Todd Davis

Sea of Love and Dust Bunny are two movies that look nothing alike, yet in an increasingly plastic world, they tell us something about ourselves. My new column @ScoonTv: scoontv.com/buried-in-the-…

Do you ever find yourself at the market buying a variety of flavors and wondering what you’re doing? I like Key Lime Chobani. Why am I getting Lemon and Coconut also? Just buy all Key Lime.

@rizzle_xo The micro goals gaming provides to many people is both invaluable and unmatched via other forms of entertainment.

Gaming is genuinely a hobby where grown adults will say: “this saved my mental health” and someone else will reply: “same.” That matters more than people realize.

@GamingAndPandas Because we aren’t poseurs like you.

"AAAAAAAAAH GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT WITH A STABLE INCOME I'M LITERALLY IN HELL SAVE ME KURT COBAIN'S GHOST AAAAAAAH!" Why was Gen X like this?

Perennials really flexing this time of year in Michigan.

@lisavsworld I try to look at things through a silver lining playbook. Otherwise, it becomes comfortable to succumb to despair. And, Happy Birthday. It can't rain all the time.

@DavisTodder More than half of our generation has never had kids or been married. We're all between the ages of 30 and 45. I'm going to be 37 in 11 days. I've always wanted marriage and kids. I never intentionally put it off.

My brother got married when he was 27 and his wife was 25. At the time, she was finishing up pharmacy school and he was just a regular lab tech at a supplement factory. She had to complete 2 years of residency in order to work as a hospital pharmacist and during that first year, she gave birth to their first child. As her job was demanding in those early years, my brother worked from home so he could take care of the baby. The day that baby was born, he was accepted in Pharmacy school. After she finished her residency, they moved again so he could go to school and his wife worked to support them both. They had 2 more kids while my brother was in pharmacy school. He also did 2 years of residency and now they work at the same hospital with 5 kids total. They started pre-career and supported each other into the jobs they have today. This would be an example in my opinion of a woman's income helping her husband shepherd their family to success. My brother graduated from college in 2009. One of the worst years to graduate. He's very intelligent, but lacked opportunities. He'd gotten his original job as a lab tech through his friend's father. He met his wife while she was in pharmacy school and helped her study for her exams. When he took the PCAT (now retired), he scored in the 89th percentile as he'd already spent years helping her study. He ended up going to the same school as she did when he got into pharmacy school and did well enough to land himself a job at Cleveland Clinic. None of this would have happened if he hadn't put in the effort to supporting his wife and daughter first from the ground level. He would have never been able to afford pharmacy school if not for his wife's income. But his wife would not have her eldest daughter nor the support of a husband to make it through pharmacy school if not for my brother. He elevated her first, giving her a boost over the ledge. She then laid down a ladder for him. But that ladder would never have appeared, likely to anyone, without that initial boost of his. My brother said earlier in their marriage, his wife was more submissive, more unsure and following his lead. But as she had to work as a pharmacist to support him in those early years of their marriage, their dynamic of their relationship changed into her organizing the day to day of their lives. He meanwhile became more responsible for making the big decisions, steering the family ship while she organized the crew. Very "he was the Captain and she the Commander." He's the CEO and she's the President. Their family is the company. Their roles fell into place as they grew together, started their careers, and started their family. For me, I'm in my 30s. That's going to be so much harder to do in a sense. I have a house. It's paid off. It's my nest egg, depending on if I can sell it or not down the line. When he says this type of woman attracts predators, I assume he means "financial predators" and unfortunately I've seen that before with a friend of mine. But ideally, I see my house as the foundation of being able to start a new life at almost a moment's notice. If I did meet a good man, I could sell my home and place a bet on building something greater. If a man wanted to shepherd us to success, it would be by having a family, giving me time to pursue what I really want to do in life (which doesn't involve working outside the home), and I would love the opportunity to provide the wife bonus to whatever ambitions he had as well. I think men and women can accomplish so much more together and at any age. I've obviously missed out on an essential stage of life, but I am confident I could build something wonderful in this stage as well.

