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Pop cultural gold!

You are exactly right. It's weird to be old.

"Lay-ay-ately I can tell, you're marching to a wedding bell."
"I only want to do what's right. But who wants to sleep with the same broad night after night?"
"Night after ni-ight!"

I loved "Happy Days" and "Laverne & Shirley" as a kid, and some well meaning adult gave me the "Lenny and the Squigtones" LP in 1979. My sister and I knew every word to every song (I was 8 and she was 5), but no one else I've ever known has believed the album was a real thing.

I know Lynryd Skynyrd, the Allman Brothers, and Marshall Tucker campaigned for Jimmy Carter, which means that "Sweet Home Alabama" is likely taking down George Wallace, rather than praising him. I know there's lots of struggle with race/history/changing identities. But I can't pretend that often-present confederate…

My secret shame is "southern rock." It represents the polar opposite of nearly every ideal I hold dear and base my life on, and yet I find the sounds of its scruffy guys in long hair and worn denim irresistible. Shh.

I bawled at the end of Much Ado About Nothing, and could cry right now just thinking about it.

The school's website makes it seem a lot like the school Maeby Funke went to: http://arresteddevelopment….

I grew up in a small town that had three Catholic churches; everyone I knew was white and Catholic, and of Italian or eastern European heritage. Sesame Street was the first place I remember seeing people of color just…being people. John John!

Echo tries to be her best.

I really, really liked Joyland.

I didn't watch the first season, because I assumed it would be too snarky and condescending for my tastes. Imagine my surprise when I gave in and watched it on Hulu, and saw how much Harmon loves the characters, and how much the characters love each other. It is indeed all about the heart.

Well, you know…

Thanks. Except I'm a mother. :-)

I watch it with my son, who's 17. We let some of the more awkward parts just exist as awkward, but sometimes I have to say something ("Women generally dislike it when you threaten them with crossbows, even if you're paying them for sex."). It generally works out okay, and sometimes gets us to talk about things he'd…

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I thought his willingness to run away meant something. I know it's ironic, because mature people face their problems, but Sheldon's running away and disrupting his status quo means that he's willing to face being alone and to think about his life and relationships and what he wants and needs. I don't think he's…

Mistakes, misshapes, misfits.

I was choked up at the end. Sincerely. The whole thing was just very touching.