I ask them to take me out to an expensive dinner with them, or help me fly home for a random weekend, or something - something I can do with them.

I don’t have kids, but I’ve been thinking about this a lot. I hate Christmas, I am the ultimate grinch, mostly because of this - because of the rampant consumerism parading as love (also because I’m an atheist Jew who worked years in retail, so, you know, a lot of resentment there). If I do ever have kids, I’m not…

If you can’t make it, find a similar event in your city. I live in LA, so clearly am not gonna be making it out to DC, but there’s a huge march planned here too. Gotta make ourselves heard all across the country, not just our capital!

I am also 110% here for this. Cover alllll the oldies.

Or the mother

Heartily agreed. The reality is that we live in a world now where movies get made to pander to multiple global markets. It’s not ideal, and can often be legitimately harmful (see: the erasure of Tibet in Dr. Strange), but things like a white Hollywood A-lister in the leading role of a Chinese action flick are only…

No business opportunities to be had in North Korea, so I’m assuming we’re safe

Itching to make a Jeffrey Wright-in-Westworld reference, but there’s no way for me to do a good one without it being a spoiler, and I won’t be that person.

I love this show, but egads, any ep where their kids feature at all, the strict gender roles they have forced those children into always sticks out like such a sore thumb to me. Senor Sprinks and I spend a lot of time yelling at our TV “COS THAT’S HOW GENDER WORKS”

Controversial opinion: Elsie is still alive. We haven’t been shown her body, her death would make 0 narrative sense (especially given where she died / what she was up to when she died / the relative POV time we got with her). I think whole thing with Stubbs and the Ghost Nation folks is going to lead us back to her…

I had the same dilemma with announcing our official withdrawal from the TPP. That one, at least, is more simple, harder to fuck up. A stopped clock is right twice a day, I guess?

Wabba labba dub dub!

My eyes bleed from the sentence fragments. Why, editors, why??

Clay Aiken?

I got v lucky cos my partner committed to learning how to make FODMAP-friendly bread, and let me indulge in almond butter — very tasty but very fatty. I lost some weight, but not very much.

I read that she’d said that it had been a “tremendous horror” and barely did a double-take because the SEC sounds like such a miserable place to work. Imagine your job is telling a bunch of over-entitled douche canoes that no, you can’t run our economy into the ground, I don’t care what the profit margins are.

THANK YOU. I was that exact person - I struggled for years with digestive problems that no one could diagnose, and had gotten so bad that I had developed severe anxiety and agoraphobia and had to be medicated to get out my door in the mornings. I finally found a gastroenterologist that had me do the FODMAP diet for…

I actually think that stuff is really tasty :( But then again I’ve never really been able to digest lactose, so I’ve never lived a life fully rich in cheese. Vegan cheese is great in certain dishes, but I won’t pretend like it’s supposed to be a substitute for all cheese.

My poops are fine. As I’ve gotten older, my body’s response to alcohol has become a double-edged sword. On the one hand, I get hungover more easily and the hangovers suck significantly more. On the other hand, if I get drunk one night, for the next three days I am pooping like a fucking champ. Slightly more…

Sucks to suck, Trump. DEAL WITH IT