Snarky Fangirling Lia Ices

I was listening to my usual Amazon Prime music station in lab the other day and a song that I'd never heard before came on.  I played it several times in a row and liked it even more each time.
The singer, Lia Ices, is a singer songwriter.  To me, her voice sounds like a young Sinead O'Connor sang a Cocteau Twins song, but there are also similarities to Kate Bush, Tori Amos, and Florence and the Machine. 
After listening to a bunch or her songs, I looked her up. Dear readers, if she didn't sounds like an angel I would be seriously snarky because she seriously does not fit my image of someone who sounds like Sinead O'Connor meets Cocteau Twins. I don't hate people because they're beautiful but I could almost come close here because her life is so over that top that I'd like to trade places with her for a few days.  She's got that tall pretty bohemian look and is married to a heir to the Mariani dried fruit empire who owns an organic vineyard in Northern California.  There were multiple articles about her in Vogue, including her snark-worthywedding, her makeup routine, etc etc.  She's been recording music since 2008, but since I'm an out of touch old biddy who doesn't read Vogue I was totally clueless. 
Here's the song that got me hooked despite being a cranky old biddy who'd be shocked that her favorite new artist is a rich girl Vogue Instagrammer type. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfrwEyyRsIY

the magic of perimenopause, part 2/n

And, just like that, my ovaries turned back on and my internal furnace shifted back to normal levels. All of a sudden I have a normal heat tolerance again.  Probably not coincidentally, I am finally able to sleep deeply and not wake up from being too warm.
I am celebrating this momentous occasion by drinking a lot of caffeine and attempting to catch up on a year's worth of sleep.  However, I am hedging my bets by not putting the flannel sheets or comforter back on the bed just yet.

FU - media, part 1/n

Bringing back the short format without links since I have a lot to say and a short attention span...
Can we please stop throwing our female presidential candidates under the bus?  Please just focus on articles on the latest Trump fuckups and let the voters decide who they want in the Democratic primary.  It's really obvious now that there are multiple female and minority candidates for president. Hollee fuck this is getting annoying.  Do the math.  Raising 3% less money than Joe Biden in three months is not a sign that doom is imminent, nor is one generic tweet that says essentially the same thing as all the other candidates regarding Trump's attack on Iran. The media glorifies all the white guys, ignores the qualified male minority candidates and giddily throws the female candidates under the bus one at a time to maximize their views. 
On a related note, can we please stop acting like Pete Buttiegieg is a super genius because he went to Harvard and got a Rhodes Scholarship without also mentioning that Cory Booker did pretty much the same, albeit he went to Stanford.  Likewise, Julian Castro also went to Stanford.  The only reason I know these things because I'm also an alum from the same era. Sheesh.