This is a sweet, not scary ghost story, and it’s not exactly a ghost story either, but I love telling it. When I tell it in person, I get choked up.
In my dad’s culture, after a person dies, we don’t say their name again, and we don’t pass down names. If we have to say the name of a dead person, we add on an honorific…

Dude, helpful ghosts can be incredibly nice. The ghost in our house was a dick to me throughout my childhood (I posted about it last year, but I would have to dig through last year’s entries to find my story), but after my father died when I was ten and my mother and her new husband got really, really abusive, that…

He was on America’s Got Talent this year! He is definitely a weirdo, but a good-humored one.

Right before I turned 21 I moved to a new city, transferred colleges, and got an apartment by myself. I picked a place out on the third story of a rambling old Victorian mansion - a modest studio with white metal cabinets from the 1950's and a rusted fire escape which always gave me bad feelings. It was metal, and…

Because men do it disproportionately to women. They really, really do. And you’re a perfect example of the well, actually crowd by your comments.

Because this happens to women all the time. At work, at home. About things we do for a living, or things that we have years of personal experience with.

Thanks, I am Pretty Cool

It always has been. Men condescend disproportionately to women. Now that young women are, on average, more educated than men, and men are still explaining stuff we already know to us on a regular basis, this is getting named and called out.

It also doesn’t say to put your right hand on your heart, meaning “fist in the air” is still 100% in line with this policy.

If the NFL crumbles from within because a 49er QB took a knee, I’ll be the smilingest motherfucker on the planet.

Whoa whoa. You’re telling me that white people in charge of young black men and also profit massively from these black men’s talents would change the rules and not say anything? And then use the revised rule as a way of punishing said black men for going against the wishes of their white employers? In America?

Oh god I so hope this is the opening volley in the labor battle that destroys the NFL

I grew up in rural Alabama and Georgia, spent some time as an army wife, and now I live in rural Virginia, and I feel you so hard about just wanting to come here and chill with friends in the virtual bar, without having to deal with the booth full of drunk guys in the corner. This bar is cool and I love it here...but…

This was particularly bad on the Hugh Hefner stuff, I noticed. It seems like there’s a siren that goes off for a bunch of trolls to come defend the poor, beleaguered menz.

We had one male jezzie who used to troll the SNS threads and talk about how his daughter had “electra” syndrome and wanted to fuck him. It took I believe Jinni calling him out for him to stop posting his fantasies all over SNS. Funny thing is though, people just forgot that he did that, and he comments to this day. I…

Take pride in knowing that with those few words, you are already ahead of many peeps with actual Mexican roots. Roots that are often self-mocked and for them are something shameful.

Americans do in the sense of the Chicano community. Also, most areas of northern Mexico. The rest of Mexico knows of her indeed but the impact wasn’t really as great in the other 80% of Mexico if any. That whole Tejano era was just a tiny genre that only 1 or 2 Selena song maybe got played once on the radio in its…

I’ll try to explain this simply, in case English is not your first language:

I like my comments as I like my coffee: small batch, artisanal, and enjoyed alone.

This Clio is like the Fourth Republic: unstable, pieced together out of bits, ambitious, initially successful, and unmistakably French. And like the Fourth Republic, it will fail because of cross-border pressures.