K.J. Apa, who is currently making headlines because he fell asleep at the wheel after a 14.2-hour work day and crashed his car into a light pole.

I had the opposite response. The show didn’t start clicking for me until the loop started. I found the first half of the episode a little dull, but everything after the party first started to be great. I didn’t mind the looping at all.

I hadn’t thought of that. No, I meant that watching her knock over a shrimp fountain and set the curtains on fire was hilarious, and I found it great every time. :)

True, we saw her knock over the shrimp and start a fire a bunch of times, but I think that’s a feature, not a bug.

My dad was complaining about a homeless guy with a phone and I pointed out that 1) homeless people in our state have access to free phones with limited services and that 2) a person without a house or a social support group might need a phone far more than he or I. Why shouldn’t they have the ability to schedule…

Exactly. Going far enough is pretty much saying she wasnt telling them what they wanted to hear. Going to the podium shouting “free healthcare and college for all” would have gotten people out there for her, but had she won and not done those things after realities set in, they still would have shunned her. It was a…

She makes the point in the book that no matter how much she matched up to his positions, he’d just say she wasn’t going far enough. He wasn’t running a serious campaign at the beginning. Now he’s crippling us in 2020 and his supporters are already maligning Kamala Harris. They are fucking exhausting.

You’re saying that the person who crushed the primary and won the general election popular vote was a terrible candidate.

only for certain uses, namely, selling stuff out of the Taylor swift store and preventing any joe on the street from making a knock-off

For Clinton, politics are fundamentally about pragmatism, where strategic concessions and horse-trading with Republicans necessarily means sacrificing ideals for the ultimate good of Getting (Some) Things Done.

Hillary Clinton has many blind spots, but she would have been an effective, mature and stable President. Not a perfect President, but a decent one.

I fell in love with Anika Noni Rose when I saw her in No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, which was my Sunday night show. Jill Scott was amazing and I loved the location it was the first time I saw Botswana in such depth, the people, the culture I fell in love with it. She played Mma Ramotswe’s starched up secretary and…

It’s rough, because there’s a lingering sentiment (even among medical “professionals”) that fibromyalgia pain “isn’t real”. I’ve encountered that attitude repeatedly over the past 15 years, and while it’s gotten better, it’s still there in some form or another. It’s even codified into the treatment options that you…

I feel so bad for her and anyone who is literally suffering from pain.

I hate that she has to go through what I deal with every fucking day, but at the same time I’m glad that there’s at least one high-profile person who can speak directly about what it’s like. Maybe now we can make some progress on fibromyalgia treatment, instead of being told by doctors “Sorry, but there’s nothing more…

I did. Lets do a show about a young black woman but put a white guy in charge of the whole thing.

The Xenogenesis series was just announced as optioned. AVC wrote a piece about it recently, I think

I wonder how much of this “Executive producer” credit is being actively involved in the show and how much is “The guy who created our cash cow has turned us on to another property and we’re attaching his name to it for visibility reasons.”

Since Martin didn’t write this story, he doesn’t have to do much—but he will add in some really elaborate West African feasts—oh they had giant plates of spicy suya kebabs, bowls of savory goat pepper soup, and mounds of rich jollof rice and pounded cassava.

Speaking of which, why aren’t there any Octavia Butler adaptations yet? A “Wild Seed” series would be amazing, and there is plenty of room to expand the story even without continuing to “Mind of My Mind” (but that would be terrific too).