The South gets the short shrift because they took a GREAT FOUNDATION (the Geto Boys, OutKast, David Banner, Goodie Mob) & allowed a bunch of “industry insider” OUTSIDERS & y’alls “Cousin Bocepheeus” traffic in cough syrup, “mumble rap”, & a bunch of regional stereotypes that would make Al Jolson & the most fervent…

As a proud recipient of a child tax credit last week, let me say that this shit is awesome! My kids are going to get to participate in extracurriculars that I would otherwise have hesitated in enrolling them in. So not only do my kiddos get the benefits of learning new skills and socializing, but my local economy is…

I’m glad she found him, whipped his ass, got her car back and lived to tell it on video. My friend is laughing at this because a fool stole the battery from my car when the temperature was in the low teens.

Sorry this has been such a shit-show for you. The double-shitty part is that a patient needs to advocate for themselves when they have no fight in them and mostly just want to be in bed.

She was also using a bong and had a tattoo that appeared to be an iron cross, and was with a staffer. Those can speak to if a voter wants her to hold office.

Adding to the fairytale mysticism mentioned in this article, it chilled me when Harry said that he was living off the inheritance his mother left him, that without it his and Meghan’s move would not have been possible. He then said, “She knew.”

Honestly, when she said they took her passport and IDs and would tell her to lay low and not leave even though she had only been out twice in 4 months with a not-very-present husband - I get the Diana comparison. Isolated without a way to get out is some pretty heavy shit and the solitary confinement was a massive…

Neither “Good Bones” nor “Windy City” would exist without heavy, heavy gentrification going on. They kind of nibble around it but it’s super obvious - here’s a “blighted” but “up and coming” neighborhood that “we’re helping to transform!” Good Bones even had the original (Black) owners of one of the houses they did…

Look...I don’ wanna fight with you.

What I’m learning from this discussion is that Jez commenters are a bunch of Buds when the point of that perfect film was that we should all try to open our hearts and minds to the idea of being a little bit more of a Sissy. Not by putting pecans in tuna salad though, I’m not advocating for anything truly obscene.

For that welcome Urban Cowboy reference, Emily, you can put whatever you damn well please in your tuna salad. Yes, even the apple. (Although I would encourage you to reconsider the apple.)

YESSSSSSSS. Actually all my skinny single friends are still foaming at the mouth in anger that I am married and they are not. They honestly think I am less deserving than them. Which is a whooollllleeeee nother issue in itself. 

We are out here! I know every word to every song on this playlist because I was a black girl going through it in the 80s. KROQ was amazing!

In the 80s there was a tiny 3000 watt station located on Long Island (broadcasting from “beautiful downtown Hempstead”) called WLIR (then WDRE), 92.7. They, along with KROQ in LA, were instrumental in breaking so many UK New Wave artists in the US and they helped elevate US New Wave artists too. A really good…

Non-Asian kid here too, in high school in the early eighties. I have no way of speaking to the Asian experience of New Wave, but in my dying industrial town, there was an expectation of a kind of rocker machismo, and maybe an interest in heavy metal. And a lot of social pressure to identify yourself via music. I…

Non-Asian here. As a college kid in the 80’s (who’d unfortunately been too young to fully experience the Disco era,) New Wave was an evolution in the progression of dance music that provided me the opportunity to experience club life. The music was melodic, sophisticated, well-produced and sounded great in clubs. So…

two of the best bands from this period