Oh, and: “Go silent when you arrive. If you have a perpetually late friend, put them on probation and make this personal policy to stop enabling their lateness: When you arrive on time to something, put your phone on airplane mode. Fifteen minutes after you arrive, leave. This is a specialized policy, only advised…

Good advice, and I am working on it, believe me. But I must take issue with this one: “Think about your most chronically late friend or colleague. Gin up all the frustration you’ve ever felt with them, all the disdain.” 

I know my high school was completely out of compliance. Just the gymnasiums we used were obviously unequal. The boy’s P.E. class used the new gym, and the girl’s P.E. class got the old one that was built in the 40s, where the floor would splinter and poke your butt during roll call.

Also, what is the reference to Antiques Roadshow? I don’t get it.

Well, now I have to see it. Basically, my finger is in no way on the pulse of the movie-going public, so when a movie gets absolutely terrible reviews, I am highly curious, and when it gets amazing reviews, I wait for streaming. This results in me getting to see some really interesting movies, some of which really are…

Haha, I liked the beginning and end of the book, but I hated the part where it was in Las Vegas.

I just hate this asshole so much:

I just loved this essay, and I want to share it: http://www.mtv.com/news/3011777/female-gaze-lana-del-rey-i-love-dick/, because it connects Lana Del Rey’s artistic vision with that of filmmaker Anna Biller. (Contains spoilers for The Love Witch).

I assume she is casting a glamour on all of us that makes it impossible to remember her face, even if you love her music (which I do).

It kind of reminds me of the poetry of Auden, specifically “September 1, 1939":

I mostly agree with you, but at the same time, what people consider bulk on a man and bulk on a woman are very different. It’s extremely easy for a woman to get “bulky” enough to get rude comments about it, even though that amount of “bulk” would not be remarkable on a man. The real key is remembering that those…

“Generally what people mean when they say ‘I don’t want to get bulky,’ they’re referring to the look where you have a good amount of muscle on your frame but you also have a good amount of fat covering it.”

“She is her own person. She is gracious, generous, poised, graceful and gorgeous. I don’t know how she came to be, and I don’t take any credit other than just adoring her,” says Travolta. “And maybe that’s a valid contribution.”

“It’s how most of us would feel if there were a scandal about people who lied, cheated, and broke laws to get a table at the hottest new restaurant or tickets for the hottest Broadway play.”

“Wealthy people frequently suffer a condition in which a chasm opens up in the brain and all their common sense falls into it.”

This seems very personal on your part.  I’m done with this conversation.  

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Well, what advice I’ve used of her’s has worked really well, like when I successfully got toddler vomit out of my husband’s new sweater. And 8th grade chemistry wasn’t a thing when I was in school- it was an option for 10th grade science. I did take it, but we didn’t exactly go over baking soda and vinegar reactions,…

Yeah, when I was giving birth, I don’t think I ever said to the doctor that my pain was worse than 7, because I can imagine that pain could be worse than that. But also, when my pain gets to a 7, I vomit, so maybe what I am thinking of as a 7 is actually my 10. I don’t know that I can actually feel pain worse than…

What’s wrong with Jolie Kerr’s advice? And neither of my Boomer parents know how to make preserves or sew.