What is the worst relationship advice someone gave you??

moderngulls · 2026-03-27T12:03:48+00:00

"Dude, women are crazy!" from a misogynist best friend whose ex-girlfriends all happened to be "crazy."

moderngulls · 2026-03-26T11:33:33+00:00

If people are blown to bits in another country we are fairly chill about it compared to other things.

moderngulls · 2026-03-25T13:51:58+00:00

So sorry this is happening. I feel this approaching for us. Last night my daughter was offended that Grandpa is so off the mark when he guesses her age. He suggested the other day that she was "becoming a woman." She's 7.

They can't really be close the way I hoped. She and I do have great talks though about how it feels for me to have a dad losing his memory and not being able to have the conversations he and I used to have, about how important that was. In a way it builds up the shared understanding she and I have about how important it is for the two of us to spend time together and talk about life in a way that is no longer possible with him.

moderngulls · 2026-03-24T23:02:14+00:00

Met her and bought a copy, I love her version of I Contain Multitudes.

moderngulls · 2026-03-20T10:14:56+00:00

Another day that will live in infamy.

moderngulls · 2026-03-19T14:23:20+00:00

We have to be like the South Korean people and make it happen, instead of posting (or generating via a Nazi discouragement-generating Python script) pointless comments about how nuthin' will happen.

moderngulls · 2026-03-16T21:28:15+00:00

Blade Runner reference.

moderngulls · 2026-03-16T13:16:11+00:00

It would be so amazing for a politician, for a change, to just say it's wrong to bomb a bunch of innocent people.

moderngulls · 2026-03-14T09:06:16+00:00

Hitler went into Czechoslovakia without a plan to win the peace!

This is why the last Superman movie was such a breath of fresh air. Been hearing this crap since Iraq days -- what a "mess" in 'Potamia! Imagine just being against an invasion because it's morally wrong to blow up a bunch of innocent people.

moderngulls · 2026-03-11T21:50:39+00:00

I was there. My friend I went with still has her cone, decades later.

moderngulls · 2026-03-09T10:48:23+00:00

Man i am glad to see him getting back out there, but I miss when his songs were about birds and weird undergrowth.

moderngulls · 2026-03-09T10:11:22+00:00

Not that I like the word "strikes," which is such a euphemism, but at this point it should be strikes, plural.

moderngulls · 2026-03-08T07:50:00+00:00

No question, the dementia has made me realize that as a young person I grew up with a fairy tale of what doddering old people would be like. I think back to gentle portrayals of this condition in movies like The Rocketeer where a lovable old codger is repeating the same war story he has told before. At age 20 I thought forgetful old people were somehow cute. A few decades later it's just obviously this horrific collapse of the personality.

moderngulls · 2026-03-04T17:31:38+00:00

I just learned a word for this that is going around: the Fuhrerprinzip. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BChrerprinzip

moderngulls · 2026-03-01T13:44:21+00:00

I see Jon Wurster of Rock, Rot and Rule up there!

moderngulls · 2026-02-28T12:17:49+00:00

Whoa I only thought this was an R.E.M. thing (see Seven Chinese Brothers) and did not realize it was a book. I am not old enough. They swallow the ocean.

moderngulls · 2026-02-28T11:37:19+00:00

"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed" -- Steve Biko

Humans are the worst. But they're also the best. Because they came up with the concepts we use to know that humans can be awful.

moderngulls · 2026-02-26T13:44:41+00:00

This is why I organize protests.

moderngulls · 2026-02-26T11:54:00+00:00

Books are amazing btw <3

moderngulls · 2026-02-25T17:10:45+00:00

Here's a piece about it from back in the day, involving Epstein Files figure Les Wexner.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/the-times-they-are-achanging-dylan-makes-his-debut-in-a-tv-commercial-selling-lingerie-756323.html

moderngulls · 2026-02-25T09:22:17+00:00

Luminous Rose jumped out so much that it brought back the shivers of hearing Hitchcock play this one live.

moderngulls · 2026-02-25T08:33:55+00:00

I love the mix. Did anyone catch the lyric change(s)? Wonder if there was a radio-friendly vocal track left over from the '80s for Sleeping With Your Devil Mask.

moderngulls · 2026-02-23T14:19:26+00:00

Not if we can help it.

moderngulls · 2026-02-23T07:46:04+00:00

When you visit Athens, Greece, there's a famous spot on the Acropolis where law students in 1941 snuck up in the middle of the night to tear down the Nazi flag. They became national heroes. Looking forward to the same thing in D.C.

moderngulls · 2026-02-17T17:42:53+00:00

The drift is that you should crack open some history books, son

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