RMJ

RMJ

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rachel mccarthy james. WHACK JOB: A HISTORY OF AXE MURDER (2025) THE MAN FROM THE TRAIN (2017). lawrence, kansas. contact: rmccarthyjames at gmail

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Now tell me who's your structural engineer How's that structure holding up What in the world is in that cellar What you got in that cellar

Every child should participate in theater productions at some point during their education, because it's a skill that is absolutely necessary in the workplace. You can't get along in an office if you can't fake anything at all. Gotta lie at least a little

My husband - a very handsome man with great manners and even better hair - never thrived in an office environment and I think it's simply because he's too hardworking and doesn't understand being fake with people. And how much theater did he do in school? None! Teach your children to lie a little

Nothing turns me off an otherwise promising voice quicker than "I predicted all of this would happen years ago when I noticed xyz" unless you have a screenshot of that prediction i don't want to hear it. that's just called thinking you're not cassandra

i love the airbnb meltdown because hosts keep saying "you just don't UNDERSTAND how much it throws off our timelines if we have to wait around for the DISHWASHER!" i also have a dishwasher man. it takes two hours. what are you talking about

like obviously i welcome it when it happens but can it wait twelve days please, we don't need to give republicans any motivation right now

i'm so disengaged from the podcast world that someone asked if i had ever been on Crime Junkie and i was like probably..... that sounds like a podcast i would have been on? (i have not been on it)

Great quote from Avery Rowland, running for public office in rural Kansas: “"I've got nothing that they can hold over on me. What's the worst they're going to find out, I like to wear dresses? I already told you that.”

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Trans people across Kansas are carrying incorrect IDs after a state law invalidated drivers licenses based on gender identity. The midterms are the first test of whether this causes issues at the ballot box.

In college and for a few years after, I worked as a writing tutor. I would drill students on their thesis statement in particular, I talked about it ALLLLLLL the time. And now I'm a professional writer and every time I get an idea for a book my agent has to be like "this has no thesis statement tho"

The thesis statement is "I want to write about this and I'll promise I'll figure it out at some point" is not persuasive to acquisition editors, apparently. Woke has gone too far

You’ve heard of the five star three star movie. What Amanda Seyfried dares to ask with THE HOUSEMAID is: what if there were such a thing as a five star two star movie

It feels like a bad 90s movie. There’s big movie stars eating the scenery (and they’re actually filming together!), the lighting and sound design are quality, competent directing. Doesn’t make the predictable story into anything genuinely thrilling but it’s very watchable

Love that he got heckled so much in Kansas. You know that security was letting any country looking white person through, and there are quite a few cowboy behatted libs out here

google still has a lot of good free archives for newspapers, which feels like the google of 2011. which means it also feels like an oversight to be corrected as soon as they remember it exists and is dragging down their profitability by .00000000002687% percent annually

Went to the local Regal to see a matinee of PRIMETIME this week and I was really pleased to see that they had showtimes for thirteen different films that day. Felt like 1999 for a minute

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i'm getting a lot of ads for prediction and betting markets, which means that probably they are interpreting me starting slack jawed in horror at their vertical videos as genuine interest in their product

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Jacob Lawrence, Among the social conditions that existed which was partly the cause of the migration was the injustice done to the Negroes in the courts, 1940-41 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134656

I was really unpopular in high school, never gave my parents a reason to worry I was out getting into trouble, and now that I’m worried about them on the road they are not returning the favor

They haven’t given me a reason to be concerned….. yet. But like pick up the phone when I try to check in after you drove to the airport in the rain!!!! Do I need Life360????

My most unpopular opinion is that these are perfectly fine chairs, and from my lived fatass experience, way better than almost any restaurant chair with arms

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My cat always wants to cuddle at bedtime, and I want to assume good faith but I know in my heart that he’s really coming for my bedside table water

I'd always thought "man his girlfriend is gonna be PISSED he broke it that way" about Robyn's Call Your Girlfriend, but then I saw a vertical video sketch acting that scenario out and it suddenly clicked for me that Robyn is obviously the girlfriend being called, not the cause for the call