[Finding Your Roots on PBS] Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Chris Fleming, people think you just came out of nowhere and emerged fully-formed on YouTube in 2012. What if I were to tell you your DNA test shows you’re 70% Miranda July? Chris Fleming: *gets up, removes pants, and slowly starts dancing*

Thinking about the word “isolette” and how it should mean a studio apartment in Paris or a type of lingerie that one purchases solely for their own enjoyment

Teaching my daughter and her anemic boyfriend how to skip stones

Ok, but these interiors

All I want today is a hand written international letter full of gossip.

Never tell anyone they're wrong on the internet. Not even if they're saying "Charlie Brown had hoes." Walk away with your hands in your pockets. Breathe deeply. Go into a bar and order a whisky. So he didn't have hoes; the facts say otherwise. It's not worth your life.

Two foxes ran through our backyard last night and my husband turned to me and said “I bet they’re lovers” and now we can’t stop gossiping about the local wildlife

I cannot tell you how much I needed "Jason Statham Asks Nothing of Me" by Chloe Wilson. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

My dream job is unreliable narrator

she should have been allowed to kill one guy per season

I’m 50 years old and I really thought I’d have a hairstyle by now

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Knowing what day it is is overrated

no one likes cold weather, but it is your best chance to see a field of horses wearing jackets

I've decided my holiday look is going to be "dying poet."

I would describe my style of posting as scrawling something dumb in crayon on cocktail napkin, folding it over several times, and then dropping it through a gloryhole as I walk away wearing really great shoes

I skimmed in and out of a shallow sleep last night with only blips of dreams but here’s one for you: Bath Bourguignon—7 hours over low heat marinating in red wine with carrots & mushrooms and afterward you go lay on top of some mashed potatoes

I am here to tell women you can have it all* *endometriosis and adenomyosis

People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"

An associate told me that after a date he ended up back at the girl's apartment painting her wall. He said she had never painted a wall before so he was trying to help by showing her how. I said, "My man, you got Tom Sawyer'd."

My husband, a teacher, said “today we had parent visitation, which makes them sound like an apparition…”

Tried searching “casual hairstyles for straight hair” and every one of them looked like a fucked-up bridesmaid updo. Searching “Standish Slow Horses” was much better.

Not the big story, of course, but it looks like Epstein typed his emails with his feet

"Oh fuck, here comes Ted in his man-dress."

How your phone looks at you while it monitors your weekly screen time.

You say that you condemn evil, but what if I told you that Satan is a small business owner

Picture it: Martin Short as Minnie Castevet and Cole Escola as Rosemary Woodhouse

If you’re a woman in your 40s or 50s and spend any time online, you will get a lot of perimenopause marketing thrown at you. I certainly do. It’s a crazy time and you can feel like your body is breaking down and your mind is not what it used to be. The promise of hormone therapy sounds great. EXCEPT

You may not have food or healthcare for your children, but did you know that the White House will now have a classy dance floor for nepotistic pedophiles

I'm back from the printer

JD Vance’s baseline tone in all of his interviews is “Jane, you ignorant slut”

I have a great idea for someone who can win the Nobel Peace Prize: Andry José Hernández Romero, the gay Venezuelan asylum seeker sent by the United States to an El Salvadoran torture prison for 125 days, with no due process, & who, afterwards, epitomized grace. english.elpais.com/internationa...

I don't want to be buried in a cemetery, I want to be tried as a witch and given a heretic's death

WHAT: Aaron Esh (spring 2026) OCCASIONS: legerdemain or leaving a single black rose on the pillow of an exiled dictator, causing him to stutter, “they’re b-b-back” when he sees it. IF IT WERE A SCENT: deck of cards, dipped in bourbon, on fire EMOTIONAL RANGE: ruthless/sexypants #MJMfashionGuide

Why is Aaron Esh making such hot clothes? What does he want from us?

Ah, fall, when a young man’s fancy turns to soup.

When they’re extra-high-waisted they’re called boobcut jeans

Is removing the flimsy little jackets from your chickpeas in the DSM?

19 years into marriage, there are still surprises. I just walked into a room and my husband looked up from his sketchbook and said “What’s going on with the word ‘bride’? Why is it so…equestrian?”

I've become a more positive person through lying.

All these dads with their family-canceling headphones

I remember standing on this platform, 40 years ago, reading a paperback of “On the Road” and thinking, God, this guy is so corny.

September 11th haunts me less than it used to and that feels right but also hard to believe. If you’re interested, years ago I wrote down my experience of that day. The Path to Here medium.com/@FeralCrone/...

I don’t know what to make of this but it does make me want to watch some Designing Women www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

Anglophiles love telling you the best sitcom ever is something like "Porridge Lads" (3 seasons, 6 episodes).