it’s been a really long time since i did a stupid movie genres theme,
but i’ve been inspired. so heres a few memes, themes and genres that
should just fucking die already.
1. nannies love children and know more about them than moms. moms who
need nannies are workahalic bitches who need a mouthy (always
young,hot and white) woman to show them that they are failures at
mommyhood. unless the mom is regretful that she can’t spend all day
wiping snot from her kids noses. if she is regretful, then the (always
young, hot and white) nanny will sleep with you husband and plot
murder.
2 the only good unplanned pregnancy ends in either blissful marriage,
adoption, or with the woman straight up refusing child support from
the dad. child support only exists in entertainment land to be
refused. abortions are non-existent. well they exist, but no decent
character would ever actually have one.
3. a birthing scene must always be ridiculously over the top and
funny. always. there are no exceptions.
got more you want to ad

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning

i think i have a cold, or more likely the flu since it comes with a
fever. the fam is blaming airplanes, but i am sure i got it from the
walking petri dish known as the kid. OTher Cousin keeps threatening to
waterboard, i mean netti pot me. i’d rathe someone just take a vacuum
to my sinuses. but as with trepanation, the family refuses to assist
with my DIY health care. i’d sell a kidney for spicy tortilla soup.

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning

kid comes bounding into my room like a hyper puppy and says ‘i just
finished the first chapter of my chemistry book! that book is RAD!’

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning

so yesterday OTher Cousin got the police report from the cops little
break up of friday night’s youth group at the church. the complaint
from the hideous neighbors reads ‘they are holding church IN A
CHURCH’. Next thing you know brown people will be doing such horrid
things like urinating in a toilet or cooking on a stove or even
worse,watching tv in their living rooms. how dare they act like human
beings!

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning

but lemme give a warm ‘what’s up’ to all the new poor folks in the
country. i’ve been here a loooooong ass time and can show you around.
first things first, congratulations on being a member of the only
truly diversified class, though we do tend to drift heavily into
oppressed classes. yay! second, and this may take awhile for you to
learn, there is no such thing as a ‘good’ poor person. sure, you
nevver drink or smoke or use drugs, you’re married to your only baby
daddy, etc etc. but some douchehound is still going to claim you’re
only poor because you own a tv or a cell phone and should have
invested that money instead. oh and don’t forget the kids. you’re
choice to breed and be poor is going to be seen as a huge affront to
the system. even wealthy white feminists will hate you for that. and
now that you’re poor the state will be much more interested in your
parenting skills. poor people are generally acknowledged to suck at
both birth control and parenting.
i wish i had more hopeful news for you, but….

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning

kid: do you know how many feet are in a mile?
me: just over 5000
kid: my math book expects me to know this off the top of my head.
me: it’s useful shit to know
kid (with whining, eyerolling teenage attitude): but i allready know
how to do all this stuff!!!!!!!
me: fine, take the test at the end of the chapter and if you do better
than 85% i’ll let you skip it.

wouldn’t it be nice if public schools let you skip the seriously
redundant stuff?

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning

things are extra tight this month since OTher Cousin isn’t charging
the latino church rent until they get the legal okay to operate. if
you throw something in the donation plate i bet providence or kharma
will smile on you and i’ll send you a big lip smacky kiss.

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning

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thanks for the offer of a free bumper sticker with your new logo, but i’ll pass.
see, i’m slightly pissed off that you spent gawd only knows how many
hours and dollars designing a sticker and not a solid economic
recovery plan.and it’s not that i’m sticker adverse. i lived in newt
gingrich’s district in the 90s. the kid’s daycare was next door to his
home office. i was also in the land of bob barr.and i drove my little
red toyota around with democratic stickers covering the bumper. scary
southern white dudes like to scream at 24 year old me and my kid when
i was pumping gas or loading groceries. but that was under bill
clinton, and i had a middle class income and could afford a car and a
home and daycare. so the occasional red faced fuckwad was just the
price i paid for backing a party that made my life better. there is no
trade off for this new sticker and as a consolation prize it bites.

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning

so we are beginning year two of the home school/unschool experiment. i
got a stack of computer programming and math books from ruthie and i
just ordered physics, chemisty and algebra books from ye old amazon.
so math and science are covered. kid finally picked a topic for
history, the great depression. i think it’s perfect. we’ve got english
covered with steinbeck. there’s tons of economics stuff. there’s
environmental stuff with the dustbowls. but what i need are
recomendations, books and movies easily digestible by a very literate
15 year old. both fiction and non fiction. and if anyone wants to send
stuff our way, drop me an email.

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning