I discovered you through Flop House and found you so fun and different, I'm discovering you here and it's just getting better - love getting to know you.
I literally watched that special alone last night (having discovered her because a college friend wrote a profile in the LA Times, so there) and was BLOWN AWAY, and I hate to tell you think as it complicates the whole narrative, but I did think of you! I thought it was the kind of thing I could imagine you making. So there's that. And also I knew not to show it to my husband but I texted a million friends telling them they had to see it immediately.
“Yet I graciously Stockholm Syndrome myself into believing I enjoy the books, movies, and music he holds dear, so why can’t he extend the same fucking courtesy?!” LOL. First time I’ve heard Stockholm Syndrome as a verb.
Really enjoyed this essay. I personally kind of like it when my husband doesn't like the things I like because I can feel superior to him because clearly I am deeper and have better taste than he does.
I can't wait to watch Jacqueline Novak simply based on your recommendation.
and..."And yet I feel like I’m thirteen again, insisting that I alone am the teenager who likes Tori Amos and Conan O’Brien because I’m the only one in my class with their pictures in my locker, only discover years later that there was one of me in every class in every seventh grade in America. And upon discovering it, simultaneously feeling both comforted and foolish for my misguided sense of smug alienation." Hallie!!! The seventh grader who I remember (and I remember both of those things about you THAT MADE YOU UNIQUE (at least unique to your basic English teacher).
I could not love these posts more than I do. So damn funny.
I discovered you through Flop House and found you so fun and different, I'm discovering you here and it's just getting better - love getting to know you.
I literally watched that special alone last night (having discovered her because a college friend wrote a profile in the LA Times, so there) and was BLOWN AWAY, and I hate to tell you think as it complicates the whole narrative, but I did think of you! I thought it was the kind of thing I could imagine you making. So there's that. And also I knew not to show it to my husband but I texted a million friends telling them they had to see it immediately.
STOP COMPLICATING MY NARRATIVE!!!
“Yet I graciously Stockholm Syndrome myself into believing I enjoy the books, movies, and music he holds dear, so why can’t he extend the same fucking courtesy?!” LOL. First time I’ve heard Stockholm Syndrome as a verb.
Barbie is better than Oppenheimer, come on Mr. Haglund!
This is so good!!! (Also Jacqueline's special is so good!)
“ you (I) see yourself (myself) in them, and having someone reject them feels similarly personal” - i see myself in this sentence!!
Really enjoyed this essay. I personally kind of like it when my husband doesn't like the things I like because I can feel superior to him because clearly I am deeper and have better taste than he does.
I can't wait to watch Jacqueline Novak simply based on your recommendation.
and..."And yet I feel like I’m thirteen again, insisting that I alone am the teenager who likes Tori Amos and Conan O’Brien because I’m the only one in my class with their pictures in my locker, only discover years later that there was one of me in every class in every seventh grade in America. And upon discovering it, simultaneously feeling both comforted and foolish for my misguided sense of smug alienation." Hallie!!! The seventh grader who I remember (and I remember both of those things about you THAT MADE YOU UNIQUE (at least unique to your basic English teacher).
I could not love these posts more than I do. So damn funny.