I’d like to give a big shot out to Freya Stark. She doesn’t have memoirs per se, but instead wrote a number of books about her travels through Arabia in the 1930s. She was one of the first non-Arabs to travel through certain parts of the middle east (mostly Iran and Syria) and her writing, her keen eye, and her…

He is BEAUTIFUL and I am so sorry for your loss. Great name, regal face. I will toast him tonight.

GOOD LUCK!

I want Ruth Negga to win and I want The Handmaiden and Park chan-wook to win everything else, except he and his movie aren’t nominated because the world is a tire fire.

I remember the days when I had savings.

NO RAGRETS!!!

Governor Kate Brown: almost the only star in the sky I can still see from way down here in rock bottom.

Friar Laurence / I’m in an awful state / my daddy wants Paris to be my mate

I know this pit well. I’m just starting to climb out of it. I hope you find your way out of it too, but if you don’t, well, this shit is goddamned crazy and sometimes the heart is just not fucking willing anymore.

When we were learning about Tricky Dick in middle school, I came home one day and asked my mom if she had voted for Nixon. She almost slapped me to the ground. “CHILD, are you on DRUGS?!”

I would agree that it is hard work and some people are really built for it and thrive in the pressure cooker environment of it. I tend to sweat every detail and invest myself personally in it all, so I’m utterly wrecked at the end.

Agreed. I managed a campaign focused on veterans’ issues in the year of swift boating bullshit 2004 and we were not getting much traction on attracting undecideds who were focused on veterans’ issues until we teamed up with a group of Republican vets and generals who were like, “Fuck this guy Bush and his shitty war…

Yup. The FBI is now, and apparently has been, a snake pit of anti-liberal and anti-HRC rhetoric because “she’s a crook.” Comey knew what the fuck he was doing.

WAH?!?!

I’m trying to get my family out to blue country! I don’t want to put them in assisted living and I don’t want to move back to the midwestern tundra.

I’m not actually in Arkansas, I just looked up when these walking tire fires were going to be up for reelection. You bet your ass that I’ll be making donations to their challengers.

I convinced at least two undecided extended family members in battleground states to vote for her. Sadly, there were a few lost causes, like one person in my family with ties to the FBI. Per his FBI friends, she was the worst crook to walk the planet and he “couldn’t bring himself” to vote for her, even though he has…

Every time I see DJT in his ill-fitting schmatta, I think of this...

I’m curious on the over and under for just how many press secretaries they’ll go through in the first year...

Agreed. I don’t know how to get out of this terrible paradigm.