So I've been told. It sounds great to me. (I have a friend I went to high school with in Texas who lives in Astoria with his girlfriend. He's an actor and improv comedian; she's a burlesque dancer and sometime waitress. I keep telling him Astoria is more suited to their lifestyle than mine. I am an old). But my…

The ridiculous thing is that if they just reversed the layout of the room and put the pulpit at the other end, there would be no problem. Its just a bunch of folding chairs; no pews that have to be unbolted or anything. The other end of the room is next to a fence, not a building, so no one would have to hear it. …

I live next to a church in Bed Stuy. Every Sunday is ruined because even though it is a small storefront building, they use amplified instruments and microphones during their service, which starts at 10 a.m. and ends at an indeterminate time, sometimes 1 p.m., sometimes going until 4 p.m. The sound of drums and bass…

I agree completely. And I am a black woman who moved to Bed Stuy because it was what I could afford and where the brokers showed me when I moved here from Texas with my BFF. I am not the right person for Bed Stuy. I grew up in a whisper quiet suburb in Texas, and the gathering in the front of the bodega, dominoes…

This is so accurate. He has this saturnine beauty, but his voice is what sex would be if it were purely aural.

Strange. I didn't find it hard to get excited at all. Especially after I saw Ken Watanabe. It became miraculously easy after that.

It makes a HUGE difference. People are reacting to this as if she wrote an essay. It's ludicrous if you hear her words, spoken, in context. Speaking in the second person personal, especially about a painful issue from which you need a bit of emotional detachment, is hardly a new form of communication.

Am I the only one here who realizes that Gabby was MAKING A TV APPEARANCE? She DID NOT WRITE THIS; these are her spoken words. In the context of the conversation, it's very clear she's speaking for and about herself, not all women. She's also spoken in the past about how she realized she got a great deal of…

Seriously? Alex Constantine, 9-11 truther and conspiracy theorist who thinks OJ Simpson was set up by the Mafia and the LAPD? Dave McGowan, who believes serial killers are actually government-programmed assassins and that some of the Boston bombing victims had faked injuries as part of some kind of "false flag"…

Keep reading upthread.

Yeah, most contracts have morals clauses, but the language can vary a great deal, especially when it comes to actual behavior versus a social media presence. However, I can't imagine any network is too eager to hear about a star of one of their shows virtually shouting, "Fuck you, fat pussies! We don't need you to…

You should read more of his feed. His vocabulary ascends to the lofty heights of "pussy", "shit-eating", "loser" and "fat-ass". He goes on and on about his adopted black child, holding the kid up like a shield against accusations of racism. And my favorite part is when he stomps his feet and shouts about how he's…

Oh, it's coming. He thinks he's crossed over to the "mainstream", but not to the degree he imagines. The black audiences that loved him because he talked openly and freely of his love for a black woman are not going to be impressed with this. It's sad to say, but she was part of what got him through the door with…

You know how some things are worded just right, and they hit you at just the right place and at just the right time? Yeah, that's your post for me today.

I think I may idolize her...just a little bit.

I've only enjoyed Shutter Island (mainly because of Mark Ruffalo) and The Departed. Gangs of New York was so miscast except for Daniel Day Lewis, who was brilliant. Leo was totally too young for Howard Hughes in The Aviator, and please, please don't let this planned biopic of Sinatra happen!! I wish they would be…

I don't know how I just discovered you, but I have found my people. 60's and 70's Disney rules so hard.

The funny thing is that I was much more into The Smiths, Depeche Mode and Tears for Fears. I only went to the Jam because my best friend wanted to go and I had a crush on her older brother and he'd agreed to take us. These days, she and I are still best friends, I'm godmother to her brother's son, and he still…

Mountain lions, pumas, cougars, catamounts and panthers are names for the same species: Puma concolor. Florida panthers are one of more than 20 subspecies of pumas.

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