William Carlos Williams

“If “redhead” is an often-repeated personal branding device for you, then you, in my opinion, are not a redhead, because clearly no one has ever used that term against you while wearing a weird aren’t-I-funny smile on their face”

Truth! I had to put down my beloved 13 year old cat, Brian, down earlier this month. I was lucky enough to plan it and was able to do it at home with him in my arms. And do it before he was completely unable to eat or use the litter. But he had a growth in his head, so it was time.
I picked up his ashes yesterday,…

Olivia jade

I’m just going to leave this here. Setting ones hair is not new. White people just got better tools, and POC don’t always use high heat (speaking in generalities here) so you’ll see rollers. My sister is a night nurse. She will set her hair during the day on her day off and wrap it, much like these ladies in the…

I hated the tired old trope that men and women can’t be friends. I hated the tired old trope of how Harry is so totally into Sally until the morning after they had sex and then he’s soooooo freaked out. But mostly I hated that they set up Sally’s character to be so prissy except in one scene where she fakes loud sex…

Lots of people like it. I hated it then and I hate it now. Curious what someone seeing it for the first time might think.

Remember the days before social media when we’d write our awful poetry in a diary and then hide it under the bed where no one would ever, ever see it? Yeah, I miss that.

I mean, this is pretty much every cat, right?

All of my cats (Gus, Mr. Toomey, Boggs) absolutely knew/know their names. But you can tell when they are hearing and ignoring you. The ears twitch back, the tail wags, but they don’t look at you. Whether they come to you is not up to you.

My cats usually come when we call them, they are sort of dog like that way. We recently acquired a new cat (a stray who decided we were her people) who we named and converted to a house cat, and after just a few weeks she knew her name.

Gidget knows her name, and will come running when I call her. She’ll also mysteriously appear anytime chicken is being served. 

Is this where we shamelessly post pictures of our cats? Chili knows her name, and will look disaprovingly when called. Cornbread is still a youngin’ and hasn’t caught on yet. (Neither is aware of exactly how dumb I am for giving them such ridiculously delightful names.)

If you want the tea on that royal feud, Nicole Cliffe has you covered:

Not Blue Valentine because man, that shit was so, so depressing.

Also: “hubby”.

Furbabies

People who say “kiddos” are pure monsters.

This is how I imagine their wedding:

Yeah, when I saw she was in her first year at a top MATH PhD program, I wondered about this...sounds like she was immensely talented, and it takes a very high achiever to accomplish what she did by the age of 23. PhD programs can really exacerbate existing mental health issues, especially in the first year, when…