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The car of my childhood dreams (well, one of them) just turned up on Facebook Marketplace. Sigh.

Teena Marie x “Young Love”/“Ooh Wee”

So I’ve been experimenting with AI a little bit. #beyondthegates

Whenever I see a Black woman in an off-the-shoulder top now I’m like okay Nicole Dupree

Has anyone said “ándale, àndale, mami, A.I.-A.I., uh-ohhhhh!” yet

I’m screaming that I switched over to live Detroit coverage of the mayor’s race and your cousins were doing the Tamia hustle live on Fox 2

As a Detroiter of a certain age living in NYC, I just need to point out to ~10 of my followers how wild it was seeing his middle name on my ballot today

All’s Fair is trash. I love it.

You guys have no idea the sense of superiority I feel having watched Mississippi Masala on cable TV with my grandma in the early 90s well before its revival a few years ago and definitely well before Election Day in NYC today

“Don’t Say You Don’t Remember” x Beverly Bremers

“Storybook Children” x Bette Midler

Noticing that a wedding date announced in last year’s engagement photoshoot came and went with no update from the photographer and the gift registry link is still active with no purchases made?

Leave-‘em Libra over here. Cutoff game at this age and stage never been stronger.

Not so little cousin just turned 21. Not so little nephew grew like a foot overnight. Dropped one not so little brother off at the airport to fly halfway across the world. Counseled another not so little brother about his job search.

Trying to convince my younger brother, who’s exceptionally good at thrifting (for himself), to open a resale shop full of goods he picks up from his international travels. Or maybe I’m stage-managing and projecting one of my own missed opportunities, idk

Random, does anyone remember that content creator from years ago that had a pet goat that she used to dress up in little outfits, and then the goat passed a few months later and we* (all of Twitter) mourned?

I’m mad I knew exactly what this meant with zero context

I have this vivid memory of telling my grandmother to buy the “Brown Sugar” album for my mom’s birthday at the time. We did not know there was a song called Shit Damn Motherfucker on it until she opened it. My grandmother was like “what did you have me in the store buying?” 😂

Bro we used to plan our imaginary weddings to Nothing Even Matters in 9th grade

Heard a song by that lightskin piano man who made three solid albums before his annoying wife came along and realized the two of them been laying low for a while. They must’ve known they were overstimulating us.

I did a reading with a panel of lovely writers this evening and told the crowd that I was inspired by The First Wives Club followed by “rest in peace Diane Keaton.” The entire crowd gasped because they didn’t know she died until I told them, whoops

So for the record: Remy was Goldie Hawn Troy was Bette Midler …and Dominick was Diane Keaton 😞

“Still Such a Thing” x Gladys Knight & the Pips

Every day of my life is a BTG episode forreal. I wish I could tell y’all more but let’s just say that Vegas, divorced parents, half-siblings and an interracial side plot are also part of my storyline for some reason.

Twice this year in two wildly different cities I’ve been to dinner where a white guy with a guitar played Daniel Caesar’s “Best Part”

I bought this $3 navy blue school uniform sweater from Forman Mills that didn’t quite look right on me, but for $3 I just couldn’t leave it. Turned a cute look a biz lunch by tying it over my shoulders — never sleep on those bargain bin finds, folks.

Seems like folks are finally ready to have a conversation about some of these media industry “networking” events and baby I got my Powerpoint ready

Me and my brother arguing about Cocteau Twins vs Belle and Sebastian. Can you tell we grew up the “different” ones?

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My 2019 MacBook Air just got called “vintage” here at the Genius Bar

One of my good judys went on a date yesterday and the date mentioned reading Boys Come First in their book club. The flex isn’t the book club, the flex is that this isn’t even the first, second or third time that my work has come up when one of the homies is out with someone.

Once again nagging my siblings in the family group chat at an ungodly hour about the joys and wonders of higher learning in East Lansing

My 62-year-old dad is actively dating and said to me that if he can find romance at that age then I shouldn’t have a problem. I reminded him that 1. He is straight 2. His dating pool is future caretakers seeking same 3. Men — him included — lie 4. My dating pool is number 3

One of my little brothers casually announced he’s moving to Minneapolis so guess which annoying eldest brother is about to go DEEP in their Black Midwest history bag?

Cut a line from a bio I wrote about me that read “on any given day, I could be consulting with a newsroom, a nonprofit, a municipality, a publisher, a university, a screenwriter, or a small business — some days more than one of the above.” Thought it was too braggy. But even on a Saturday it’s true.

It’s late enough on this TL that the actors who play Martin and Old Ted both commented on a goofy TikTok I made before my morning coffee, and #BTG’s executive producer laughed at a repost of it on Twitter. So lemme see what CBS’ social team is talking bout.

I’m wrong?

Is this a safe space to express an opinion about um…certain-owned caterers at…um…certain-owned events that do charcuterie and other hors d’oeuvres *directly* on the table with no serving tray? Like on leaves and greenery, or a straight up tablecloth? Y’all know what I’m talking bout right? Just me?

Yall wasn’t supposed to find this lmaoooo

RIP Doug but I can’t wait to see Vanessa to wear a black sleeveless backless bodycon to the funeral #beyondthegates

My almost-80-year-old grandmother — she’s my grandfather’s second wife before y’all start doing math — is getting more active on socials and all I wanna do is go down to her house and get her profile pics together. The IDEA is there but…

Found some 2019 lost media in the deepest cracks of my Google Drive that foreshadowed things to come in my hometown

Getting married in Amiri is wild. #BTG

At dinner last night someone said they were watching “a really old show on Tubi called ‘Damages’”

Somebody asked me who’s the most famous person in my high school class and I said you gotta choose between the passport stamp queen, an actress on a franchise your dad watches but is lying about their age, a mayoral candidate with allegations or Arizona’s leading Black right-wing influencer.

Been embracing the French exit like a mf lately.

We need to slide Billy Dee Williams #BeyondTheGates for a few episodes before…well…you know. He 88.

I’ve done talks or panels at four different schools on UM’s Ann Arbor campus, helped craft an online course there, been a featured guest at least three times at UM Detroit Center, spoke to a UM grad class just this spring…and I went to Michigan State? Now guess how many times MSU has called me back.