Seconded! I always wear my hair on top of my head and it’s patted down at least 50% of the time.

Came here to say rode hard and put up wet! The only appropriate descriptor.

Got my Amazon confirmation that this shipped! I’m looking forward to tomorrow...

Here’s what I know about this system: I’m from Alabama, and a girl a few years younger than I was blackballed from her choice sosoriry at a state school because she was a known victim of statutory rape - a married church youth leader had groomed her and started a relationship with her that was discovered. She was…

I like you.

This takes me way back!! I spent some time writing for a Birmingham newspaper in college, and my worst interview of all time was Sleepy Brown - nice dude, but answered every question about his music with “Man, I just do what I do...”

Similar experience here! I started working as a stringer at my local paper at 16 and by 18 I was the person in the newsroom with the most experience at that publication. All of this brought back so many memories of similar dumb shit. QuarkXPress, vending machine snacks, and dumb shit pretty much sums up my experience.

Here’s a fun one that has been raging for years: the Nathan Bedford Forrest monument in Selma, AL, my hometown. When I was in high school, there was a big row over whether it should be removed from public property or not, including a pickup truck toppling it with a chain. They eventually moved it to a local cemetery…

It legit looks like he photoshopped her features on a standard painting.

Thanks! So is yours! :)

This is the cutest thing I’ve ever seen!

Yassss! I just made a weird involuntary noise!

Correct on all fronts! Cornmeal fried is the only way for okra. And I’m on team hot-salad-as-insult, too.

Came here to say JUST THIS. Congrats to Yesha for being able to form coherent sentences, written or oral, after coming face-to-face or voice-to-voice with this gentleman.

No one is getting your reference and I am crying

I’ve tried it! I went to his tasting room in Jerome, AZ. It’s actually quite good - it’s Italian-style with a dusty Arizona terroir.

Ohmygod was terrified this was serious...but I could finally breathe after the “romphim” reference.

Amen. So well said.

And how hilarious that Nixon signed that act into law.

AGREED! My partner and I have wanted pets for years, but we were both in grad school and much too transient. When we finally decided that we were in a stable enough position to give a pooch the required care, all the local adoption agencies told us to hit the bricks because we live in a first-floor apartment - even…