Because coming up through UCB is one of the major ways people come up in comedy. The same UCB that had to completely overhaul its leadership last month due to systemic racism. The same UCB that charges for classes that are required to show and doesn’t pay for most types of work. I’m pretty sure performers are on the…

Yes, those Kempers. Ellie Kemper “won” the ball as a teenager. She’s a delight but the fact that she and her sister never explain they got where they are 100% based on not needing to work for money always makes me go hmmmm.

I think Billie Eilish also gets a lot of credit for stuff that Teyana was doing before Billie was out of diapers - using the timing and beat/tone shifts of hip hop dance mastermixes and trap instead of conventional pop 3 minute song structure.

Right, even tying them together into a narrative isn’t new.

I wish they had managed to pair a good vegan cheese with the impossible burger. It lets vegans, pescitarians and people who just can’t handle dairy in on the party.

My guess is that her abusers are either already named, so obscure she doesn’t feel going public would make a difference, or people she had complicated relationships with other than MB that would require too many personal details to explain.

My take is that the reason No Doubt was able to break through is that the boys are as legit as a Cali-style ska band as there ever was, but Gwen always was a pop girl who accidentally ended up fronting a band. The reason why she seemed so cool was that she was the only pop star at the time making any of her own…

A friend of mine were talking about male gaze vs female gaze and the fact that Joshua Jackson is rarely cast as the romantic lead but almost always is upgraded to that spot, often against the original intentions of the work, because any time you see him next to any other dude it literally breaks down suspension of…

She basically implied he’s a sociopath and Ryan Gosling might not be much better.

Anna Wintour’s refusal to change even her clothes should make it very clear who the problem is. You could compare the most recent issue with literally any matching month since 1988 and they are virtually identical. SHE’S THE ONE WHO KEEPS PICKING “FLORALS FOR SPRING.” In this case florals for spring is perpetuating…

“Police bullies” are a specific kind of protestor who could be described as grey hat. Their role is to divert police violence against more vulnerable people or to be pests. They’re supposed to also be the ones who keep people from rioting by encouraging them to be police pests instead, but that’s not always the case.

I was told that if you’re white and you want to participate in civil disobedience, the rules are 1. Listen 2. Amplify 3. Shield. Your main job is to make sure you are listening and learning, doing what you can to keep the message from not having any recipient. Just because you’re on the right side of history, it…

It is becoming more evident than ever that mainstream Democrats are just conservatives who are not members of the cult of the shining city.

If someone cheats on you one time while away or when in a vulnerable emotional place, it’s possible they only lied to you by omission or about one thing one time. If someone is having an affair, they have to full on gaslight you. 

My guess is that it was a more involved affair with someone they know and the wife thinks it was a one-off with a stranger on a business trip.

The big point was trying to drive home that authoritarian dictators are often total buffoons who tell lies so craven, so stupid they are basically incomprehensible to most people. Ceaușescu in particular was known for being a total fucking idiot every time he opened his mouth. The system was so corrupt it didn’t…

Way back in 2016, the day after he won, a bunch of my coworkers who were from Romania or eastern bloc countries tried to sit us down and explain what was going to happen. We thought they were being hyberbolic. We were wrong.

To most people, it was nonsense. To his followers, it was a dogwhistle. It lets them fill in anything they want in the blank without those things ever having to match.

Honestly, I can believe her story pretty much as is. I love candles but I rarely light them because I always forget to blow them out.