Conversely, at 17 you have a pretty good understanding of your parents relationship. Children aren’t stupid and you have a general idea of which parent is trash and which parent isn’t. Don’t discount that.

Counterpoint: Vegans are being served meals that are marked vegan but contain dairy.

I really appreciate your calling out the mental hospital reference. As the child of someone with significant mental illness I can tell you that stuff stings.

I’m not going to rag on the students like I thought I would—people are and it feels like too much already. Teenagers gonna teenage, and they are paying a lot. NYU is probably paying a lot too, but less than doing it better would cost, to a vendor that’s making essential workers package for something that likely…

Wow, my memory produces trash fiction! Thanks!

The only kid who knew a life with Angie before Brad is Maddox. They were already together when she adopted Zahara, and Brad officially adopted M & Z the next year.  The massive family was a team effort.

Divorce is hard on kids, but not divorcing is, too. I’m sorry they got stuck with parents whose relationship has turned out to be toxic for them. It must be particularly difficult for Angelina’s kids to have gone from a relatively uncomplicated single-mom-with-a-million-resources household to the performative family…

The picture of the Jolie/Pitt Children reminded me of Umbrella Academy. If one of them starts looking gorilla-ish, someone might want to do some sort on intervention.

SPEAKING OF DRAG RACE, Fuck!

Just throwing this out there, and you might see me post about it a few more times:

This is ... not particularly shocking.  Asking the food services area of a university to deliver meals to students in campus housing is sort of like trying to make a chicken fly.  Sure it’s a bird, and sure it can do some approximation of flying, but that’s not really how it’s put together and whatever attempt it…

The average NYU student is an entitled, whinny brat with an inflated image of themselves. Serving them shitty food is a recipe for trouble and is going to be a PR disaster.

I maxed out at 4 weeks of vacation, after 15 years with my company. As a full-time employee, I get 48 hours of paid sick time, plus I can roll over up to 32 hours for a total of 80 hours. I additionally get 3 days’ of bereavement leave for deaths in the family. There is zero paid maternity or paternity leave. And I…

I fully endorse Netflix turning into a Charlize Theron Action Movie Channel.

Good publicity is worth something. Bad publicity costs something. Legal arguments aside, being known as the pompous entitled band ‘o whites that appropriated a black  performer's title may not be the best look. Particularly in context, where the whole reasoning in the name change is to appear supportive to the black…

The band should just stick with Lady Antebellum if they’re gonna act like shitheads.

Your sister can absolutely knock down that fence and go after them for timber theft. I had no idea before owning this land just how seriously it’s taken and how deep the punishments are.

Oh a lighter note: my BiL bought a different parcel in the area and some dude put a homemade billboard on it, claiming that the old…

My sister lives on a parcel up in Oregon that she and her partner have been trying to build a cabin on for a while. One of their neighbors cut a bunch of trees on their property and tried to build a fence (also on their property) through the little pond they have. I kind of can’t fathom how someone could be that…

Oh, and he’s one of those leaf blower everyday assholes to top it off.

My neighbor hit me up on Grindr and pushed hard. I politely declined and soon learned he has absolutely no chill, like zero. He tried multiple times. Then he starts asking neighbor questions like “who put in your new irrigation, I need a recommendation” THROUGH FUCKING GRINDR. I blocked him at that point. I’ve lived…