They were required reading when I was a young'un. The writing is simple and easy to read, but not that good. The characters really are insufferable. You'd be better off just reading the Book of Revelation in the Bible. It's just as wackadoo, but way better stylistically.

Oooo! Mysteries!

Haha! The sad thing is, I find the work in MoBa's collection to be far more interesting than Nick Lord's work.

There is sometimes a little justice in history. A month from now, nobody will remember this painting even exists. Because other than triggering a little juvenile giggle or minor indignation, this painting isn't adding anything of substance to our lived experience. That is something only good art can manage.

Oh man, I could take you to a dozen NY art galleries TODAY that make this crummy painting look like it deserves a goddamn Golden Lion. So yeah, art is due for a really good fuck.

You can call something a shitty piece of art without infringing on one's right to make said shitty piece of art with impunity. It's the flip side to freedom of speech. People have the right to say whatever boneheaded bullshit they want, and their audience has the right to judge them harshly.

DON'T MAKE A REQUEST FOR FAMOUS CATS IF YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE CONSEQUENCES: COURTNEY STODDEN CAT.

These two perfected trolling before there was even an internet.

When Aunty Flo
Became a Crow
She had a bed put in a tree;
And there she lay
And read all day
Of ornithology.

My mom gets somewhat scandalized that I voluntarily eat turnips and dandelion greens. She grew up very poor and there were many days on end that they had nothing to eat but turnips and whatever wild greens they could find. She vowed to never feed her children either of those foods. To her, they will always…

Now, if my mother said that to me, I would laugh. Because it is so absurd, it is clearly a joke. Just like the comment made by jennyapple's mom, which was obviously tongue-in-cheek.

Not sure what racism has to do with any of this.

People are really out with the pitchforks today, jeeze. Context, humor, tongue-in-cheek be damned! They cannot allow any cute, flippant anecdote go unpunished!

I'm happy to hear you never experienced my unemployed boyfriend.

You don't have to feel sorry for Brown. But we shouldn't view a traumatic childhood experience as another excuse to criticize him. The fact that he doesn't know how to process or talk about his childhood trauma doesn't make him a worse person than he already was. People don't always respond to trauma in a great way.…