Before I was pregnant, my husband thought our kid should have my last name (anti-patriarchy - I kept my name), and I thought our future kid should have his last name (I wanted her Asian heritage recognized) (nb: using “Asian” to avoid getting too specific about my life). Then I got pregnant, and he wanted her to have…

There is suspicion that this could be author of the worst HP fanfic ever.

The Alan Parsons soundtrack to Ladyhawke is jarring as hell the first time you watch it. Then it’s kind of hilarious.

In a year where I fell behind in preparing for quals because of a lot of personal shit, including a serious breakup, mental health issues, a parent becoming very ill, and two elderly pets dying within a few months of each other: “Pets die, parents get sick, people move on.”

France strangled Haiti and Haitians for wanting to be treated as human beings, and only kinda-sorta shows remorse.

Also, everyone should be reminded that France demanded repayment from Haiti for lost profits to slave owners after the revolution and continued to take money until the 1940s, and (at least as of 2015) has no intention of paying reparations.

Also, if you’re racist, get out of new york city. now.

If you break out the white women who voted in the Presidential election last year by college or no, college-educated went for Hillary (by a little), while not-college-educated went strongly for Trump. While college-or-no is not a guaranteed indicator of wealth - yeah, probably a lot of poor white girls amongst the…

That quote - was it Steinbeck? (she says, as if she’s not in front of a computer, but that’s not as interesting) - is one of those that just rings in my head constantly, because it is the American zeitgeist in a nutshell.

Exclusively what and restricted to whom?

I have an aunt who can do the Gloria Upson voice perfectly - it’s a hit at parties. Well, our parties.

I have a FB friend (he’s a FOAF with whom I’ve hung out a few times) who one day posted some sort of fashion selfie and his friend B.D. Wong liked the photo and commented on it in a very casual, actually-know-each-other way, and my head exploded.

Ah, yes, that flew right past me. And you’re right.

First, anyone reading this post is supposed to believe that you saw the hottest Yelp review in the world about Howard’s cafeteria on a Saturday (which everyone knows is the worst day on campus for cafeteria food) and just had to go in your best MAGA finery?

Nuh-uh - red line goes into Maryland. They’re rich out there, but they hate the shit out of Trump. You can get away with that maybe on the Orange and Silver lines (Vienna, Reston).

F THIS MOVIE IN THE A

IT WAS ABLEIST AS HELL

IT WAS SEXIST AS HELL

IT WAS FULL OF RAPE

I HATED IT

The link explains - no, it wasn’t.

omg and you just reminded me of this old lj review of Splice, which I read for the first time years after the movie but it’s fantastic, and much better than the movie.

As someone who got a bachelor’s and master’s in English and ended up at an Ivy League law school, hell yeah. (Also, teaching the basics of essay writing to undergrads when I was in grad school helped me so, so much in legal writing - the English-academic-style writing that I did in the first semester, not so much.)

My ex interned at Miramax! I got to hear the best stories while he was there.