“How can you come from a long line of holocaust survivors?”

I have never heard this accent but I am so intrigued. Being a born-n-raised Californian the closest thing to a regional accent I’ve heard is when northerners come down and say “hella” 3 times per sentence.

Accent?

here lemme goggle that for you

OK I just watched that movie LAST NIGHT for the first time (you know you have a problem when you’re straight RUNNING OUT of things to watch on HBOGo), and I really did NOT enjoy it. I remember my friends LOVING it when it came out but I was giggling at the over-acting the whole time, and I say this as an ex-theater…

Ooh I haven’t heard of either of those! I’m a costume drama fiend (yeah, I know, ew) and just started Harlots on Hulu, among other things. I know it’s probably the trashiest thing ever to say, but I fuckin’ love TV.

I know this show has its problems but I LOVE IT SO MUCH I CANT WAIT FOR IT TO COME BAAAAAACK.

If you haven’t started Handmaid’s Tale, DO IT! She plays Moira and it’s a joy to see her back on screen. (She’s also in You’re the Worst but I don’t love her character as much in that)

SO GOOD

As someone who had never had a sip of alcohol in their life until college, when I immediately started dating a fraternity dude and got sucked into a lifestyle of binge drinking and drug use - I have to agree. It was literally a GOAL to black out and being sucked into that lifestyle is one of my biggest regrets in…

No, it’s just allllll upper body strength. The heights thing didn’t bother me at all, but pulling yourself up 30-40 ft without your legs to help (we always climbed with legs straight out) left my scrawny 12 year old arms SCREAMING. It wasn’t an event so much as conditioning at the end of a long practice.

Totally. My parents never pushed me that hard, but I remember as I was deciding to quit altogether that there was a sense of “shit, you wasted SO much time (and I wasted SO much money) in this gym, just to quit right before the big time.”

I was a gymnast for years and even I hated the fucking rope climb. I shudder to imagine what I would do if faced with one now. I bet I couldn’t get two feet off the ground.

GREAT great great article, Dvora. I was a competitive gymnast for 10 years (never elite, peaked at level 9) and so much of this hits home. Most of our coaches were men, but I recall one specific coach just giving me, I don’t know how to explain it, but a weird feeling. The way he spoke to us, looked at us, touched us…

Ex-server here too - all I can think is how scared to fuck I’d be. Like “don’t you fuck up Bey’s order don’t you fuck up Bey’s order don’t you fuck up Bey’s orderDONT DO IT OH GOD”

You know what you’re talking about! Thanks for the well-wishes. 24 hours!

People who aren’t camping - that’s for sure. Coachella vet here - seeing girls traipsing into the festival at 6pm looking fresh as daisies makes me unreasonably angry (cause it’s hot as fuck and I smell bad and look worse and am both jealous and judgmental).

Soooo true, but they CAN’T be comfortable. For how hot it is out there none of these outfits are practical. Then again, most of them probably baaaarely hang out in the crowded sweaty sun with us general admission serfs.

I’m 30 and headed to my 11th Coachella this weekend and can’t even wait. Yes the celebrity culture is terrible and I HATE EDM and it’s become aggressively corporatized and the kids need to get off my lawn (literally), but hot damn is it fun. Also, RADIOHEEEADDDDDD!!!!!

Dang it you beat me to it!