I just watched Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day again the other night. Which would be about as 180 degrees different from this as it gets.
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Martin McDonagh writer and director of the wonderful dark comed[y] In Bruges and...Frances McDormand
Frances McDormand is a national treasure.
His role on Parenthood is what clenched me being a fan. A bit of the fuck up doofus he always plays but with such emotion and heart under it. It was great.
Anyone who is appalled by the tone of this email is adorably inexperienced when it comes to receiving emails from the executive leadership down to middle management and below. The genre is always self-congratulatory and filled with ‘team wins’ that mean nothing to the recipients, but the execs feel like ‘sharing the…
It’s amazing how it’s always women’s responsibility. Getting drunk removes men’s culpability for raping women — it wasn’t their fault! they were impaired! — but it makes women 100% for “getting themselves raped.” And while we’re all very comfortable telling women they need to stop drinking to avoid getting raped, no…
Call the rapist to see if he felt bad about it and see if maybe he wanted to apologize.
My 80 year old mother tries to preach this vigilance nonsense as if it’ll somehow make a difference. I once told her, “All you’re really saying is, ‘Make sure the rapist rapes someone else,’ instead of dealing with the rapist himself.” She shrugs it off like rapists are an everyday inconvenience like getting a flat…
Yep. We were poor. Like, government cheese poor (although government cheese is some fucking awesome cheese). My mom scrimped and saved to buy us a run-down house in a good school district and get us out of section 8 housing, and that was about all she could afford. Her best friend lived with us for years so she could…
We have free breakfast and lunch for all of the students at my school, because if 75% or more qualify, all of the students can get it, which is fantastic.
This kills me- when teachers ask for very specific items from families that are never used. The notebook thing happens a lot.
Also in fifth grade. Suzanne Joiner came up to me during lunch to tell me that “Everyone thinks you look...” (she traced a word on my desk). I didn’t understand, so she silently mouthed it. I still didn’t understand. She finally, exasperatedly announced that I “looked POOR” because I had worn the same outfit twice…
That was me. I don’t know how many times I’ve had to clarify what poverty is. “No, we weren’t don’t-have-an-Atari-poor. We were choosing-between-food-and-electricity-poor.”
It really hit me when we had to do class projects in 3rd grade and I did mine on the Titanic because the movie had just come out so it was easy to obtain magazines and information about it. I made a replica Titanic out of a empty plastic cat food container because that’s all there was around my house. At the time I…
When I was in the fifth grade and Joshua Winstead told everyone that his mother had made sure to invite everyone in our grade to his birthday except me because my family couldn’t possibly afford a good enough gift for her precious baby’s big day.
Ditto. I thought it was self-indulgent nonsense. But others probably liked it so what do I know
Meh. As a 50 year old straight white male who primarily listens to rock, I’d rather listen to Adele than Beyonce.
It’s really hard right now. I’m turning 33 Monday yet I walked into Forever21 last month and was like “What year is this?” It seriously almost looked like 1997 in there and I suddenly felt like I was in 7th grade again and I was suddenly too fat and not cool enough again.