They filmed one of the bridge scenes in my grandmother’s neighborhood and it was quite a big deal. I watched that police car jump that bridge 3 times.

I saw it and I loved it.

Technically, I believe a vampire could be a vegetarian. The vampire could just drink some of the victim’s blood, not all of it, leaving the victim alive. It would be similar to us drinking cow’s milk. I don’t believe a vampire could be vegan, however. That would be a second death sentence.

Christ. It makes me want to send away for a Russian mail-order bride just to save one Russian female from a potentially abusive relationship and I’m a straight woman.

Yep. My grandparents lived in a neighborhood on the southeast side of Chicago called “The East Side” and a black person could not walk down the streets of that neighborhood without being physically harassed. When a black family tried to move into a house in neighboring Hegewisch, they burned down that family’s…

I had a friend who was one of nine children (good Catholic family). Her parents sex time was apparently Saturday afternoons and they would tell their children they were paying the bills and not to disturb them. My friend said she was in her late teens before she figured out they weren’t actually paying any bills…

Trump would have definitely lost to Obama. With all her problems with the press and the sexism she faced, Clinton still had almost 3 million more votes than Trump. Trump is president only because we’ve got a goofy system in place that makes the damn South more important than it is. With Obama’s dynamic campaigning,…

I hope you enjoy it. It’s been a while since I’ve read it so I’m not sure how well it holds up since it was written in the 70s. But the author, Marilyn French is a great writer. I’ve enjoyed everything she’s written.

I want to be a cat, taking a nap on an awning. How did I stray so far from my dreams?

Have you ever read The Womens’ Room? It’s the story of a woman in the 60s and her gradual transformation from suburban housewife to feminist. There is a character in the book who is an ardent feminist when we meet her in the book and she’s generally the loudest, brashest one in the group much less willing to…

Oh yeah. But it’s even better than that. All previous presidents had a switch which could turn the recording equipment off if there were conversations that they didn’t want recorded. Nixon was so bad at tech stuff that an aide convinced him to upgrade the recording equipment so that it was voice-activated and…

Actually, the recording equipment was installed by FDR.

I don’t know about that. One of my mother’s best friends were a couple who were progressive hippies and raised their children with those values. Yet their fourth child grew up to be a skinhead. They were horribly embarrassed and did as much as they could to mitigate it but their son held firm in his beliefs. So I…

I was raped repeatedly by my brother. I remember a conversation I had with a friend who stated that she felt stranger rape was worse than acquaintance rape because at least you weren’t afraid you’d be murdered by your rapist when a victim if acquaintance rape. I told her that that was not necessarily true but even…

Not just the old guys. Oprah tells a story where Spielberg had the crew of “The Color Purple” pelt her with racial epithets as she was walking through the set to film the scene where Harpo is beat for standing up to a white man. Oprah said she was sobbing by the time she got to her mark.

Personally, I like to place the blame for Trump’s election on the demographic that actively voted for Trump and that’s white people. Including white women. Let’s quit blaming the 2-3% of voters who didn’t vote for Trump and actually shame the ones who did. White people suck. And I say that as a white person.

I always think of RFK’s “Ripple of Hope” speech is appropriate when speaking about voting, as well:

Definitely. I remember having a conversation with a friend who was baffled by my choice not to have kids. She trotted out the “Having a child completely changes your life.” trope. I responded “I like my life just fine the way it is, thanks.”

I don’t know about New York but she could in Illinois. I lived on the first floor of an apartment building and some kids playing catch in the alley behind my building ended up sending a baseball through my guest bedroom window. I called the landlord to fix it and 3 days later I woke up to a man in my bedroom. I was…

Yeah, I noticed that. I was reading an article recently that was about how Clinton had hired a psychologist to study Trump and help her come up with ways to get under his skin. Her calling him “Donald” was one of the things he came up with. Apparently, Trump hates being referred to by his first name. He almost…