Suddenly “Exit. Pursued by a bear” makes a lot more sense.

Psh. He wishes he had Chris Marlowe’s hotbox stamina.

I think we all know that “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” was the “Up In Smoke” of the 16th century.

Oh honey. That poor, poor 20 year old child. RUN, GIRL.

So...we’ve got two male writers - one who works in environmental advocacy and one who is a science writer and illustrator - commenting on the fiction writing experiences of a woman. Thanks, guys. Helpful.

Becoming a writer is only the initial hurdle. Staying a writer- getting up every day and pulling the plow is infinitely harder, I’ve been told.

Thanks for your perspective, but it feels like you bypassed a major point. The gender of those in the publishing business doesn’t matter—it’s their attitude towards male vs. female writers in assessing who even GETS a “first-step” response. I wouldn’t be surprised if women are just as gender-biased as men. It’s not…

I stopped a novel in my 20s because I honestly felt that, though I was clever, I really had nothing to say. Now twenty years later... You know what, I started to say something glib about worrying if I was still clever, but that’s crap. It’s time to stop procrastinating and get back to that thing I’m good at. Wish me…

I would absolutely have to, because if I were to ever write anything worth sharing with the world, it would likely hurt a lot of feelings. I read something I wrote to my mom once and she was so distracted by how wrongly I remembered events that occurred when I was a kid, that all of the much more details of the piece…

Name one real, published writer who could be described as “weak-willed” and “fears real work.” It’s literally fucking impossible, because the act of writing a novel requires a tremoundous amount of willpower and hard work.

I haven’t thought of it that way but you are probably right. I don’t think it is how “bad” the rumors are per se - like if John Travolta really is Bi or Gay who would really care at this point. It’s not the external shame but the internalized shame that keeps people in. Scientologists are horrible enough though if…

I’m way out of the band’s demographic (though in Maher’s target demo—just not a fan) and know almost nothing about them; yet I still knew that one of the members was Muslim and that he was taking a lot of flack about it. If I knew that much even avoiding that slice of pop culture, I’m sure many in Maher’s audience…

Also, I love how the commercial implies a sort of "take that, DINOSAURS!" what with the shitty gas mileage slurping up all the fossil fuels. It's so absurdly U.S.A USA! and still a scathing critique of our energy policy. I fucking love this movie, it's one of my all time favorites

Nukes? Check.

For-profit prisons. For-profit fucking prisons. How is that not a offshoot of the sort of politics that ran Robocop?

Don't. According to every review I've seen it COMPLETELY misses the point of the original film. Not that a film can't be reimagined, but the filmmakers basically went in as if they were making a reboot of Robocop without grasping the satire.

I loved the news segment where the Star Wars-type missile defense system malfunctions and kills an ex-President in Santa Barbara (pretty clearly meant to be Reagan). Also, SUX 6000: gets 6 MPG! (while a dinosaur roars in the background)

I loved that poster. Somehow he made stepping out of a Ford Taurus not an embarrassment.

I think the themes of corporate greed, fear of a surveillance state, the military-industrial-police complex, a lack of accountability, and the feeling that urban cores are being neglected are all still relevant. And, though crime has dropped dramatically, the fear of crime and the use of that fear to mold policy is…

If anything, its exaggerations are our current reality. I doubt most viewers in the eighties believed everything that was privatized in RoboCop might actually be run by for-profit companies some day.