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Stef Is Watching All "The Real L Word" Episodes to Catch Up

  • Stefanie: Really? this is what you've been watching? all this time? this? i hate everything
  • Riese: yes. it's a sad sad state
  • Stefanie: what the motherfuck. Is this a pottery barn commercial? what the --
  • Riese: like it's not just "oh riese hates everything" it's legitimately terrible. Possibly one of the worst shows you've ever seen in your life.
  • Stefanie: jersey shore is the fucking godfather trilogy compared to this. it's just boring.
  • Riese: yeah, exactly
  • Stefanie: this is our first valentine's day cohabitating. barf
  • Riese: yes.
  • Stefanie: they use good/well improperly in the theme song
  • Riese: yeah there are a lot of problems with that theme song.
  • Stefanie: i'm on episode 3. i feel like i need to witness it. i recall my profound shame the first time i watched the l word, and that is not 1/10 the shame i feel right now
  • Riese: 3 was the worst, i couldn't even write about it. it just made me so sad.
  • Stefanie: oh god the sound editing is so bad. it's killing me. the spliced together dialog is SO OBVIOUS.
  • Riese: I feel like they just had each cast member read a dictionary out loud, and then they just piece together words like magnetic poetry.
  • Stefanie: I heard somewhere that's how jennifer lopez makes an album
real l word
But many have profited from the peddling of the dream of the mass upper middle class. The claim that everyone should go to college served the interests of the educational-industrial complex, from K-12 to the universities, that now serves as an important constituency of the Democratic Party. (Along with Wall Street investment banks, universities provided Barack Obama with his largest campaign donations.) And the claim that everyone needs to pour money into the stock market, to be managed by banks and brokers who fleece their clients, served the interests of the financial-industrial complex that has replaced real-economy businesses as the dominant force in the Republican Party. Both the educators and the brokers have successfully lobbied Congress to subsidize their bloated industries, swelling them even further, by means of tax breaks for student loans and personal retirement savings. The big losers have been the millions of working Americans whom many Democrats and Republicans alike have persuaded, against their interests, to indulge champagne tastes on beer budgets.
The fantasy of a vast upper middle class - Economics - Salon.com
Source: salon.com

Would you be bothered emotionally if someone you were interested in being in a relationship with had had a lot of sexual partners before you? Do you think that is a common concern? I don’t actually know what “a lot” is..

never, and i never have, even back when i was more likely to be the one with less

i don’t think sexual ‘partners’ are so easily quantified.
please run away from the idea
that sex is something quantifiable
or that “partners” is a place to begin to quantify
when it comes to 'sex.’
it’s a scale that makes 5 yrs of making love to the same person equal, in importance, to a drunken fuck with a friend that immediately seemed hilarious/over the next morning
it’s a scale that is outdated

sex is about many different things for different people at different times.
love, adventure, possession, relief, oblivion, revenge, lust, activity, dependence, appreciation, friendship, caring, hating, or anything. sex is about apple turnovers sometimes. but sex is never about numbers, about a hierarchy of numbers


your love had a life before you
this is always the case.
you need to leave room for that, back there
as you go boldly forward,
and find out what happens next

Ask Riese anything

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The elderly in America can remember a long-distant era when progressive thinkers included leaders of organized labor and small-town populist politicians. But nowadays progressive politicians and strategists tend to be affluent meritocrats who got where they are by making good grades at highly selective schools. Their narrow personal experience leads many elite progressives to equate social mobility and increases in income with obtaining academic credentials like their own. While New Deal labor liberals and populists wanted to promote unions and a living wage, many members of the new breed of Ivy League-educated liberal technocrats prefer an alternate plan: send everybody to college.
The fantasy of a vast upper middle class - Economics - Salon.com
Source: salon.com