That whole Shakesfruit family has always been suspect, now that you mention it.

l love the Don Quixote review: "It is supposedly a great Spanish classic but it is as bad as Shakespear." At that, both Cervantes and Shakespear(e) took a bow.

If you're going to lie about your age, why lower it? Why not move it upward? I mean, I'm 50, and I look it. If I tell people I'm 60, they are amazed at how youthful I look. But if I tell people I'm 40, they start imagining what kind of Keith Richards life I must have lived to look so...weathered.

Yeah, but it's only, you know, illegal for political reasons.

About the FDA suppressing "natural" cures—could some of that 37% be thinking about how difficult the government (FDA? DEA? I don't know which government agency is in charge of this) makes it (or, at least, used to make it) to study marijuana scientifically?

I may be developing a yoga pants thing. So far I'm resisting, but it's only a matter of time.

I had a few summers in which I couldn't get enough bracelets. Then I lost interest in bracelets and bought chunky rings. Both of those impulses passed, and I kind of miss them. I look at a bracelet in a store now, and I think, "meh. But there was a time when I would have had to have you."

I just finished watching it—not sure yet what I think. It's definitely an insightful commentary on Asian-American masculinity, but ultimately it reinscribes the dude-bro narrative, no?

Hi, all, quick question about what to teach next semester:

I have Wild Bluebell, which I will sometimes wear on its own but will most often pair with Trish McEvoy No. 9 (NB—not Sexy No. 9). No. 9 (vanilla and blackberry) is lovely but it smells like sadness. The Wild Bluebell really perks it up.

Oh, yes, very creepy. But that shit was on my Christmas list when I was 13, and no adult batted an eye at buying it for me!

Muguets des Bois—loved that when I was a teen!

I applaud this idea, but I have to be a pedant here:

I'm on the other side of this. I'm 50 and white and I in-person shop mostly with my white teenage daughter. To my knowledge I've never been followed; I've certainly never been stopped. When I was younger I used to play at "looking suspicious" in stores; I still never attracted any attention (that I know of).

But...she kind of does look like the father. At least her mouth. And that's a pretty distinctive mouth.

Understood, and thanks for taking my point as well.

Lots of comments about how it's only natural that parents who can afford to move their kids to "better" school systems.

You haven't experienced Toddler Hell Programming until you've seen the Wee Sing series.

Doesn't matter. I could watch this GIF all day. And all night.

I didn't watch, but I just caught video/photos of Bob Newhart elsewhere.