Mom called tonight. Just ... wiped out, honestly. She's tired of the news cycle, tired of the dumpster fire ... and she just needed to vent and needed me to distract her. Can't say I really succeeded. But, I tried ( Read more... )

Today, the news "broke" on this scandal about people bribing colleges to get their kids in. And don't take my quotation marks as me being flippant because this is a big fucking deal. Usually, people just bribe colleges by offering huge donations and in return, your dumbass kid gets to go to their stupid school. I'm a legacy admit at Harvard. I mean ( Read more... )

Why yes, I'm still bruising myself up on the regular. It's led to some interesting and thoughtful conversations with me and James, though. Because Derby is hardly a soft sport. We get thrown around and we get roughed up and if guys in practical full body armor have issues without even suffering a concussion, what does it mean for those of us ( Read more... )

Tonight has been a musical journey. We started on Greta Van Fleet and have made our way down this amazing rabbit hole on Spotify and now we've got Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah's jazz album going and holy crap this is one of the most brilliant journey's either of us have ever been on. He's a hot ass trumpet player who just ... this is... Like. ( Read more... )

Over the next two and a half days, I'm pulling in at least 24 hours at the bar. It will probably be more like 30. Locked my computer and headed out of work and I'm on my way down ( Read more... )

So, one of the best parts of my job is getting to work with the Rock and Roll Camp for Girls and the ones here are amazing. They encourage trans and non-binary kids into the group and they really work on self-esteem and confidence as much as they put instruments into the hands of the girls ( Read more... )

1. Despite what my lovely boyfriend thinks, it is not in fact Tom Brady's fault that he's so good and plays for the team he plays for. Now, it is his fault that he's a lowlife asshole and it kills me that my team is led by him ( Read more... )

No one is going to pretend that Puerto Rico has recovered from Maria. That in the year and a half since the island was destroyed they are up and running in 100% perfection and the world is fun and sweet and the tourists aren't draining the island resources to be maintained while the poorest areas are still putting things back together. Don't ever ( Read more... )

That's a paraphrase on a famous quote from Shirley Chisholm. She was one of my mother's heroes when she entered political life and remains so to this day. My mom has the real quote over the door in her office, and it is always on her campaign materials ( Read more... )

But we might have found a place. We can't get away from the gentrification of certain areas of Brooklyn, but we keep coming back to this one apartment that just fits for us. So ... cross fingers. It hits all our sexy points. Well, most of them. I think the only way we would get 100% of everything we wanted was to either move to that cave James is ( Read more... )