Legal Phees

[legalphees]

@taylorswift

Tay,

Hey, girl. I’ve felt lucky to consider you a friend for about half of our lives (I’m a 1989 baby too!). Admittedly, our friendship has been a little more one sided than some of my other friendships, but no less important to me. I have the friend who hates who hurt me even more vehemently than I do, the friend who considers carefully and gives sage advice, the friend who listens without judgement and lets me be me, and I have you, the friend that goes through the same shit as me and can distill so many of my big, messy, complicated feelings into a few simple sentences.

Back when reputation came out, for the first time I didn’t connect with one of your albums. Then, in 2018, I fell in love, hard, and recognized my own thoughts and feelings in your words, as if we were living the same story. In 2019, when playing Lover, I didn’t feel like I was listening to someone else sing about her life but like my own thoughts about my relationship were being echoed back to me. In 2020, while isolating with him, I caught a glimpse of our invisible string tying us together all those years, pulling us towards each other and the life we were meant to have. But things happen, the one you love disappoints you, and the one you saw everything in saw only himself. Betrayal stings worst when it comes from the person you’d die for in secret.

If the internet is to be believed, we’re both dealing with the end of our respective longest and most significant romantic relationships and I find a fitting, if unfortunate, commonality with a friend whose life has long mirrored my own. Misery loves company, I guess. I’m sure that soon I’ll get to hear you so deftly describe my deeply broken heart like you’ve done many times before. But I wanted to take this time, while you’re in my city, to let you know no matter what happens, that I and the scores of your other parasocial friends will be here for you when you need us. Just like you’ve been there for me all those years.

Can’t wait to see you make the whole place shimmer on Sunday!

@taylornation

[likeseriously-yall]

Opinion | Life Begins at Conception (Except When That’s Inconvenient for Republicans)

It’s almost as if abortion bans aren’t actually about “life” at all.

If life begins at conception but isn’t really life until a fetal heartbeat is detected or is actually being gestated by a woman, then the concept of life is not absolute but relative.

Life has different values at different stages of development. You have accept that premise if you find it acceptable to destroy an embryo in a lab but not in a uterus.

If this is your position, you can seek to protect potential life, but you must acknowledge that that’s what it is first. Potential.

[legalphees]

When my real estate agent friend told me that it looked like the gorgeous heart pine floor in my 100 year old house used to be covered with CARPET.

[legalphees]

Taylor Swift is so good at her job she got me, the 30 something that still uses the dinnerware set I got second hand when I was 18, to buy an entire album of songs I already own.