Wanda was one of my favourites:

Yesterday a friend of mine had to call the principal of the high school our kids attend to explain to him why it was a bad idea to lock many of the bathrooms between classes and during lunch. He explained that he was trying to cut down on vaping in the bathrooms, and she explained while this was a noble purpose, there…

That reminds me of an airplane joke Bob Goldthwait told in one of his stand-up specials.

Regarding ‘Special Ed’:

I was always disappointed when the musical guest started on The Chappelle Show because that meant the show was over.

Those people listed under "Created By."

I thought tobacco companies were benefiting from the growing popularity of vaping, too.

“Smoking weed and reading the Necronomicon" . Well there's my childhood in a sentence.

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It’s okay when a film depicts a white terrorist killing Mexicans, because that’s an unbelievable occurrence as recent history has shown. What isn’t okay is screening a film like the Joker, deemed unfit for public consumption by a few media outlets and pop culture critics who obviously have their finggers on the pulse…

Yeah, frankly, I feel like Rambo’s latest movie (which seems to be straight up: macho white dude and mass murderer targets and brutally kills Mexicans with guns) is probably way more culturally damaging than this Taxi Driver/King of Comedy riff? But it’s gotten like, half the think pieces?

Five Rambo screenings there tomorrow...

My face reading the headline

I’m astounded by how successfully she rose, and she came from nothing. Worse than nothing, she grew up in a violent, abusive & neglectful environment and worked her ass off to get to where she is. I have tremendous respect for her, much more than I do celebs who are celebs because they’re rich & well-connected. 

I have had enough money to get the psychological care I needed. It still took a fuckload of excruciating work on my part. Trauma compounds trauma, so a person who, for instance, had a mother routinely overdose in front of her and had to give her CPR as a child, then was raped as an adolescent, and doesn’t get…

Her book details a lifetime of trauma and abuse. Regardless of age, a person can be vulnerable to manipulation, especially given the right set of circumstances.  And Ashton’s persona is certainly that of a dolt, but his success in business and entertainment suggests he’s rather more savvy than that.

I used to occasionally enjoy Thomas Middleditch on Comedy Bang Bang (podcast). He and Lauren Lapkis were really funny together. But then one day he admitted openly that he was annoyed and angry when her career seemed to be going better than his (even though with Silicion Valley he’s arguably more successful). And it…

She cleaned up and stayed sober for 20 years, until she met erstwhile husband Ashton Kutcher.

Highly recommend the Andrea Long Chu review that was linked to. 

There was a profile of Tripp in the New Yorker in 1998* that showed how much contempt she held for the Clintons. She hated Bill for womanizing (Tripp’s father had cheated on her mother) but she seemed to despise Hillary for her independence and lack of ladylike sensibilities. She compared Hillary unfavorably to…