Same! On my FB I have five friends from HS who became teachers. Three are teaching in our suburban home town, which has become so expensive I have no idea how they afford it. One moved to a larger city. I don’t know if he taught in diverse schools. The other is in Alaska. I find it weird. Where I teach is very…

I really want a job as an influencer. I recommend fruit flavored seltzer water, mixed breed dogs, never wearing shoes with Velcro, and Fun Dip Lik-a-Stix. Does anyone feel influenced? Give me a dollar.

I want to be excited for the next Fantastic Beast but every bit of news about Johnny Depp makes me so damn anxious for that franchise. Why did you do this to us, JK?

Instead, he wears an earpiece on set so that the engineer can supply him with his lines.

Yea I think it’s obvious he’s moved on from “art” to paying the bills. No one needs this many POTC sequels.

There actually is something in that article that surprised me. I’m genuinely startled that Johnny Depp, who billed himself as a Capital-A Actor long after he started mostly doing big, dumb, family movies, doesn’t bother to memorize his lines anymore. Wasn’t that one of the signs that Marlon Brando had given up on…

I’m a white teacher. I teach at a K-12 school with zero black teachers. The number of times I’ve been told I’m over reacting, it’s “not a big deal,” or “that’s not a problem here” is infuriating. I work in a super liberal area and a lot of teachers seem to really believe that if they hold progressive political views…

No. What we need is for you to shut the fuck up.

I’m not white, but I am also not black. 20/24 of my students are black, though. The single biggest factors that have helped me grow as a teacher are:

I am a bit torn on the advice of needing more black teachers. I know they are needed, but teachers in America are paid such abhorrently low salaries, it goes against the conflicting goal of increasing wages to get more blacks out of poverty. Maybe start with more black tenured college professors?

Ya, hate to say it, but even in a majority black city, I hear a lot of “these kids” and “these parents” and “these people” working in schools

The most clever part, to me, was subtly mocking the election coverage - “keep watch on the podium for ‘breaking news’ while some woman stands over there reciting detailed policy proposals.” Pretty huge and deep burn on cable news.

Bee was the fluffer and we were the fluffed, and by the end of the evening I had developed and sustained a Cinemax-worthy erection for the power of the work my colleagues do.

Are you kidding me? That was the ONLY good thing that happened in 2016. I feasted on the delicious schadenfreude for weeks. Whenever I’m sad, I think on Tom wearing the I heart T.S. wifebeater and I feel my soul bloom, my skin clear up and my heart grow three sizes.

I will seek that out. I keep thinking I saw that doc but now realizing “The September Issue” is the one I watched.

Counterpoint: We had them as an app at my wedding (which we missed eating because of stupid pictures), and someone will still occasionally bring up how good they were. That was 8 years ago.

Naomi Campbell is the closest we have to a Greek goddess: gorgeous and immortal and terrible in her pettiness and fury.

I don’t know- you ban Tim Gunn, I’m no longer a fan of yours.

Based on that pic I will refer to him as Clairol Shag Mullett and nothing else.

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