I AM BECOMING MORE AND MORE CONVINCED T-PAIN IS ME.
Hey, some of us call it ‘grad school’.
Turning 30 really changes you. It feels like it frees you more.
Our high school senior class quote was along those lines, “work like you don’t need the money, dance like no one is watching.” One of my good friends was valedictorian. She got drunk for the first time at a graduation after party, and I remember her slurring, “it’s SO true. You should work like no one is watching, and…
HOT TAKE: Maybe Garden State wasn’t actually that bad?
I loved it when it first came out and thought it was The Greatest. Now that I’m older and wiser I can take a necessary critical eye to it, but for me Joanna’s potato chip metaphor holds true. Something likeable still endures in it for me (I know, I’m sorry), and it can still be entertaining.
I mean, if I had to watch videos of myself in 2003, I’d probs have a panic attack, too.
It’s the eye of the martyr
It’s the thrill of the Right
Rising up to the challenge of our (Supreme Court) trial
And the last known dissenter
Thinks Jesus supports her plight
And she’s watching us all with the eyeeeeeeeeeee ... of the martyr