Has anyone else noticed that most of TAL content these days is not related to American lives at all? I can’t remember the last full episode I listened to that didn’t have most or all of its segments set abroad. Good stories and all, but as an Americanist, it’s disappointing.

Arts and farts and facts?

AFAIK this isn’t going to be a major film so it’s more or less preaching to the choir, the choir being urban residents with enough disposable income to willingly spend some of it on a movie like this. People are going to go see this and pat themselves on the back for being so much more progressive than people back…

Actually, as part of my treatment plan for bipolar disorder in conjunction with my doctors, I exercise pretty much every day, just not at a gym because, as this article posits and this author defends, gyms aren’t for exercising, they’re for socializing. My primary care physician suggested I try CrossFit because I…

How do you not do anything in a gym without taking up equipment and standing idly? That’s the very definition of that. I’ve only been to gyms in cities so space is a premium and there aren’t, like, lounges for people to hang out in, but I have had someone stand on the elliptical next to me when the other 30 of them…

Go to the gym so you can be one of the annoying people who stands on an elliptical and talks on their phone for 30 minutes? No, thank you. They can stay home. I don’t even go to the gym anymore because of the loiterers who waste space and fuck around, which is the case for a decent number of patrons at most of the…

John Oliver sucks.

I don't think I've ever NOT opened a Hershey's Kiss using the ribbon as at least a starter.

I have not, but what is the green lightbulb supposed to represent? “This is to remind everyone that Jay Gatsby served in World War I”?

Considering how well baristas usually do at writing names down, does it say Mary Christiansen? I hope it does.

I really hope that’s the last time I see Back to the Future referenced for another 5 years. People need to find something else to watch and talk about.

....good for you? I grew up in the 90s and sure hope I’m not bragging about my table manners as a child in the 2040s. Jesus.

Like if he’s a chef and she’s a hostess or something. How awful. Or if he’s a store manager of a retail operation and she’s an associate. Or if he’s a person who doesn’t need to sit in an office to feel fulfilled. Heavens, why couldn’t he have just gone to Yale?!

Yup, the same thing happened to me. I had two trips within two months and though I was reimbursed within a few weeks for each, I’m still in a hole from the month or so I was without any cash at all. Bipolar Disorder is a helluva disease that makes you feel like money pours out of your bathroom faucet when you’re in…

Another movie where Sandra Bullock gets to play white savior to poor people of color who can't do it without her. Yay!

Miranda is such an overrated hack. The kids should go see a musical that doesn’t rewrite history to make it more appealing to Tumblr users.

Worcester is the cesspool of America. I can’t think of any single place more depressing other than MAYBE post-Katrina New Orleans, but even then, probably not.

And Mackenzie still looks like she’s 4.

Mine that I’ve posted on Vitals before and that has kept me going (-50lbs in 6 months!) is that it doesn’t matter what your last meal was, it matters what your next meal is. I don’t punish myself because I broke down and had a few cookies or pizza or whatever because there’s nothing (healthy) you can do it about it…

I think lot-key is a perfectly fine pronunciation for latke; different Jewish groups pronounce it differently and I’ve heard both. Lat-key would be way worse.