“This is saying, somebody like me has a place in this industry,”
Bonnie Bell lipsmackers were a staple in mine and my sisters Christmas stockings from at least 1981-2006. I miss them. My mother, god bless her 80 year old self, now puts Clinique Black Honey in my stocking, and Burts Bees lip balm’s in my older sisters stockings (vegans). Yes, we are spoiled.
Fun fact, it’s actually been around since the mid 70s. I used it in high school when it came in a much larger tube - the size of a piece of sidewalk chalk. I remember always having it my coat pocket. Bonne Bell, the company that made them among other cosmetics, went out of business, but then Lip Smackers reappeared in…
Charles and Andrew must have a very strange fraternal dynamic. They wake up every day:
Clearly Epstein was their biggest score, and they were Epstein’s. Epstein got the “friend of royalty” status he yearned for (by holding their association - and, likely, incriminating video - over Andrew’s head), and the Yorks got a large and desperately needed payout (iirc she was in debt to the tune of >$3million at…
If the Queen is willing to support her son, who associated with a known sex offender and pedophile, and she is, her support negates every other PR move she has ever done to make her and her family seem more “modern.” (They’re really not.)
Prince Andrew reminds me of my golden child cousin who can do no wrong in his parents eyes despite being a complete douche. I get loving your child unconditionally but I’ll never understand the blind eyes that some have.
Have you ever tried Robin McKinley? Sunshine is wonderful and I think has a Neil Gaiman-esque vibe.
I agree wholeheartedly! My brother in his early 40s now, still suffers complications with his short term memory thanks to a motorcycle accident he was in as a teenager. And he was wearing a good helmet and protective gear. This “influencer” can eat a bag of dicks if she staged this. And for what it’s worth, I fully…
To add a little second-hand first responder knowledge:
Ugh, that is gutting. My dear friend’s dad died four years ago this week in a motorcycle wreck - someone ran a stop sign and hit him. It’s terrifying how frequent car/motorcycle accidents are.
Mary Robinette Kowal’s The Calculating Stars (the first in her Lady Astronaut series) won Best Novel
I’ve seen more road rash from someone falling off a bicycle while stopped.
If she’d slid over the concrete dressed like that, her bare arms, chest and back would look like raw meat. There is no way this isn’t staged.
How lucky her motorcycle crashed during the golden hour.
Friends of friends were supposed to get married last weekend. Instead, a funeral service was held on their wedding day because some woman in a car hit and ran the motorcyclist groom. If this chick staged this, she can rot.
If I got into an accident of any type and my friend was taking pictures, I would get new friends. This is a new level of tacky for sponcon.
The problem is when we ascribe those parts of our kids (like one preferring cars instead of dolls) to their gender because our culture says that’s how people assigned to that gender ought to behave. If you had a daughter who made engine noises and said, well, that’s evidence there’s something about the girl…
But thats just you connecting engine noises to boy things and swallowing the stereotype. My daughter also makes engine noises, is it still a boy thing now?