I’d really rather they didn’t because instead of being read as a rebuke of his shitty behavior, it would be tooled to try to make it an endearing quality that really everyone should just learn to deal with because that’s just him.

More like his ne’er-do-well older brother.

This is exactly my speed these days: something light and funny and sweet.

Surely Floodland deserves a mention here! The whole album is an experience, and “This Corrison” is still a banger. (And what I wake up to every morning.)

One of the only good things that I think has come out of this true crime wave is finally beginning to dispel the myth that serial killers are criminal geniuses started by incompetent and/or lazy-ass cops.

I want to go to there.

It sucks. I passed on severance pay that I really, really needed because I had to sign a non-disparagement to get it and I KNOW how big my mouth is when I’m mad. (And I have lots of reasons to be mad about this place.) If I’d had kids, a partner or family member who needed support though, I’d have had no chance put to…

It would never occur to me to ask them to be well done, either, partly because I never been to an In-n-Out where the line wasn’t at, if not out, the door. Post-lunch, senior dinner special time, later, it doesn’t matter. The locations where I’ve lived were always hopping.

As much as I like “Montero” and “Old Town Road,” Lil Nas X dunking on his haters with joie de vivre is my favorite song of his.

I don’t know anything much about chants, but the way she begins to speak to how aural tones, rhythms, words, and intentions factor into things while acknowledging that you can’t really contain them in description or definition? That’s a kind of knowledgeable humility I need to learn.

It’s really weird. Like “I hate needles” level of resistance. I’m reminding them you can look away, and that they will the lives of folks who don’t have a choice (immunocromprosised, cancer patients, etc.).

It wasn’t just the constant mentioning of Trump, it was the constant mentioning him as someone aspirational because he’s George’s (btw, a character who had an affair, child, and married his daughter’s classmate) and we’re supposed to love him because his daughter calls him out a couple of times while along with the…

Yes, this exactly. Sorry I didn’t see it in the grays before I made my comment because I think you put it much better.

Like, I sincerely believe she is trying to be a nice person who wants to be good, but what with the extreme wealth disparities and 24/7 social media access, that forces anyone with that platform who’s trying to engage with users as a real person and also as a product is going to end up in a very bad place.

Absofatfuckinglutely. But fatphobia is so nearly universally accepted that folks legitimately need sanity checks for something that they know to be right.

I didn’t keep track, but I got through about five seasons and there are multiple mentions. Like, not just in passing once or twice in that time, but like 3–5 times per season.

fwiw, a sorta old US person, I only heard of him from an appearance or two from Nevermind the Buzzcocks.

Except Alia Shawkat. She named his behavior as unacceptable. It was the men castmates who were there, they all stood by and tried to smooth things over to keep Tambour and the readership comfortable. This is the kind of bystandership we need to stop in every aspect of our lives.

Her books were the first that I ever encountered real girl characters: they weren’t moral warnings or models. They were awkward, wonderful, troublesome, unique, fully envisioned people. And they didn’t have to be pretty to matter or be worthy of notice.

See Joe Rogan and why I can’t rewatch News Radio