Bag of Nothing

The 1991 P.M. Dawn hit Set Adrift on Memory Bliss randomly started to play on my 90s and 2000s playlist while I was driving the other day. Great song (Baby you send me, baby you send me…), and I totally forgot Christina Applegate is mentioned in it. Briefly, I wondered how she has been doing since her health has declined dramatically.  Then, the next day, I saw an article that she had been rushed to a hospital in Europe.

Currently has 95% on Rotten Tomatoes & has been called one of the most heartbreaking horror films of 2025. Good Boy releases in theaters on October 3, 2025.

Count me out – A horror movie shot from the perspective of a dog who sees its owner haunted by supernatural entities. Even though it’s obviously fiction, I’m just too much of a sympathetic lover of canines. But I give the director a lot of credit for using a real dog.

There’s this trend I’ve been seeing on profile pictures of women on dating apps that has been a turnoff for me. Now I know it’s called Love Island Face. Here’s a good description of it:

“Usually, the lips are full (often as a result of hyaluronic acid fillers), noses tend to be narrow, foreheads are virtually motionless, and cheeks are plumped and sculpted.”

So Why Do People Over 35 Find This Unsettling?

From Dr. Sturm’s POV, it’s visual and visceral: “People over 35 don’t like the look that you can tell had work done. We see the beauty of a natural youthful face. You can’t go back to being 20 with flawless skin, but if you spend that time of your life with too many injectables, it’s like lost time to us.” She also warns that the look doesn’t age well. “They already look older, and we’ll continue to see filler migration and filler blindness”—a phenomenon where people don’t notice their own filler anymore and keep adding more.

Lawmakers want to end HR ghosting during the interview process—here’s how

Geoff Duncan, who served as Lieutenant Governor of Georgia from 2019 to 2023 as a Republican and stood up to President Trump to discredit his state’s election results, announced that he’s officially swapping sides to join the Democrats.

Duncan explained in an op-ed that being a Democrat will put him in the “best possible position each day to love my neighbor.” In the op-ed, published Tuesday in The Atlanta-Journal Constitution, Duncan explained that the quest to love his neighbor guided him in office and that GOP policies on healthcare, immigration, and gun reform have strayed from that moral imperative.

Read it at The Hill

The White House Rose Garden has had a massive revamp. President Trump said it was mainly due to bad drainage and chairs getting stuck after their legs poked into the grass.

Across the street, the White House Historical Association recently unveiled its life-size replica of President Trump’s Oval Office from his first term. I got a kick out of the detail that went into it:

It is strikingly similar to how Mr. Trump had the room set up back then, with many of the objects 3-D printed to mimic the real thing. The books on each shelf are the same and sit in the same position. The portraits, though printed instead of painted, appear identical. So does the Reagan-era beige rug and Frederic Remington’s “Bronco Buster” statuette

“We used a lot of the same vendors that do work at the White House,” Mr. Boorady said, citing the people who installed the floors and upholstered the furniture. (Mr. Trump’s sofas were first used by President George W. Bush.) “In fact, when they came, they noted, ‘Hey, you’re off a half-inch here, a quarter-inch off here.’”

Of course, not everything can be exactly the same. The Resolute Desk has only one phone instead of two, because visitors kept tangling the lines. Unlike the real Oval Office, there is no bust of Abraham Lincoln, as it would block the exhibit’s accessible entrance.

Of course, Trump has recently updated the Oval Office with a lot of gold.

Back in the days, presidents who were from wealth tried to be understated. Some did it to relate to the common everyday voter, but for others, it was just who they were.

Oh wow dusty up in here now….Florida Panther Mackie Samoskevish grew up in Sandy Hook, CT, brought the Stanley Cup to the Sandy Hook Elementary School Memorial for his day with the cup.

“I thought we’d just bring it back in honor of them”

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— WuTangIsForTheChildren (@wutangforchildren.bsky.social) August 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM

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