Yes, according to Season of the Witch by David Talbot, Jones had amassed an incredible amount of political clout and was manipulating SF politicians through that clout— not exactly the same thing as being totally above board. Mayor Moscone, Harvey Milk, Willie Brown — they were in the thrall of Jones as a political…

I *just* read a long debate/bitch session among dishwasher owners, where the overwhelming opinion was that dishwasher technology was developed at a time when detergents and sulfactants were different. So now dishwashers are shitty and don’t get things clean without pre-rinsing and even prewashing — and that hand…

Counterpoint: This is a shitty, anti-intellectual, anti-literary hot take. Hats off to anybody out there who is like, “Nope, I am not an entrepreneur, not a web developer, not an app-anything. I am a writer — specifically, a poet.” (And no, I am not a poet. I am a librarian, and thank god for poets.)

Whoever he is, he seems to enjoy having poor impulse control on Twitter: https://heavy.com/news/2017/07/arthur-schwartz-scaramucci-reince-tweets-publicist-spokesman-weiner-pr/

Reminds me -- Joni Mitchell used to do this shit

I have also been reading it as if she is a bad Bahstin bhabie who pahked her cah at Hahvahd yahd, and now I want to know whether she is a baby or a Barbie.

Look, I can see by your other comments that A) you can google just fine and B) you are super committed to pretending that violence towards women, specifically domestic partners, has not been identified as a pattern in mass shooters. You are also really invested in pretending that everyone is saying correlation =…

Picture this scene with a male coach, and now try to picture the rage-fueled teenager grabbing his male coach’s gut and ass in an effort to get the phone back. Doesn’t quite play through, does it? It is violence toward *women* not just violence.

Oh my goodness, whenever I feel myself annoying someone (which happens frequently) I hear Judy-as-Judy ringing in my head -- “You think it is infuriating working with Judy Garland? Can you imagine how it feels to BE JUDY GARLAND?” I may have the quote wrong, but it touched my heart, as beautifully expressing how it…

Jerry-Netherland, I usually agree with, nay revere every word you type but here we disagree — I am 100% convinced Judy is wearing her flipper in the 1965 photo. See — Judy and Liza in rehearsal, 1964.

I eat everything you put in front of me, but I just can’t with durian. I have tried repeatedly, but although yes, the texture is creamy and delightful and the taste is somehow dairy-ish and lightly spiced and powdered sugary and terrific, as soon as I breathe through my nose I get slammed by that smell — like wet…

It is fascinating to see folks vociferously defending a bullshit explanation. The reason they have a person scanning your receipt is the same reason they have a person at the door pretending to care whether you have a member card. It is the reason that their stores are designed to look and feel like warehouses, even…

Two things I cannot believe were not mentioned in this piece:
1. Bai Ling
2. Go Fug Yourself

Back in the day I lived for Michael K’s everything, and Jessica at Go Fug Yourself’s ‘Hey Y’all!’ Britney Spears letters.

If she isn’t wearing a culturally insensitive jeweled bindi, then it is not Spiderwebs Gwen!

My dad has dementia, and this is his reality. Thank god he forgets again pretty quickly.

Squirrel Hill in Pittsburgh is literally Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. His house stands three blocks from the synagogue where today’s shooting took place and that little diorama of his community represented the community where this occurred.

Do you remember Love at First Bite? Actual disco vampire movie, which I saw in the theater in 1979:

I know two things about Napoleon Dynomite — 1, Mormons love that movie. and 2, this happened in the early Aughties:

Weird fact: In my mind he survived that plane crash that killed DJ AM, revealing that I think Blink 182 and Maroon 5 are the same band, and that Adam Levine and Travis Barker are the same person.

So true it is probably verifiable on Snopes — he is disgusting, he is a twerp, he is a douche, yet he is hit-it-able. I first discovered this watching him in American Horror Story.