when i called my mother yesterday i’d woken her up from a nap. her mind was bleary and her responses were often ill-formed. they say that being sleep-deprived is like being drunk. mom was smashed.

i told her about my kitten, and how she has a tendency to get underfoot; about how when i walked into my apartment this evening, she rolled belly up right under my shoe as i was mid-stride, and if i hadn’t caught myself i would accidentally have stomped her skull.

“ewwWWWWW,” my mother slurred, half-awake. “then… you would have to… get a shovel.”

I Shouldn't Be Surprised

noigetit:

We all know that Starbucks recently redesigned their cups to reflect their old logo. At the time, there was talk about how the new design made the mermaid’s hair longer to cover her exposed breasts because the company feared complaints about tiny cartoon nudity. I laughed at the extent company’s have to censor themselves these days, but I doubted there would be an actual public backlash.

Well, of course there was. My favorite quote from the article:

The Resistance says the new image “has a naked woman on it with her legs spread like a prostitute,” Mark Dice, founder of the group, said in a news release. “Need I say more? It’s extremely poor taste, and the company might as well call themselves Slutbucks.”

I feel like this could/should have been written at the Onion.

 wow. why are people so terrified of sex that they make themselves see it everywhere? it’s paranoid and sad.