I loved calling Time and Weather! I always wondered who the voice was. As I kid I pictured her as exhausted, having to record the time over again every minute!

I didn’t make phone calls, but I do remember being about five years old in 1991 and seeing the number 1991 in big print on the front of the phone book. I assumed it was some kind of main phone number and thought that making it palindromic was a good idea because it would be easy for everyone to remember. When we got a…

I like to follow up my daily dose of Newsom with some Garcetti. I know that my mayor (Garcia) is watching him and taking tips. Garcetti’s speech on Wednesday made me cry.

If there is any good left in this world we will soon find out that his last name is not send, that’s just how he thought he was supposed to send out his first tweet.

I don’t get the blanket outrage for people being landlords. Are they good landlords? Do they take care of the property? Do they offer reasonable rental rates comparable to similar properties? Do they keep rent increases limited? Then what’s the problem with making an investment that provides a decent place to live?…

Amen - there’s absolutely nothing wrong with the Bell-Shepards owning some apartments. In fact, as rental housing stock in LA goes, you’re much better off having a celebrity couple like them for landlords (they’ll fix things, if only to avoid bad press) than some real estate investment ghoul like Steve Mnuchin who…

Shelter Catstravaganza!

Hi Jezzies,

My parents discovered I was gay at the end of my senior year of high school, right before graduation. My father beat me nearly unconscious and I literally ran out of the house with only the clothes I was wearing. I snuck back in twice to get some things, but it barely amounted to a suitcase’s worth of stuff.

I stayed…

Okay, I agree with the premise in general, but one of the most destructive and alienating soap opera storylines I ever saw was on GH, when Luke and Laura’s supposed “fairy tale romance” commenced with rape and culminated with her as a forgiving (near) child bride. That was supposed to be sexy, and it was wildly…

Thank you, Kelly. This was great.

What a great read. The genre was such a great space for actors to get real time training. It was also a great escape from an otherwise humdrum day. I remember my grandmother watching “The Edge of Night” in the ‘50's. That’s the first soap I remember.

I am not saying that Bernie voters are unreliable; I am saying that the demographics Bernie Sanders has spent his campaign appealing to (and banking on showing up to vote for him) are historically unreliable voters, and Bernie Sanders himself has acknowledged that the voters he was counting on to show up and vote for…

I want to add, that when I complain about Bernie Bros, it’s in the context of Sanders not taking responsibility as he should. It isn’t an erasure of his voters. The fact that it always has to be said that way, and even when it is, there’s still cries of but I’m x and I support him.

This honestly isn’t true, because the demographics Sanders has staked his campaign on are unreliable voters. They couldn’t even carry him to the Democratic nomination, much less carry him to victory in a general election. Frankly, as much as it pains Bernie’s fans to hear, Biden has more of a chance of appealing to…

Postcards from Hospice: Sometimes You Have to Walk Away Before You Want To

I’ve caught a few episodes and really enjoyed the show. It seems so nerve-wracking when their creations go in the kiln, as they lose all control of their work and have to wait and see what comes back

Keith crying makes me cry! Every. Time.

Honestly, you think getting back at snarky people on the Internet is more important than saving 70, 000 people a year from dying of lack of affordable healthcare?

“I would love to just vote my ideals here, but I don’t have that luxury.”