LW1: My relationship with my ex is similar in that I do a lot of the parenting grunt work and he has worked inconsistently for... ever (to give him credit, he has worked more steadily over the last couple of years). I am also entirely financially responsible for our son and his needs. He doesn’t pay child support and…

Communication with children about the other parent can be written into custody arrangement if there’s a contentious relationship so that how he talks to the daughter about her mom must fall under certain rules. If he breaks these rules, he can be held in contempt and face consequences.

I’m sure his tell-all, Spice Spice Baby, will be a smashing success.

I hope the baby rebels and becomes a philanthropist who couldn’t care less about celebrity .

Oh god, Dracula. I rewatched it recently and realized it’s borderline parody, but somehow I still have a fondness for it. It’s like a really, really ambitious high school production.

I’m calling it now: that kid will rebel against his or her parents by growing up to become an accountant.

Scott Disick’s house smells like dick cheese, because that’s how I mentally pronounce his last name.

Poor Dark Tower, I have yet to read the books and even I could tell we were getting a xerox of a wikipedia article of a cliff note. If it is still showing in your area, I recommend Atomic Blonde.

There’s an explanation that’s much simpler. To Donald Trump, women aren’t people. So for him, it’s like looking at a room full of tabby cats. Sure, they are all different beings, but you can’t easily tell them apart (and why bother, anyway?).

Oh, Canada.

This is important to my family. My son is half Korean and I can think of one positive representation of Asian men in pop culture *outside of Asia*. Other than Daniel Dae Kim’s roles in Lost and Hawaii Five-O, I can’t think of others. He reads the Calvin Coconut and Alvin Ho chapter books, and I am grateful for those…

Aaand now I’m pregnant

Here is a picture of Ed with his son.

If Trump were a character in a novel, the editor would make you rewrite it because it would too broadly farcical to be taken seriously.

I used to gig sometimes in Topeka, and these assholes would show up at the holiday concerts with signs that called Santa a f*g and said the Nutcracker was a den of sin.

Ahh, but the OED, which we all know supersedes the Cambridge imprint, includes “woah” as a variant. I am, however, completely with you on the “all of a sudden” bit.

<Shudders.> I can only imagine how wretched that must be. Once upon a time, my fellow grad students and I paid our dues by marking freshman (at college/university) term papers. We got through it in part by sharing amongst ourselves the most memorably egregious errors in the young freshman writing. To their credit,…

Copyediting in the QA process is incredibly valuable and worthwhile. I’m sure just about every one of us has worked with a handful of people who seemed to have missed grammar lessons in school and will cite anything they typed into Google Search (yes, including a nameless, faceless, typo-ridden blog post or some…

Now that’s a good idea! I admit, the social piling on does nothing because people who know no better aren’t going to learn anything at all, but the writer, as a professional, might well appreciate the gentler form of correction. I, much like Stan, have learned something today!

Does “All of THE sudden” bother anyone else but me?