Working in finance does not prepare one to adequately understand music contracts. Her parents should have - and probably did - hire a specialist lawyer, though I’d be curious to know who represented her in that first contract negotiation (depending on just how much faith her parents had in her, it could easily have…

In addition to the other responses:

Tilda Swinton is in Trainwreck? I need to sit down. And watch Trainwreck, I guess.

And glasses! Don’t forget glasses.

Fireworks sounds a hell of a lot like a Nicole Atkins song, the name of which presently escapes me.

Separately, what does it take to be ungreyed these days? Having been already ungreyed here by Jenna years ago...

The very definition of backpfeifengesicht.

Possibly option #2 at one of the educational institutions gutted by Walker.

...which, back in the day, helped his family survive. I don’t want Ryan to retire, I want a boulder to crush him.

Obviously, a missing verse from These Eyes. Duh.

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Romcoms that hate women... you mean like Love, Actually?

True, but I take her criticism specifically to say, why is it perfectly ok for loads of male rappers to sound identikit, but not for female ones? Which is fair.

Except for that Hamm and Bubbly skit, which was, and remains, everything.

Ah, yes, that was delightful. Very much of a piece with Ted Cruz, who ultimately campaigned for the man who called Cruz’s wife ugly, and Cruz’s father a JFK assassin.

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”

Since urine is sterile, being a germophobe doesn’t seem to explain away the urination situation...

Technically, originally it was raised by Spy Magazine (they originated the “short-fingered vulgarian” description, which remains hella apt).

I feel you. A family member sent a happy “Yay, Trump!” sms to us all on Nov. 9, while I was flying out of a battleground state, where I had volunteered as an election observer. Things didn’t come to blows, but only just.

He was. (I am trying not to spam this thread, but Comey was a registered Republican until recently; he now describes himself unaffiliated.)