The student body was colorful enough. Any environmental color would have been overkill...

Did you know that our colors are heliotrope and puce? One of my favorite Purchase Facts.

DUDE! Have you seen it lately? For one THEY MOVED THE FUCKER to the front entrance! For another... it’s actually... kinda pretty now, which makes me both happy and sad in a couple different ways.

I’d say “Go Panthers!” as a means of demonstrating my school spirit, but we weren’t really big into sports so... “Go Drag Queens And Art Geeks!”

I was waiting for you, comrade! I mean come on; these twerps aren’t thinking about this practically. Who wouldn’t love to get high off their tits and stare at that shit?

Part of why we loved it. There were many rumors about what it was. A guy blowing himself. Someone going down on someone else. A vertabrae in dedication to his wife who allegedly died of spinal cancer...

The massive Henry Moore on my campus was the architectural heart of the institution. It was basically our mascot. In fact, we staged all our non-sculpture related protests, sit-ins, and drum circles right in front of that thing!

Guys. Guys. I’m so so so sorry, but i can’t be the only one thinking this is largely driven by dad, right? I’ve no doubt of Hilde’s awesomeness, pluck, or desire to be a reporter! I’m just saying the best science fair projects are usually made by parents...

I CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS SHOW TO COME BACK ALL CAPS BECAUSE I AM SHOUTING!!!!!!!!1!1!

I can’t imagine reading IMG while going through difficulty. I would have gone nuts. I read her childbirth book while preparing for a VBAC. My emergency c-section was actually very pleasant, but I just wanted a different experience (if possible) second time around. (I joke that my daughter left the designated exit and…

Oy. Yeah, somewhere between her and Ina May Gaskin lies delightful balance.

Hell to the yes. Watching her and The feminist breeder go at it a while back was like “rip out my ute now because you are both making me embarrassed to be using mine.”

Excellent. This means audio cassettes are next in the queue of bygone artifacts to make a comeback... and all my audio cassettes from FYE have lifetime guarantees! I bet all you scrubs who went the cheap route by buying Jagged Little Pill from K-Mart or Sam Goody are simply drowning regret right about now. Smell ya…

I’m SO CLOSE. I have it all except...

YEEEEEEEEEEEES! THIS IS MY TIME!!!!!! THERE’S A MILLION THINGS I HAVEN’T DONE: JUST YOU WAIT! I AM NOT THROWING AWAY MY SHOT!!!!!

I’ve been working on it for, like, a month, and I still have so far to go.

Don’t call them, they’ll call you.

OMG fucking Peggy.

Mediocre nothing: get me back into the sequinned ballgown and I will show you the greatest damn Dolly my rural Connecticut high school ever saw. EVER!!!!!!