I’ve been watching and loving The Carmichael Show, and so has my whole family. He’s not a good actor, but neither was Jerry Seinfeld or Tina Fey. It’s not always necessary when the material is good and you’re surrounded by good actors.

Do my eyes deceive me? Where is Naked and Afraid?!

He wants all of the guilt to be on K if he hurts H, which is why he is resisting, until at some point he doesn’t.

He describes his fiancée like she is a New Years Resolution to eat more vegetables and floss more. “I told myself I would be in a healthy relationship this year and get eight hours of sleep every night.”

Dear HaW,

“On the other hand, as many were quick to point out, the BART infrastructure can be a never-ending nightmare for commuters—crumbling tracks, massive delays, fires, a police force known for violence, budget woes, bedbugs, literal shitstorms—and a few pithy tweets don’t do much to fix that.”

We just called them French braided pigtails.

The pictures on the post article were all different kinds of braids. Some of them were cornrows, some of them were just French braids (no “reverse”about it), and Sasha’s hair wasn’t even braided very close to her scalp. Whoever wrote the New York Post piece is just wildly confused about everything.

At my college there was a chapel named after someone who had (the story went) married her cousin and hyphenated their identical last names.

Flames indeed.

Yep. My mother knew who her rapist was, the prosecutor knew who he was, and he had done the same, with the same m.o., to other women, but they advised her not to press charges as she had once taken a ride home from the guy, and the prosecutor assured her the jury would construe that as consent to rape her several days…

Sadly.

It looks like they have other children, which is terrifying.

Steven Tyler looks like a catfish.

I love gingham, and I am happy to have even more in closet.

Rihanna is not even pulling them off. She looks gorgeous in the picture, all except for the weird diaper/denim chaps combo she’s got going.

Thanks. I literally did forget exactly how that part wound up. It’s not an actual sequel, but I suggest you read Joy in the Morning for a Smith book about a young woman’s first year of a marriage to a struggling young lawyer. You’re right that the ending does, from one perspective, imply that her adventures are over.…

I’ve been to Benihana once, and it was the absolute worst food I’ve ever eaten in a restaurant.

Very true. I have a career now, but for most of my life I had jobs, and “work itself” was not rewarding. Getting a paycheck is better than not getting a paycheck, but cleaning up shit in a public restroom is not intrinsically rewarding.

Why? Francie goes off to college at the end. It’s my favorite book and I’ve read it several times, but I have a habit of forgetting the endings of books, so you’ll have to forgive me if I have forgotten something else from the ending.