Pearl by Josh Malerman (Bird Box).

It’s about a pig on a small farm that can seep into your mind and make you do and see terrible things. I picked it up after reading Bird Box and a few other books of his, which I enjoyed. I expected to give up on it based on the silly 80s horror movie premise, but the book is truly demented and creepy and I felt existentially weird after reading it

Ahh, yes. I see you know your judo well.

Thank you, kind stranger!

Divorce her immediately.

The lyrics support this.

Well, the party was nice, the party was pumpin’ Heya, yippie yi yo And everybody havin’ a ball Huh, huh, yippie yi yo I tell the fellas start the name callin’ Yippie yi yo And the girls respond to the call I heard a woman shout out Who let the dogs out? Who, who, who, who, who?

I honestly didn’t know who to write down, maybe Barron? He’s heard of Trump, maybe he would actually want to give a hand to such a wretched soggy being? Or, imagine he might be invited to caddy the clubs behind the cart?

concerned family member shows up - “oh my God, is he ok??”

Aide, visibly shaken - “I honestly don’t know, I’ve never seen him like this…”

concerned family member - "is…is he out there right now?*

Aide - yes… I’m so worried, he is out there right now, just… playing golf, all day, every day… he needs to stop and confront his feelings and all he can do is golf sob"

CFM “earlier you said 27 holes… he must be exhausted just trying to cope…this is really bad”

Aide - “IT IS SO BAD PLEASE HELP HIM!!”

CFM - “God be with me, I will get him to come inside and drink a diet coke. Hopefully he will snap out of this madness…”

Aide - “…please…go with God!”

CFM - “God will guide me to him. Wish me luck!”

removes leather shoes, hops in cart, and speeds away through the green grass, nary a thought to use the given path… this is the most important rescue in the world. People say that it was the most important, maybe, probably, the most important, ever.

Don’t stop, don’t… stop… I’m about to… VOTE

I know it wouldn’t slap the same on Lemmy, but that is a user account I miss deeply.

Wow!!! This is fascinating-- I was raised with

Great big gobs of Greasy, Grimy, Gopher Guts Propagated Porcus Puts Sterilized Monkey Eyes, And me without a spoon! scoop Too Bad!

I think my mom was crazy on second thought

Nah dude both sides are gross y’know?

/S

This sentence is incredible.

When I was 10/11 we went to Florida to visit family/go to the Disney world or land, water parks, etc… as Alaskans this was a big hot awesome vacation trip and we flew for a day and a half to get there.

Two cousins were there and they were the same age as my brother, around 13/14. It was swiftly decided that I wasn’t allowed to play with them or go anywhere with them. If we went swimming, all 3 would dunk me. One time we went to watch a rocket launch, and they were being so mean to me it made my mom start silently crying.

So, obviously, I went to Disney with everyone and experienced the entire park just me and my grandma, who needed to rest often.

It is worth mentioning that my father had died a year or so earlier.

Yeah, that vacation was really upsetting, I am 37 and still get depressed about it sometimes

It’s just a weird detail for the author to include. It’s a “while I’ve still got you here…” sentence. It’s entirely unnecessary except to make absolutely sure that everyone knows that she is not speaking in favor of those abortions.

Ms. Cecil said that she wanted to make clear to the legislators that “abortion is not black and white,” explaining that every abortion is different. >

Maybe I’m reading into it, but this paragraph stood out to me.

Are we 100% sure he isn’t staying awake past bedtime on purpose? I don’t know if there is an argument to be made that because he didn’t hear the trial, they clearly need to hold another one … ?

Maybe it’s “you are welcome (to ask me for help/favors, as I am neutral to the task. I might even enjoy it.)”

And “it’s not a problem (for me to do what you asked me to do; we have now both acknowledged that I have done something to help you that was not organic to me, but now we can move past it with no further conversation.)”

I bet “no problem” to some people is like seeing someone wear a T-shirt to church. They’d really prefer it if you would put on a suit and tie, even though the purpose of both are the same (cover my body when away from home because that is our current social agreement), because a T-shirt is disrespectful.

Also everyone sucks, it is a problem, and you are not welcome.

My coworker and I had to rock-paper-scissors who hurt the most to go home early

Oh look. A two day old account.

They come in pints?? I’m getting one, you piece of shit.