As a now Angeleno raised in Florida, this isn’t too surprising. Most people who live in Florida aren’t too into Disney World past the age of 11-13 and I don’t know who on earth is traveling to that cess pool right now. It’s fun seeing it through kids’ eyes again but at the end of the day it’s still sort of a chore…

We made a similarly poor judgment—went to Vegas in July 2010. TBF it was for a wedding (they’ve since divorced) but still. Never again. I know it’s a dry heat, but it never went below 110 the 4 days we were there.

“We need to be more like the Greeks and the Romans!”

It’s insane to me that someone can shoot a gun without realizing that the insane amount of power they contain is such that it needs to be locked away when not in use. I’ve seen way too much shit akin to leaning a rifle unattended against a hot tub to believe that the “responsible gun owner” talking point is anything…

I bet. Fun fact; in the 90’s I lived across the street from a sex club which was located in a former church. They probably played that song on an endless loop.

The FBI is investigating allegations of criminal acts surrounding the incident at Scottsdale Fashion Square in May 2020[.]

“Anyone else remember the Gregorian Chant phase from... oh, the late 90s?”

They’re brothers I believe, but also they’ve never been photographed together so who knows.

The delightful History of English podcast has a lot of spoken old and middle English (I have not reached the modern English sections yet) and when you get used to hearing it, you can pick out bits and pieces. It was truly a different language than what we speak today.

Anyone else remember the Gregorian Chant phase from... oh, the late 90s? My friend’s dad had a recording of “Hey, we’re the Monkees” done in chant - it was a whole thing. There was also a cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit that I remember doing the rounds.

Bieber and Bynes didn’t get any benefit of the doubt because the media already knew they were mentally ill. (?)

if you’re willing to spend 25k and risk your health to see the chainsmokers no amount of scolding is going to help you out. You are a lost soul. 

Fuck, I’m 26 and I’m old enough to remember the hell she was put through. All of those celebrities arguably had it worse than Kanye because people will still call him a genius and the others (Bieber, Spears, Byrnes) were written as unintelligent or dumb because the product they produced did not appeal to so called…

It’s almost as if we should stop calling people geniuses.

A few years ago I had a 21 year old student tell me he was going to spend his summer following the Chainsmokers on tour. At that point I think they had 1 album out. I asked what was appealing about following that band around, in particular? Are you a roadie? Do you know them? Do they put on amazing shows with new and…

I’m not sure how Britney Spears “escapes tabloid scrutiny” when it was shit like them publishing upskirt photos of her vag that helped fuel her breakdown in the first place. All of Kanye’s shit, we know because he puts it out there. He’s not being hounded by the press, he’s tweeting this shit from his bunker and then…

BTW, Hilda Solis is best remembered as a Congresswoman from LA and Obama’s first Labor Secretary, first Latina in a presidential cabinet.

To quote Everybody Loves Raymond:

Social media has negated the need for any kind of class reunions. We are still in touch with everyone we still want to be in touch with. For the most part we can cyberstalk our exes, old enemies, and even favorite and despised teachers. The only people we can’t connect with are the smart few who never go onto social…

My high school reunion was supposed to take place at the Reagan Presidential Library, but not enough people RSVP’d so the planning committee lost their deposit and they ended up just all going to the Rainforest Cafe in Downtown Disney. I always knew I would not be attending, but that might have been the most…