This is great, simple advice. In our modern world, the average person no longer uses their handwriting for anything formal or official, so it seems counterintuitive and inefficient to ever attempt to do it slowly and methodically.

I wish she did - I saw her last year and yeah, it was perfect, but like...so are studio albums.

OH NO! I meant “it WAS fantastic.” I was autocorrected to “wasn’t” which totally flips the meaning. Madonna was great!

That’s what i do rather appreciate about country.

It upsets me that so many performers think we expect perfection at a live show. I don’t go see live music from talented singers because I want to hear perfection, I go to see a talented person perform live, and everything that entails. It’s fine to modify! That’s real life!

I dawn Madonna’s Reinvention tour in 2004 and it wasn’t fantastic. I know exactly what you mean.

Wonderful article, Rich!

Nailed it! I attempted an explaination above but yours is exactly right.

He speaks in incomplete thoughts, allowing people to fill in the gaps with their own assumptions about what he is saying. I also notice how he attempts to simplify sentences but doesn’t do so in a very complete manner. I feel like I can usually follow the points he is getting at, usually somewhat hyperbolically, maybe…

Can I imagine this sequel? Amer-I-CAN!

The character “George” in The Wedding Singer was the first ambiguously gendered person/character I ever remember encountering, at age 10. (The next was RuPaul’s character in the Brady Bunch Movie as Jan’s counselor.) I’ve always loved that movie and while I couldn’t figure out if George was a boy or a girl — and I…

I also have multiple pairs of headphones scattered about that i use for various purposes. This has now either doubled the amount of crap I need to buy or tripled the time I spend musicless and kicking myself for leaving some necessary part at home with the wrong headphones.

Until the battery life plummets after one year.

Uuuugh. Newer is not always better!

Old Navy, stepping up their game for teens in need! Don't even get me started on my massive flip flop collection...

Wow. I LOVED Cosmogirl and had that exact suit you’re wearing! I immediately recognized it as Old Navy before seeing the whole image in this post because it was such a relief to find it, since it was inexpensive, cute, and flattering. I wore it for years. I was incredibly self conscious about bathing suit shopping...I…

Oh, that sounds like Adulthood: Phase 3!

I should get married just so I can stop “investing” my disposable income on practical house things like matching plates, decent cotton sheets, and a German made iron and go back to the habits of Adulthood: Phase 1 where I’d blow my megar spending money on indulgences like perfume and wacky spandex blend novelty jeans…

The Wendy Williams story is so gross. “We do not close doors in our house.” So her 13 year old son walks in on his parents having sex and then is blamed for it.

Ooh, Brie Larson did my signature “cringe face laugh” that I use at comedy clubs when I want to be a good sport but also visibly acknowledge that I wouldn’t laugh at that topic under normal, non-comedy settings, or that while I am offended by the joke I can appreciate the cleverness and....and most definitely don’t…