Curious how agencies go about it when clients fall behind on payments and don't seem particularly concerned with getting up to date. Any reliable legbreakers in the business, or are you basically stuck with "pretty please?"
>More power to her for peppering this account with several adroit jokes – even if they elicit more rueful smiles than laughs. She’s an inexperienced comedian, this isn’t a “show” – but she shapes and performs this umpteenth telling of her story well. I found its spirit of defiance stirring, I found it respectful to the memory of her murdered roommate, and as well judged an effort by Knox to reclaim her awful story as we have any right to expect.
Gave it two stars. This bit was rather salient.
>So do Kercher’s sister Stephanie and the more than 10,000 people who have signed a petition to stop Cartwheel from being performed have a point? Really, no: not only does Knox not make fun of “rape and murder”, as Stephanie suggested, she only mentions her friend fairly briefly, and very earnestly. Kercher’s name, for good or for ill, doesn’t get mentioned until halfway through the hour.
"Cousin Orson and the Smashing Beetles" is a great band name, btw.
But returning to the point, I always thought this was an interesting conversation between the brothers in Tyrion's cell, but I've never really been able to explain (to myself) what purpose it served. In real life, people will talk about nothing just to fill the silence, but in well-written television, Everything Always Means Something. Any theories about the subtext here?
I don't remember the last time I rode a Metro bus with working Wifi. They're all just "connected without internet," whatever that means.
I sent in a couple different records search requests back in January 2021. Covid protocols were still in effect so I expected a long wait for any kind of response. Still nothing over 5-1/2 years later - though the checks I sent to cover the fees were definitely cashed.
I emailed them in September 2022 and the response was that they were conducting searches sent in November 2019, so nearly three years behind schedule.
Then in April 2025, another response I got was that public records searches were being taken over by the NYS Bureau of Vital Records and advised I call the call center. I did, but got no useful information that I can recall.
Has anyone waded into this morass and gotten anywhere?
Hi all - I'm wondering if anyone knows of something like a keypad/combination lock security system designed to keep people in a building as opposed to out. Stepfather has advanced Alzheimers, and if not watched vigilantly, he's apt to leave the house and start wandering down the street. He can still operate a cylinder lock or a deadbolt, but he's long passed the point of remembering any simple combination code to unlock a door. I wonder if this is a common enough situation that some company somewhere has designed something like this for caregivers.
https://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/2026-awards/
Winners and runners-up to be announced later this fall.
Just a mental palate cleanser for those who'd prefer not to dwell on prison masturbation or engage on others' obsession with it.
The Offerwall in my app has been empty for a couple weeks now, and I'm unable to submit for missing points for the game I've been playing.
Noticed right outside the station tonight brand new 20/720 signage, and the Transit app says it's open for business.
Fairfax is unclear. Transit still says it's closed, but tonight's 20 driver stopped there for passengers to de-board.
No signage at La Cienega, and Transit doesn't recognize a stop there, but my 20 driver stopped there earlier this week, so I guess we'll see what happens tomorrow.
Not sure if the full picture will appear, but if not, it says a 12:30 departure from La Brea should arrive at La Cienega by 12:34.
I see new benches have been added on Wilshire just outside the station, so I assume the stop will become official at some point, but right now the next closest stop is Willaman, which is four blocks away.
To be precise about what I'm asking here - a guy on X said he thought the plot to TLW was unbelievable - that you'd never get 100 volunteers for a competition where everyone knows going in that 99 of them were going to die - even if the last guy breathing was promised literally whatever he wanted.
Not only did I find this claim bizarre - I don't think there's ever been a point in American history where you couldn't get AT LEAST 100 dumb, young men to sign up for what amounts to a suicide mission. This is not to say that I think America is now, or ever was some dystopian hellscape - it's just a reflection that teenagers are idiots. And with over 13 million boys between the ages of 13 and 18, I can't imagine it'd be any real challenge finding 100 of them to walk.
The game I'm currently playing is still there under Reward Status, but there's nothing on the Offerwall in my app. Anyone else?
