Seems like the right thing to do is to hold the festival but not market it as anything special. Have the people they’ve chosen, but quit tooting their own horn about how woke you are. I know that won’t happen because “What’s the point of focusing on minorities if we can’t leverage it?”

I was at a music tech conference a couple of years ago in Berlin. Nothing in any of the materials about the conference mentioned gender (though there was a fairly strongly worded policy statement about harassment etc.). It was only toward the end of the first of 3 days that I noticed that EVERY panel and EVERY…

Also: Netflix booted Danny Masterson off ‘The Ranch’. took them long enough...

“Go use your pitchfork to go after Trump and Moore”

That’s terrible- I’m sorry to hear that. It is interesting that the gentrification of traditionally Black neighborhoods has been met with little pushback, if not embraced. Now if only I could afford that Craftsman in West Adams...

This type of transition, I am guessing.

Stuffing is evil, and it will ruin a perfectly good turkey.

It provides a lump of dense, moist mass in the largest part of the turkey. In order to cook the turkey properly, the stuffing must be undercooked, which presents a massive salmonella risk, given how long turkeys are put in the oven. To cook the stuffing…

oh man, i have a TERRIBLE fear of spiders but one time i was in the shower and saw one in the far corner and said to it, out loud, “ok dude, if you stay there, you get to live”. what does that MOTHERFUCKER DO?! he walks along the wall towards me! i was like WTF ARE YOU DOING! then it JUMPED ON ME!!! i screamed and…

As far as curses go, that’s a pretty work-appropriate one.

Even in more rural places where you could have a bear going through your trash or on your porch fucking up your screen door, at least they aren’t poisonous, or small enough to sneak into your house and hide on your ceiling or under your toilet seat. If there’s a bear in your house, you’re going to know. It won’t be a…

God. ‘The footsteps of a giant spider’, maybe worse than anything Conan Doyle ever imagined!

This comment section is more terrifying than Jezebel Halloween, I swear to fucking god I am sitting here with chills, creepy crawlies and squirmy-wormies. I WOULD RATHER BE HAUNTED BY MURDER GHOSTS FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE THAN GO THROUGH ANY OF THE SHIT I AM READING HERE TONIGHT.

Good. I wish EVERYONE who claims to be feminist or progressive would sever ties. I’ll never forget the Jia Tolentino piece on Jezebel which in my very humble opinion did not go far enough at all, and the scores of commenters who were willing to give Lena pass after motherfucking pass despite example after…

Lena Dunham has proven time and again she’s a racist piece of shit and I am by no means compelled to give her the benefit of the doubt. She doesn’t deserve it.

How she acted afterwards does not denote whether or not it happened and is not itself proof.

thank you for being a librarian/working in a library. Librarians, in my experience, are the moral compass of the public commons.

Fuck off, Lena.

I’m not surprised that Lena Dunham decided to defend a rapist. Lena is just an asshole. I’m glad Asia Argento called her out on the bullshit.

Bread and butter issues. Traffic. Water. Housing. Garbage pickup. Animal control. Snow removal. This is what politics needs to get back to - government, not squabbling at each other.