She was always wooden. I remember as a kid watching her in the remake of Parent Trap and thinking she was mediocre. I also came out of the theater saying she was the weakest part of Mean Girls. Literally every other character in that movie pops.

AKA All Jews. My entire congregation goes to the same terrible Chinese restaurant and cheap movie theater on the North Shore of Boston.

Ted Kennedy was amazing. I legit teared up when I found out he was dying. My workplace (the MA appeals court) was genuinely in mourning. He did amazing things for this country.

Vicarious liability. The club doesn’t need to be independently negligent.

I emailed this to my parents. They both pretend they’re deaf when trying to avoid a fight. This is even better.

not in your prime-ate?

It’s a matter of grasping with your feet like a monkey. I always did it barefoot and was one of like 3 kids and the only girl who cold reach the top. The rest mostly dangled with shaking arms for a minute or two.

Also, I do not understand tablescapes, especially for Thanksgiving. You need that food on the table! At least the fixin’s

I genuinely can’t figure out if I’m white or not. I almost always fill in the Caucasian bubble on forms and consider myself the recipient of white privilege, but as an ashkenazi Jew don’t consider myself “white” in an ethnic sense. What’s our status these days, especially with Nazism on the rise? I went to Jewish day…

Dont’t forget the grammy and the initiation into the Rock & Roll hall of fame upon the release of her first album.

I lived through it as a very young kid and remember her coming across as a twat, but I can’t remember why exactly beyond that hot mic incident at Disneyland. She had a carefully curated, media-friendly image and milked her victimhood. Harding is a awful narcissist.

Bananas is hands down one of the funniest films I have ever seen. He’s constantly evolving his style and themes - then revisits and explores those themes again years later. He spearheaded new, experimental cinematic conventions He goes in directions other films never do, is quite prolific (putting out at least one…

She didn’t take a payment for a non-disclosure agreement. She took a payment for her injury - the rape. She explicitly rejected a million dollar non-disclosure agreement settlement earlier this year when Weinstein was anticipating the story breaking.

I never hear the similarities when these suits come up, but damn, that sounds like Creep.

Parody is a narrow fair use exception within copyright law. Basically, SCOTUS says that parody is a critical to the first amendment with regard to its capacity for commentary and criticism (even when it is used to make money). The seminal case is 2Live Crew’s parody of Pretty Woman, Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, 510…

Well, Jews don’t really believe in heaven or hell. Judaism is about what you do on earth. There’s a famous story where some asshole asks Hillel, a famous scholar circa 100BCE, to teach him the entire Torah while standing on one leg. He says, “do unto others as you would have them do to you. Now go home and study.”

People used to send their babies and small children across the country via USPS some decades ago. No joke.

Why does everyone hate Rob Schneider?

Try Amaro Montenegro in a cocktail. My favorite is: gin, amaro, lime juice & splash of luxardo or jerez sherry. It’s sour and bitter in a twiggy way. It was pointed out to me recently that Italian wine and cuisine reflects a consistent appreciation for bitterness (think radicchio). Their digestifs are delightfully…

Put me in the weird taste bud category. I literally don’t like sweet. I hate almost all cake, with the exception of molten/lava chocolate cake or flourless chocolate cake, and that’s because it’s balanced with bitter. Milk chocolate just tastes cloying on my tongue. My husband calls my cocktail preference “stomach…