Man, free food at work literally sustained me in my late-teens/early-20s! I was financially independent, underpaid and taking public transport. Two days before payday, I used to pray for a birthday so we could have cake/pie/donuts to soak up the over-sweet coffee I chugged to keep the hunger pangs away (and give me…

Some people try to force intimacy too early (hyper-feminine flourishes and dude-bros who talk about anal sex before the appetizers arrive) and others approach dating like a 1940's casting director grudgingly auditioning 2nd-stringers until they can boot someone with guilt-free extreme prejudice. This schlub could not…

Wow, this looks like a good morality play like Asghar Farhadi’s films! Not only do you get to see everyday life in countries Westerners aren’t too familiar with, we get to contemplate the real meaning and value of lies, omissions and our own ethical sensibilities. His films always stick with me for a long time,…

My parents were big advocates of early reading but I don’t recall them forcing my brother and I to do it yet somehow, neither of us can eat (alone) without reading. Not even a snack. I’m 5 years older than him so I’d read ine cereal box even though he couldn’t read, he’d very carefully ‘scan’ every aspect of another…

Google Hamtramck bakeries and I’m sure they’ll ship ‘em. Annual poonchkey sales probably keep these bakeries’ doors open!

Yeah, every culture has some kind of fried donut thing but poonchkeys aren’t very good to my palate. The dough isn’t very sweet (ok) but isn’t tasty or texturally-satisfying either. The prune-filled are a hate crime to the world and the other fruits aren’t my jam either. The only somewhat palatable ones are the…

Original Gangsta Detroiter here. I noticed no calorie count was listed and I have to dispute Google’s 300-500 calorie listings with my own 30-year history of poonchkey consumption. These things are 1000 -1500 calorie lard ball extraordinaires, Gut Busters of the highest queasy, lethargic and unable to pay attention at…

Um ok, I recognize that commenters have few rights to question managerial decisions but surely you appreciate it was a huge error to wait to introduce yourself a year after starting! It seems you were brought in just as virtually every one of beloved founders and longtime writers began their mass exodus. Just as…

I haven’t watched any of the docs. I wonder what insightful people really think about him and the docs’ verisimilitude. Bobby Brown does not adopt that media-trained white voice or mannerisms but he still always seemed like he had ‘Actor’s Disease’; that indwelt thing that craves fame & adulation and when it’s gone…

Is she the one who ‘fell' off the balcony and none of the white girls called the ambulance for hours? My quarantine brain confuses and conflates multiple stories...

Read Killers of the Flower Moon before the Scorsese movie comes out. You'll be hooked from the first page! The millionaire Osage Indians of Oklahoma didn’t listen to their Aunt Trudies who said,”Don’t buy or drink liquor with the white men”...They fucked around and were found dead literally CLINGING to the liquor…

This sounds eerily similar to that Black woman who died from mysteriously fell off a balcony while partying with an all white crew. Nobody was ever really scrutinized about that either.

Ok, the example I gave above was a story I recalled about a disgusting white woman working as a rooming house cook who was renowned for her biscuits. When the old-timey investigators questioned her that several rooming house people everywhere she worked got sick and died, she was hostile but they observed her sneezing…

That concert movie he did back in the early 90s where he spent 20 fucking minutes talking about [the women HE knows] needing to wash their asses but extrapolating it to all Black women and sending that shit around the globe! I’ve followed comedians for years and have never heard any other ethnic group disrespect their…

Yeah, I’ve overheard this kind of talk in whispers and ‘innocently-asked’ questions for decades. I simply remind them of the sheer joy with which THEY loudly announce to the world:

Chile, I feel so old cuz I don’t know one song this woman sings! I’ll still defend homegirl’s right to sing ole nasty songs and be treated decently (even if they aren’t my jam).

Oh, the cackling glee with which he so crassly speaks to her! Finally free of the societal chains of propriety that bind him from just wilding on every woman, here’s one he can set his spirits free with cuz SHE’S not part of society! She sings songs about sex!

I had surgery the month I booked a trip to Europe for 8 months later. I also paid for CLEAR and Global Entry. The flight attendants asked my name several times but I didn’t pay attention that several dudes were waiting with wheelchairs when I deplaned. I was frazzled and nervous so I didn’t notice my pain trying to…

Hence their utter and complete shock and surprise when their kids finally reveal that Daddy, Granddaddy and Brother were raping them every night as they bathed and tucked them in bed! They’re living in average-size houses, washing the sheets and the underwear and having sex for decades with white men but somehow…

Nah, we’ve got it down pat.