Her moral compass

LOL I can imagine my mom saying “Well, if you just would have called every so often, we could have straightened this all out on the phone.”

A friend supplied the title. I did the simple photoshopping.

What, no Butthole Surfers?

“which consisted of three groups and 18 dogs.” Another lazy “science” article based on a tiny sample size.

I was wondering why Jordan got represented, but the other kingdoms of the Middle East were left out. Is it because Noor was born in the US?

See also: complicated facial hair, tattoo sleeves and ear gauges.

Me too, but if they’re razor thin, Molly bar the door. Adrien Brody is the definition of hot in my fevered brain.

It’s a weird journey and in my experience, you just have to white knuckle your way through urges to call or have any contact with him. Don’t be ashamed, because they will arise. Treat them like the weather - they come, they go, you don’t have to do anything about them.

If you need an online community of fellow PPDers, try Postpartum Progress.

Kalyn’s Kitchen is a great site because it is really well-organized and categorized and has a zillion recipes.

People just don’t understand how hard it is to be a boring white person. Our struggle is great.

I just moved into an apartment with massive windows. I was stressing about what to do for curtains that didn’t cost a million dollars. I had a stroke of genius: cute fabric shower curtains. They look pretty. I even used fancy shower curtain rings to hang them up and hey, they don’t really look shower curtainish at…

At our local big box pharmacy (in a white/latino community) the little shelf of hair products for black hair is listed as “Therapeutic.” I thought for sure they’d bust out the ethnic, but nope. Your hair needs therapy.

DRAGON SEED? WTF?

Marlon Brando in Teahouse of the August Moon:

Can we reframe this? Instead of “OMG she said Black men!” flip the narrative to “Isn’t it great that many Black men don’t seem to have to same sick obsession with thinness that White men do? These men have somehow escaped the view that there is only one acceptable body size. What is it that makes them so mentally…

Basil must be super nutritious, given all the bugs that love to eat it. Every time I have tried to grow it, something has attacked it with voracious fury.

It always creeped me out that he was so insistent that they were his “girlfriends.” Stop writing those checks and see how friendly those girls are...