Whitney Houston. I don’t even know why because she wasn’t a real significant artist in my life, just another awesome singer I liked. I remember standing in a checkout line seeing a magazine with the story and just feeling SO sad. She was so talented. Fuck drugs.

Scott Hutchison of the band Frightened Rabbit really, really hurt when he died in 2018. My husband and I had seen more shows than I could count sincewe started going to shows together in college, and our relationship had kind of grown up around being fans of Scott and FR. I haven’t been suicidal since I was much…

Mr. Rogers 😭 He died a couple days after my beloved cat and it was too much. The Mr. Rogers documentary kills me, I cry every time I watch it, I can't even talk about it without crying. "Children need to know that they don't have to do anything special to deserve to be loved." UGH.

Allow me to be the biggest cliché and say it was Kurt Cobain. I was in college and they interrupted whatever was on MTV at the time with Kurt Loder coming on to break the news. My roomie and our friends just sat there staring at the screen for the rest of the day, occasionally flipping to “real” news channels but…

Robin Williams' suicide.

Tom Petty died the same year as my younger brother.  My brother has given me some of his tapes in college and I was hooked.  My brother died in May; Tom that October.  

The first one that really hit me that I remember was River Phoenix. I was a Junior in High School in 1993 and was sleeping over at my friends house. In the morning I was coming up the stairs from her basement bedroom and she yelled down the stairs at me that River Phoenix had died last night and I just sort of…

I’m not usually a person who gets upset over celebrity deaths, but Patrick Swayze still hurts. I think the tribute Jezebel did actually sums it up pretty well. Get off yo’ ass and jam, baby - a great motto. https://jezebel.com/a-tribute-to-the-singular-masculinity-of-patrick-swayze-5636943

As a child of the late 70s/early 80s, the first celebrity death that really hit me was Jim Henson. Many an episode of Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, and Muppet Babies baby sat me during my formative years. On a side note, I was so traumatized by The Dark Crystal as a kid (skeksis were not my thing), that I didn’t watc…

JFK Jr. He came across as grounded and approachable in spite of his birthright. I grew up believing in the Camelot mythology despite being born a decade after it had ended. Carolyn Bessette was my fashion idol, who I tried and failed to emulate. I remember watching CNN with my best friend when the news broke. We were…

Listen, I love Terry Gross but he had told her on several occasions that he cannot hear himself acting- it’s just too much, it’s too distracting for him. 

I mean, apparently he did ask them not to play clips of him acting/singing and then they played clips of him acting/singing. 

he reportedly told officers on the scene that he thought he’d killed his girlfriend and apologized during his arrest, saying, “I don’t beat women.”

Mental health is not a binary proposition. Some people are fully-diagnosed with a specific illness according to the DSM, others —lacking a better phrase— are a little whacked. If someone from the latter group beats up his girlfriend and puts her in the hospital, then we would hope that they would go to jail, where…

The factors that led to him deciding to go off his meds should absolutely matter. Were they, themselves, causing bad side effects? Could any past incidents have led him to expect such an extreme manic episode? Did he go off them with the help/advice of a doctor, or just on his own accord?

Not a lawyer or anything but a person who gets frustrated with leeway on domestic violence perpetrators, how is that not attempted murder?

I’m not sure the answer matters much, or that even if it is “he really didn’t” that means what people thinks it means. If he really was “out of his mind” (as someone else pointed out it’s possible you need to layer in CTE to the equation) and he decided he was going to murder a partner, this is not a person who should…

Wait, so this guy who nearly murdered his girlfriend is out? I don’t like the carceral state, and I don’t like confinement and detention as methods of “justice,” but if you’re going to have a carceral state, you might as well use it here, where it might actually directly and concretely protect someone.

It's not an old people thing. 

I gave up in maybe season 2, but I feel like a binge might be fun now.  I clearly remember I stopped watching because it was so far from reality.  Now, I might watch because it is so far from reality.