jennegatron

To Kill a Mockingbird was my favorite childhood book, and I will forever resent my 9th grade english teacher for doing his best to ruin it & Fahrenheit 451, both books I'd read on my own and loved. I remember liking the Great Gastby too, but the only books that stuck with me were Lord of the Flies & Things Fall Apart.

I try to use exclusively use these shakers.

I also agree that marinating/saucing/dressings(especially using dressings as marinade) are seasonings. They were fairly good about seasoning most meats appropriately. Their hamburgers/meatloafs are ludicrously unseasoned, and vegetable dishes rarely have anything going on at all though. I mean I forgive them, because they were accommodating 2 picky children who disliked strong flavors. (I had very serious taco seasoning preferences for a very long time that they, bless them, caved to.) They don't season their mashed potatoes very well either. I hope now that me & my sister are out of the house they add more spices and seasonings to things. I think they would be much happier.

I checked out Catcher in the Rye from the library when I was about 11 or 12, and it might have been the only book I ever quit at that point in my life? I got like 25 pages in and hated Holden so much that I couldn't handle it and quit because he was so insufferable.

I think it's incredibly common for people to not season their food while cooking, especially white Americans. I know my parents didn't season much of the food we ate growing up. Any flavors usually came from sauces/dressings/marinades, unless they were making "ethnic foods" like fajitas or tacos and used those premade seasonings for those things.

This just reminds me that I stopped buying Pokemon cards right before Wizards of the Coast stopped making them so I always do a double take at the more recent cards that look totally different than my entire collection.

My other favorite podcast is Gilmore Guys where they do precisely this with Gilmore Girls.

Part of it may be that I was a teenage girl who bought whole heartedly into the misogyny that was taught to me (and I continue to unpack those feelings regularly) that it would have been very hard for me to work with and acknowledge the gender dynamics occurring in that book. It seems like a good one for grown ups, maybe not for teen me though?

Really? I don't know of anyone who's read it 1. voluntarily and 2. liked it. It's probably the book I hated most in high school as the prose is totally impenetrable as a result of when it was written (to a 15 year old me.) I know that it's important to challenge kids to read things too hard for them so they learn, but there must be a better book for that than The Scarlet Letter. I always felt the messages of hypocrisy and misogyny were better delivered by The Crucible at that age, even though I know it's meant to be an extended metaphor for the McCarthyism. Because of its origins as a stage play, it makes it much easier to engage with the material in a classroom. It's hard to teach literature!

I played Flute & Piccolo through middle school & high school and watched episode one this weekend, and will likely continue as I don't yet have enough anime under my belt to determine what I like and what I don't yet, and the premise alone will sustain me for at least a few more episodes.

O Henry has some really delightful stuff. I remember really liking The Last Leaf. Gift of the Magi, is really delightful even though it's become a culture reference so common as to strip away some of the magic. I have a very hard time judging the quality of Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Scarlet Letter is read in a ton of high school English classes, and it is mostly impenetrable to 15 year olds. I do remember liking Young Goodman Brown though, which is one of short stories we also read. Maybe revisiting The Scarlet Letter now would mean something else. If you like the Ransom of Red Chief, you might like Flannery Conner's work, especially A Good Man is Hard to Find.

My bf co-wrote an academic paper about Juggalo graffiti in Chickasha, OK and compared them to the vikings defacing the Hagia Sophia. Also I wish that Hatred was actually just about Jesus the whole time, just like ICP is.

Turns out the most dangerous game isn't hunting people, it's buying Amiibos. Who would have guessed!

hahahahahahahahaha. (I unapologetically still love the woofs.)

This honestly made me laugh so hard.

Also almost any time Blizzard introduces a new WoW pet the first month or so, they donate like 50% of proceeds to the red cross or another charity.

My bf is a lifelong Cleveland fan, and this is going to be a torturous week and a half living with him because he's going to be so stressed the whole time, especially with the seeming severity of the Kyrie knee injury.

When I try and brush Jellybean, he refuses to stand still, so he just paces back and forth in front of me, rubbing his body on my legs and momentarily pausing to rub his face against the brush. I usually end up emptying the brush of hair about 4-5 times and have another brush-worth stuck to the shins of my pants. This is something I will definitely look into

I was accused of being a robot, and my boyfriend decided my robot name would be jennegatron (my first name is Jenna.) It's a great username because it's close enough to my name that my real life friends know it's me but it's far enough away that my twitter doesn't come up when you search my real name. Also I don't have to compete with anyone else for 'jennegatron' as a username.

one million points to Gryffindor.

You gotta go straight to the source! Smart thinking.

American society stigmatizes sex work in a way that does not allow most people to openly admit to participating. In this case Kim was an unwilling participant when the tape was released without her consent, and was forced to confront that this decision to release it was made without her input. I think it takes a great deal of courage to live your life as you did before when that sort of breach of trust occurs. I think to have a mobile app that children play, a television show that's going on like its 8th season with like 3 spinoffs, and clothing lines at 'wholesome' companies like Sears takes a lot of control. I don't think releasing a sex tape should damage your career, but I'm in an extreme minority in the US. This is entirely off-topic for this particular thread. I encourage everyone to return to discussion of homoerotic bliss.

This is more generally about the 3 Kardashian sisters, not specifically about Kris or Caitlyn Jenner. Most of the disdain I see for them (a la Wil Wheaton saying they're 'worse than Hitler') are incredibly gendered and/or slut shaming. They're women who used the money that their father (one of OJ Simpson's attorneys) made to develop things like clothing lines, cosmetic lines, retail stores, & a media presence that is specifically authored to conform with what they want out of their celebrity status. (Complaints I see most often are "they're only famous because of Kim's sex tape," "They don't even work, why should we care about them?," "They care too much about the appearance and are vain/vapid") Kim managed to turn a betrayal of trust (the release of her sex tape) into a profitable venture for herself. It takes someone with a great deal of media savvy & PR control to do that kind of turnaround. I think Kim is the least interesting sister as she is often incredibly condescending to her sisters, is often over dramatic, and mostly humorless. She is the most famous though. I 100% believe there are genuine criticisms of them & their fame/fortune, but the ones I see are rarely that. (The arguments that are actually compelling to me are things like appropriating Black culture, refusing to criticize Tyga for his predatory behavior in dating their 17 year old sister, etc.)

I have a windows phone so I made my boyfriend who has an android download it and we check on our digital cats together while my real cat tries to eat his copy of Drown by Junot Diaz. (Inspired by real events.)

I have a lot of opinions about the disdain that people express for the Kardashians, and I'm curious if Mangela has any overlaps in feelings.