Woot! I hope they have a blast.

I hope they have a good visit, flea.

Owen is now DRIVING to summer school. Because he failed every online class last semester. But he has a summer job and is planning on doing well next year. The online pedagogical model is not for him. Oliver passed and is planning two weeks as a counselor in training at summer camp.

Excellent child launching, flea! May they have a bonny good time in Boston.

Take your mulligan, O. This year was shite.

I'm ramping up my social schedule and it's good! Yesterday I had drinks with my friend Michelle, who is the mother of Matilda's friend, Cat. We try to get together quarterly for cocktails and catching up but had missed Winter (due to lockdown) and Spring (due to...business). But I went over to their house, and we sat on their beautiful third story deck, and her husband, Paolo, made cocktails for us (Thai Basil gimlets). Michelle is the one soccer parent I've managed to "keep" long after that activity.

And this morning I'm taking Emmett's bestie, Joey, out to brunch. He's a starving student teacher living in the city, and a cinephile. I'm taking him to Zazie and introducing him to Gingerbread pancakes.

ION, I was reading this tidbit in Variety and I wanted to share my outrage. They vetoed the producers of Harley Quinn from letting Batman go down on Catwoman!

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“Harley Quinn” is also unique among the current crop of comic content in that its main character and all of her closest allies are villains rather than heroes in the DC canon. That allows the show to do different things with the characters that heroes simply cannot do — at least according to DC.

“It’s incredibly gratifying and free to be using characters that are considered villains because you just have so much more leeway,” says Halpern. “A perfect example of that is in this third season of ‘Harley’ [when] we had a moment where Batman was going down on Catwoman. And DC was like, ‘You can’t do that. You absolutely cannot do that.’ They’re like, ‘Heroes don’t do that.’ So, we said, ‘Are you saying heroes are just selfish lovers?’ They were like, ‘No, it’s that we sell consumer toys for heroes. It’s hard to sell a toy if Batman is also going down on someone.’”

Who knows, they might have extended their toy sales into the teen market.

...or even the "Adult" market!

Not following the logic there, DC

Yeah, I pity the wives of those executives. Damn.

I am working on a new project at work and it is bananas. I just want to hide under the covers and yell “no!” But instead I have to escalate concerns and address client questions and find out where we went wrong over the past year and plan how to not do that again and I don’t wanna. What do you mean this is what they pay me for?!

Good luck on hand surgery Brendan!!

Owen! That sucks but glad he’s at least moving forward with stuff?? I don’t know that I would’ve done well as a teenage with online classes.

The internet had many reactions to the Batman thing, and they were all the best.

“A perfect example of that is in this third season of ‘Harley’ [when] we had a moment where Batman was going down on Catwoman. And DC was like, ‘You can’t do that. You absolutely cannot do that.’

Wait, the Harley Quinn cartoon? That's already gleefully violent and filthy dirty? That's where they draw the line? Preposterous.

USPS informed delivery tells me that I have a jury duty summons in the mail today, so I guess nature is healing.