Current Post On Trae’s Blog:
My grandmother died last night. This wasn't a shock or a surprise. Her health has been on the decline, and she's been in hospice for the last month. She lived a long life, and in her final days she was surrounded by her three adult children.
My grandma was a kind woman. She wasn't perfect, but I always felt loved in her presence. She was a retired kindergarten teacher, and was still working when I was a kid. I have so many happy memories sitting at her kitchen table, and I'm going to carry those with me for the rest of my life. She was also proof that anyone who claims that you get more conservative as you get older is full of shit, because she certainly didn't.
I think it's interesting how the body processes grief sometimes. I don't know that I'll cry, but over the past month, knowing this was coming, I've felt a tension in my gut. Now that she's passed, instead of relief that tension is replaced by a sense of emptiness. That something is missing that should still be there. Something has been taken away, and I feel it.
Of course, as I wrote that, I immediately started crying... so I guess my body processes grief in pretty ordinary ways too.
I wanted to come up with something profound linking this to Beltane, which we sit in the middle of right now, but it just seemed hackneyed. Like I was trying to dig out some greater significance when the truth is death comes whenever it wants. The only predictable thing about it is that it's the end of all of our journeys. I hope that when I pass I'm so lucky to have lived such a long life with people that I love around me in my final days.
For the record, I will be fine. I just needed to get these words out while they were still in my head. I don't have some rousing conclusion or deep insight to tack on here at the end, just that gut feeling that something is missing.
Because it is.
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Terrence – always the charmer.
He reminds me of this scene from “Ruthless People”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waf46eBajkw
An even better version in context.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS6lNDrCi88
An even better version in context. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS6lNDrCi88
“Give the gun to Bozo”
So, will this end with a 16 ton weight crushing him and removing him permanently from the comic?
Time to get a Restraining order Ruth, maybe also talk Sarah into getting one too.
I’m kind of wondering if Terrence knows what words mean, or if he just randomly chooses words to insult people. Sarah’s behavior could be described many ways, but “nosey” isn’t really one of them.
Frankly, none of the rest of the insult applies either. It sounds to me like he hit on her and she rejected him, that sounds like usual sort of dudebro projection.
With respect to all; while it’s a very hateful thing for him to describe her as, Sarah has been a canonically promiscuous character, so “half-the-town” is mere hyperbole. Whether or not she practiced safe sex with all her lovers remains to be seen.
Then again, if I recall, Ruth is ACE so that might not be an issue for her at all: perhaps they’ve only cuddled or gone on dates
I’m not really sure why you’re trying to justify a line literally written to be something only a hateful, awful person would say