Thanksgiving was literally always a shitshow in my family. Every year, no matter what. My junior year of college, I got home late the night before Thanksgiving, probably around 930PM. My dad had made my favorite dish, black beans and white rice. I have a wide variety of food allergies with varying effects. Sometimes…

I thought it was an Onion headline when first reading the NYT article. Don’t forget this particular gem:

Still disappointed that they didn’t bless us with an H&M version of these trousers:

Oddly enough, she did play that role opposite Ryan Gosling in the movie made by the same guy who did the documentary.

Can I just say that – as a native of America’s Wang – I am genuinely amazed that Florida is compliant with something...

A sampling:

This was discussed on NPR this morning and said that they were searching for and publishing the names of women who’d had fatal complications, even against the explicit request of the family. Horrible people.

Life in prison is cheaper. There’s extensive academic writing on the topic, but I can’t find it at the moment so here’s a NBC/AP article that lays it out pretty well.

Guessing this was First They Killed My Father? My high school English teacher assigned this and the resulting uproar from the Sheltered Snowflake contingent almost caused the instructor to resign. That book was so well written that some of the imagery still sticks with me 10 years later.

THIS! I’m also generally not judgmental when it comes to other peoples’ grief, but she behaved (at least on camera) as though she is the first person ever to experience parental death. Like... she’s 50. She has been remarkably fortunate to have her mother that long! So lucky! I don’t expect her to be chill about it,…

Vicki is possibly the most power-tripping of them all, and she’s awful. I generally consider RH my “guilty pleasure” (except that I feel no guilt) and don’t really have strong opinions on any of the characters on any of the franchises – except her. I can’t tell if she plays it up for the show like some of the more…

It was. She basically said that we shouldn’t help struggling trans kids too much because, I think these were her words, “they’ll become dependent.”

For those who are as in awe of this as I was, Refinery just posted a short behind-the-scenes video on Facebook and it’s amazing. The up-close deatils are unbelievable.

The lacy dress is kind of disappointing, tbh. The poly-blend reaches out from the screen and scratches my eyeballs. It’s what I expect from Forever 21’s “contemporary” arm. Also, I am drunk.

That’s the blogger/“designer.” And it’s everything you listed in your second sentence.

As far as originality is concerned, I’d rank the collection a “vanilla cupcake with delicately swirled white frosting and sprinkles, photographed vertically on white marble for optimum Pinterest.” So, nice basics.

Crushed. Velvet. Trousers.

“Youre like smart and pretty and you have a job, though. Youre the best kind of dependa*.”

Indeed. My husband and I were both born in New England but raised in Florida, not far from the much-talked-about largest confederate flag in the world. I’d told him exactly what you described for years – pretty much everything you hear about the racial tension in the south is real, and there’s no other place like it –…

I am in love with your username!