Don’t apologize. Your anger is valid. Just remember this quote from Zora Neale Hurston: “If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”

actually, she was an important visual/performance artist in her own right well before Lennon came along. That he overshadowed her so much is a testimony both to rock as a much bigger cultural phenom, but also to the way women artists get overshadowed anyway through no fault of her own. If you don’t know her work,…

somewhere in the corner of the internet where they celebrate white history month, i imagine

Nope. Best practices for suicide reporting recommend not using “committed,” which sounds like a crime or, to religious communities, like a sin, and “kill yourself” is just insensitive, crude, and poorly phrased. “Died by suicide” is the phrasing recommended by mental health professionals and the American Foundation…

Oh my god WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?

Well, I’m kickin’ the shit outta Option B!

Oh, wow, wow, wow. The “soulmate” comment is just...I don’t even know what to say! It’s just beyond cruel, beyond, beyond. Damn. I am so sorry.

I don’t know, I think there is a good reason for this. I mean, if the abortion doctor is actually a group of hobbits wearing a medical coat in order to rob the woman, and it goes horribly wrong, and she ends up an orc, I think I, as her partner, should have some recourse.

“You are young, you will meet someone else.”

Yes. Sorry. Bye.

I have harbored a fantasy of owning a cabin in Muskoka ever since reading “The Blue Castle” by L.M. Montgomery. Knowing that Kurt and Goldie also live there just makes me feel life is not worth living until I make this happen.

I haven’t read or seen it. I did read a lot of stuff written by people who were very displeased by the whole thing and as I am white and don’t have a pony in this race, I choose to believe the many black writers and their many persuasive arguments about the problems in The Help. I work actively to break down my…

Nah. I spend all my money on books. I bet I could arrange them in a vase if I got creative...

Is it Margaret Dumont? In a way, yes. But in another, far more accurate way, it’s Brandon Flowers. Lead singer of the Killers.

What’s in the box?

I’ve interviewed the author of this post and Emma Sulkowicz for Gawker. I consider myself to have a reasonable bullshit detector, and a strong grasp of the issues involved at Columbia. I found the author and Emma surprisingly forthright, wholly credible, and supremely conscientious at all points in our interviews. I…

illiterate bafoon

You can’t use up a person, sad sack.