Chappelle’s special is very good, you should watch it. It’s not the same kind of humor as his early stuff, it’s more in-depth storytelling than punch-down/impression-based jokes. He’s grown up too, evolved as a person and clearly worked really hard on this new style of stand up.

My grandmother was born in a 2 room cabin on an isolated reservation in North Dakota. She was raised there with her 11 brothers and sisters, where they farmed and hunted for food. It was a rough life, as you can imagine. She ate potato peelings in the winter from the neighbors garbage but she tells that story fondly.…

I predict the event will just be Hope Hicks throwing raw eggs at passing children while Stephen Miller shrieks “ENJOY YOUR LAST BIG GOVERNMENT HANDOUT, DICKBAGS!”

Please, please don’t let our 2020 nominee be O’Malley, Chaffee or Webb. Those three dudes have the combined charm of a lizard fart.

Psh, I feel like if you have a baby at 51, you deserve $500 million, no matter who you are. If Janet is the only one to ever get it, at least one woman has.

My sister was flying Delta on Friday and was delayed 12+ hours, which was pretty mild compared to what other people were experiencing. When her flight was canceled for the third time, the woman next to her (who had been in the airport for TWO DAYS on a layover) completely lost it. She started screaming and unloading…

That’s insane. Waiting for a tractor at 4am is supposed to be like...a farm thing. My sister was trying to fly to Las Vegas on Friday to console a friend who just lost her husband. Her flight was a 1pm but after 3 cancelations, 3 near-misses on standby and her flight getting rebooked the day after it was suppsoed to…

Yes! A friend of mine who grew up in Jaipur said when he was a baby, his mother left him on a balcony and a female monkey tried to take him. She dropped him when his mother threw a shoe and he ended up with a broken arm, but at least a human mother.

I think it’s Mad Dog Mattis leading this charge and I’m okay with that. He makes me feel safe. Trump/Kush/Tiller & co. make me feel panic like I’m floating in murky water at night and something big has just brushed against my leg.

This is just a wacky aside but every once in a while, I pop over to Brietbart to check in on the spin and gawk at the latest conspiracies the commentariat is pushing.

Right?? It drives me insane when people treat the Founding Fathers like a holy cabal of ancient gods who handed down tablets from on high. No man (or group of men) is so wise that their words can’t be questioned, that they shouldn’t be challenged. These dudes had some great ideals of freedom but those ideals were…

One of my friends discovered her husband had cheated on her (with like, dozens of women) when she was diagnosed with cervical cancer, caused by HPV. He traveled for work a lot but they seemed to have a happy marriage, she never even suspected him. I remember talking to her before she told him of her diagnoses,…

Bannon looks like a beached whale carcass, slowly thawing after a long winter.

I also started shopping there about 6 or 7 years ago. At the time, I was taking care of my mom while she was going through chemo and it was a genuine escape to browse through their new, quirky clothes every day. I wasn’t much of a fashionista (a true sweatshirt and jeans girl) so I HATED clothes shopping because I…

That’s a good point, and it does lend one to think that she and Jane would be the more natural besties (I mean, I love the chemistry between Reese, Shailene and Nicole but the age/experience gap is pretty significant). My mom made the hilarious observation during a scene at Bonnie and Nathan’s house that theirs was…

Ahhh, the thought of it being Ed is chilling. And it still would have been great for Bonnie to kill him too, to protect Maddy and her daughters. I hate that ending because I love Maddy, Chloe and Abigail too much to think of them living with that but wow, much better twist. Great call on the beard detail.

Ohhhh, you make a great point! They refer to their daughter ‘spending time with her half sister’ who I just assumed was Chloe because they were standing at the elementary school but it makes WAY more sense for Abigail to be the subject. Otherwise they would have said ‘sisters’. And also the fact that the two girls…

If this is the last Jez piece about BLL for a while - can I just ask you guys for some downloading/follow-up?

Oh my god, I cheered so loud for Renata when she goofily banged on that car window. Setting her up her intrusive, obnoxious behavior was absolutely perfect because it was used as comic relief the whole series and in that moment, it was Celeste’s salvation. Such good storytelling.

I watched the finale with my mom last night and it evoked so much emotion. We ended up talking for hours about the death of my abusive father and how fucking cathartic, almost primal, it felt to see the maenads defend Celeste and the village’s victorious celebration on the beach.