I don’t mind dark & gritty per se but studio’s confuse dark & gritty with downbeat & joyless. The Dark Knight wasn’t the critical & commercial smash it was because it was dark & gritty. It was a smash because they nailed the casting, the director had a vision & room to breathe & most crucially a good screenplay…

RDJ sounds like a total boob in both Guru-Murthy’s interview and the Stern interview.

For real. I’m an English prof married to an English prof (yes, we teach at the same college). Boring as hell and loving it. I get that movies are written by writers with Humanities degrees so everyone has an affair with the Humanities prof because of some wish-fulfillment thing, but come on. We read to each other at…

an 11 week aged fetus is about 1.6 inches long. a lime is bigger. there’s barely even a skull. here’s a somewhat creepy (because i think tiny skulls are creepy for various reasons) illustration of fetus skull sizes:

Is it wrong that now I want to get married just for a big party and then a multi day fuck fest?

We did it a lot. Like LickMyRedVelvet, we were in a tropical location with a private hot tub. The hot tub was great for foreplay but we too decided it was no good for actual P in the V action. That was the only time we’ve ever had sex completely outside though, and that was awesome. There was a little couch nearby…

Which might be interesting if Tidal didn’t seem mostly interested in pushing artists that could never collect another paycheck in their life and still want for nothing.

As someone whose research is somewhat related to this type of argument, men and women’s brains do seem to be different and there is a increasing volume of research that suggests that men and women solve mental tasks in different ways (not better or worse just different) and so it is entirely possible that one type of…

I wish I could have simply sucked it yup and carried on. I was out of my mind when I discovered my ex-wife’s affair. She makes twice what I do, so the financial impacts are less for her, but I was able to keep the house.

Jimmy Fallon isn’t the Prom King, he’s the safe jester who gets to MC the prom. He waggles his eyebrows at the cheerleaders, but he also reads the crazy drama girl his poems and accepts her eyerolls.. He does Eddie Murphy impressions that break the ice for people trying to hookup on sofas at the big party— James…

Boho Chic takes a lot from the styles of Paul Poiret and The Ballet Russe in the early 20th century, who in turn take from the romanticization of the exoticism of the Ottoman Empire and orientalist harem fantasies. I love fashion, but I love well-curated histories even more. I hope the book and museum are thorough.…

We should let the market decide who has the babies from now on... I'm tired of BIG NATURE telling us how it has to be done

I feel like this highlights the insanity in trying to split diseases into physical and mental with the idea that “physical” diseases are somehow more real than other diseases. Your central nervous system sending you false cues about your skin is no more or less real than anything else.

Oh, of course. Consider that Leitao’s son was diagnosed with scabies, but she rejected that diagnosis. The lady who started the whole mess started it with a rejection of doctors who were not dismissing her son’s pain and who were trying to help. I really don’t understand why Morgellon’s sufferers don’t want scabies to…

This is probably the fourth-most-pedantic thing I’ve ever read on the Internet.

Teens also make the best subject for TV shows because everything in high school is SO FREAKIN' DRAMATIC. You do have to keep that in mind when dealing with them, because something you just say in passing will very probably end up causing weeks of internal and external angst.

I am a woman who identifies as bisexual, tho I have only had one very serious relationship with a woman. The two men I dated after her both had very negative reactions, were very weird, jealous, and kinda creepy about it. I was with my current partner for 5 years before I told him. He took it very well and I…

Last year, in remarks at the presentation of the 2013 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal, President Obama attributed the quote to Angelou:

Yeah. I’m with you. I always kind of had a thing against talk show hosts and this format in general but he just seems so damn happy and grateful to be doing what he’s doing and for some reason that makes me smile and I end up enjoying it. I certainly don’t watch regularly but when I do, I’m all about it.

We flew on a combination of cash gifts and left over in-laws' Airmiles points and couldn't be too fussy about arrangements. On the return leg, we had to fly home to Canada separately.