Good! I had to pay like $700 dollars with them three years ago when moving my cat to Hong Kong (as opposed to the 180 dollars I’d paid them the previous time), and then the rude, barely literate woman who worked at their Indianapolis center drilled holes in my cat’s carrier with a power drill WHILE THE CAT WAS…

Really? I only consume between one and a half and two liters of water per day. Does the amount to excrete come close to the amount you take in? I’d have thought a lot of it is used in natural processes or comes out when you exhale.

I think you could jerry-rig a useful chamber pot with just a few items — a largish pot with secure lid, plus some cat litter and baking soda to keep the smell down. That’s how I’d plan to deal with human waste.

Living in an apartment would have advantages, though, if you didn’t live too high up. If you have a good strong door (or double-doors) you’ll be less vulnerable to attack by looters than somebody in a house, and having apartments on either side and on top of you would block some radiation.

When I took a filmmaking class in the early 90's our teacher actually told us not to mix black and white actors in one scene because we wouldn’t be able to light them both properly!

There’s third option that I think is very good, and that my friends have had success with: Cock-blocking. Get somebody, whether a friend, classmate (other people have probably noticed the professor’s creepiness toward you) or (fake or real) boyfriend to be by your side during interactions with him. Make it clear…

Or for any instructor with a student of any sex. You do get people who accuse you of all sorts of things — that you were insulting, discriminatory, inappropriate, etc. It’s a lot easier to avoid those accusations or substantiate that you haven’t done them if you’ve never in a closed room alone with a student.

I’ve started to dress more formally/conventionally to avoid getting pulled out for extra searches all the time. It happened again and again, and then a friend told me about a conversation she had with a TSA person. It turns out there’s a “profile” for female drug mule — it’s over 30, no husband or children, wearing…

The last couple times I’ve been in the US, I’ve seen adults (girls in late teens and twenties) wearing pajamas in airport security lines. I was like, “?!?”

So they think they’re the “master race” and yet they need four+ guys to beat up one young man? Hmmmmm ...

The “cosmopolitan” thing is terrifying. “Cosmopolitan” and “cosmopolitinist” was what the Nazis called Jews before they got enough power to be able to be openly anti-Semitic. Couple that with the old claim they made that the Jews controlled the press ... basically Miller is quoting Nazi propaganda.

Or “Do you have a partner?” I feel like it means the person thinks you’re some sort of weird loner, and they’re making a last ditch effort to find out if you’re normal.

For the record, a lot of Chinese people have been trying to get this festival shut down too. They’ve even gone to the government (I forget if it was the national or provincial one) to have it ended, but the problem was that the government did not have the authority to regulate festivals or food at the local level.

However, a lot of the dogs he “rescued” died because he left them with Buddhist organizations that allowed them to die of illness or starvation because they believe that was what would fulfill the dogs’ karma ... So that’s a shame, because while I don’t support the festival in any way, they suffered more and for…

He sounds like Aziz Ansari.

Little-known fact: Humming the Internationale puts babies out like a light. I have no idea why, but it often works in under a minute. I tried it randomly once and have used it ever since. Thanks, Communists!

He really stressed it when he promoted himself. I remember when The Broken Cord came out. I read it, and as I remember he talks extensively about himself being Native American, wanting to help the Native American community, etc.

This whole controversy is so much like the one with Michael Dorris that I’m surprised it wasn’t mentioned in the article.

Nope. She was just informed on set. She knew there would be a sex scene but she didn’t know about the explicitness or the use of the butter, which the two men had just thought up that morning.

It’s extra gross because she’s so baby-faced. She could be like fourteen. She really looks like a young kid playing with make-up in it. I’m pretty open to weird or explicit films, but this disgusted me so much I had to turn it off pretty fast.