well, trying to listen to them, reason win them, pander to them, or compromise with them sure as hell didn’t work this time around, so fuck, why not try it?
BRING OREGON AND WASHINGTON WITH YOU!! We’ve got flannel and good coffee and orcas and mountains and rain; we’ll be your Canada!
I woke up heartbroken this morning but was holding it together until my mind drifted to my niece, my nephew, my little baby cousins, my coworker’s brilliant and energetic queer teenage Hispanic daughter. I don’t even have kids and the suddenly crash of “oh my god, what do we tell these children? what did we just do to…
I’m an academic and I have lost a job to a staggeringly less qualified man at least four times. Quantifiable provable cases. We’re talking “I’ve published 12 first author papers with 1000 citations and he has published 2 papers with 20 citations“, “I have won multiple research and teaching prizes and have X years of…
yeah, and I’m still on some combination of denial/bargaining: “but...popular vote! such tiny margins in some states! what if we just have a record number of faithless electors? maybe if jill stein waves a magical fairy wand and moves all her votes to hillary we can walk this back! The UK just might have saved…
No number of stars can sufficiently express my approval of how thoroughly you are spreading this quote around Jezebel today, but here’s one to get started with :)
Go outside, turn around three times, and spit!
Spouse and I have two bottles of wine ready: a standard-issue nebbiolo that we’ll be having with dinner, and a hyper-fancy-by-our-standards $80 bottle that we got a while back as a gift and haven’t yet found an excuse to open.
IT IS SO GOOD. Another good-for-picky-eaters Roman treat is suppli: basically a fried ball of risotto made with ragu sauce and a blob of melty gooey mozzarella in the middle. Basically, a grown-up mozzarella stick done AWESOME.
honestly, I’m probably a terrible person to give you advice - I’m from New England and adore cold weather so I chronically underestimate how cold other people are going to be. That said, for context it snowed and froze in Rome the year my husband was living there and it was a news-making unicorn event - the fountains…
Viggo Mortensen as Sirius Black (I LOVE Gary Oldman, he’s just not what I pictured there).
Yes please! Great thread idea and I’ll add my voice to those begging for an ungreying. I don’t comment super often but it’s partly the usual “I am gray so nobody will read this so I won’t post and stay gray which means nobody...” cycle.
Sorry, one more, can’t resist: Ristorante al Fontanone in Trastevere is this tiny blink-and-you-miss-it family-place-with-random-hours restaurant right near the river and a GREAT stop to try classic Roman food. Cacio e pepe (cheese and pepper pasta) and carciofi de giudia (literally “Jewish artichoke”, basically…
San Clemente is a criminally-underappreciated site in Rome right near the Coliseum. It’s a church build on top of an older church built on top of an even older church built on top of a Roman-era house. I always recommend that people do this on the first day or two in Rome; it really impresses upon you how the WHOLE…
Yeeeahh, it’s not quite an “oh thank god everything will be okay now” relief. It’s more a weak “well, at least we’ve staved off a systematic dismantling of reproductive rights and imminent nuclear winter for another few years” kind of relief.
At this point I’m honestly not even going to be *happy* - at least not right away - with a Clinton win. I’m pretty sure my overwhelming first emotion will just be a bone-deep relief that we managed to avoid total fucking disaster, coupled with the knowledge that there are still an alarming number of indescribably…
A very good point - it’s certainly not like I expect Trump’s base to be watching any of these shows.
They are and I adore them and watch them every week...but...
thank you for bringing this gif into my life