Many years ago I was in a relationship with, and nearly married, an alcoholic. He was sober, or trying his hardest, for a lot of the relationship, and because it was easier I basically stopped drinking for the stretch too. I hadn’t been a non drinker before and it was really eye opening how much alcohol is a…

I could swear these have been a thing for a while now. I think I had some last time I went to IKEA, about a year ago? They’re good, like little balls of stuffing! :) 

“Public domain classic adapted to modern day teen setting” feels like it was a legit trend for a bit, and Clueless definitely led the charge. 

Yuuuup. Men can get the ticking biological clock too, and are just as vulnerable to the social pressure to prove you’re a real and functioning adult by marrying and having kids, or feeling inferior to and left behind by their male friends and peers who are getting married and having children when it just isn’t…

I’m a single woman in my late 30s who doesn’t want children and never has. It for sure can be a major hobbler in the dating wilderness. Quite a few men in my demographic actually do want kids, or if you say you don’t they hope that means you’re just undecided, or that you’ll change your mind. Or they have children…

Haha he was in the first cast of the first production of Forbidden Broadway, the revue that takes the piss out of the big shows and trends every Broadway season, often very hilariously. I have the cast album because I’m a dork like that. :)

I don’t want children and would probably be a terrible parent. But I am definitely envious of the privileges that people in relationships and who have children get over the single and childless - especially women because, let’s be brutally honest, getting married and having babies are still the most widely socially…

You’ve pretty much hit the nail on the head there. 

Maybe in the first episode of the new season it’ll show they’ve all been gamers in a future world or astronauts in space playing a long form immersive VR RPG in which they’re cops in early 21st century NYC, like in that one Red Dwarf episode or the US version of Life on Mars, and IRL they’re all the total opposite of…

And have you noticed that it’s usually a given that TERFs tend to also invariably be sex worker exclusionary (SWERF)? Especially in the type 2 category as you outline above, mainly because they consider sex workers must be against feminism because a Real Feminist would never. 

Years ago, fast asleep in bed with my then partner, one of our cats jumped up onto the bed trilling excitedly and stomping about. Only half awake I reached out in the dark and felt she had something in her mouth, figured it was some random household oddment as she was wont to play with and act like she’d hunted and…

Haha Jeffrey Steingarten did too, years ago in an essay where he tested out SNAP and compared it to other subsistence diets including Sludge.

This was me. I found the first two much easier to get into than I expected, and over about three years I finished the rest of the series. Something I enjoyed a lot was seeing how many connections there were between the Tower and the non-fantasy King universe. 

I’ve got a book that was written about that woman. The story is fucking nuts. My mouth was literally open a lot of the time I was reading it. 

Eight episodes was not enough for a proper season. I wonder what the decision-making process about that was, as it surely couldn’t have been HBO saying they don’t have enough money for more. 

Remember Kate Winslet circa Titanic was called pudgy too. :/

“and one with layers of bolognese and Béchamel.”

“I went to three different high schools, and at each one, kids would scream School of Rock quotes at me in the halls. It was annoying and embarrassing. I constantly felt trapped. If I reacted to them positively, I was labeled a bragging snob. If I reacted negatively or ignored them, I was labeled a cold, ungrateful…

The musical adaptation by Duncan Sheik is very very good and I think the Broadway production would have done much better and run longer if it had come out just a year later (2017 instead of 2016) because I think it would have resonated more for, well, obvious reasons.

Also, Scott Morrison is a member of Hillsong, a fringe but disturbingly wealthy and powerful Christianity sect that believes in prosperity gospel and is actually pretty cool with stuff like fire and plague because it means the end time is nigh when the sinners will suffer and the righteous will be raptured into…