Goddamnit. She is cooler at 3 than I am at 29.

If you had asked middle/high school me, I would've claimed to have been above all those bands. I listened to XPN and "indie music", thankyouverymuch. And yet, in retrospect, I have SO many (inexplicable) fond memories set to those songs. I totally bust out a lil' Blink on my runs.

I saw Jimmy Eat World (and Against Me) open for Gaslight Anthem this fall. As much as I love me some Gaslight, JEW stole the show for me. I was completely blown away by their performance.

I really want to know who came up with that combo.

I have to confess (having only read up through "Feast for Crows"), I don't particularly care for Arianne/the Sand Snakes. I would rather the Iron Islands bit get covered in the show instead.

Was just coming to add that Ewan's mid-90s love of full frontal was very, very important to 7th grade me.

Unless you're in a biology or anthropology class, "females" is never an acceptable synonym for "women". I feel like the people that constantly use "females" think they're soooo progressive for not using "bitches" (like the deep down want to).

Oh honey, given "The Bachelor"'s success rate, it's pretty clear he came on this show explicitly to look for a hookup girl*

I seem to recall other incidents where BC came across as tone deaf regarding privilege, but my memory could be faulty.

About 10-15 years ago, I had to lecture my grandfather about how "colored" wasn't really an acceptable term for black/African-Ameican people anymore. Thing is, however, for his generation, that was considered the more progressive/polite phrasing. He apparently never used "colored" to describe people again and would…

Completely apropos of nothin, but last week some of my students were taking a brain break with Legos and one student (with a lego person) started yelling "I'm Tom Cruise. I'm jumping on a couch 'cuz I'm crazy!". I was totally taken aback that a 5th grader even knew about that. Then I organized an arm wrestling…

I get stressed for Mrs. Mallard just watching that.

Alas, we no longer work together so I can't get any new details. She made it pretty clear that he hadn't been a nice guy and I inferred that he may have cheated (though I can neither confirm nor deny)

I bring this up anytime Blake Shelton is mentioned, but he dated the daughter of a former coworker years ago. The look on her face anytime "Honey Bee" was mentioned clearly indicated there was no love lost.

She does realize*, right, that LGBT people have been around since the dawn of time and humanity has yet to collapse?

If you're so confident in your opinion, and the information is out there, why not share it so you don't have to deal with brainless nobodies?

I gotta admit I've been liking Rogen more and more over the last year or so. His Speech before Congress about Alzheimer's/Dementia brought ManPants and I to tears (ManPant's father passed away from a type of dementia). I also read an interview when he was promoting that movie he made with Zac Efron's Abs about how he…

Why is it that people with the most money seem to be the biggest tightwads? My Uncle is acting president of a university (which, seriously, almost everyone in my family went to), but in his previous life, worked in investments/real estate and made a boat load of money. When said-University played its big homecoming…

My kids only have a TV because they built one out of organic, locally grown lentils.

Hmm, and here I was thinking it'd be D.O.A. (granted, I also thought Guardians of the Galaxy would underperform so…). That said, I don't think "50 Shades" will have any legs. Anyone who wants to see it will likely go the first weekend, and I don't think it'll pick up any "word of mouth" steam. I wouldn't assume a full…