My favorite Beverly Cleary anecdote: “On the driveway one night in 1932, 16-year-old Beverly waited for her date, a Reed College freshman, to open her car door and let her out. He refused: “Women can open their own doors these days,” he said. She in turn refused to do it; they sat at an impasse. Then, worried what her…

I’m pretty sure at this point “democrat” means “just not as insane as the current crop of republicans”, on top of the religious exemption thing he’s also making major cuts to education and healthcare which like if you have to make budgetary cuts make them to ANYTHING ELSE

I have a maybe dumb question but what does a producer actually DO? Like I know what Larry David did on Seinfeld and why he’s entitled to money but this guy didn’t create anything, that was all team Palladino so... what is he supposed to be paid for?

I just meant that I don’t doubt that any of them are individually, it just seems unlikely to me that all of Shondaland supports the same candidate, who granted is garnering about 60% of the dem vote, so I’m not saying it’s impossible just kind of odd I guess?

so I’m not doubting that Kerry Washington, Ellen Pompeo, Viola Davis, et al Scandal actors are all Hillary supporters but I’m curious if this was just a serendipitous event in which everyone Shonda Rhimes hires supports the same candidate as her or if there is some super specific contract stuff going on

I had the same knee-jerk reaction but I did some googling and he’s not only a life long dem but the son of a liberal congressman and labor leader, Ron Cyrus (D-Ky)

It’s not! Texas /should/ be a swing state based on demographics but low voter turnout keeps it red. voting down the ballot and participating local grassroots campaigns that encourage eligible but disenfranchised people (like a pretty large percentage of the latino population in Texas) to go vote can make a really big…

What do you think of Beautiful You? I love love love both Fight Club and Choke but have been sort of ambivalent toward other books I’ve read by him

that poor nanny

I guess it seems to me that men who “can’t be bothered with deal with real ones as human beings” maybe shouldn’t? I generally think that someone who has trouble with the concept that their partner has autonomy as a human being probably shouldn’t be having sex with a human being? I can totally see where this could go…

counterpoint, Queen Pen

Has any woman ever had worse taste in men than Wendi Deng? I think not

Ah to have the confidence of a mediocre white man

So I have no interest in fighting with the #stillsanders crowd (although I think that’s a dumb and harmful position to take) but for the love of all things good please PLEASE don’t just stay home on election day. Leave the presidential box blank if that’s what you have to do but VOTE DOWN BALLOT.

VOTE VOTE VOTE…

I thought the little pop up things were funny at first when they were used to tell younger viewers who Jon Lovitz is, but then they started being exclusively about his penis and now I hate them

At the height of its popularity, I used to play the “50 shades of gray game” where you would observe people on the subway reading on ereaders and try to figure out if it was 50 shades or not (I know that sounds horrendously creepy but I had a really long, boring commute)

I kind of feel sad for him? Like both Lindsey Graham and John McCain seem sort of disappointed and confused about being completely left behind by their party and they aren’t quite sure how it happened or where everything went wrong

T-Pain is one of my favorite celebrities, like I’m not particularly fond of his music but he’s so smart and interesting. He revolutionized the use of auto-tune and the way he talks about technology in music is more articulate than anyone else I’ve ever heard discuss the subject. Also his Tiny Desk Concert is bomb.

*culs-de-sac
(I’m not trying to be an asshole, I am just really fond of the weird plural of cul-de-sac)

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