That’s Not Dolly Parton

…and yet it is. We all put our faces on when we go out on the town, and that, in a sense, is who we “are”. I don’t wear an HE face but I do work on the hair until it’s just so. I’ll spare you the regimen but it’s complicated. The idea is to present an appearance of tousled, casually styled 30something hair without appearing to have gone to a great amount of effort.

Appalling Taste

Will you look at that flaming eyesore of a jacket or shirt that Travis Kelce is wearing? Red, white and green blobs on a black background? It’s a clown garment.

@thatnursetina I’m at work happy crying like a little bawl bag rn, hiw about everybody else? #greenscreen #greenscreenvideo #CapCut #สปีดสโลว์ #สโลว์สมูท #Meme #VozDosCriadores #screammovie #WheneverWherever #fyp #trending #chiefs #chiefskingdom #kansascity #kansascitychiefs #byeweek #traviskelce #kelce #kelcetok #taylorswift #swift #swifties ♬ Lover – Taylor Swift

I Don’t Feel Safe

…around people who say “see this movie only with people you feel safe with.”

What might happen of an unwelcome nature if you were to see, say, an ethnically-focused film with someone or a group of people you didn’t feel “safe” with? What would these imagined threat people do that might mess with your heads or feelings? How would they malign your viewing experience?

Remember that 20something TikTok woman who called upon white moviegoers to not attend commercial showings of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever on opening night?

I’ve been watching films all my life (starting at age four or five) without knowing or caring to know if people sitting around me were “safe” or not. As long as they don’t talk or text or take their smelly shoes off I can watch films with anyone.

I Don’t Want Biden To Die

Because I really don’t want Kamala Harris to take over. Really. I’m a center-lefty (i.e., a centrist with a classic liberal history before the scourge of wokeism) but I’d honestly feel better about Nikki Haley. She’s a better candidate now than Harris was in ‘19 and early ‘20.

“That’s the one thing that Democrats and Republicans have in common — they’re both waiting for their [likeliest Presidential] candidates to die.” — Bill Maher monologue, 11.10.23.