Oops, that’s my high school. Favorite quotes bolded:
“Hunkiar said the School District was notified that during that overnight trip to Orlando in December, in which Lincoln High faced Tampa Plant, there were allegations about “inappropriate behavior,” involving the teacher and the student. Nagel was a chaperone on that trip. Lincoln lost the game, 34-14.”
And:
“The boy responded with a text saying, “me too I want to make love right now.” Nagel responded with a text saying, “me too I want you so bad,” according to the records.”
“He was 17 going on 77 officer, I swear!”
2 weeks ago
You said this. SO LOUDLY in the middle as the rest of us stared. I memorized:
One Of You: “One guy got a hundred and twenty thousand just to NOT work for a year.” (Ed note: what?)
The Other Of You: “Shit, I’d do it for 80 thousand! 80 thousand dollars a year to NOT work? I could live off that! I could totally do that!”
One Of You: “It’s still HIGHER THAN THE MEDIAN INCOME! I’d just travel! That’s like a hundred dollars a day just to NOT WORK! I would take that pay cut!”
The Other Of You: “We could work at Whole Foods like, five hours a week. Learn about food and shit.”
One Of You: “I would open a hot dog stand! Can you IMAGINE? How funny would that be?”
Anyway, you looked shockingly normal, but you are the biggest assholes in the world and I almost told you, but just know that everyone on that part of the train made SPECIAL BONDING EYE CONTACT over you. We came together as one. Thank you. Also, you work at McKinsey Consulting, because you said that, and I will forever continue to judge that company based partially on your behavior. Assholes. (Even if it was performance art, which it probably had to be, because it was so goddamn loud.)
2 weeks ago
I was one of the people who was really torn about the whole Jezebel/Lizz Winstead hysterical fiasco last summer. I thought Winstead behaved dishonestly and Moe and Tracie behaved naively, but I think we all agreed that everyone freaked out and made a much bigger deal about it than should ever have been made of anything said or done at a comedy panel show. The only tragedy of that whole thing was that anyone thought those out-of-context quotes represented anything about our generation other than a more sophisticated, and therefore more easily misunderstood, sense of humor than the last. Anyway, almost a year later, and because it’s still being brought up all the time,
Moe responds brilliantly with this essay that, actually, might be one of the most “feminist” things I’ve read in a long time. Be sure to read the whole thing, it really pays off. Excellent.
1 month ago
Because my first entry would be from this interview with Donald Glover, former Comedy Central intern, current 30 Rock writer, and future star of Community on NBC. I was just reading along, feeling happy for him, when this happened:
“The only thing is that now my mom will know that I have a real job. When I was like, “I’m a sketch comedian,” that doesn’t really play for a 37-year-old woman from the South.”
Oh my god, I’m so old.
1 month ago