As a happy palate cleanser, my husband and I travelled to Mobile for the Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit concert and it was amazing. We stayed at a nearby hotel (slept on crisp clean sheets I didn’t have to wash), had a nice meal, and it was super fun to watch my normally very reserved husband in enthusiastic awe of…

Dennis would commiserate, but he slept through the game. ;)

Shelter Cat Update!

this really hit me as well. Dorland sounded like...a lot. But what happened to her (a group of people, whom she thought were her friends and peers, mocking her for years behind her back) feels like everyone’s worst nightmare.

So what is the public white savior-ey thing she’s done, if not the kidney donation?

What worried me is how many people identified with that mean-azz group chat and thought everyone has one of those. I’m not saying I never once talked behind someone’s back but to that extent? And past age like 25?

Dorland made an undirected kidney donation, how is that white savior-ey?

I wonder why she didn’t want her to read the story?

Larson published the story with Dorland’s letter pretty much verbatim as an audiobook.

Uh, Sonya Larson herself wrote in multiple texts to friends that she took Dawn’s letter to the recipient of the kidney transplant, verbatim, to put in her story.

Yeah this article doesn’t provide much context. I was actually sympathetic to Sonya at first (emailing someone to ask why they didn’t “like” your kidney post is extremely fucking insane and I would say anything - including “I value our relationship” when it clearly isn’t true - to get out of an exchange with such a…

The story fell loudly for so many reasons.

ADHD here, and same. I feel like I’ve spent my life trying to keep my shit under wraps so I don’t harm or make others uncomfortable, but more and more I’m asking do any neurotypicals do that for us? Why is that okay?

If you’re over the age of 15 and would tell someone that you “value their friendship”, and then literally the next day talk mad shit about them in a group text or otherwise you might be a goddamn sociopath. 

Dorland inspired a different reaction, and I have never known why. Here was someone who was driven and passionate about many of the same things as me (writing, social justice, reproductive rights) but whose approach to those subjects made me feel insecure in ways I still find hard to pinpoint. We were friendly at…

Madonna and Fallon: two ends of the talent spectrum, meeting in the middle to flail desperately for attention and approval.

Seeing Jimmy Fallon reminds me that I don’t find him funny in the least.

Butler’s father, Victor, asked the judge to give his son the “longest maximum sentence.”

Suit gave me a rash, so I have to sit around covered in corn starch waiting for the humidity to go back down. 

Some people are for justice on a deep, philosophical level, and some people just had the bad luck to be born into a group that got the short end of the societal stick. Chappelle is quickly revealing himself to be someone who, had he been born white, would absolutely be whining about taking “our” country back.