62 Year Old Black Man Tackled By Idiot
I hate the phrase “I can’t even with this.” It had its moment when people first started using it as a blanket term for their facepalm reactions, but it’s entirely overused and is a lazy replacement for original written thoughts. Having said that, I seriously can’t even with this one.:
Bill Cosby's Daughter Breaks Her Silence
And says absolutely nothing useful.
Ferguson on Facebook
I live in a very homogenized (read: white) part of Massachusetts. It's to be expected, I guess, that I will have to associate with the ignorant. Here is a snapshot of an actual conversation I have been having today with one misguided "friend" from the dog park and his various Facebook compatriots.
I Choose Bette
In response to this article on Jez from yesterday, in which Dodai chooses her 13 favorite on-screen outfits she wishes she owned, I choose Bette Davis' post-makeover wardrobe from Now, Voyager.
A Dog's Vs. Cat Diary
My dog was in the hospital yesterday for an emergency bully stickectomy and my boyfriend sent me the text below to cheer me up. He's doing fine now, but I seriously thought I might not want to live when things were looking grim for a few hours there. I honestly don't think I've ever cared this much about anything or…
Joan Rivers Interviews Mister Rogers
I ran across this little gem this morning on my fb feed. It's really a great interview and it will show you a softer side of Joan. I will say that Mister Rogers' voice is sort of creepy when not in the neighborhood, though...
De-Graying Posts
FYI to anyone who has been responding to posts on the main page with a single period or exclamation point in order to de-gray them: You might want to rethink this tactic. KittensandUnicorns has indicated that she was unfollowed for doing this. I was pretty much just promoting some really good comments that the authors…
RIP
She was sort of amazing. Certainly amazing-looking.
Shock and Flaws: The Dear Abby Edition
Today's Dear Abby post (yes, I still read her on occasion—sue me) dispensed some highly questionable advice to not one, but two letter writers in the same post. The first solicitation comes from a young woman whose mother is uncomfortable with her daughter's audacity to cavort around in perfectly appropriate swimming…
Advice Requested
At the end of my first year of teaching, I took time that last week of classes to speak privately with each student individually. I wanted to express my opinions about their progress over the course of the year—I taught English/Language Arts—and to ask them questions about their future plans in general. This was Los…
What in Carnation
My boyfriend was itching for a new car and I'm thrilled that he has finally seen the light and agreed to downsize from two—an SUV and a sports car—to one single vehicle. He enjoys purchasing all the latest gadgets and I keep wanting to him to simplify, because one out of three electronic items he purchases has some…
I Just Might Have to Kill my Neighbor
Let me start off by saying that the title is hyperbolic. Just in case, you know, she has a heart condition and dies of natural causes or something. Also, she's not my neighbor exactly. When I think of neighbors, I think of people next door. She is on an adjacent street. But I have to pass by every day and this is what…
I DON'T LIKE THE SUN ANYMORE
It's nothing personal, Sun. It's just that I've come to the conclusion that you're too hot. I mean, I know that you do all sorts of things that are beneficial and all, but it's just that, well, I'm boooooooooooooored. So—heads up—I am going to start this unnecessary war with you. I've already told all my "friends"…
The Public Portrait of a Survivor
Cassidy Stay, the sole survivor of the Texas killing rampage that decimated her entire immediate family, attended a memorial a mere three days after the massacre. The fifteen year-old spoke to the crowd about angels having helped her through the ordeal and then she released balloons in her family's memory.
It's All Complicated, or Maybe Not: Loving as a Straight Woman
My response to seeing yet another Gawker post about dating. Just because.
High Class
Jezebel has a post up about the the time you accidentally got way too high. I thought I'd post mine here instead and we can hopefully have a Crosstalk Highathon.
Michigan Eradicates Racism by Silencing Teacher
A few weeks ago, a Monroe, MI teacher was suspended for showing a film about how white people used to apply blackface to mimic African Americans during a lesson about Jim Crow racial segregation laws. The teacher, Alan Barron, was two weeks away from retirement after an illustrious 36-year career in the same district.
The Comeback vs. Enlightened
I am a fan of both of these shows, but I just finished watching the second—and apparently last—season of Enlightened and couldn't help but notice some similarities between the two.
Is It Just Me Or...
This clip from last night's SNL had something called Black Jeopardy. I don't know if this is a regular skit, because I haven't watched SNL regularly since I was a wee laddess, but oh my. The questions were monosyllabic ebonic-formatted 'insider' jokes that only black people would supposedly "get". And the outlier in…