True story:

I dated Axl for a short, torrid month in the late 1980s. It was wild and fun and dangerous and stupid . . . and this is what he wrote to me when we broke up:

Dear Sparkle,

I don't care who knows it. I like this woman.

This is correlation, not causation. I think it's pretty clear the actual causation is the fact that women on birth control are obviously huge sluts whom God then strikes down with blindness.

It's funny to me, because as a child of immigrants, it's only now that my generation are adults and reproducing that we're doing the women-only baby shower thing. Growing up, baby showers were a thing the adults knew Americans did but didn't know the "rules," so our showers were always co-ed, with alcohol, metric tons…

A guy at work was telling this ~outrageous~ story about how it was a "new thing" among the hip, young whippersnappers to invite guys to a baby shower, and ha ha ha how funny is that!! I ignored him, since the conversation wasn't directed at me and I didn't feel like getting tangled in that bunch of fuckery, but he…

Cunt punt (ˈkənt ˈpənt).

I want to be the copy writer who came up with that one. :( My best so far was a tagline for an '80s-themed yogurt: "The new culture club."

"How's it coming along Herr Heimlich?" " Not very well. It's not really a manoeuvre at the moment. It's more of a gesture"

Yes, that's the part that really got me. She sounds like someone who truly believes she is lucky, not entitled, and because of that, she wants to help others.

I completely agree. Really one of the most moving speeches I've ever heard a celebrity given. Especially the end when she talked about how she doesn't understand why there is someone out there suffering who is just like her, and she doesn't know why she is who she is. I thought it was beautiful and profound.

Happy to hear I'm not the only one!

We did it!!!

That speech made me tear up a little bit. What an elegant human being.