Good advice. I feel like once a year I try to read the Bible and I get stuck because there are so many passages that go on and on and don’t really lead anywhere. But similarly, the chapter in Moby Dick where Melville describes all the different kinds of whales kept me from finishing that one on I think four different…

The only one I know about is the Broderick one. But at the time he was dating Jennifer Gray and they were on vacation in Ireland and he was driving on the wrong side of the road because he forgot. I wouldn’t say murder but I know she was incredibly traumatized over it and didn’t work for a very long time because if…

It may not have been murder by the legal definition of the word, but I think tailgating someone so closely that your car causes their car to crash in a manner in which they die is kind of murder? You’re operating your vehicle unsafely. Someone is dead. You don’t have to go to jail. You got away with murder.

Me too! I often smile when people tell me about terrible tragedies even though I’m not at all happy... I think my lizard brain is like “this is awful, smile, maybe that will make this person feel better.” This is why I am so impressed by certain actors. I seriously can’t control my face and I don’t know how they…

If you’re really ambitious and career-driven, and at the time of the crime you were confused by it and judging yourself about if you did something wrong and caused it to happen, and you trust your company because you are busting your ass every day to help them and you assume they must care about you too... it’s not an…

Most musicians don’t get rich or even paid... but all the musicians I know personally, know who Beyonce is. Are they pretending that some ZEX super-fans bought the record and sent it to them? Someone they know bought the vinyl version of Lemonade. If you’re a writer, you might not like Jonathan Franzen but you know…

I think a lot of art has to come from people who are really deeply sensitive. Like even to be a mediocre actor you have to be able to emotionally feel like you’re a different person. I’m a non-famous non-artist but I have a similar emotional profile and it does I think often make it difficult for me to cope normally.…

I was an English major back in the day but not Christian so I missed a ton of biblical references. Do I have to read the book of Genesis to like this movie? Not being facetious, actually wondering.

“He picked out a banana and asked if anyone wanted one.”

Removing because I wrote something kinda personal. Hope you’re doing well and that we both do well going forward.

Unless their personalities are total opposites and they can’t manage to get along for more than half an hour and then require some kind of intervention... (Said from being one of those kids who now is very much considering having only one)

But what a success that you’ve raised a child who was able to handle that moment so maturely! She stood up for herself but with compassion and awareness. You deserve to be very proud of your parenting and your kid. 

I saw a mug at a big box store that said “Having a daughter means having a future best friend” or something along those lines and thought holy shit, imagine the horror of having a mother who owned that mug!

It does feel like there should be two different words. They’re very similar — people whose coping mechanisms are self-destructive and compulsive — but they are different. As a former alcoholic, I went through withdrawal many times while trying to quit. In the last one I ended up having a near seizure in a parking lot…

Every neighborhood I’ve lived in, in every city that I’ve lived in, the staff at my bodega have become staples. They stay open during blizzards or storm fronts, they’ll chat with you about life, one guy patted my hand once in a paternal way when I came in clearly in a mess after a big fight with a boyfriend, one woman…

Just listened to this re-broadcast on This American Life about an innocent man who spent 21 years in prison: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/282/diy

My bf is half Norwegian and he’s 6'6". When he’s out of town I’m shocked to remember that at 5'7" I’m not actually short for a woman. The rest of the time I have my neck craned up a lot.

This is a small one from Universal Mother but it got me through a break up so I’ll always love it.

This quote:

deleting because it’s too naive to post