Can we talk about how great Kenan Thompson was in that sketch? I feel like he gets pigeonholed a lot (like even if he’s playing different characters he always uses the same ‘comedy voice’), but his R&B performance just blew it out of the water.

I like to consider myself low maintenance because I’m way too lazy to do makeup very often, but the truth is that when the it does go on, there’s a lot of stuff.

Apparently the Christmas Creep is worse over there, because they don’t have Thanksgiving as a buffer holiday.

My brother taught me to stick a hair over the fireplace door on Christmas Eve to tell whether anyone opened it or not overnight. It was really quite devious.

My brother made a Jewish kindergarten classmate cry by telling him Santa wasn’t real (he just wanted to make sure his friend knew THE TRUTH). My parents were concerned but also bemused.

My parents tried to convince my brother, an early skeptic, that Santa was real by reading The Polar Express to him and then giving him a “broken” sleighbell from Santa. They did not succeed.

An aunt and uncle of mine explained the Santa myth to their kids, read them The Night Before Christmas, etc., but always explained to them that Santa was a metaphor for generosity and the Christmas spirit, and emphasized charity and how rewarding it is to help other people (I think they also told them not to ruin it…

Omg are you the ones who wrote to Jolie?

Resurrecting from the dead to say that was my mother’s argument for keeping her last name - she’ll be happy to change when 50% of men marrying women switch to their wives’ last names.

Sorry, I misread her age. Brain fart induced by the other part in her statement where she talks about an incident when she was 16.

Haha, I looked up her filmography on wikipedia before commenting just to confirm about Juno, and Hard Candy was indeed a film festival/limited release movie.

She was 16, still a year away from Juno, and hadn’t been in either of the previous X-Men movies. As far as I can tell it was the first movie she was in that went into wide release. I absolutely believe she thought she was powerless.

A coworker at my very first job deflected a comment the owner made about my tits to himself (which was about the most he could have done in that position), almost instinctively, and years later I’m still grateful. That’s how little it takes.

There’s a lot of room for really great and cool stuff here, though. See: Kelly’s Pictorial article. Just wander into the weird section of your local art museum’s medieval gallery and go from there.

Haha, true, though I meant it in the “she always attends in breathtaking structural masterpieces” sense as much as the burlap sack sense.

Book. Of. Kells. Just go full Insular. I want to see illuminated PEOPLE, people!

Three words: Margaret of Antioch.

Tbh I think Madonna (or at least 80s Madonna) could actually do a pretty good job, because she was raised Catholic enough to know exactly which lines to cross.

Rihanna could pull it off. I believe in her.

The blues on that thing. All the fucking colors. *sigh*