Janet Jackson has been weirdly excluded from the pop culture history of the 80s and 90s. She was a huge, influential star who made big creative swings. She paved the way for people like Beyonce. Yet she gets no respect.

And to make matters worse, you just fucking know that goddamned Jimmy Fallon will be wedged into this thing, mugging and giggling like a moron

While other people are taking a $10 million break in between watching young men risk cranial damage for corporate spectacle, I’ll be listening to “Rhythm Nation 1814,” “Control,” and “The Velvet Rope.”

I was just discussing this with someone - I said it would have been much better had they invited Janet to perform, instead of Justin. If bygones are bygones, then let the bygones start there, especially right now. The other person’s response was “But Janet isn’t as popular as Justin!” Hmmm.... but maybe, just maybe,…

That’s how I felt about Vanessa Williams and the Miss America pageant. But I was still strangely moved by her appearing at the ceremony a couple of years ago and getting an official apology from the pageant. I wish they’d have given her crown back, though...

We’re in the same boat, except for the cake. It’s the beer. The delicious, delicious beer. I’m having a sober October...have already dropped 6 lbs. It’ll be right back on once that first tasty IPA is in my hand.

Congratulations on your weight loss, but the cardinal mistake of health and weight loss is trying to make a personal experience a universal one. We all have different kinds of bodies, limitations, and abilities.

...what the heck was this article?! I clicked, expecting to see some examples of the lies and then some sort of truth......

We could have avoided this. We could have saved two hours. Katie Rife gave us all the clues...........

Oh man. This had dog written all over it from the trailer. It really did play like an SNL parody sketch, with the most cliched dialogue snippets ever (“He’s taunting us!!”, “He’s completely insane,” “The only thing we know for sure... is that he’s playing games with us!”). It’s like they just grabbed the scripts of…

It does help. The more I do it, and the more people know - (I don’t go around in my daily life sharing, although due to testifying in the trial, I had to share my experience with most people in my life) the more it becomes who I am, without defining me.

Thank you. I know that it’s impossible to know how someone will react when asking sensitive questions like that (especially online where even a harmless comment or question might be met with an online attack) but I appreciated your desire to understand and also the respectful way you asked.

The second season theme, where they hold the camera on her deranged smile a beat too long, made me laugh EVERY. TIME. I would consciously attempt not to laugh, but she would always hold my gaze just long enough to break me.

BLAM!

It wasn’t until I was older that I learned that “then along come two, they’ve got nothing but their genes” did not mean Arnold and Willis were so poor that they came to Mr. Drummond with only the clothes on their backs.

Why do you hate Alan Thicke so much?

Oh! I forgot to say that you came across fine and no harm. I appreciate the way you framed the question, and it was very respectful.

As a writer, I tend to observe people interacting with others, and people that exhibit traits I had / have cause me to be drawn to them, and vice versa. Sometimes, it’s their sense of humor, or how they seem overly angry at certain people in their life.

Can’t answer for Mr Cecil, but for me, yes, it is something I can spot in others because I see it in myself. It’s a strong sense that most won’t normally feel, I guess. The cues are subtle and diverse...individual to each person and their particular damage (or experience, as I prefer to say). For many of us, life may…