I had this issue with one of my friends. I told her (nicely) that it wasn’t fair for her to make me go through this every time where I had to come up with the work of coming up with the names of places so she could veto them all until I finally came up with a place agreeable to her. Of course, just being friends, we…

How about a list of artists who do these covers so we can buy some of them? I could care less about most of the movies, but I love these covers and they are almost never any part of the actual movie or soundtrack.

My worst review ever came after a lateral transfer at the first job I ever had. At the 30 day mark, they called me in for a surprise meeting and told me all the things that I was doing wrong. Not one of which had ever been communicated to my face. Such as the policy against eating at your desk. And one of their…

If those boots were the thigh-high socks that I thought they were from the picture above the jump, I would totally buy those. I can’t take underwear fashion shows seriously, even if they dressed the models in bras that actually fit correctly. It’s no wonder American women all wear the wrong sized bra, when all we…

This seems pertinent

One of my brother’s employees was a truck driver before working for my brother. He used to make $60k a year, on average. When my brother had to lay off all of his employees, he went back to truck driving. Now he gets about $30k per year. He says its because of NAFTA. It used to be that Mexican bus drivers had to…

I don’t understand why taxpayers don’t drum elected representatives who vote for taxpayers to financially assist a billion dollar industry out on their ear. No money for urgently needed infrastructure repairs, for failing schools, for the social safety net, but plenty of money for a monopoly owned by billionaires who…

When we don’t have a nursing mother on staff, I have used the “health room” when I have a migraine because it’s quiet with adjustable lighting. It has both a desk with full docking station and some comfortable overstuffed armchairs. Employees of both genders use it this way from time to time. We haven’t had more than…

I’ve been using Carmindy’s “five minute face.” I’ve been doing it for years and it still takes me 10 to 15 minutes. But it gives me the no-makeup look required for office wear.

I always enjoy your column and am just replying to let you know that I am totally stealing this line:

Thank you for this article. I never learned about the internments in school. I learned about them from James Michener’s novel Hawaii, which I read in Junior High. When I started working in the 80's, my first job was working for the Japanese practice of a Big 8 accounting firm. Many of the people working there had…

What show is this? It’s great!

I don’t see how it will help his professional reputation if it is discovered that 100% of his affairs were consensual. It still shows a pattern of a professor sleeping with his students which I would think would be sufficient grounds for termination.

In my experience, people with untreated mental illness are considerably less productive. I think this idea is a rationalization for not seeking treatment.

I didn’t know this about Pollock. I watched the biopic because I have always loved his art and learned only that he was an incredible asshole that was supposed to get a pass on this because of his great talent. I really hated that movie.

Yes, the broadly used and incorrect definition of selling out would include anyone lucky enough to win one of the few artist-in-residence position, or get a commission for any government-sponsored project. If you value art, you care that artists get paid, whether painters, sculptors or comic book illustrators. It’s…

I like to tell myself that maybe Da Vinci didn’t even like Mona Lisa. Art that pays doesn’t have to mean bad art. I hope that you make enough money that you can fit in a passion project soon!

I would really love this idea to die in a fire. All great artists in history had, at the least, a wealthy patron, if not an institution, funding them as you discussed. Starving artists all have to give up art. Everyone knows Van Gogh, but people forget that he only survived because his brother supported him.

When the cartoon version came out, my roommate and I both felt that they owed a writing credit to Robin McKinley. Looks like they took even more from her for this live action version.

While I agree that the narrative of “poor white Trump voters” needs to die (everyone that I know who voted for him makes megabucks), I don’t agree that middle class, even upper middle class people, can’t have economic worries. Most of my friends and I are college educated and make decent money (nowhere near six…