I saw the beginning quite clearly and then the clouds rolled in. The actual full eclipse was anticlimactic. Oh well, at least we get good meteor showers in AZ.

One of the scariest books I read when I was little (Psychic Summer, it's from the 70's and is a "true story") was about a ouija board. I've always wanted to see a disturbing movie based on a ouija board ever since, something like Session 9. This obviously isn't it but I'm still interested.

@DahlELama: Yeah, that's much more nebulous. I think people do calculate by agents because they seem like the first round of gatekeepers and it's hard to forge on past what seems like blanket rejection.

@DahlELama: It's quite possible your book needs work. But remember that it might not be that YOU suck but the market that does. Some people will tell you that any good work will eventually find a home but IME it just isn't true. Agents and houses take what they think will sell. Marketable and good can have very…

@hurryup: The "but I'm special, the girls like me" customer fantasy is amazing, isn't it? And so widespread.

This is one line I can't cross. I just can't bring myself to pay for any kind of fake sex or affection. Especially from women, because as a bisexual woman, the difference between the attention I get from men (tons of it!) and women (barely anything!) is depressing enough without a commercial transaction reminding me.…

@ЖЕНЯ Gelbelman: There's also onnabe clubs - instead of young men catering to women, it's drag kings.

@Lamar Henderson: I like your theory.

With lowered expectations firmly in place, I will see it. I can forgive even major fuck-ups in a movie if it's pretty, incisive or ambitious enough but one mood-killer for me is CG overload. I will be turned off if that's the case here.

@hurlesk: I was overwhelmed 2/3 through PB, but visually it is stunning. While the interpretation of Caliban didn't jibe with mine, it still worked for me. I feel like filmmakers are all so afraid to go overboard these days - I miss that kind of excess.

I've noticed some people perceive more color hues than others - for instance, I might see three different shades where someone else swears they're all the same color. I'm curious if the expanded perception is based on practice (as in people who make art develop a keener perspicacity for hue) because I experienced…

I agree that Lori and Shane sleeping together just once as an emotional breakdown, like in the comic, would have been preferable. It would make her ensuing shame and regret more tangible. And if Lori was played by a different actress, I might actually care about the love triangle. But this actress isn't bringing it.

@blocks: Yeah, I don't understand the casting of Carol at all. I don't see this woman going the same route as the comic character. I don't really see her purpose at all - she's rather insipid and I can't believe they couldn't find a more compelling actress than this lady.

Not a bad episode for me. It established the hopelessness of the outside world and what they can expect in their journey.

@serenada: I wouldn't mind a scene with naked Cas tied up and menaced with a knife. In fact, I think it's integral to the season's development.

I woke up excited to see this today and then realized it hadn't released in my city. Dammit.

My exboyfriend fell off a 6 story building and suffered some major damage. He came out of it with several fake memories - that I had had his child, that his other ex was dating a famous actor, and then some family memories that his mother swore were complete fiction. Everyone would correct him but he would revert…

@Batlife: And have to mention Fun Home, another book my non-comic nerd friends have loved. Alison Bechdel is a genius at evoking multiple emotions in just one spare panel.

@Maria Simon: The second issue of this was heartbreaking. I have the issues but I'm sorry now I didn't buy the book at the Con - I just realized there is work I don't have in it.

How Loathsome is a great graphic novel that never got the accolades it deserved. Not for everyone, but for anyone who wants to see the BDSM, trans or pansexual community in comics - which doesn't happen enough - it is a gem.