Great, now I have Ride of the Valkyries stuck in my head.

Tangentially relevant.

This was my kid too. I have a degree in child development, and it’s truly not abnormal for some little kids to do that. Some kids suck their thumb, some tug and twirl their hair, and some masturbate. It’s a comforting behavior - more sensual than sexual.

I have this horrible reaction to some people (just a few) where I just don’t like their faces. It’s shallow and mean and based on nothing, NOTHING but superficiality. Renee Zellweger? Don’t like her face. Those twins on that Disney Show where they live in a hotel (?). Don’t like their faces. The Property Brothers?…

NYX. Always.

These is such amazing makeup in the drugstores, these days. I think NYX matte lipsticks are the best around, and Sephora doesn’t carry MAC (at least not here).

Ours were a wedding gift from my sweet and slightly unhinged aunt. At first, we were only going to take the black one (Sambuca) but we didn’t want the grey one (Indiana) to be alone.

I love how black kitties and grey and white kitties seem to come in pairs. Posting a totally gratuitous shot of my babies here to emphasize the point.

It is weird to me when people deliberately pose photos with their baby to look like Mary and Jesus.

Let’s not call it “spying”. Baby always awake, always listening, always knife sharpening doesn’t care for that word. Let’s call it “loving”! Baby loves you even when you’re at school, or at work, or out of the country hiding in an underground bunker in the forest to escape. Baby always awake, always listening, always…

You know what they say, one man’s junk is another man’s treasure.

Men’s (nice) suits are expensive compared to a lot of my (ladies’) work attire, but they probably need like 1/3 (or less) the variety that I do. If I wear my blue shift dress and white blazer two weeks in a row, I’m a freak. If a man wears his nondescript black suit with a blue collared shirt twice in the same week,…

I’m on Irish time but that just means I’m drunk and lost my watch.

I read a tweet once that said “vaping is a fedora for your mouth,” and I’ve always thought that Leo DiCaprio was the human version of a fedora, so by transitive property... was he smoking himself?

The paranoia and threats are pretty hilarious to me. This is Putin-level madness, in a preschool. A PRESCHOOL! Don’t know how she got so drunk on power, drinking from Dixie Cups. Must have taken forever.

Actually, I think it’s one of the less hideous Lily Pulitizer prints I’ve seen. I wish it was smaller, I think that would improve it a lot. I really do not get the rage of Lily Pulitizer. Every item looks like the aftermath of the Easter Bunny hosting an orgy at a WASP country club.

I love Lolita too. It’s one of the only pieces of culture that show me a male creator that really understands what it is that (certain) men do to women and girls. Humbert is his narrator, but that doesn’t mean Nabokov doesn’t find him violently repellent.

I will burn this place to. the. ground.

My son and I were watching cartoons over breakfast the other day, and Bratz were being heavily advertised. One ad had them posing with selfie sticks, small dogs and, like, Kylie Jenner lip kits. The next had them accessorised for studying abroad in Russia, with impressively upholstered boots and “secret jewels” hidden…

As someone who has worked with survivors of domestic violence and as someone who is below the poverty line (because I chose a career that works with survivors of domestic violence), these articles feel like such a heavy “should” that so many can't accomplish. I appreciate your acknowledgment that this is a pipe dream…