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True, but when is Jenelle ever single? She has very short breaks between penises, since she can't seem to function, without them (I refuse to call them "men").

I see Jenelle is making Nathan temporarily useful, until the next man comes along. No doubt she'll be making nice with Barb, next. I really don't think this girl is capable of loving anyone or anything, people are just props, to her. Once the new penis comes along, she'll be screaming at Nathan again, in no time. Ugh. As for UBT, I'm really not all that surprised that he's been laying low since Jenelle left, if only for the fact that he still has someone on The Land to abuse, with Maryssa. Sad, but true.

I don't think either one of them are bright enough to carry off a long con, but we'll see.

LOL...is David implying that being with Jenelle made him an asshole? Did he not have a record prior to even meeting her? You are a psycho, too, David, and you always have been. Shut the fuck up.

Jenelle will never abandon her kids, not because she loves them, but because if she does, the others will have "won", in her mind.

So, if Jenelle does indeed divorce David, that makes three people she will have to share custody of a child with, and she isn't even thirty. If she wants to relocate to Tennessee, or where ever New Leech lives, that will inevitably cause a shit-storm between Jenelle, Barb, Nathan, and David, but I'm not sure if someone in Jenelle's position could even move at this point, so we'll see.

So did I. I only read this forum.

Oh my god, I'm so shocked. That's exactly her plan: ditch David, and make her new leech the focus of her storyline on the show. MTV can't film David, but Jenelle will talk about how stressed she is over the divorce, dude, and how she needs to get custody of Ensley, dude. Despite saying this, Jenelle will dump Ensley and the rest of the kids with Barb so she can cavort on a Caribbean beach with New Leech, and wear a bunch of unflattering bikinis, hiked up her ever expanding ass. When Barb yells at Jenelle for ditching the kids to hang out with her booooyyyfriiieeend, Jenelle will tell Barb to LEAVE HER ALOOOONNE!!!, and the codependency cesspool between mother and daughter will start churning, again. By next spring, Jenelle and New Leech will be engaged, and Jenelle will sell the wedding pics to TMZ, or US Weekly. In between all this, David will post scary shit on social media, and probably threaten to murder Jenelle, and New Leech. He won't face any repercussions for any of it, but he will find a new victim partner, and Jenelle will bitch about what a drug-addled skank this new woman is, and how she doesn't want her to be around Ensley, when really, she will be more hung up on the fact that New Victim is younger and skinnier, than she is. Oh, and the prefab will continue to slowly sink into the swamp, the dogs and the geese and the chickens will all die, Jenelle will bitch about having to deal with The Land and dividing everything up with David, and New Leech will just sit in the corner and tell Jenelle how amazing she is, because she is his meal ticket, now, and he doesn't want to rock the boat. END SCENE.

Okay, so we're on #8. Who will he be? An even bigger loser than David? Someone scarier than David? Since I don't think Jenelle has it in her to choose a stable partner, I shudder to think of the possibilities.

You're probably right. Didn't she go to Tennessee, not that long ago? She probably scoped out Soulmate #7, while she was there (would the next one be Lucky Seven? I can't keep track).

Since Jenelle allegedly had her tubes tied, and doesn't have any MTV money coming in in the near future, how exactly does she plan on snaring another soulmate? I honestly want to know.

So, Jenelle is basically echoing everything Maryssa said in court, after Nugget was killed. All I keep thinking about is how this girl got completely screwed by the system, and by the two people who should have had her best interests at heart, but never, ever did. It's very sad.

Hmm...I really don't think Lana Del Rey (did I spell that right?) is my cup of tea. I didn't hear much of a difference in those songs than what I usually hear, from her. I don't like Halsey, or Lorde, or Billie Eilish, either, so maybe this is a type of pop music I just don't respond to. Something about this style all kind of melts together, in my brain. 😕

Well, I'm a huge Todd In the Shadows fan, and just started listening to his podcast with Dany Roth. Never heard of Spectrum Pulse, or Grady Smith. I am also excited about Ken Burns country music doc, but I still haven't finished Jazz, yet. And that came out, like, 27 years ago. It's a shame about Eddie Money and Ric Ocasek. I used to listen to a Cars greatest hits CD at my workplace at a time when people still listened to CD's. Everyone loved it. It was one of the few CD's we could all agree on.

Dude, you don't have to apologize every time someone has an opinion that's different from yours. I'm not putting you down, the topic of Lana del Ray came up, and I joined in the discussion. You're allowed to like whatever you like, and talk whatever you want to talk about. There is no need to gauge the mood, since we ALL have different opinions. It's fine.

