But it’s real. It would have been less satisfying to tie up everything neatly. I love the ambiguity of the ending, and I think it serves his purposes by reminding us that everything—even the end of the world—is temporary.

The Stand is perfection.

I agree, and anyone who tells you that King is not a “serious writer” should be strung up by their typing fingers.

The backstory in the Shining was almost entirely missing in the movie, and the movie suffered for it, I think.

I recommend him; most of his stuff resonates especially deeply if you’ve lived in small, rural towns. The Mr. Mercedes trilogy was the last series I COULD NOT wait to finish—I actually bought them all new in hardcover, which I almost never do. My favorite book of his is non-fiction; it’s called On Writing and it is,…

I believe the speaker was a Southern man. “Daddy”is a common thing to say in the Deep South, regardless of age, sex, etc.

Plus, it was an excellent “fuck you” to Bannon and Trump.

100% true. He would be full-on Stalin if he was competent.

MJ became addicted to painkillers after getting serious burns on the set of a Pepsi commercial in the mid-80s.

And yet people still vote for this party, the party that has literally spent decades trying to make people dumber and sicker. How the hell do we fight against self-sabotage?

I used to love bacon and black olive pizzas!

I am a middle class White woman and I feel shame everyday about this evil clown. I have always felt this way to an extent; it’s really difficult to process that most of the harm in the world is caused by people who look like me, but it is especially acute now. My big hope for this administration is that their sheer…

“I would never walk up to you and say those words to you and I’m so sorry that that happened to you.” Nope. It didn’t “happen” to her. YOU assaulted her. When the passive verbs come out to play, it’s easy to tell there is no actual remorse.

NPR had David Duke on as “another viewpoint” during the election season. DAVID FUCKING DUKE! That’s not just comparing apples and oranges, it’s comparing apples and shit.

I saw Get Out yesterday afternoon. I loved the slow, creeping dread the movie captured; that feeling of “I know something is off” that we all feel occasionally. I also liked that the movie really played up the “benign” racism of the upper-middle class White Liberal. The villains in this movie thought they were paying…

These same guys probably think that sororities have orgies every weekend and sleepovers are all about topless pillow fighting. Nobody is more obsessed with the private lives of other people than Conservative White men.

Nirvana is very important to me, and has played during a number of important times in my existence. RIP Kurt If only you’d been able to wait out the pain.

I think Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, despite her obvious flaws (married to Mitch McConnell?!?!?!) is actually experienced in the field of transportation. At the least, her confirmation hearing was pretty normal.

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I think not including Saudi Arabia on the travel ban list when they were almost entirely responsible for 9/11 is proof of Trump’s priorities. (Hint: they involve personal enrichment at all costs.)

Thanks for your measured response. The one I wrote out was a lot meaner.