I have basically no real options these days, despite trying a few (HORRIFIC) online dating platforms, so I can sympathize.

Are we having FUN yet!?

Okay. I’ll admit there are sentiments expressed within milk and honey that are nice to see articulated, particularly if one is in a certain place or mood.

I’ve thought about this a lot over the past 9+ months. How we went from a well-respected (generally, and particularly globally) leader holding that position, to an absolute fucking disgrace. I think there’s a solid argument to be made that Obama may be the last President to occupy what you can genuinely call a…

Back when I still watched more regularly, combining either the BBC or Sky F1 (depending on which race/who got what) coverage through some sort of VPN, along with that amazing fan-made app that used to exist (I think it was F1LT?) that hacked into the live timing to give full lap time data for every driver? That was…

And swans! Geese and swans are the WORST, holy shit.

questions [...] whether that information will be available to third parties.

That’s really too bad, and I’m sorry (though not surprised) to hear it. There was plenty of dumb shit going on at my school, but the fact that (with parental permission) I was given access to weekly figure study courses with professional models and great teachers after school? Was a huge asset to me, artistically, and…

I currently work in a secondhand bookshop, and ever since learning about the existence of the Green Book a few years ago, I’ve always hoped a copy might turn up in a bulk stock buy one of these days! I would absolutely love to see a physical copy of one in person.

Nitpicky, maybe, but relevant!

My head nearly did a Beetlejuice-esque 360 degree spin at that, and I’m already used to (I thought!) the terrible advice in this column by now! (I think at this point I must just be hate-reading it, because my GOD, this column is awful. Though, after reading that, I’m now pretty much convinced this is just a huge…

I knew a girl around this time who had the dolls (which I have a vague visual impression of, and I’m pretty sure they were their own thing and not tied to Barbie/Mattel in any way?), and we had WAY too much fun with them. The outfits!

SO ORANGE. I thought it was fake or a joke the first time I saw it, but no...

Honestly — as a female who’s worked in the book business for nearly 10 years and is now getting into publishing herself — I find UK book covers to be much more poorly designed a good 75% of the time. I don’t know why this is (there are plenty of lazy concepts and overused trends in design in the US market, too), but I…

That’s one of those case precedents I wish I’d known about as a kid, because the entire Pledge of Allegiance in the classroom thing always made me pretty uncomfortable, before I was even old enough to fully understand why.

I have yet to read the book, but damn, this is a hell of a cast.

Agreed.

I flash back on her incredible delivery of that response to Joan’s compliment of her hair all the time: “Thank you. It’s genetic and unattainable.”

One of the best explainers I can recall reading, probably a few years back, was the concept that if you’re white (particularly if you’re cisgendered, heterosexual, male, and American on top of that), and life is a video game? You’re playing it on Easy mode. This doesn’t mean you can’t or won’t encounter problems,…

I don’t care one bit about John Darnielle’s music, but both his novels (Wolf in White Van and Universal Harvester) are excellent. His book on Black Sabbath for the 33 1/3 series is very good, too.