With today’s confirmation of Betsy “Guns & Grizzlies in the Schools” DeVos, it feels as though public schools and education as a whole are under attack by the the Fascist Turnip and his gang of…
Date Archives 2017
C’mere, Pooty Poo, I Want to Pet Your Butt
Through a series of circumstances, travel plans, and other things that are too complicated (and boring to anyone who isn’t me), Walter lives with me now. At least he lives with me now until June….
An After-School Special Wrapped in a Mystery
Over the holidays I read Karin Slaughter’s Pretty Girls a gritty mystery that made me think, for the first time, “oof, this needs to come with a trigger warning.” Even so, I enjoyed the mystery…
This is How You Make a 15-year-old Feel Old, Apparently
Yesterday I had to haul out my external hard drive so I could dig up some toddler pictures of my nephew Maxwell for his senior all night party. Did you know that Maxwell is a…
Where Did Y’All Get the Money to Buy All Those Records When You Were Teenagers?
The other night as Sister #2 was leaving Supergenius HQ, I was talking about what albums I might include on that Teenage Albums thing going around Facebook like a nasty virus. In case it has…
Frivolous, He Said.
Last night, I sat under a blanket watching the Golden Globes (ASIDE: It appears I cannot type blanket without typing blankey first, which is really weird because I never really utter the word blankey, not…