Yep. I used to blog in longform and would find errors months later.

That’s awful. I’m so sorry.

Amen! I am especially proud of him because depression often looks very different in men, in part because of cultural and societal crap. I am sure he got through to a lot more people than he realizes.

Of *course* she was diagnosed in 2001! Her album released in 1999 was so much darker than people realize. /lamb

Her meltdown in 2001, in which she was hospitalized for “exhaustion”, was seen as a mental breakdown, but the narrative in the media was more flippant about it (“’Glitter’” bombs , Mariah Carey is crazy”). When she divorced Nick Cannon, there were rumors that her mental health and drinking were factors. She has never…

That was a great read, thank you!

That’s perfect. I thought it was presented in a way that was detached because Tonya herself was detached as a coping mechanism; abuse and being figuratively crapped on was just her life.

That was a very brave and loving thing you did.

Scenes like that were such a staple in 80s movies that it also seems really unoriginal. Not Another Teen Movie (which Ringwald cameos in this!) even parodies the trope, with the gang of sex-obsessed boys jusssttt missing it and overhearing things like “That was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, Christy.”

And she almost gets eaten by Spider Gremlin! I rented it as a kid to watch by myself and was traumatized for the while afternoon.

Mariah Carey has always been particular about track order. While her 1999 “Rainbow” album has girly cover art and leads off with “Heartbreaker”, much of the album conveys loss and even depression. I offer the final three songs from that album: “Petals” is a poetic and cryptic good-bye (likely to her siblings and…

Truth. Before the “Roseanne” premiere aired, Roseanne and Sara Gilbert had said in interviews that they knew they would reach more homes on network TV than on a streaming service, and the numbers proved them right.

Her second Academy Award nomination! Actors getting their second nom several years after winning an Oscar is one of my favorite things (see also: Helen Hunt for The Sessions, who may have been that same year; Marisa Tomei for In the Bedroom; Benicio del Toro for 21 Grams; et cetera et ceter

I know “Just get up and move” sounds like such empty advice, but LADIES. MINNESOTA IS CALLING YOU. YOU DON’T NEED TO DEAL WITH THIS SHIT.

My mom had about 30 of them and my brother and I re-named most of them. Her favorite was this big giant white bear named Polar. We got a lab puppy when I was five and she chewed the gutters off the side of the house and the basement flooded and they all drowned/were irreparably damaged. It still took my father years…

This reminds me of the part in “Blue Nights” when Joan Didion’s daughter loses her favorite stuffed animal, Happy Bunny, on a trip to Hawaii 😢 Joan even tries to convince her about all the adventures he was probably having.

I walked ten miles to the cineplex at 10:30 PM to see the midnight show of “Step Up”, because my love for Channing after “She’s the Man” knew no bounds. I had a dream that night in which his character, Tyler Gage, was now working at Walgreens with me. My dream did not come true, but I was so sleep-deprived that I…

Ventura ran as third-party (either Reform or Independence). He was also a mayor of Brooklyn Park, MN first.

When you hear his version, she was kind of asking for it.

My brother and I played Where in the U.S.A. so much that we made it to Super Sleuth! All I want is there to be a version on Xbox 360!