I might give “Big Brother” a try. The other topics she explored are not screamingly interesting to me, to be honest.

I’m a Google Music/Movies/phone everything person myself. Very happy with selection, streaming quality and integration. I also still have a functioning Zune—shhh! That thing is a tank and I love it so much. Ten years old next year, still going strong, bless its little heart.

Cool, thank you for the tip.

Why do you think there aren’t more prominent American Indian writers, who can achieve commercial exposure and success? I personally would love to read fiction produced by authentic American Indian voices, but—you are right here—I am simply not aware of any.

Yah I should have clarified that I’m chiefly invested in Shriver’s point about writing from outside of “what you know,” not her sombrero party simile.

Waitwaitwait. Number 1, what are you talking about—seriously, I haven’t heard anything, so please spill. Number 2, how bad of a nightmare is she? Does she kick puppies and kittens? Does the talk about how she can’t stand her own kids, a la Ayelet Waldman? Is she a back stabber?!

I stand with her in principle/Come at me bro.

The idea of the Thiel fellowship, giving high-schools graduates 100K to kick-start their own start-up in lieu of college, seems like a concrete positive. I can’t with his Ayn Rand bullshit or his eternal youth obsession (WTF? that’s just weird) but he speaks about the investing ethos/start-up culture with persuasive…

That would just give him the attention he craves plus feed into his neediness and “mommy & daddy never loved me” complex or whatever pathetic teenage issues he’s clearly workshopping through via public performance.

Any chance you could steer your son toward Elon Musk and Peter “capitalism is the opposite of competition” Thiel?

Oh damn. I am so sorry to hear that. But.. politics alone is not worth severing family ties over, is it? I don’t know. My folks love Trump too. I just avoid the topic and don’t snap up any baiting comments. My favorite part is that despite their support, they refuse to give Trump any donations. And they told me they…

Between the Shkrelozoid emerging anew out of his putrid little lair and that Emirjeta Xhelili lady who beat up two Muslims, I can say with some confidence that this has been a horrible week in Albanian Trump supporters.

Sean Penn hast yet to best his performance in Fast Times. Like, he’s so perfect in that film. Also: Nic Cage’s first walk-on part! I think he has one line and is billed as Nicolas Coppola..

I feel a bit sad for young peeps who only know geriatric De Niro from cheeseball Meet the Fockers comedies and Analyze This.

Me neither. OOpsie. Although I love Orson Wells in other people’s movies..

Anything with Tina Fey in it.. Never watched one episode of 30 Rock, I’ve only seen the GIFs post online. Thought Mean Girls (which she wrote) was scandalously overrated. She remains aggressively unfunny to me.

Ha!

OK, so somewhere in my storage I have one of the wigs that Asia wore in that movie. Was acquainted with her through friends back when she was living in Venice, CA and picked up the wig once when she had a soiree/garage sale at her house. I remember trying to ask her at the time about JT Leroy and she was sorta vague…

I choose to believe this. I like This American Life (would not seek out but listen whenever it’s on my NPR) but Ira Glass bugs me deeply. Or bedbugs me deeply, you can even say.

Are they Italian or of an Eastern-Euro extraction? Some of the loud bickering might be built in their culture. (Eastern-Euro-born person here, with parents who bickered and fought so loudly that the walls shook. They boom when they’re happy, too! To this day people with loud voices and who TALK TOO MUCH turn me off.)