My grandmother died recently, and except for sobbing during the interment I have not cried much. Mostly because there have been arrangements to make and details to resolve. Now that a lot of the initial details have been handled and I have started to catch up on things at work, I find myself actually feeling the loss…

Her job...

I feel that he fixed his gaze on a certain type of success at a young age, and he has just marched toward that goal ever since. That takes an amazing degree of self-control and (no pun intended) willpower.

Straight up. I used to wear my (then-recently-deceased) grandfather’s clothes with an armful of Madonna bracelets and created my own pre-Hammer pants/jodhpurs out of parachute pants. You couldn’t tell me that I wasn’t terribly avant-garde.

That is wrong.

That is one elegant lady.

Roy Orbison and Cyndi Lauper did it first (and better).

Kindred ripped me apart. A recognition of just how jarring it would be for any of us to find ourselves in antebellum times.

And that’s why you’re part of the problem.

I was saying I’ve never heard that Joaquin Phoenix has said anything racist. But I don’t remember hearing that about Casey - fuck him, then.

Because I’m an anal-retentive New Yorker, I checked Google Maps - 4 miles is a round trip to Macy’s at Herald Square from the Dakota.

Casey is actually Joaquin Phoenix’ BFF. And while he might be a little “auteur” crazy, I never heard he went on a racism spree like Matt Damon.

I’m pretty embarrassed that I didn’t come to this epiphany until I was 16 or so. At which point I started asking for specific Black female authors, like Maya Angelou. Finally in my 20's, I just started leaving it up to my mother to give me cool Black female authors for Christmas, which is how I encountered Octavia…

Especially since Seamless and Grubhub skim 25% off the top of the delivery person’s tip.

Suck it, Nick Cannon.

I just happened to be listening to Beyonce’s “Dance For You” as I was reading Jezebel at 6:30 am (as one does) and scrolled past those last 2 gifs of Zac Efron dancing at perfect lyrics:

They support “Kids”, dumbass! With Kars!

Idiot fucking people.

I saw him on the street.