I didn’t remember this until after my marriage was over, but my grandmother told me once that “love” is a verb. It isn’t a noun. It isn’t a thing you feel or a thing that makes you happy. It isn’t a feeling at all. It is a thing you DO. You don’t always feel love, but you must LOVE.

Give each other space - you’re getting married, not becoming joined at the hip - and lay out your expectations about housework, chores, pet peeves etc completely transparent from the get-go. You’d be amazed at how much the little things add up and erode empathy and patience in the long run.

Charles tends to the gardens. He contributes.

All the Brits who get pissed off at the Royal Family confuse me. Sure, the Monarchy is stupid, but all they are now are figureheads and tourist attractions. Guess what? A lot of people come to England not because of the well-known cuisine, but because they want to visit where the royalty lives. My Mom will buy…

Yes. As an Oscar winner, he was a member of the Academy - you automatically become one when you win. That’s the easiest way to get in.

thank you. that jarred me, too. dude was classy and straightforward, especially given how much that would have sucked. its a super dick move for rich to jump on the la la land folks just cos he doesnt think the movie deserved to win. unnecessarily catty and lame, and disingenuous to boot.

Indeed. As far as I can figure, there are two full sets of envelopes, with PWC accountants on either side of the stage. Since no one on site is supposed to know who has won until it is announced, the protocol is for one to hand the proper envelope to the celeb going on stage, then accountant #2 opens the matching…

I mean I think he sounded pretty fucking pissed. But I didn’t interpret it as him being mad Moonlight won or bitter or jealous AT Moonlight or anything. I kind of just interpreted his aggressive affect as being pretty pissed overall at the situation.

“Moonlight: Best Picture,” spat Horowitz.

Yeah, I thought the Lala Land producers handled it with exceptional grace. They took it on themselves to announce that they hadn’t won, quickly got out the message that Moonlight had won, and tried to reassure the Moonlight team that this was all real and they should get up on stage. Like that’s a lot of crazy in…

I thought Beatty was never gonna get off the stage after his mea culpa.

“Moonlight: Best Picture,” spat Horowitz.

But then we would miss out on sentient planets we can commune and cooperate with, the inevitable (at that point) development of telopathoc and telekinetic senses, and then the queer female led holy war to reclaim out lost homeworld, Urth, now a crypto-fascist religious world where technology is regarded as magic.

Kind of an overreaction. The Deutschlandlied is not a “Nazi era” song. It is a 19th century song, and the first verse was originally meant as a liberal call for provincial Prussians, Hanoverians, Saxons, Bavarians, Tyrolians, Silesians, etc. to put the idea of “Germany” - at the time a cultural concept, not a country…

I like what you are saying, but I’m not seeing/reading/hearing any significant results from the significant backlash. Republicans are moving forward with all their dark and ugly might. Are the vast majority of Repubs even noticing what We The People are on about? What are the glimmers of hope you’ve seen? It would be…

You might say that this Chamberlin...

I know this is going to sound nuts...but I’m pretty sure now that Trump’s insane tweets are strategic. Like people have been saying they seem to pop up amazingly just when something else is going on.

I am a domestic violence counselor. I think any avenue that give resources to a person experiencing violence is a good thing.

Pull it off today? I can’t even name a star who could pull it off then.-Bette Davis’s ghost.