"Andre starts with the blanket statement that black people don't like talking about the gay and lesbian members of their families, which is a gross and offensive but also popular idea."

Nick Offerman seems like a lovely man, but also like a man that should always have a mustache.

He can just look for the tin roof……

I tend to not watch it until the day after it airs so I miss a lot of the conversation. There has been a drop, but I'm so glad this show is visible here.

Forgot all about the implications of the Paul/Marion exchange-that makes perfect sense.

Ok cool,thanks Lana! I thought the stuff about Cal being all Tony Stark was already known.

Yeah, I fast-forwarded through the opening..

I was grading papers and mostly distracted watching this week, so I have a silly question:

My grandma be like: 'Raise your hand if you had 5 children-oh look, it's just me!'

Both my grandmas are a goddamn force of nature, but this particular grandma is not only awesome, she's salty as I don't know what!

I have so little use for folks who feel as though they can question anyone's identity, and given recent events I have even less use for it than I had before.

A lot going on this this thread. Three things:

I wonder if it's a regional thing, and this might not even be correct, but living in uptown Manhattan I would occasionally go to a little beauty salon that was run by Dominican women and they would advertise a blowout as a "Dominican Blowout". In other neighborhoods further downtown, and some places in Brooklyn I saw…

Blazing Arrow is a stone cold classic.

From the review: it remains a mystery why Bow is so obsessed with proving to others how great her life is.

Aww, thanks! I had a good day of work and am feeling much better about the whole thing.

Yeah..dissertation books are buried under conference paper books for now. Sigh.

It's not so much that I'm neglecting it, but I have a conference presentation paper that I neglected last week, and now I'm paying the price. I'm working as quickly as I can now, and hoping I can get it finished in time. TI is gonna hopefully help me take short breaks/calm me down. Serious panic is happening in my…

I spent a lot of college hanging around a bookstore (there are some great stores in Colorado!) and soaked up a lot of stuff.

I knew Andrea for years (sadly, we're not friends anymore), and it was surreal seeing her on the show.