Oh Nico! Be well and stay away from the jerk neighbor. Incidentally, I’ve been in Panama for a month, and the only people I’ve seen ignoring the mask mandate here (it’s serious, and you even need to wear one in cars or risk getting fined) are expat Trumpers.

Oh no—fingers crossed on the biopsy, big time. It sounds like you’ve been down this road before, which sucks, but was it something you figure you can deal with again? Either way, I wish you all the best of it.

I’ve never been fond of Walnuts, I must say. What a horrible thing to feel.

Oh this sounds miserable, I’m so sorry your throat is being problematic and that your neighbour is (at best) foolish and (at worst) a straight up asshole.

Hamlet is a great text for hormonal, moody, dramatic teens. I was lucky to have great HS lit teachers across the board, but the man who taught Hamlet made it so fun and relatable it got even the most obstinate kids engaged.

My English teacher did a good job with Shakespeare, in that she told us right at the beginning that everything The Nurse says in Romeo and Juliet is a sex joke. For a 16 year old, that’s a big help.

I still hate Shakespeare. The most overrated writer EVER! 

I was in HS back in the 90s and this is EXACTLY what our HS Academic English teacher did. That, combined with insisting only he could read Falstaff (which he did with gusto & sometimes dirty mimes to emphasize the point), made his Shakespeare classes a joy.

Ow Ow Ow... fuck! It’s so crazy that we allow strangers to beat children when they act out or don’t conform.

I used to think I hated Shakespeare because we had to read it out loud in class and/or memorize portions of Hamlet with little to no explanation. Once I saw them on stage, I found it much more enjoyable.

It has been a little over two years since it was legalized here in Canada. I had to look that up, because it turned out to be one hell of a non-event. The Conversation and The Guardian featured these bookends:

I used to think they should assign more Tennessee Williams in high school because because they’re soap operas with a whiff of legitimate literature and would maybe get teenagers more interested in reading. But I’m guessing that if I examined his work or life with fresh eyes, there are probably...issues. 

My daughter’s AP English teacher apparently hates books by old white dudes that are traditionally taught in British Lit. So they’re reading a great variety of mostly modern British lit by a wide variety of diverse authors and my kid (who is not a kid who enjoys reading) is actually enjoying herself. The same couldn’t…

I run a book club for queer teens, and they are currently LOSING THEIR MINDS. Like. Happy tears and talking about role models and god I am *so glad* they have people like Elliot to look up to.

Hi, I’m someone that was an illegal immigrant in the US for about 9 months.
I came here on a plane. I stayed a lot longer than I should because I liked it, and was never bothered by any form of authority while there. I stole one of your job. I bedded dozens of your women (seriously y’all have a serious issue with…

If he really wanted his moronic wall to have an effect, he should have built it across the concourses of international airports.

Every time I look at Jeffree, all I see is a low-budget, femme Marilyn Manson. There’s nothing - not one thing - attractive about that dead-eyed, slack-jawed glare. (Dare I say he might be prettier if he smiled?)

For most people who think about it for more than five seconds (so probably maybe a third of the Trump base—the kind that doesn’t show up to rallies because they know he’s an embarrassment), the wall was just a symbol. All they really wanted was to treat people more cruelly. They got that, so they’re happy (or at least…

LOL until they see it on Fox News you’re just another libtard presenting hifalootin concepts that they can’t understand and don’t want to understand

OK, I’ll bite. What about the sidewalks?)