I bet the people who complain about casting actors of color in adaptations are shitting their pants.

I’m a country fan. That’s how I know a lot of them still hate the Dixie Chicks and Brad Paisley.

A video from a few months ago? They’re still pissed at the Dixie Chicks!

LOL Beyonce and The Dixie Chicks. That will go over reeeeeeeeaaaaall well with the CMA viewers. A lot of them think host Brad Paisley is too liberal.

Haha, I love humble bragging about wearing the same size I did in high school. Never mind that I’m totally fatter than I was 23 years ago.

I was literally just thinking about miso soup for dinner.

The article I read about this last night focused a lot on what the school did/didn’t to about the bullying with little mention of the bullies and their parents. And problems with “the system.” As far as I’m concerned, the bullies and the parents who raised them are the fuck ups here and our problems go way beyond any…

I like the Declaration of Independence and at the same time get “Brown Sugar” stuck in my head every time he comes up. I’ll be humming it all day now.

At best, she knew her husband was sexually abusing children and did nothing. At worst, she abused children as well.

I’ve been incorporating this into my life since Denis Leary’s No Cure for Cancer. He said something like “Happiness comes in five second doses like an orgasm, a cigarette, or a chocolate chip cookie. You come, you smoke the butt, you eat the cookie then you go to sleep, get up and go to fucking work.”

She lived in Hamden? She’s better off now.

Yeah, I can see that happening. They probably think you gotta get a move on before you have zero chance at all. Sorry.

The good news for childless women: people mostly lay off when you hit 40 (if you’re single, at least). I think they’re afraid I’ll blow my brains out if reminded I’m a childless spinster. So I feel no pressure AND I (mostly) get to do whatever the fuck I want, whenever I want. (I still have to go to work and shit.)

I like being scared a la The Conjuring. I don’t like being disturbed a la The Exorcist and most of what goes on in American Horror Story.

Every time this topic comes up, I cite Bradley and someone replies “GDI, I didn’t know any of that. Now you’ve ruined her books for me, too!”

That was pretty much my experience and reaction as well. It’s like reading the stirring memoir Mein Kampf, then learning years later what Hitler got up to when he wasn’t writing.

And I didn’t find out until just a few years ago. The information was apparently out there long before I read Mists of Avalon but somehow never made it to me. When it finally did I was flabbergasted that I never knew such a big name in fantasy was known to be complicit in such disgusting crimes.

This is such a complex matter. Speaking for myself only, few artists/entertainers whose work I enjoy display behavior so abhorrent that I can no longer enjoy their work (sexual abuse of children seems to be my personal point of no return.) But: 1) maybe I’m unreasonably tolerant; 2) the big offenders that come to mind…

Sadly, you’d have to tell me Jeff Bridges keeps one-armed Inuit children chained up in his basement before I’d be surprised about anything I read regarding abuse in the entertainment industry.

TWC did that to me. And I had the “Triple Play” at the time so I lost internet and phone as well - I couldn’t have even called 911 if I’d needed to. And getting it fixed was a clusterfuck.