And if you’re a black woman, heaven help your ass. I find Beyonce’s black-girl-magic-as-money-making machine schtick to be very smart. And I understand it, kind of. I guess what I’m saying is that I’m sad that Beyonce is so needed for black women to feel good/pretty/feminine about themselves. It’s embarrassing to me.…

Question, because this is one of my greatest fears: how does one get out of a car if the windows are not manual? My first guess would be to go for the trunk, maybe? (I am not kidding. This very idea TERRIFIES me b/c of the slow death of it all.)

They might have been trying to get out, you know.

“That sludge grabs on to you like it’s alive, no joke.”

“You know what lives in and around murky ponds, stalks at night, and loves to check out panicky commotions in their waters?”

I had a tattoo and two nipple rings. I finish my second master’s this spring. Your point is...what, exactly?

I have a firefighter friend who said the exact same thing when it comes to fires. There’s this idea that you’re supposed to risk your life at all costs. But sometimes, it’s not a risk. Sometimes, it’s suicide.And there’s not one goddamned thing you can do but try to protect the environment around the impossible site.

From what I’ve read, there was really only one “demon seed” to speak of. There’s a very real possibility that the other two (or at least one, the one who had only been arrested once) was trying to get the driver to stop. Of course, since she is no longer with us, we’ll never know. DAMN, this just eats me up, partly…

“Reach, throw, never go.” Ingrained in my memory from ARMY BOOT CAMP. (Cue for Marines saying “We would never...!”)

How dangerous is pond water?

I think people underestimate that whole “lack of light” thing. It’s not like in the movies, where you’re bathed in moonlight and whatnot. Anybody who has been out on a boat when it’s dark knows that the visibility outside of the lights on your boat is between jack and motherfucking shit.

I’ve had my boots stuck in (Florida) mud before, and hol. Lee. Shit. I would’ve had a better chance had I stepped in concrete. (Side note: I’m re-reading Ramona books and recalling when Ramona got stuck in a mud puddle with her brand new red boots. It’s all I can do to keep from crying. What a horrible death for such…

Beyonce ripped somebody off? SURELY YOU JEST!!!!

IIRC, the title is a Maya Angelou quote.

My dad would’ve left our family for Prince.

I think part of the problem is that you just know - you just KNOW - that somehow, he is going to fuck up. You know how Tim Wise was black people’s favorite whiy for a while, and then he shot it all to hell? I think that’s what a lot of people fear from Matt.

All respect to Tracy Dockray, but I’ve been killing myself inserting the original art into BC e-books. Louis Darling’s Ramona is the absolute best. (“I AM a Merry Sunshine!”)

This must’ve been movies-only, b/c wasn’t Lucy Ricardo getting spanked on a regular basis? (Yet they slept in twin beds!)

I think it’s a catch-22. If she blocks him, he makes another account and it even more pissed (plus he’s validated, i.e. “she notices me”). If she doesn’t block him, she’s accused of not doing enough...like you’re doing.

It’s you.