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May 11 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
never seen a man regret his own life choices like poor beleaguered andy cohen just trying to survive to the end of this #RHONJ reunion
hot take but i sort of feel like the nenes and the teresas actually weaken these franchises because once one housewife becomes a star and thinks she's indispensable and the show can't go on without her, they become exhausting to watch (when the side drama is more fun anyway!)
every other storyline this season was better than "teresa doesn't understand that margaret, who understands how reality television works, did her and luis a solid by handing them a chance for luis to get his side of the story on air and then they would all drop it"
andy's FACE when Jennifer pulls out her giant printed-out tweets

this man HATES HIS LIFE right now

he deserves hazard pay for these reunions, my god
he just leapt to his feet and yelled at them all to shut up because everyone was screaming at once and I feel like he's been holding that in for twelve years

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May 12
I've never been a fan of the concept of "guilty pleasures", but I'm even more strident about it these days. The world is on fire and just being alive right now is exhausting; I would be a shell of a human without the escapism of romance novels, reality TV and Godzilla movies.
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills comes back tonight, and the #podledom podcast which recaps vintage ANTM has reached the "runway across a swimming pool where they have to walk inside a plastic bubble" episode and that's how I'm surviving today's news cycle

no apologies
whatever your thing is, i wish you a merry two-hour pre-bedtime escapism break to give your brain a break so you can sleep tonight and come back to be mad about everything with me on here tomorrow
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May 9
I am old enough to remember when saying anything critical of John McCain on here, both towards the end of his life and after he died, got me absolutely fucking shredded to pieces BY OTHER DEMOCRATS, because everyone was so invested in The Myth of the Good Republicans
it was one of those wild times where the harassment from the left was inexplicably so much meaner, like I'd violated some social norm where we all had to agree to be nice to this one because he'd "saved" "healthcare" (he didn't) so bringing up his past record was bad manners
obviously he is not the worst of them! he never was! but idk I never got past that campaign protester saying "Obama is an Arab" and McCain responding "no ma'am, he is a decent family man and a good citizen" and everyone praising him for it???
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May 9
thinking about why I find "don't get distracted by ____!" discourse so frustrating and realizing it's because it feels like a reproach directed at the wrong people
it's criticizing individuals on here for not having unlimited capacity to follow, or engage in, or protest, or advocate for, EVERY SINGLE THING AT ONCE, when in fact the whole reason we ostensibly have a national party is so that no one person has to be an expert on everything
when Twitter discourse is all about Thing A - maybe because it just blew up or people just learned about it - and you're like "no no no, Thing A is a distraction, you should care more about Thing B," consider whether your newsfeed reacting to new news is really the problem
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May 9
a lawyer friend who walked me through my first contract told me to always send the first draft back with lots of notes and questions, because it's important to signal early on that you're savvy enough to read every word carefully & won't just sign whatever is put in front of you.
I had a great relationship with my publisher, so I told her I truly didn't think I needed to be on the lookout for like, a hidden scam, but she said to approach every contract as if another company could buy them tomorrow and I'd suddenly be doing business with a total stranger
the end result is that, between the fact that the company itself is very ethical and great and really wants us to be successful together, and the fact that we caught a few places where boilerplate language might have accidentally hosed me, my contract terms are *chef's kiss*
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May 8
the thing about protesting at Kavanaugh's house directly is that, by definition, the Supreme Court is set up to give regular citizens absolutely no direct access to the people with control over our lives; you can't call them like you do your senator. it's a huge systemic flaw.
if they truly did live in a vacuum, where NO ONE was able to influence them - not citizens, not lobbyists, not politicians - that would be one thing

but we all know that's not true

lobbyists and politicians CAN get to them, and make demands. we're the only ones who can't.
pretending like SCOTUS is a neutral, dispassionate body isolated from all influencing forces doesn't work anymore (Ginni Thomas thinks the election was stolen! Kennedy's son was Trump's Deutsche Bank guy! who paid off Kavanaugh's debt?), so citizens deserve access to them too.
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May 8
i think of myself as a pretty secure person, but have recently been reminded that i am at my needy, clingy, desperate worst when I am in the phase of writing where the thing isn't yet out in the world but is close enough that i am RAVENOUS for affirmation that it doesn't suck
i am only sane by the grace of the small handful of people who have access to the early draft and live-blog their reactions at me so i can feed on their validation
one thing i really love about alice is that she knows if i send her a draft of something, it's because emotionally and psychologically what i need is for her to read it immediately and then tell me it's great
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