“The acrid scent of teenaged boy and desperation”

Good time music ...

It’s been a damn hard day for me too. Went to work just mad and sulky with no fucks to be given anywhere.

To your point about “good people with guns save bad people with guns,” one of the got damn performers at the event noted that his crew was legally licensed to carry, and even THEY realized that in the moment, they…

It’s an unfortunate fact that most media entities (particularly newspapers) have these old dawg columnists who have been at their respective outlets for much too long. I was a small-fry journo for eight years and I swear, I’ve never seen a person younger than 50-ish as a columnist or on the editorial board at these…

RHIANNON!

This a thousand times. Interesting to fall from the top of the food chain (as a white male) and suddenly realize that other groups of people - including your own inclusion as part of the LGBTQ community - are being marginalized.

YES! He really seemed to surround himself with people that he enjoyed and cared about, not only for their craft, but their all-around humanness. I love how many of these incredible clips have surfaced since his passing that allow us to see what a great spirit he was. Good, good stuff.

Agree! Love that tune, and Bruno TOTALLY channeled some Prince in that song.

Magnificent. And totally still in a funk a month-plus later.

Thank you. I’ve really taken my share of hits on this, considering a lot of people can’t quite get past “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” and therefore, think I’m out of my mind for all the weepiness.

I don’t think anything about that is irrational.

Glad to see that I’m not the only one still in serious disbelief and mourning over this, even though it’s been more than a month now. Not sure when this one is gonna stop hurting. 2016 was bad enough. The 2017 hangover is that much worse.

well done.

Know what sucks (aside from, like, all of this)? I read this last night and was SURE we’d have an update today, saying that this evil troll was fired once more. Sad, silly me.

This. Replace ‘cigarettes’ with ‘cold boxes of pizza’ and you’ve summed up my election night newsroom experience for eight years.

Serious (but admittedly superficial) question: how the hell did he end up in the red jersey? The hubby and I flipped the channel around the time of the injury and turned back to hear Nebraska’s Armstrong Jr. was injured ... but he was wearing red like Ohio State tonight.

It frightens me JUST how accurate your portrayal of Trump really is.