I feel like the only person in the world who thinks Junot Diaz is vastly overrated. He creates great protagonists and then disservices them by playing them out blandly. I wanted to like, because I saw the spark but felt no depth.

You weren’t a bad person then, and you know more so you can be an even better person now. Good on you. That’s the best part of getting older. In fact, that’s the whole point of it.

After a few people close to me entered 12 step programs, I learned to not urge someone who refuses a cocktail to imbibe. But I used to do it all the time. Because I didn’t know any better. Now I know better and don’t.

I like your optimism that universities won’t follow the free press’ place behind the crosshair.

Nah. I’m bipolar and I’ve never crowed that the Holocaust was a two-way street.

Yeah, it’s the bombs and capitalism and platform heels.
/S/

Anybody else read the Isabella Blow by her widower?

All bartenders will give you water. The point of the water cooler is you’re not taking up the bartenders time for a water when other people are waiting.

This is my favourite quote.

2018*

I mentioned upthread, but will say it again:

Podcast: We Couldn’t Help but Wonder.

This. Cheap clothes in bold colours look even cheaper. Black can go a long way to hide some of the markers of cheapness.

Meth makes you unstable.
“I was fucked up on methamphetamine, so go easy on me” is not a decent mitigating factor.

I thought of cocaine first. Maybe it’s crying. I’d say a cold, but a cold doesn’t make the rest of your skin look spotty like that.

That’s not a diamond. That’s all I have to say about it.

Don’t know where to send this but—
Watch the Toronto cops facing of with Alek Manessian on Monday. With the cops’ guns drawn he moves two or three times to deliberately make it look like he is very quickly pulling a weapon on them—he was trying to get them to shoot. The police involved either were not willing to shoot…

I’m Canadian. My sister visited Denver at 14, got heat stroke and fainted. Because of her age they took her to a hospital where they discussed an IV but determined it was unneeded when her pulse was fine after about 90minutes. She got water and 4 aspirin to take home. The bill was $800 in 1996 money. My dad had gotten…

For-profit medical care is a passive-aggressive form of extortion.
Full stop.

I really think that the Toronto terrorist who killed 10 an injured 13 with his rental van, after stating his anger against women as an “incel” (involuntarily celibate) is a case of interest on Jezebel. I mean, all three Kanye articles today were stellar, but maybe this, now.