as the mother of a wiley and energetic toddler, I have a whole other annoying association with "bedtime procrastination"

obligatory.

I've been defending reading what you want all over the place, but I will admit that 50 Shades of Grey is my point of hypocrisy. I went to the trouble of reading it so I'd know what I was talking about, and it's horribly written for a book of any genre.

Excuse me. What is wrong with mystery-solving cats?!

Eh. Shouldn't they also feel bad about reading poorly written literature for adults? But, more directly, who gets to decide? I thought the Davinci Code was crap, but I have to be honest, it warms my little librarian heart when a book gets so popular than even typical nonreaders get excited about them. Except 50 Shades…

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson was the shit too! What a tearjerker! Also, I can't believe no one's mentioned The Golden Compass yet. I'm not an expert on the genre but that series is the most profound and best-written fantasy series I've ever read. Also, Judy Blume, obviously.

In no particular order:

I made it through grad school without reading either of those books. And I am a librarian. They are on my to-read list, but that list has, no joke about 800 books on it. (Thank you Goodreads for helping me keep track of my to-read list.) I really do hate when people assume that every high school in the English…

Honestly I'm sure it was worse for you. At least I get white privilege (which often included the privilege of overhearing anti-Semitic jokes!). Also, my mom transferred me to a Catholic school, where people gave exactly zero fucks about my eternal soul but were very interested in knowing if I got eight presents for…

Is this an appropriate place to tell you guys about my experience working at Sonic? I was one of the few, the proud, the brave who wore roller blades to deliver the food. The tips were markedly better and customers were generally much nicer to me than otherwise. Unfortunately, not everyone was caught up in the magic…

Seriously Christians, if he's so important to you, why do you keep misplacing him and asking the rest of us if we've found him?

Creationists make me boil with rage.

Back when I was working at the movie theater I had something like this happen. A man came up to buy a ticket to some new indie documentary and asked me if I knew what it was about. I hadn't had a chance to look at the description and when I told him he replied it was about evolution. I said that sounded cool, and that…

I had my baby in August, but i very vividly remember this list. I'd also like to add:

My top google searches would be:

My friend has a tradition in her Irish family. Once the baby is born and family visits the hospital, they bring a bottle of Whiskey in honor of the baby. Everyone takes shots in the room. Doesn't matter if the mother is breast feeding, she drinks up too.

So, what I got out of this is that somebody changed the words to an Irish folk song and brought it to America, and then somebody changed the words again to something horribly racist, and then ice cream trucks started using the tune without any words, so now ice cream trucks are racist.

That music is the worst anyway.

So THAT'S why my snow cone truck plays Wagner.

um, my ice cream truck plays "Greensleeves", a lovely old-timey song about a streetwalker, so speak for yourself.