I think a lot of us feel we were born too late, or too early, or had a bad generational break. But hearing more and more stories like this I believe Millennials are right. Compounding the problem is there are few people actively looking for solutions to what has become a society wide problem. A new version of pull yourself up by bootstraps unfolding year by year in an increasingly bleak environment.

@DavisTodder I was born in the worst time period. Peak Millennial.

Three British kings were murdered in the 15th century.

@saint_witch_ Damon is bad casting. Black Helene is trolling.

@Breaking57 Every point she makes is valid.

And you wonder why men want nothing to do with women now. NUT JOBS

@burackbobby_ What’s the point of being successful if you can’t use that success to help friends and family?

I completely disagree. The biggest lie people fall for is that their careers are zero-sum. The more people around you who succeed, the more likely you are to do the same. Plus, there is no better feeling than helping someone who deserves it.

@owroot Shhh. We don’t want people coming here and ruining it.

I know write about Michigan as part of my work so I am a little biased, but I grew up in Michigan and have spent a ton of time in the past couple years traveling around Michigan taking photos of, and writing about life here and the fact of the Great Lakes is really a special one. I took it for granted as a kid but it really does make Michigan extremely unique. And yes, I know there are other states that border them, but honestly, we have most of them and we are the epicenter. Michigan is kind of the midwest but kind of not. It's kind of its own thing and the lakes are big part of the reason why.

@shagbark_hick I often wonder why people don’t do this. Then I remember, they are all poseurs.

Once again: Broke Artists need to PICK A TOWN in the middle of nowhere and flock to it. Preferably a town that is: 1. Actively dying / hopeless 2. Chock full of DIRT CHEAP housing 3. In a high-minimum-wage state 4. Has some kind of public transit Ogdensburg NY comes to mind. As does Herkimer, Tupper Lake, Malone, Binghamton, and Massena NY. Each has some kind of a local bus, some kind of connection to coach bus or Amtrak, low rent, and crazy cheap property. Literally anyone who wants to live a low-rent lifestyle, making art, writing novels, hanging around in warehouses and cafes, etc can show up in one of these towns and make it work. $16/hr minimum wage, houses for as little as $40,000 (Ogdensburg and Massena) or, on the higher end, $100k (Tupper Lake). STOP being fixated on NYC / Philly / MTL. Just make the leap. I'm already up here. I already paved the way. And if you want it even cheaper come to a village like mine, my house was $33,000. There's a cabin down the road from here for $17,000. You do not need to work a job here, period.

Any white man who hasn’t been emasculated instinctively feels non-European immigration as an attack, a direct attempt to conquer his own territory. It’s visceral. You sense it because it’s a deep, natural intuition.

@ccmembersonly You got em this time.

Was going to try The Serpent Queen, see if it's any good. First scene of the show, woke casting. In 1566, France. I just don't want to put up with it. Turned it off after 20 seconds.

@AJtheEnigmatic @Thegenrlstaff KM strategy resembles Trump's current foresight in Iran. Let's develop Plan Z! Too expensive. Alright, pocket battleships! Still too expensive. U-Boats? Oh, time to invade the Soviets...

@DavisTodder @Thegenrlstaff This is what Germany hoped they did with their U Boat campaign against Britain but ofc they just had to start a war with both the US and Soviets

The US Navy lost about three times more men killed than the Marines did at Guadalcanal Similarly, it can be argued that the US navy submarine arm killed more imperial Japanese army personnel than the entire marine corps did during the central pacific drive

@jpodhoretz Yes. We absolutely do know. And Troy did exist. It has literally been excavated.

this fight is bananas anyway. who knows what shade of skin the Greeks and Trojans had. We don't even know if Troy even really existed

The loss of DVDs means we all became renters of our entertainment instead of owners. Even worse, all those movies that needed Best Buy DVD sales to turn a profit are no longer made.

The world is ugly without the fair light of Hellenism.