Okay, so, I totally don't get Lana del Ray. Granted, I haven't listened to an album of hers in its entirety, but what I have heard has been slow, and melancholy. Total downer music, the kind I want to slit my wrists, to. What is the appeal?

She should have. Lover is a stupid title.

I tried to get through this album, but I couldn't. I think Taylor has become one of those artists that just recycles the same themes and gimmicks with every album. And I never thought she was all that original to begin with, but every time I try to listen to her, I'm reminded of how I'm really not a fan, even though I can name a few songs of hers that I like. Why do I feel like I need to keep listening, to her? Is it because she is one of the biggest pop stars in the world right now, and I'm trying to understand what makes her so huge? Is it because everyone writes about her like she is some enigma? Well, I'm well past the age of her fans, and I realized I don't have to give her a chance, or listen to her, if I don't want to. Life is too short. And that's not to say this album is bad, because it isn't. It's just a Taylor Swift album. I've heard it, before. Now I'm going to take my old ass elsewhere, and listen to Stone Temple Pilots, or something. Thanks for listening to me whine, lol.

Why does Taylor do that thing where she speaks the final word of a line, instead of singing it? I'm thinking of I Forgot You Existed, here. Is it because she can't sing, that well? Taylor, stop it, it isn't cute.

I agree. Also, Amy burning Jo's writing was pretty bad, but I don't think it makes her completely unlikable for the rest of the book.

I love Lindsay Ellis. As soon as I saw that she was covering Game of Thrones, I squealed. Also, yeah, she is spot-on with her observations. The whole video is cathartic.

Huh...I guess my unpopular opinion is that I prefer stripped down, natural Gaga to high fashion, popstar Gaga.

Is Taylor showing some measure of self-awareness with The Archer, or is she playing a character, again? Hard to tell, with her.

I watched It Happened One Night for the very first time, and I loved it. I can see why it became a classic. Everything about it is perfect, and funny, and delightful. Easily one of my top ten favorite films, now.

I fell down the Taylor Swift rabbit-hole with all those articles about her painfully contrived "squad". I had wondered why People.com (the only celebrity gossip site I frequent) kept posting headlines like, "Proof That Taylor Swift Had the Best Thanksgiving Ever!" with pics of Taylor baking pumpkin pie with Gigi Hadid or whoever, and this explains it beautifully. I had no idea her Instagram had the following it did (I live under a rock), and I had no idea she quite literally collects BFF's like they were seashells or stamps, or out-of-state coins ("This one is a pretty model!" "This one is a pretty actress!"). It's all very, very creepy. It's like no one ever sat her down and told her that grown-ups don't have friends like this, that grown-ups just, you know, invite people over and chill without recording it in the most obnoxiously faux-girl power way possible. Makes me wonder if Taylor is emotionally stuck at the age of fifteen, the age she was when she got famous and everyone started kissing her ass. A lot of other things make sense if that is the case...after all, why would you mature emotionally when the whole world is telling you that the songs you write about your teen angst are OMG, SOME OF THE BEST SONGS EVER WRITTEN!?!? *smoochsmoochsmooch* The funny thing is, I am not totally averse to Taylor; I like some of her songs and will sing along with them if the mood strikes me. When it comes to writing catchy pop tunes, she has it down. That's fine, but I have yet to hear anything truly deep or introspective from her, unless I missed it. Now, not every artist *needs* to be deep, I get that, but the amount of praise and adoration Taylor gets just doesn't match up with her level of talent, IMO. Of course, I am completely ignoring the fact that Taylor isn't just a musician, she is a POP STAR, and I know those are two very different animals. The package she is selling appeals to her demographic, so she doesn't *need* to be Joni Mitchell. Okay, fine, but...shouldn't she have something more to say at this point in her life? She is 25/26 years old and has had a TON of experiences, yet her attitude is still the same. I remember reading a Glamour interview with her back in the day, right after her first album came out, where she talked about seeing a girl in high school crying in the bathroom over a boyfriend, and Taylor oh-so-smugly saying, "I told myself I was never going to be that girl, crying over some guy." It's like her whole persona/brand/whatever is based on putting other women down in order to put herself up, and that makes me HUGELY uncomfortable. And that is the most I have ever had to say about Taylor Swift. :P One more thing, though: am I the only one who thinks her Girl Squad activities are kind of lame? They're very home-y and Martha Stewart. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but I hate it when the, "Don't you wish you were hanging out with us?" thing is implied, because no, I DON'T want to bake cookies with you in your Manhattan apartment, Taylor. It looks boring as fuck. Sorry, not sorry.