Daily Archives: May 14, 2012

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Watching Shahs of Sunset with Your Mom

This Sunday afternoon, after sleeping in till 11 (it was sweet), gorging myself at the Camino Real’s mother’s day buffet and having a couple of mimosas, I invited mom to drop by and watch an episode of Shahs of Sunset.

So If you’ll allow, we’re about to get a little Sybil over here as I let mom take over my left brain to provide commentary.  This is for you Miss Anita Manbadly. Continue reading

Why It Doesn’t Surprise Me At All That Mitt Romney Was a High School Bully

I was mercilessly and relentlessly bullied from the day I moved to El Paso and started second grade until I began junior high school for every reason imaginable.

I was an easy fucking target. I was tall and skinny, with paper white skin, auburn hair and hazel eyes hidden behind enormous coke-bottle old-biddy glasses, a know-it-all attitude, a penchant for books that were way over my head, and a Central/East Texas accent that, thank Jesus, is no longer present. I wasn’t athletic (no, ballet didn’t count as a sport) and thanks to my huge-ass glasses (really, hipster girls, you had to bring that shit back didn’t you?) the only sport I was good at – basketball – came with a sense of inherent peril. As an only child, I had no idea how to negotiate playful banter. I took everything personally. And I fought back in possibly one of the least socially acceptable ways possible — by cursing my tormenters in Arabic and Armenian.  Yeah. You can imagine how that went over.  Continue reading