A related quibble I didn’t feel I had the space to get into (similar to how I just didn’t find the space to talk about Colman, who is very good in her part) is there’s a certain kind of arrestedness to how parents are portrayed in kids’ movies that doesn’t at all sync up with the ages of actual parents. Granted, (a.)…

I like this a lot, especially the relationship between the two kids.

Not to defend Christianity, but this is more specifically an evangelical thing.

I sincerely thought that was an old photo of Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio at first.

I always want to ask “so you don’t trust the media - then why do you trust your media? If we concede that MSNBC has an agenda, isn’t that true of Fox News as well?” If people still learned critical thinking in school, then they might be less inclined toward ‘if it agrees with me then it must be right.’

I guess, sure, if you become famous enough, your ego expands and you don’t have people disagreeing with you, but I would doubt that’s a big driver of stupidity in that group.

The only thing I’d say they have in common is their ability to manipulate. Otherwise, they are completely different- Vikander is very much playing a cold computer, and we recognize those signals. In a broad sense, she’s not much different from HAL from 2001, or Samantha’s voice in Her.

I mean, it’s hard to do an academic study of it (I’ve certainly tried to get funding), but I’d imagine even a survey of comments on here-always a relatively respectful comments section-would see fewer apologies for comments on female attractiveness. Not singling you out, not that I think it’s the biggest problem in…

Wherever you are, if I come into your library I will head straight for the irresistible book sale... My community holds one twice a year, a quarter million items each time. (A much happier topic than our Schadenfreude over Nugent!)

Why are you friends with someone who’s clearly a moron?

I find that mentality so stupid...

this definitely has a HBO MAX, not HBO premium content vibe.

Jesus that crowdfunding thing depresses the fuck out of me. My friend, an ER nurse, died of a preventable infection because she couldn’t raise enough money online...not enough people saw it, her social circles weren’t big enough. Your life is a popularity contest in this country. Fuck all of this.

I especially wanted a nomination for Cristin Milioti for Palm Springs

It’s been a while since I last read Ishiguro (the last I read was The Buried Giant), so I’m very excited for this one.  I believe it’s arriving at my doorstep tomorrow.

All his books are written pretty much in the same timespan (exactly 6 pages a day in his younger years), it’s just that the time between first and second drafts differ wildly. Like how ‘It’ was written in a few months in late 1980/early 1981 and then sat in a drawer until late 1984/early 1985 when he finally got…

Oh yeah, I’ll believe he can’t stop. I doubt he needs the money; he’d just rather keep writing than lounge around all day without a purpose. He’s done a lot of writer protagonists in his stories, but I get the sense that it’s because that’s who he is, not just what he does. 30-ish long-ass novels was enough for me,…

I think what he used to do is write a full first draft relatively quickly (ie a few months), then let it sit for a while before coming back to revise it. Has he stopped doing that, though? I haven’t noticed.

in 100 years his prolificiency (made up word) will be looked back upon as we do Shakespeare. 

I’m confused by this statement, because hasn’t he basically published one book a year since Carrie?