Oh my god, *make your decisions based on what it would be like if you were in the other person’s shoes?* Sheer madness! I swear I’ve never heard anything so bizarre in my life.

I mean...I appreciate it. I recently turned 40, and yeah, it’s a little drag that I can’t go with as little sleep or as much alcohol as I once could, and I have some minor, annoying back problems that I’m not loving. But overall? I like being in the world as a grown person in a grown body. I feel like I take better…

This — what? This weird random comment is not my weird random comment . Kinja, WTF??!

Other than having a modeling career, being in a band, and having a role in a movie that was just nominated for Best Picture? Sure, I guess.

I just want to go on for a minute about how amaaaaazing Lisa Bonet is. When I was growing up, she was the cool tv older sister I longed to have; her on-screen and off-screen presence really shaped everything I wanted to be — effortless, beautiful, conscious, unabashedly eccentric and forward-thinking. I was a teenager…

I really liked Spotlight and I have all the fondness for Mark Ruffalo that the law allows, but actually the person who, IMO, deserved the supporting actor nomination was Liev Schrieber. He was *startlingly* good in that movie — well, everyone was, but he stood out for me.

The original is performance art. It’s not the movie itself, which is *not* that great. It’s the experience and the culture surrounding it that makes it iconic and “THE thing.” Which is why, yes, oh hell yes, it’s going to suck on network tv chopped up in between American Express commercials.

Bless your heart, Laverne. If you and your friends were watching it on videotape, then no, you haven’t seen it.

I think the unspoken postscript to any statement like this is generally “...that I personally ever cared about.” Which probably does make it completely true!

For the reason that Jia is totally wrong, please see the 7,235 comments on this article that say absolutely nothing but, “Well I’m colorblind! I don’t even SEE the race of the authors I read, and I can scarcely imagine anyone else ever does, either!”

Oh, for christ’s sake. Now I’m punishing every single writer I don’t read in 2016? This is some next-level whininess. Guess what? I won’t read *lots* of books, for lots of reasons. Some of them admittedly stupid reasons! I think the cover is ugly, it sounds vaguely like a different book I didn’t like, an author I hate…

“Heads Carolina, Tails California” is a goddamn masterpiece. I don’t get why it’s not more of a New Country Classic than it is. I always wanted Carrie Underwood to have a hit cover of it, but sure, I guess Taylor.

I seriously thought “son is dead” meant *her son,* Chaz, and I was having a heart attack over how I missed this. Cher, darling. I love you, but the rules of written communication are there to help us all achieve clarity. And avoid heart attacks.

This is what’s confusing me. If there were a thousand-ish people in an “organized” group, and a much smaller, presumably less organized, fraction of those men “slipped in and out of the larger group” to get away with a string of crimes unnoticed — why is everyone reporting it as if *the purpose* of the 1000 was to…

In handy travel-sized units of 2 through 20. Almost as if they were out partying with their friends on NYE and not an invading horde of orcs.

Kim Kardashian is not famous for having kids.

I don’t suppose we’ll get lucky and they’ll eat each other.

FWIW, my father believes this strongly, after 50 years of ministry. He always said that January was a brutal month, just one funeral after the other of old/sick folks who’d hung on by their last claw throughout the holidays. Confirmation bias and all that, but that’s what he always said.

I’m a fan of Not Your Dad’s. It tastes the most like real rootbeer to me, though it is on the sweet side, I admit.

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