I would also have accepted “fiddling while Rome burned” jokes, although I admit that’s not quite so on the nose.

Can anyone explain to me why Paris Jackson is suddenly famous (aside from the obvious “being celebrity spawn”)? I feel like she’s all over the place lately.

This dumbass, dead-eyed motherfucker.....

Dang, if this is true then he’s a fucking monster.

This one feels appropriate!

Joanna Newsom’s most recent album made me weep like a baby— this is the last song on it and I will tear up if I so much as think about it.

Yeah, I mean as a pale, big-boobed person myself I can say that it’s actually a pretty terrible beach combo. There is no way to apply sunscreen to one’s ample cleavage without it looking anything less than pornographic.

Everything about this story is awful, and this bit— “While an ordinary uterus can usually be slipped out whole through the vagina, a fibroid-studded one often cannot. With the help of morcellators, though, doctors can remove the entire organ through holes the size of quarters”— actually made me feel light-headed. …

She is indeed very pale, but she also has huge knockers so I guess it balances out?

I recently listened to a BBC History Extra Podcast about “illegitimate” children throughout history and was horrified at the way unwed mothers and their children were (and still are, in many cases) treated. It really drove home to me how the “pro-life”/anti-choice movement isn’t about saving precious babies, it’s…

You are correct. I am, indeed, crying.

Sounds like she’s using the same super breathy, Scarlett O’Hara-esque drawl that she had in Cold Mountain. It doesn’t strike me as particularly accurate (although what do I know, even though I’m from Virginia, I don’t really know how people talked in ye old Civil War times) but it is super entertaining to listen to.

Yeah, this looks extremely relevant to my interests.

That Shark Movie (“The Shallows” I believe...) was surprisingly good! The cinematography was great, and it didn’t drag on. I’d watch it again actually.

That Will & Grace trailer completely won me over— feeling kind of excited to see it!

Same.

Also, could they chill on building new apartment complexes for a hot second and do something about the giant crumbling half-built hotel on the Downtown Mall? Not only is it staggeringly bad-looking, t’s only a matter of time before something flies off that thing and maims/kills someone.

This event happened less than two blocks from my house, where I live with my non-white fiancé. This shit obviously made me beyond furious (I actually had no idea it was happening, or I would have been there counter-protesting), but I did let out an actual guffaw when I looked a little closer and saw that they were…

Dude same. Relationships are hard work and exhausting and I truly cannot imagine having the energy to sustain more than one at a time.

Yeah seriously, I had to do some troubleshooting when I first started hormonal BC because some varieties did make me feel pretty crazy; but now I’m on one that I like and that is really good at keeping me Not Pregnant (also super short, light, painless periods and fewer giant period zits!). I guess I might just be a…