Google proves you are correct. Which means I am free to name the male lead in my great American opus Walter Berglubdm.

Yes! I posted this elsewhere (I’m not good at commenting on these things), but these guys do such a good satire of American literary criticism and gender bias:

It does. And it would star Pam Grier as a Chicago cop who has been framed for murder by the local mob for being too good at her job. Now she must clear her name before she is caught and thrown in jail. With soundtrack by B.T. Express. The tag line is “She puts the ‘beat’ in beat cop.”

My mom waited until I was a grown and married lady to tell me this story.

So many good ones but the one that I love the most is this convo.

My mom is awesome. She moved to Ohio from Puerto Rico with her husband and three-year-old daughter to get her Ph.D. She was away from everyone she knew, and didn’t really know English. She worked full time on top of school, and raised two daughters (second daughter born two years after arriving to Ohio), and put up…

I get pins and needles and my palms immediately get sweaty, even from just seeing a picture.

They have to clear the rapists out to make room for young black men who’ve gotten their third strike for having a joint.

This overgrown figure skating costume looks like something a Russian pop singer would wear to the MTV music awards.

To garnish the martini. What do you think we are, Republicans?

As a person who presents as a certain strain of femme (in my 20s I self-consciously referred to my style as “sloppy femme,” which is sadly accurate), but loves wearing and is skilled at applying makeup, I really enjoyed your perspective. We have walked very different paths in terms of makeup, but your clear, vivid,…

I hope the boys had the cake and ate it, too.

Don Giovanni would be proud of you.

The continent of Europe is so wide, mein herr...you know I couldn’t cross it if I tried, mein herr, but I do what I can, inch by inch, step by step, man by maaan!

I like your style. *hat tip*

It started out as sniffling around the time the first verse ended. Then it went down hard and I thought I would save some pride if I concentrated on finishing the song instead of crying ugly sobs. By the time I was at “Pain is all you’ll find” I stopped singing altogether & cried into the mike - big ugly sobs. I cried…

Sleeping one’s way across any continent is definitely the way to go. Cosign your recommendation.

Yassss!

after getting dumped in high school, i came home in tears and announced that i was going to slash his tires. i dramatically asked my mom where the box cutter was and she gave me a big hug and said “no, sweetie. what you want is a hammer and a screw driver.”

In general I’m not very into organized religion. But every time the Church of Satan takes some kind of public action, I’m sincerely tempted to join. The only thing stopping me is that anything with the word Satan in it is a little too close to Christianity for me to feel comfortable with.