These anecdotes are cute but they’re not a replacement for a personality/political mettle. These anecdotes are like a dating app profile with a bunch of flags, a dog emoji, and a guy holding a fish. Traveling, collecting records, reading, speaking another language... none of these are a personality. They’re little…

The Head of School had the nerve to tell me that there was some educational value in this incident because it started conversations in the homes of the other kids

One of my favorite moments on that show Intervention was when an addict’s grandmother (herself an addict in recovery) looked her granddaughter dead in the eye and told her “You love your son but you’re not a good mother, baby.” Loving your kid isn’t enough to make you a good parent.

My Favorite Murder exhibits all the worst parts of the “annoying white guy duo talking about things but never really doing much research or adding anything to the subject because our inflated egos think us just talking about it in itself is interesting” genre of podcasts. I don’t understand why it’s supposedly better…

Two girls tried to crash my wedding. They did the old “we’re from the side of the couple that you aren’t” to my wife’s uncle (sent to investigate by my sharp-eyed wife!), but unfortunately for them my wife and I are from SUPER different backgrounds and it was painfully obvious that they were not, in fact, members of my…

I'd be way more interested in stories about what happened when the crashers got caught in their lie.

This scene has been speaking to me lately. Which is not great :-/

Having binged the show, I can safely say that most of the criticisms, this one especially, are off base.

I spent 8.5 years working at a public library. Every year, we received thousands of donated titles and you know what we did with most of them? We threw them away.

Moving is actually a really good opportunity to assess with clear eyes which books you want to keep with you and which you realistically will never read, or never read again.

Yesssss.

I just moved and the number of books I got rid of really surprised me. I was pretty ruthless, but as a lifelong booklover, English major, child-of-a-hoarder, I still managed to get rid of nearly half of my library. Fucking stoked. I’m not really a Kindle fan, since I don’t like reading from a screen and you can’t lend…

You know who discards books?

I haven’t watched her show mainly cuz it would depress me—I am a neat freak married to a “collector” (HOARDER). But we are both massive readers raising a little toddler reader and years ago we got rid of all but our most beloved, multiple-read books and it’s awesome. We live in Brooklyn for fuck’s sake—if it’s taking…

All these people mad on twitter missed the fucking point.  She doesn’t want everyone to get rid of all books.  It’s up to you, if you truly love each and everyone one of your books, then by all means keep them.  Chances are most people do not. 

Thank you, yes, this was largely the point. I wasn’t trying to purposefully drum up “not all white people” comments by including that quote, but kept it in as how it feels to be a brown person in a world where white women, who by and large create and dominate the world’s beauty standards, have suddenly become the face…

I missed The Green Book in theaters initially and was disappointed because I really like Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen. Now it’s back, but I’m not sure I want to see it. Apparently the family of Don Shirley really object to the way he was portrayed. He wasn’t estranged from them as the film suggested. He had…

I am a Black queer person so following this story closely. One thing missing from his apologies is a clear understanding of why the comments are so toxic. Don Lemon laid out the high rates of child abuse and homelessness Black LGBTQ youth face due to parents with this exact “my kid could never be gay” attitude. The…

Key thing there though is Stephen Merchant.

Wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of the writing was just Stephen watching Gervais being himself and directly making that the character, as Gervais seems to be the same talentless wanker with a heightened view of his self-worth as Brent.