I think the Motörhead comparison is apt (RIP Lemmy). And I agree: LCD Soundsystem is a dad band. We’re older than you think.

Trent *really* is.

I teach middle school chorus (ie almost all 11-14-y-o girls). They ALL LOVE this band & their stupid song about a girl wearing her boyfriend’s American Apparel underwear. I think it’s because they feel that these guys have more of an edge than 1D, or whatever.

Live *with* your mother (as in, invite her to live with you & your husband, turn your lives upside down to accommodate her, because she’s run out of options & you really are her lifeline), and you’ll get free childcare & more emotional subterfuge than your body can handle! It’ll make childbirth seem like cake!

the fact that they all look more or less exactly like you’d expect them to. and the Gibler stare is still aces. I would watch this show just for her.

#teamkimmy

My mother admitted to almost naming me “Green” after the Joni Mitchell song.

South Florida/Orlando represent. I totally understand where you are coming from. Florida is more than Disney, beaches, SoBe (which was so disappointing to me the first time I went there) & Florida Man as well. It’s mostly just regular people, from many nationalities especially in South Florida, trying to get by with…

“That’s the damaging thing about theological certainty: It doesn’t respond to human trauma.”

It seems that many of the trans cases that people get worried about re: possible abuse (bathroom use, rape by deception, etc.) would depend on someone claiming to be trans, identifying as trans, living as trans, only for the purpose of abusing cis people. I am sure there are trans people out there who are abusive, but…

As another teacher who is in a similar situation (with majority non-white, low income, and many “at-risk” students) and feels exactly the same way, I will have to say:

As I think is true with a lot of schools, sadly, these organizations have a lot of well-connected alumni & hold way more power than they should, ESPECIALLY at a Good Ol’ Boy school like UA. It’s as if admin is either a) afraid of these students or b) in their pockets.

Yeah I’ve heard same.

Normal middle name, quirky middle name is actually a really good formula for baby names.

I would absolutely be on board with a Zooey-helmed reboot of Emmitt Otter’s Jug Band Christmas.

In a more positive note, I didn’t have the number of a 24/7 hotline when a friend of mine was dealing with a DV situation not too long ago, so much of her support network found itself scrambling when shit got real. I just put it in my phone & although I really hope I won’t need it, now we have it in case.

That would be an odd one to explain to her in the future (if it ever came up).

Love emojis all over the place.

Kill it. Kill it with fire.

Do the Brits just always lead by example on this better than we do? Having seen my longtime boyfriend Ewan McGregor’s weiner a time or two, I have to wonder if much beloved British guys just excel in being naked on film.