“She needs to give up that dream like yesterday.”

So was my mom. And me too if I'm being honest, but I'm one of those folks who just cry in movies. I'm pretty emotionally responsive to audio and visual cues, so I'm easily manipulated into tears by movies. It doesn't matter how often I've seen something, or even if the movie is any good. I've been known to even…

You know it's funny because she and I went to go see both Les Mis and Phantom last summer. One was the aforementioned crappy local theater production of Les Mis with terrible modern looking sets (the barricades were made out of red plastic chairs and cafeteria tables, and all of the church scenes had neon crosses) and…

My mom is so slavishly into Les Miserables (I saw this play on stage 3 times before I turned 18, I've seen it an additional 2 times on stage and once in the theaters because I'm a good daughter) that she can't admit that Russell Crowe was terrible. She's talked herself into thinking he was great. Any time she talks…

I feel like even Michael Jackson could do a better Javert than Russell Crowe did. And Michael Jackson's dead.

ETA- dammit, those pics turned out giant. I'm just going to switch them up.

"should we see if Russell Crowe can sing before casting him in this musical?"

I read the 'tee hee hee,' of course, as a falsetto TEE-heehee. Followed by a crotch grab.

Harsh punishments have never deterred people who don't intend to be caught or are too dumb to understand the consequences of their actions from perpetrating crimes. In fact, countries with low crime rates typically also have fairly lenient prison sentences. The research shows that the best way to deter crime is not…

Cascara sagrada. That stuff rips through you like prunes through a short grandmother.

I was thinking a coffee enema, but yeah, chicken soup could work, too.

He certainly looks that way, doesn't he?

Okay this is freaking me out. This is literally exactly my life. TWINSIES!

The American Dream never existed. It's just rhetoric to keep us complacent with a small minority owning the bulk of the wealth. Why demand redistribution if someday you may get to be one of the elite?

"a normal haistyle?" We're doing this now?

A white person vouching for another white person not being racist would NOT go a long way. All it does is make the voucher look like an apologist. That's PR 101.

Lol, I'm not famous, but on a somewhat related note, my mom told me that me trying to pick a grad school to attend reminds her of Say Yes to the Dress.

"I saw that pap photo of you downing In N Out, you need to eat your vegetables!"

Sometimes, I reread comments for several minutes looking for the inflection of sarcasm because I can't quite believe I'm reading an earnest remark.