Melo is My Nature is a total delight! Did you see Because this life is our first? It’s also slice of life but more of a rom-com than MiMN, but it also features a lead who writes for dramas. They do a great send-up of writing in PPL and working in the trenches of shitty melodrama TV writing. The woman who plays the…

You’re absolutely right, except that the Club really only accepts Episcopalians, Presbyterians, and Congregationalists (your UUs and UCC) as real protestants. “Baptists” are a dogwhistle for Southerners (who are not WASPS unless they’re from Virginia). Methodists, like Lutherans, are really midwest Germans, so not…

My father’s family settled in CT when they first moved here, and Tarrytown, NY. Good call! But to give you the idea, they were all basically Dutch Reformed priests, until my people switched to Episcopalian in the early 19th century.

THANK YOU.

Bingo. Avoiding groups of men has always been a winning strategy. I’ve gone one further and stopped consuming male-centric media also. It’s amazing how self-affirming that choice has been. 

YES.

For my older kids, I’ve been having my kids earn screen time. They have like an hour of required “school” time (low-key educational content like Duolingo and Khan Academy), and then they can earn screen time by doing chores, taking a class, exercising, doing a puzzle based on art or geography or history, even…

I haven’t watched a movie in a theater in years, and this is largely why. I don’t care about your dude movies and dude directors and all the fucked up things they are telling me I should feel about myself and the world.

His views were very common at the time. I’ve been teaching my kids about colonialization and the 19th century march toward slightly more enlightenment, and some of the quotes about how great slavery was for the black people.. omg. You want to kick those people in the teeth. You want to know what’s good for black…

I didn’t know anything about Book of Mormon when I saw it and I nearly walked out. I was so embarrassed for everyone.

That Monk cover is aces, and also I have so much nostalgia for it. My dad and I always listened to that record when he got home from work. I could recreate it note-for-note, so dear is it to me. :)

I’ve alwyas preferred the cover art on Homogenic, but I think that’s because I don’t really have the enthusiasm required to appreciate Post.

Americans are dumb though, and Dems are eager to shoot themselves in the dick.

I’m also in a mixed closeness relationship. It took my husband about 2-3 years of me only ever suggesting kdramas, to finally stop guilting me about it. But now we’re good! And like I said, I do try to intersect periodically for the sake of his feelings.

yeah, agreed, but that’s going to require dems taking all branches of government by a solid fraction, and I don’t see that happening.

It’s kind of liberating when you and your SO know you just don’t like the same things. Our default is watching separately, but we’ll each let the other know if we’re watching something we think the other person might like.

Honestly, I know in my gut he wasn’t black, because if he were, his music would be better. If you told me Bartok, I might believe you. Anyone who ever heard a Bartok pizzicato knows Bartok was down. 

He’s helping assuage the anti-Biden left of the problem of the judiciary. If the Roberts court seems modestly OK, then the argument against lefties voting against Biden seems less serious.

The internet tells me that budae jjigae is different from kimchi stew, but I’ve made kimchi stew at home and have had budae jjigae at restaurants, and it doesn’t seem that different except for the additions (to my admittedly Western palate). Both are very good.

Middle Ages queens also did duty as primary administrator, since at the time, kings were expected to go and fight wars. Frequent wars meant the actual day-to-day administrating of the realm often was left to the lady of the manor.