Listling Without Commentary: Conversations I Had While Watching the L Word for the First Time
Carmen: i lost my life
Carmen: i’ve lost my life
Carmen: i lost my life
Carmen: i’ve lost my life
This episode is all over the place, but Betty from Bomb Girls tries to cop a feel. So there’s that.
Who’s short, stout and delicious?
Come take a walk on the wild side (switchblade not included) to explore the evil anti-heroine from Pretty Persuasion and why I love her.
“I was angry. Really fucking angry. Angry because Jenny Schecter was right.”
Wow, Star Trek, you really know how to tackle those hard issues. Unfortunately, I think the show creators handled the issue of mail-order brides and human trafficking with ZERO TACT.
“After DOMA, one would think this would be the best time for activists to shine a light on other issues, such as hate crimes against LGBT people. But that hasn’t proven to be the case, at least in New York.”
Generally speaking, I only compile new music for you every month or so, but this week I unexpectedly became aware of an unusually large amount of excellent new songs that washed ashore with messages and/or tiny ships cleverly jammed inside.
Turns out that when you create the first ever show with a cast of almost all queer women, and do it on a cable channel that allows multiple scenes of what just barely misses qualifying as porn in every episode, we gays get resourceful.
BDSM is super hot, drive, how sex makes you smarter, being a sex researcher and more.
Take a deep breath and get real high.
“Seriously, why the fuck is Ashley on this show?”
This week on the show that no one besides me and Stef are talking about, it must be lunchtime at this shoddily constructed preschool of a mansion, because everyone’s throwing tantrums and Farrah’s fibbing to the class. James Deen was not your boyfriend, sweetheart.
“She’s hoping to find out who killed Nan, which is a waste of spell if you ask me. There are like, four other people in the house with you, girl. One of them is crying and the other is playing a theremin. Do the math!”
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