I’m clinging by my fingernails, but I’m still here. And I’m still voting against Menace L’Orange next week. But damn, people are getting so much of their news from social media and other dubious online sources and you can really tell the electorate is suffering because of it.

OH GOD, I am so scared he’s actually going to win. I’m in Michigan and there is an alarming amount of support for him here even in “liberal” areas like metro Detroit and East Lansing.

HELL YES! Corey Parks is exactly the kind of antidote we need in these troubled times.

Honestly, I get more attention from strangers on the street post-40 than I ever did as a much more attractive twentysomething.

I’m not single, but I am child-free. I hope one of my nieces or nephews will look in on their old auntie, but it’s not like they’ll really be obligated to.

I’m about to turn 44 next month and I can’t shake the feeling that if I’m barely clearing $50K now, I’m gonna be so fucked in my retirement--should I live long enough to retire. I have miniscule savings, but I’d say roughly half of my same-age or older friends are in the same boat. And if there’s no Social Security…

Ha! You should seriously read the book. (This was a long time ago, so forgive me--it might have been a book specifically about his relationship with Neil.) He was such a bastard, and he’s so cheerfully open about it!

But less Canadian than a plate of Kraft dinner, a Kids in the Hall DVD, and an autobiography by Scott Young. (That is an actual book that I read when I lived in a two-room cabin outside a provincial park one summer--and it was surprisingly good!)

Clint Eastwood? Sorry, wild guess.

I love DTRT and the Katrina doc, but my favorite Spike Lee movie is Crooklyn. Makes me cry every time.

I don’t personally know the guy, so I’m not prepared to say he’s a piece of shit. A fashion hack with more ambition than talent? That’s fair.

Kanye is such a damn Gemini, what with his wild inconsistence: brilliant at MSG, atrocity at Roosevelt Island. I totally believe he did it on purpose, though. Putting esteemed fashion people in a pen to humiliate them, then knocking them further off kilter when the models start to drop? (The poor models were no doubt…

I happen to know a couple of “blue collar,” struggling rappers, and Atlanta’s depiction rings true so far. (Especially the thirsty mom!) I can’t wait to see the show tackle Paper Boi’s rise to fame and the bullshit that comes along with it. It was hella weird watching an old flame get discovered by hipsters after…

I was surprised by how funny it was, actually. I guess because it wasn’t billed as a comedy? But I watched this morning at the gym and laughed so loud and often that I drew stares. I live in Detroit, and this is the closest thing to my city I’ve seen portrayed on TV in a long time. It feels fresh, and even though the…

Oh, I hope so! My mom was a go-go dancer in the late 60s, and I’ve been trying to stuff my, ahem, well-developed legs into her tall white boots from back in the day since I was a wee bairn.

Refurbished merkin!!! hahahahahahahaha

Seriously. Of course I hatewatched every episode, but I remember being particularly livid when he shamed that actress from the 80s who lived with her mom for being on suboxone a year after treatment, because that’s still “doing drugs” in his narrow little world. If she needs suboxone to ditch her pill habit, she’s…

You know he won’t be going to your neighborhood in Detroit, unfortunately. He’ll be going to Corktown, Midtown, Woodbridge, and maaaaaybe the West Village. (I’m assuming you’re closer to Grandmont Rosedale?) Wish I could take him over by 7 Mile and Waltham, where my fiance grew up. Or Mack and Bewick. Or anywhere on…

It’s Bojangles for this girl. With a side of dirty rice and a tankard of sweet tea!

Wow! That’s amazing, and also hopeful—so thank you for that. Once I get my married in a few weeks, that’s my next big project. I’ve decided to ask all my contacts in the medical profession for referrals to a specialist at the nearby university hospital, which is considered the best care in the state. After that, next…