That Windrush analogy was pure fucking disrespect.  

If there is a case to be made with respect to the Mercury Prize that consideration should be given to expanding eligibility to both citizens and permanent residents (or whatever the appropriate category of resident would be) of Britain and Ireland (perhaps with qualifications based on period of residency), okay fine.

I want to give her the biggest hug. That tweet about her being real life hurt and real life traumatized was so heartbreaking and yet so moving in its vulnerability and anger and honesty.

I’m not in Canada, I’m in Barbados. Our active cases went down to zero about two weeks ago.

Drake is currently in Barbados; commercial flights here from Canada recently resumed and he was apparently on the very first one. He appears to be gallivanting around merrily without a mask or any regard for social distancing protocols. Meanwhile our covid-19 active case count, which had gone down to 0 before flights…

I feel like they are totally the right shoes, but only because he’s Keanu and it seems like a very Keanu thing to do to wear those shoes with that outfit.

Marc Rubio on Martin Gugino: “I hate to say it, I hope I don’t sound ridiculous, I don’t know who this man is. I mean, he could be walking down the street [or he could be lying unconscious on the sidewalk bleeding from his ear], I wouldn’t know a thing. Sorry to this man.”

Right? “There aren’t the words in any known human language”? I can easily think of a word in English for this song and that word is “fine”. The song is fine.  I listened to it once through this morning and it was fine and on a second listen it’s still fine. 

Huh. I like that one-step method. I also do not have a lot of patience for sewing, but one step a day might be doable. And would probably prevent the deterioration in quality that invariably happens when I try to work through my impatience. Thanks for the tip!

What is Miss Vogue? Is it the (apparently) vastly inferior and more vapid UK version of US Teen Vogue?

For real. I get that Cardi is entertaining and charismatic and what have you, but the way she’s lionized on Jezebel, given her repeated actual and alleged shitty behaviour, is getting kind of ridiculous. Stop the fawning, please!

It’s not even a good economics lesson, because if the thing you need on your plantation (or farm! it could just be a regular old farm! hahaha! a farm with slaves on it! haha!) is slave workers, why would you be setting prices to trade the slaves you already have for some unspecified “items”? It doesn’t make any sense…

I literally exclaimed out loud (and not in a good excited way) when I read the byline. I never imagined that she’d be writing for Jez again. I feel a way about this. I’ve been on this site too damn long. 

No, because she isn’t about only owning stuff you need. There are stories in her book about how she’s worked with people who have collections of things that are pretty much useless, but nevertheless spark joy for the owners, and she finds ways for those people to keep those things in their homes in an organised way so…

I know tone can be hard to read on the internet, but I thought it was pretty evident that BreakerBaker was being ironic with their post. It’s slightl funny that you’ve had this little back and forth with each other when you’re basically both on the same side of the argument.

I agree with you (and mention in one of my other comments) that the rules are very clear. I think (I speak subject to correction) that those are basically the same rules as for when it was best foreign language film, but with “foreign language” replaced with “international”. But “international” and “foreign…

Also, you’re right about the silver lining for Lionheart. This whole to-do reminded me that it’s been on my Netflix list for months now. I’ll probaby watch it this weekend. 

I get why this is a delicate subject, but the official language of a country is irrelevant to this category at The Oscars.

Exactly. They made a cosmetic change to the title of the category, but gave no real thought to what it really meant, or what they wanted it to mean. 

Yes, if the majority of the dialogue is in English, movies from England/the UK are banned from this category. But a UK movie with majority dialogue in Welsh, for example, would be eligible. Canadian movies with dialogue primarily in French or Indigenous languages have been eligible. Canadian movies with dialogue…