Dear Baby Boomers,

Way to No-Head Shame.

Ahhhh Nextdoor, the site dedicated to rants/debates about Dogs being offleash, people not picking up their dog’s shit, zombie RV’s, “does anybody know whose car this is parked on our street”, definitely coyote spottings, how to fight back against the homeless invaders, how the city/county/state government officials…

Some of this stuff is super interesting, and I’ve definitely been to a few festivals that were a lot of fun-but the whole “Womyn’s Land” thing has really been poisoned by the Michfest thing. I think a lot of younger folks have, at the very least, a live-and-let-live approach when it comes to trans folks, so it is hard…

While most older women I’ve come across in business and elsewhere have been neutral to helpful, there are definitely some in the boomer and older demographic who resent no longer being the token female, the exceptional one, the cute, perky young thing making it in a man’s world. Their whole way of being is obsolete,…

Younger women are happy to learn from older women... when “learning” doesn’t mean sitting down, shutting up, and never questioning their elders. Rather too many of these women have bought in too hard to idea that they’ve automatically aged into the right to be Wise Crones who are always right and have nothing to learn…

My friend was the casting associate on this show - she worked on it as a pilot & for the entire run of the show. I had this same conversation with her, “I know Louie Anderson is amazing in the role, but thank god nobody thought to cast an older woman in a high-profile role!” She offered to show me the list of…

“We are meant to believe that this is progress, though it’s hard to feel anything when you don’t know how bad it was from the start.”

Hmm, yeah I wonder why.. If only we could all get paid to write about things we have no knowledge of and clearly did below the bare minimum in finding out about.

“When my father died, no one from Marvel or Disney reached out to me.”

And?
Am I just being cold? Not sure what the beef is here.
And haven’t they shown Stan “genuine respect” by giving him producer credits, cameos, and paying tribute to him pretty regularly (in the comics as well as the films), especially in light of…

I wanted to be Stacey but I was a Mary Anne.

Oh, I absolutely devoured this series. I read, and then bought every single book. When Ann M. Martin came to town for a book signing, I begged my mom to go. Ann autographed the most recent book (this was probably 1995, 1996...I think it was #100 because it had a silvery cover, and why else would Ann be out doing book…

They’re both child actresses with histories of Republicanism and former shows on the CW/WB, so that friendship tracks.

August is totally Halloween Planning season for me. :) 

Honestly I was never that bothered about Liz Phair; she was pretty open about selling out because she was a single mom who paid her dues and wanted to finally make shitloads of money. It fits into her persona at least. The new Sleater-Kinney sounds like Brownstein feels the need to maintain her brand now that Portland…

Hearing Sleater-Kinney morph into a faceless pop group is the most depressing musical evolution of the millenium.

I show the first hour of Mr Holland’s Opus in my European History class, because Holland is in Europe and I’m pretty much just phoning it in at this point.

I feel like if anyone can find comfort in my stories of a shitty childhood, that’s the kind of karma I want in my life. My dad also turned out to be a shithead, although he was a great dad when I was a kid, so I know your pain. 

My lovely mother in occasion would ask me what I wanted for dinner on my birthday, then make something I absolutely hated or couldn’t eat (sausage soup, I’m a vegetarian), then proceed to scream at me until I ate it and apologized for every single thing in America, all of which were my fault.

Shouldn’t all these issues have been discussed before the appointment to the position?

I would argue your disappointment is due to your selections. You really should have gone with the Ultimate feast, as the two best items are the shrimp scampi (basically just shrimp drowned in garlic butter) and the crab legs (which can be dipped in the extra butter).  No one goes to Red Lobster for soup.  Its for old…