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I am an absolute sucker for all romantic comedies, all stupid chick flicks, all horrifically cheesy movies - i’m also a mom of young children - and I have never wanted to see a movie less.

On top of this movie being, predictable, insipid and nothing like actual life, I’m afraid they’re going to make me crazy with the adoption storyline. Two of my kids are adopted. I’m their real mother, no one else is. They’re my real kids. We’re not on loan to each other. We can’t give each other back on days when we’d

Hell no. I’d rather watch the gory home invasion thriller starring Rebecca De Mornay as one mean mother.

It’s like a parody of a 90's comedy aimed at women. Given how far we’ve come with comedy aimed at women this feels like such a huge step back.

But that’s the thing about good writing - it makes you understand and empathize with characters whose experience is VASTLY different from your own - because it homes in on the parts of experience that are universal. Love, loss, confusion, joy, fear, anger, etc. These are all things we all feel and know, and a good

Right? What a kid. So she’s 11. A mere 24 years to go and she becomes eligible for the presidency. Marley 2040!!!

She was adorable, intelligent, and poised! Also her parents are either just as type A, or exhausted. Either way, she was amazing and blew Larry away!

I cannot handle her. My god.

Some of my favorite books as a very little kid were from Reading Rainbow, which made sure there were diverse characters and authors (thank you LeVar Burton for giving me Mufaro’s Beautiul Daughters) featured on each show.

Good for her. I loved the white-boys-and-dogs books we read in school, but I was a little white girl who loved dogs. Elementary schools need to have reading programs with as much diversity as possible, as early as possible, because reading is pretty much the single most important thing you learn in school, and

Experts, my ass. People are reporting skin lesions and “stinging” from showering and bathing.

Sadly, the mayors (this whole debacle spans two mayoral administrations) had nothing to do with the decision to use Flint River water. Months before, Snyder had appointed an “emergency manager” to Flint who, under state law, usurps nearly every mayoral and legislative responsibility. These emergency managers report

Umm...are you pro-abortion, or pro-choice? Haha

How would Fox News respond to this? ‘Hoo-rah these Murican patriot heroes saved our citizens from the evil Islamists yet again. Build a statue to these patriots!’”

Children, I graduated from high school in 1971! Ya shoulda seen me back in the day, in my purple velvet maxi coat with faux-fur trim and my waist-length braided hair with feathers. Janis Joplin was my style icon.

Lemmy, Bowie, now Rickman, FUCK CANCER.

President Obama... While I appreciate the call to close Gitmo, the last 7 years of its operation are on you. You have to own that.

1. I love how Michelle Obama is wearing a sleeveless dress in January. As if to say “THESE are the only guns I support!”

Malarkey, bitch.

I know it’s too much to hope for, but I wish they would heed his words and try to use their politics to bring out the best in each other, not the worst.