Lane Morris Buckman's Blog, page 9
June 4, 2015
Reality TV Celebrity Round Up (with uncensored language): Babies, Boobies, and Sons of Bitches
Let’s have a Reality Personality Round Up. I don’t watch any reality shows because none of them can live up to the thrill of Orphan Black, or the entertainment value of Marvel’s Agents of Shield, or my newly acquired interest in Silicon Valley, or the inappropriate, cerebral humor of what Thor calls, “That British version of Jon Stewart.” I don’t have TV watching time left over for anything else after you add in Game of Thrones, Veep, Anthony Bourdain, and Doctor Who. Now I’m trying to squeez...
May 30, 2015
What a Week!
It’s been a banner week for me.
ScaryMommy.com ran a post of my Rebels piece, and at this moment, that’s been shared 12.9k times on Facebook. I don’t know that many people, so that means strangers actually thought it was worth sharing! Who knew having Jan and Marcia fighting in your bikini bottoms was going to be such a hit?
You guys got to read that first, but you may have missed the piece I wrote for the GoodMotherProject.com. I sent that to them as an original, unpublished work, and they r...
May 29, 2015
The Love of Storage Units is the Root of All Evil
Take a look at Cathy’s blog today. I’ll be thinking about this for a while.
” I think the real reason we hang onto everything from clothes to corkscrews to cars? It’s fear. We fear that we don’t have enough, and we fear that we are not enough.”
Originally posted on Soul Curacy:
Open hands, open heart. You know what’s wrong with this country today? Storage units. Get rid of all the storage units and you will eliminate everything that is wrong with the American soul. You’re we...
May 28, 2015
How I Got to be so Awesome
Do you know what makes me awesome? Aside from genetics, obviously. What makes me awesome is that I am surrounded by supportive, amazing, glorious women from around the world. Some of these fabulous women have blogs. I want to invite you to get to know them the way I do–by their hearts, which show up in their words. Please give these ladies a look. I love each of them.
May 26, 2015
What I Would Tell a Daughter About Selfies
An oldie.
Originally posted on The Outside Lane:
Since I’m getting emails and PMs about the girl side of things, I’ll address the girl side of things here.
So, I used to teach Sunday School for 6th Grade girls. When I took on the responsibility, I thought I was going to be–I don’t know what I thought I was going to be teaching, but it was NOT sex. I started reading through the lesson book, and halfway through BLAMMO sex/pregnancy/abortion. Uh…
I worried about a few things:
I...May 24, 2015
A Review: Ex Machina
There is very little new in the world of cinema, with every movie seeming like a rehash of something else. So, it’s nice when a story at least reaches back far enough that I can tag Ovid as inspiration, or Mary Shelley. Both Pygmalion and Frankenstein are done to death, but when they are done well, you know you’re getting a quality narrative. Ex Machina is both done well at once.
Domnhall Gleeson stars as Caleb, your run of the mill programmer, seemingly selected at random to visit with his b...
May 23, 2015
When a Raccoon Loved Me
Depending on who you ask, the people who can math (Leslieann and Renae), or the people who want a better date for the story (Me), it is either the 16th, or 15th anniversary of an ill-fated camping trip we took (along with the also math-able Karen) to Tyler, Texas as part of a Baptist church outing.
Of the four of us, one had some camping experience, having once helped someone put up a tent sometime in the far past, but all of us piled into Leslieann’s Kia Sportage, loaded up with Karen’s brot...
May 22, 2015
This Is How We Do
Over dinner:
Thor: Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom! Do you know what Nathan Hale’s last words were?
Me: ” Urrk glurrrg unf” *flop*
Thor: *eye roll* That is not right.
Me: “Help me!”
Thor: Not right.
Me: (in my best JFK voice) “Ask not what your country can do for you…”
Thor: Wrong. And wrong accent.
Me: (in my best Patrick Henry voice) “But as for me, give me liberty…”
Thor: *sigh* Wrong quote, wrong accent.
Me: (in my best Forrest Gump) “I regret that I have but one life to give for my country!”
Thor: Mo...
May 21, 2015
Rolling Down Hills, and the Climb Back to the Top
Originally posted on The Outside Lane:
When I was little, I loved rolling down hills. It was thrilling and exciting to lie down at the top of an incline, make my body into a straight line, then bump bump bump bump flop flail boink my way down to the bottom in a mess of giggles, hair, and grass stains. I’d get to the bottom, run back to the top and start again. Lather, rinse, repeat until I’d made myself so sick, all I could do was lie on my back and watch the clouds until my stomach settled....
Rebels
Let’s talk body image. But let’s start with one of the reasons I hated Pitch Perfect as vehemently as the majority of theater goers loved it: Fat Amy.
Pitch Perfect fans, stick with me. I’ll explain, then I’ll explain some more.
I won’t confuse Rebel Wilson with Fat Amy, but I will take umbrage at the idea that it is okay to laugh at fat people if they call themselves fat first. It is never okay to make fun of someone’s body.
Let me say that again: It is never okay to make fun of someone’s bo...
