I’d never heard of Lido Pimienta, but the first embedded video, for La Capacidad, is everything! I want to play that for every young woman — and a bunch of older ones, and all the men — I know, immediately.

I volunteer for a Thanksgiving Day parade which features dozens of clowns and a giant clown balloon. The mascot of the company that organizes it and makes the floats/costumes is literally Clownie. Personally, I don’t understand why more people aren’t creeped out by that. The clowns make my skin crawl.

My porch door is glass and screen. The inner front door is mostly clear glass, with big windows on either side that show the entire front room.

My porch door is glass and screen. The inner front door is mostly clear glass, with big windows on either side that show the entire front room.

Never underestimate good genes at the bottom of this. My grandmother is 101 and has fewer wrinkles than most 70 year olds. I’m 47 and get my ID checked almost every time I buy/order alcohol, even if they don’t proof anyone else in the group. That was flattering in my 30s but I’m over it and just want my damn…

Yeah, I just finished Roadside Picnic and loved it.

I find that’s true for me with almost every animated series I try at first. Most of the animation out there sucks and the voice acting is uneven at best. But then I try it again — especially episodes well past the pilot — and find myself hooked. Justin Roiland’s voice still annoys the fuck out of me and I can’t stand…

Yes! Go to your own internal space, ignore the people around you as much as you can, and I think you’ll get much more out of yoga. Also, don’t be startled by emotional reactions — yours or someone else’s in class. I cried almost daily for my first two ears of class, pushing through frustration and ego and heaven…

The most useful thing I’ve done is to start a medical log. I moved often in my 20s and 30s. Having a list gives immediate answers to awkward questions from new doctors, like, “When was the last time you had text X? Where did you have it done?” It can help save money by not repeating tests and improve credibility with…

My secret shame (until now): Sometimes I buy maternity clothes for myself at Old Navy, and I’ve never been, and never will be, pregnant. If I need something that actually fits me in the shoulders and bust but has enough swing to get over my hips, maternity ftw.

Right!! I would get Heidi Klum’s image — in one of her hoochiest outfits — tattooed on my copious backside if they ever made the designers create fashionable attire for a 5'7" woman whose breasts are a cup size different from each other, hip measurement is 16" larger than her waist, and has lots of extra saggy skin…

I wish I could give you ALL the stars.

Me too. I’ve had some good luck with Simply Be (if you don’t mind ordering online and returning if they don’t fit). They have a variety of wide calf sizes, even in some over-the-knee boots this fall.

Boyfriend jeans make pear-shaped me look like a stout pillar with a twee carved finial on top. No can do. I end up buying skinny jeans simply because my hips and butt are big but my thighs are average; it’s hard to find jeans that aren’t baggy. My dream pair is an unholy hybrid of the 70s and 80s: high-waisted,…

Just throwing in a promo for buying your own real estate if you’re a single woman. Seriously. I bought my first house when I was 29, over the furious arguments of my mother/grandmother/several friends who insisted that it would be intimidating to future male partners. Ha! I wouldn’t want anyone who was intimidated by…

The only times he approaches joy seem to be when he is doing something mean-spirited and gloating about it, or when he’s bragging. I wish him much more joylessness.

I think it would be fair to say mostly socialist with a sprinkling of liberal capitalist, but a large and visible anarchist contingent. In the US we aren’t accustomed to the anarchist riot-style protesting that is commonplace in Europe. We’re shocked by property damage, perhaps because we have come to value things so…

I married into the “Lees of Virginia” family. There are plenty that are still racist assholes, believe me. Mr. Unfollowed is not one of them, but I’ve had to cut off contact with his grandmother over her gleeful post-election hatefest.

You can have my purple vinyl copy of Purple Rain — which I creatively acquired from my college radio station when they told me to stop playing UTFO and Stetsasonic early on Sunday mornings — when you pry it out of my cold dead fabulous hands.

You can have my purple vinyl copy of Purple Rain — which I creatively acquired from my college radio station when…

I’m sorry that you were not educated as a child that the symbol of heritage you embrace is known far and wide as a symbol of hate and racism. Maybe you could have chosen a different symbol. As an adult with that awareness now, you can.