don’t eat animal products anymore but something I had previously was a pimento cheese and pickled watermelon rind sandwich and that was unusual.

THEY DID. On her delulu website.

I used to volunteer at a nursing home when I was a teenager, and one of the residents was this spicy old demented lady named Florence. Florence had a real mouth on her, and I would try to charm her, and get nowhere. Once she looked at me and said “you look like you got a mouthful of hot shit”. I got over my intimidation and began to speak more freely, and once when she was trying to hit people with a flyswatter she found, I was trying to talk her into giving it to me, and I said “Florence, don’t you love me anymore?”. And she said “Well I love you, but from a distance”, and whacked me a good one.

I’m getting there with my coworker although I wouldn’t quite call her conservative; she voted for the NDP in Canada where we live as we are both union members and that’s who we vote for, but she loves Trump, but in this crumbling hellscape of the last few months and the tariffs he’s hollering on about on Canada, she doesn’t like that because she can’t cross border shop. She says he’s gone rather loony although she still likes him.

However, she isn’t stupid, and she watches all sorts of news from all over and doesn’t just blindly believe in the cult. The last few days I have explained dark money to her, and how it fuels elections in the US for both parties and how basically the Koch brothers and all the Tanton network groups fund Trump. I gave her some articles to read, and she’s starting to get it. I didn’t put it from the perspective of hating trump, just that she should know how these things are funded for everyone (the Democrats are no stranger to dark money either and just because the groups they funnel it in under sound sunnier and less racist doesn’t make them any less sketchy), and how the political landscape is manipulated that way. I am finding she’s listening to this, and coming away with a better perspective, rather than trying to explain why he’s totally wrong. Dark money is a topic I recommend to everyone to learn about, because these elections in the US are being bought by dark money.

She’s known for her novels, but she’s a damn good poet. Some of my favourite poems are hers. This is a very long poem called Half Hanged Mary which I think is a masterpiece.

https://loadedliteraturepodcast.wordpress.com/2018/08/08/half-hanged-mary-by-margaret-atwood/

She made a how to booklet.

They used a razor. And nothing else. She made a booklet with a how to on her website.