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Well, the dogs are obvs the best part of this show, and I kept noticing that they were cutting away to the dogs a LOT, like waaaay more than you’d think was reasonable. Especially in that scene w/ Rose and Nat when Rose is setting up the stripper party. And the way I saw it, it was like the editors either: 1) had to cover weird cuts in action or audio and figured dogs were the cutest way to do so because there was nothing else in the kitchen to cut away to, and/or 2) the dogs are a nod to the viewer. Like Rose’s dog had this amazing look on its face when she was plotting the sneaky stripper party, as if to say “Get a load of this! I’m on to you! You’re on tv, you know that right?” I feel like the dogs are totally characters on the show. Or my dogological clock is just barking, and I’m projecting my desire to own a dog on the dogs on the show.
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what is the best/worst part of having kids? is it as scary as it seems?

IT’S TERRIFYING.
have you ever owned a fish? it’s a lot like fish ownership, in that, at first, you have no idea what to do and like HOW MUCH FOOD IS TOO MUCH FOOD and they can’t talk or really do anything and you can’t train them and you have to buy SO MANY THINGS.
except, unlike fish ownership, you get no sleep for 6+ months.
then they’re more like puppies, so you can attempt to ‘train’ them, but it’s also like training yourself. at least they can communicate when they’re hungry.
then they turn into REAL PEOPLE with SENTENCES and you’re like WHAT THE HELL. IT SPEAKS.
and then the real fun begins.

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Audio only gets choppy like that when you start cutting it up. If you only hear it, and the person isn’t on screen saying it, chances are it’s ’cause edits are in there. A rule of editing: there’s usually a reason for the cut, especially in docu-shooting. It could be innocent, like they cut out unnecessary things to save time. But when there are a ton of stops/stutters/pops in ONE SENTENCE, that really seems suspect to me. And the more choppy, the harder it is to fix in an audio mix. So when Mikey is saying something off-camera, under a bunch of b-roll, and it sounds like a Speak-and-Spell, you should assume that sentence wasn’t entirely like that when she recorded it. It could still mean the same in the end, but also… it could not.
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I am starting to apply for colleges, and one of the essay topics was to describe a current event that impacts you, your family, your peers, and/or your generation. I was considering writing about the Ugandan anti-gay bill, do you think it’s a good topic?

it is easiest to write from your truth, so if that impacted you in a real way you have lots of honest feelings/details about it, then ROCK IT

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When the time
comes to
stop I’ll
have stopped
already so many times
I won’t know how
to wind down.

I couldn’t
believe in
God because
I don’t feel taken
care of.

If some-
thing is
taking care of
me & all
of us
it better
hold us tight
& not
say a
word.
It better
love me
me tonight
for saying
these words
for it.

from “Everything’s House” by Eileen Myles