Mr. Afanasieff also wrote, among other songs, “Butterfly” and “Hero” (both for Ms. Carey), “One Sweet Day” (for Ms. Carey and Boyz II Men), “She Bangs” (for Ricky Martin), “If You Go Away” (for New Kids on the Block), and “Missing You Now” (for Michael Bolton). The dude must have one hell of a nicely-renovated kitchen.

I posted this on another Mariah Carey thread, but I will post it again: Carey and Walter Afanasieff, the co-writers of “All I Want for Christmas is You,” have made an estimated $50 million since the song’s release. That a whole hell of a lot of money, even next to other top sellers like “Fairytale of New York” (for…

I love it. My kitchen is pretty dark, so I needed a color that was close to white but that had come tint in it. I think it turned out pretty nicely.

I just painted my kitchen a color called “Palest Pistachio.”

For contrast, I chose a year at random. Winners are in italics.

But you know that, if Trump does appoint him Homeland Security director, the dude will, to paraphrase Bill Paxton in True Lies, suck so hard on the government teat that he could suck-start a leaf blower.

My college roommate called his grandfather “Humpa.” Millennial dads, you’re doing it wrong if your kid isn’t calling you “Humpa.”

I have a friend from Minnesota whose son is named “Axel,” but it’s a family name, they’re Scandinavian, and they live in Minnesota, so it’s cool.

Here are a few I’ve added to my playlist over the past few decades:

The lack of justice for Kirsty and her family is appalling.

I used to work with one of Leroy Anderson’s children, who receives a wonderful check at the end of the fourth quarter every year.

I was wasting time on Google the other day, and I discovered that “All I Want for Christmas is You,” the ubiquitous song written by Carey and brilliant Russian producer, musician, and songwriter Walter Afanasieff, is the eleventh-best-selling single of all time. As of 2013, it was estimated that Carey and Afanasieff…

The school I work at has workshops with our seniors called “Life Skills” but that should be called “Learning to Deal with Money Before You Go to College.” I wish I’d had something like that.

I went to college in Maine in the 1990s. It was the beginning of the gentrification.

I was at a restaurant a few weeks ago, eating dinner at the bar, and the bartender and I were talking about R&B and I started with the spoken intro of “Bump and Grind,” and he joined in, and then his manager came by and gave us both the most quizzical expression on earth. It was often.

The “experience” catch-22 is huge.

That would be truly excellent news.

Also, we had “The Humpty Dance” and “No Scrubs” and “Knockin’ Boots” and they have Justin Fucking Bieber.

The lives and well being of these protestors is at risk if they stay, whether from the weather or from law enforcement. Maybe I’m just in a general “throwing-up-my-hands” space, but I think they should fold up their tent poles and leave—before things get really bad.

No, it wasn’t. The generation who elected Trump were those 45 and older—not those of us in Generation X. (Source: The Atlantic)