At this point, I go more with Old Navy for basics. Over the last several years, the Gap always seems to take a basic and add a weird pocket or drawstring or uses some weird terrycloth fabric and still charges $50 for it.

Oh fuck. Now whenever I put on a black t-shirt and unremarkable jeans (i.e. most of the time) I have to feel like I'm playing right into the Gap's conspiracy to suck away everyone's individuality and personal identity. From now on I'm only leaving the house wearing old-timey bathing suits with the nipples cut out.

I feel like you can't really wear more than one Gap item at a time without looking like a Sunday school teacher.

My father has been a professional musician for decades. Once, in the mid-2000s, he played with a band which was opening for Taylor Swift. He said that they spent hours sound checking and fiddling with their equipment to get her voice to sound tolerable. In all his years of playing music professionally, he had never…

Timely.

Kate: (drunk-whispering in her husband's ear) What say we play "Free Willy" tonight??

"So I sez to him, I sez..."

You understand that this was a joke, right? It was hyperbole. I know this doesn't matter in the context of this post, but I also teach so I know that there's a lot more that goes into it.

It sucks and it happens. I've corrected it and thanked the person who first pointed it out. I'm happy to do more, if you have any ideas for me, but I'm unwilling to kill or bleed over it. That's my limit.

Not going to lie, I quickly misread the headline. Thought it said "Jeremy Lin drunk cams his mom" Was expecting a really different video.

That dunk was Lincestuous!

Weirdly there were actually lots of black people working in NASA in 1969 so he is wrong in every sense. I wrote a report on Annie Easley and Melba Roy Mouton but there are many others....this newspaper clipping is from 1972

Oh ok. I was always pronouncing it like bar. I lived in Philly for a year... but somehow never heard anyone say it. "Once you leave Wilkes Barre, never speak of this place..."

Oh my God. OH MY GOD, I misread that and thought he was talking about the Apollo THEATER and the people running that as a complaint about the push for more diversity behind the scenes in entertainment.

Hmmm... could there be any other reason why black people didn't have jobs at NASA in 1969? A real head-scratcher, that one!

First - everyone in the world should be named Ms Chanandler Bong.

I'm just speechless. She sounds so composed, normal and even serene. It's amazing to think of the wide spectrum her mind, thoughts and feelings have traveled. How do you go from killing people the way she did to this?

Oh good. For a second there I was thinking- man, I've been pronouncing Wilkes-Barre incorrectly for years.