I totally agree. Toward the end I was just like "YOU ARE AN AWFUL PERSON AND A TERRIBLE MOTHER!" I just couldn't do it anymore. Also, it was weird to me how the whole show revolved around everyone being in love/lust with Nancy. I mean, Mary Louise Parker is definitely a really attractive woman, but all of the male…

Sidenote: my boyfriend and I wanted to go see something really dumb and brainless, so we went to see Pain and Gain. I knew it would be crappy but was kind of looking forward to it (I have an inexplicable love for the Rock and sometimes big Hollywood movies are fun), but it was so beyond terrible. In the first 20…

This is so interesting to me. I grew up in NYC and started taking the public bus to school alone when I was about 8. My family never had a car and I hadn't even touched the steering wheel of a car until I was 18; I didn't learn to drive until I was 28! Driving is still so terrifying for me, but now that I live in…

THANK YOU! That just made me so freaking mad.

I know people say that, but it's never been common at all in my group of friends. When I moved West I did start noticing people saying "prefunc" though, as in pre-function.

Psych unit social worker here. Well, it certainly could be depression. Depression can present differently at different times and in different people. But with your recent trauma history, this has flavors of PTSD to me. Obviously, I am not diagnosing you with PTSD because a) this is the internet and b) I don't know…

It does all seem confusing and complex. Can any of you answer me this: what is the Powder Room? I have seen posts cross posted from there, but I don't understand what it is. Is it like Group Think? Or another blog entirely?!?! Help!

I work on a psych unit, but obviously I haven't run any big official studies, so all this is annecdotal. In my years as a social worker, I have seen that people who are religious do seem to have faith that things will improve, sometimes to the point where it's almost delusional. But you know, whatever works for people…

I am with you. In the NW they are all too omnipresent and I can seriously think of nothing more unappealing. Actual kilts, however, are pretty hot. I never really understood the appeal of them until I went to my friend's wedding in Scotland and was surrounded by sharp dressed kilt wearing dudes with hot accents. Sigh.

Oh, maybe I can ask you this question that I have had for weeks now! What IS the Powder Room??? I have seen posts cross posted from there but I don't understand what it is or who writes in it or why it exists. For some reason, this has been driving me nuts! Please enlighten me.

What really steams me is when women are cast as the mother of a male actor who is practically their same age! This has been going on forever (see Manchurian Candidate: Angela Lansbury was like 3 years older than Laurence Harvey who played her son) and it makes me insane!!!

The funny thing though is when you use Jew as a noun, people get all freaked out. Like if I say "I am a Jew" the gentiles look SUPER uncomfortable. But I AM a Jew!

You forgot about our horns!!!

Dreaaading this CBGB's movie. Was lucky enough to catch the last few glorious years as a teen. Seems like some things should be left to rest in peace. It was bad enough when CBGB's t-shirts got so popular and people didn't even know what they were wearing! I remember I saw one guy in one out here on the West Coast and…

Can't we do both? I spend pretty much all day every day helping the disenfranchised (I am a social worker) but I am also pretty horrified at the lack of empathy that this "party" seems to indicate.

Thank you for realizing I meant for and not or. I get so excited when talking about cupcakes that I lose all reason. However, if I was choosing between cupcakes and life, I might just choose cupcakes. Hah, and yes, totally on your knuckles.

I stand with you! TEAM CUPCAKE OR LIFE. I don't care if their profits are down, I am ride or die.

True. I can see where they're confused though. Why is the president never in Homeland? It's always just the VP.

Wow, you are pretty much the worst. Maybe you were aiming for snarky and just landed on really mean by mistake? So are you like president of the bi-racial community and does that mean that you get to tell everyone how they need to identify and give you the right to attack them and bring their family into it? Also, did…

P.S. For the record, I am Italian and Jewish and none of my ancestors could get jobs at the nice factories and they all worked in the mill and wah, wah, wah, I am still a white woman with privilege. And although I've dealt with some anti-Semitic shit, I in no way know what it is like to experience racism.