Alas, it appears they were “walking tacos” - and the cart was a BBQ cart, not tacos. 

They also seem to be kinda making up for it in Rafe’s antidepressant storyline - showing that going on them doesn’t fix it all. I also think having a firm ending date helps them not have to feel like they need to rush things to an ending.

I'm so happy with Xo's storyline. The fact that she's going through an entire process of being well again, and what that means for her, her relationship, and her own relationship with herself and her body, is so beautifully written and acted. It's something that gets ignored way too often in any cancer/chronic…

One of my biggest issues as a mental health professional with this series is that it taught teenagers that suicide works as revenge against those who wronged you. Some may say, “but that’s silly, who kills themselves to hurt someone else?” Dumb teenagers, in particular, that’s who. I think their attempt at a causal…

I had a student about a year ago who literally did not know what a labor union was. A college student, I should clarify. As the unions died, so did any semblance of workers rights or equity. We ditched them in favor of a money chase for the short term, which leaves most everyone in the dust in the long term.

Sometimes I find myself wondering when I will stop finding Laszlo’s scream of “bat!” prior to transformation funny.

What the hell was up with Lex (I think that was her name?)?

I’m just now getting to this season, so, late BUT you also have to remember, this was a time children could still largely be considered accessories (at least until old enough to talk on things or be part of things). Not too far removed from the Georgia Tann days of adopted babies being a popular accessory for the rich…

When March Madness started I talked with my non-sports aware spouse about how fucked the NCAA is for athletes. And how it basically just makes bank on the backs of mostly impoverished minority kids. And how the way the NCAA feeds into the NBA basically makes them choose - education or a slim chance at making the game…

What’s happening in Nevada is my question.

I feel like when I try the blue method, it’s more frustrating. Maybe it’s because I’m a fat girl, but wrangling the thing in a 180 degree circle is more effort than, I dunno, stretching my arms basically.

Ole Smoky sucks.

I teach in the LA area. College. This is so damn frustrating for me. I teach at a low tier CSU with students who were often told not to attend college, or that they wouldn’t/couldn’t succeed at college, etc.

I was going to write about how 10-ish-year-old me wouldn’t have known/thought of bolt cutters. Then I remembered - it’s not a normal 10-ish-year-old; it’s Louise Belcher. So yeah, weird oversight.

But! If women don’t have pockets and have a male nearby in cargo shorts, he may need the extra pockets to carry her shit.

I’m a professor in the social sciences and feel like I spend half my time talking to my students about the DSM and the other half telling them the social constructionism of psychiatric disease and how diagnosis is often weird/wrong/close but off because of social norms. Last week we talked about how Major Depressive…

99% Invisible did a great episode on pockets and their gendered history!

I had a friend recently get dismissed by a doctor because her 2-day long fever wasn’t long enough or high enough for him to care about. My response was that men die because they won’t see doctors - women die because doctors ignore or trivialize pain. And I cited sources!

“Hey Dad, what are you going to wear to Gene and Mom’s wedding?” “A suit, I guess.”

I don’t even understand what he meant by this.