Victoria Barrett

Modern Republicanism is making up a thing to be scared about and then using that as the basis for policy

🎶 Take me down to the paradise city where the healthcare’s free and the men aren’t shitty 🎶

The voice that won over Ira Glass hasn't changed much since 1992. It's more subdued than it was in riotously funny essays like "Me Talk Pretty One Day," but the wry wisecracking, the deliberate bitchiness — those qualities are still in evidence. Still, in "Cash and Carry," when Sedaris critiques the phrasing on a homeless man's cardboard sign ("It should be 'Help one of the homeless,' I wanted to tell him. Otherwise it sounds like you’re going to take whatever you collect and distribute it to other people in need."), I sympathize with the guy's response that he hopes Sedaris burns in hell. His essays often derive their humor from catty, judgmental moments like that one, and so it's notable that this is the first time I can remember reading one and being firmly on the other person's side. The tone may not have changed, but Sedaris's positioning inarguably has. The very bitchiness which once made his voice feel so fresh has become a commonplace in humor writing; writers from Tina Fey to Samantha Irby have surpassed him in their own fluent versions of it. Watching him uphold it now with such determination feels like watching your dad try to squeeze into the leisure suit he last wore in 1971. Sedaris spent so many years assuring us he was an incurious curmudgeon that he seems to have talked himself into becoming one, at least on the page.

i wrote about why david sedaris’s writing leaves me cold now
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The thing about the shoes is, why wouldn’t you just go get the same make and model in a size that fit you and pretend they were the right ones instead of wearing the ill-fitting ones that idiot sent you?

The whole idea of objecting to quoted posts is weird to me. I reply to your post when I want to engage with you on your post and your followers/mutuals. I quote your post when I want to engage with my followers/mutuals. It’s not very complicated.

Yeah. Ugh.

People who post stuff like this must think Leave it to Beaver was real.

Trump’s kink is humiliating people who think he cares about them. I don’t understand why they all keep walking into his circle as though they’re going to come out unscathed.

The list is so long that there is no chance I could pick one on the spot.

Yeah, I never know what’s real and what’s made up.

I don’t know much about the men in my family, but two of my great grandmothers were allegedly prostitutes. I don’t know whether that’s true or whether my mom just liked to say it to shock people. They were also both nearly 6 ft tall.

I only know about one of them, but he was a jockey and later a horse trainer.

I really really really don’t think we need another religious fanatic in the Senate, no matter which side of the aisle he sits on.

Perhaps not!

Eventually the lizard underneath the makeup is going to make it out. Might be the hand. Might be the neck. Might be a total surprise location.

And can’t get it!

*send to

This is who you sent negotiate a cash payment, not a preemptive truce.

Both my mother and my mother-in-law used to love to tell us they hated the food we were eating, even when they weren’t eating it, or even invited to eat it. It definitely went as well as you might think.

Luther Vandross, Phil Collins and Shakira are Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees — Los Angeles Times Among the other acts on the ballot for the Class of 2026 are Lauryn Hill, Melissa Etheridge, New Edition and the late Jeff Buckley.

INXS IS FINALLY NOMINATED!!!!!

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Their recent album is shockingly good, too.

He’s telling us what he did in 2016 and 2020.

DITTO

Strange Mornings in the Garden YouTube video by The Loyal Seas - Topic

I have this song on repeat right now. I cannot believe I missed this album almost 4 years ago. Pretty much instantly entered my top 10.

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Exactly.

It really bums me out that the biggest dumbass on the Supreme Court is relatively young.

My 11yo is obsessed with Calvin & Hobbes right now. Reading every book, studying panels, drawing his own, etc.

Still recovering from my child saying “what’s floss?“ The other day at the dentist’s office. 

Speaking Against Indiana's SB 334 YouTube video by Victoria Barrett

11 years ago today I testified in the Indiana State Senate against a bill criminalizing abortions. We managed to defeat it for one year, but like everything evil, it came roaring back the next year. Still, a whole year of abortion rights is pretty fucking great.

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Sooooo gooood.