Hello Dames Nation! 🌞😎🌞 We are Alice Bolin and Emily Jones, writers and pals with a mutual interest in pop jams, vintage MTV from circa 1999, and obscure celebrity gossip. Alice was born in Idaho and is now a writer and professor in Memphis, Tennessee. Emily was born in the suburbs of Chicago and is now a librarian and writer in St. Paul, Minnesota. Emily is the best tweeter on God’s green earth and Alice also often tweets things.

I'm 99 percent sure that most babies come from the Devil — and as descendants of evil, they’ll try with everything they have at their disposal to make you, the parent, meet their master. The little hellspawns scream their lungs out all night to keep you awake, shit and piss on you, and even bite your nipples until they bleed. Attempting to steal your every waking moment and hoping you’ll eventually drop dead from sleep deprivation (which is why I’ll probably never have kids since I’d die within the first month).

Hello! I’m sorry I’ve been away, but I’m back (and better than ever?)! For those of you who’ve been following along, I moved. Still in sweet, sweet San Francisco, but now in the Castro. Still with Joe, but also now with two other sweet friends, Keenan and Sean. There is maybe something profound I will say someday about why I love living in community with other people. About why it’s nice sometimes to wake up and find that someone has already made coffee or to come home and see someone’s left a little bit of dinner out for you.

Everybody seems to be sharing their thoughts about the Barbie movie, so I will, too. You’re welcome! Normally, I would offer up my opinion with a caveat of “I humbly offer these measly ideas and they’re probably wrong,” perhaps followed up with a self-deprecating anecdote about how I spilled tea down my shirt and fell down the stairs. But I feel confident because this film has reminded me that I don’t actually have to apologize for being the brilliant, gorgeous, capable human that I am (although I will always and forever identify as a Weird Barbie.

Barg’s Catchphrase: “Howlllllllllll!!!!!” (It sounds like nothing you’ve ever heard in your life) Barghest is a shape-shifting boogey animal from English folklore. I call him Barg. Barg can be traced back to the old English word for “Town” and “Ghest” can be traced to Ghost so his name can translate to mean Town Ghost. One of his forms is quite ghostly b… ncG1vNJzZmiln6PAtbHRqJ2toJWssqa3jaysm6uklrCsesKopGioX5q7tb7YZmpmmpGntKmx0q12rqydlMCwwdGcnHZdYnuvs7vWrJxeanabtqTAyKilX62koqyuscOirKZ1opqupbHRaw%3D%3D