Yeah. I was diagnosed with (incurable, yay!) cancer in January and started treatments in April. Part of the reason that I only shared the news with family and a small group of friends is that I didn’t want to run that gauntlet.

Same, sort of..? I was just diagnosed with colon cancer back in March. I’d just turned 46 a few months prior and so figured it was time to start doing regular health checks, a sendout kit came back positive, and they found a pretty sizable tumor with followup testing.

Thankfully, after some rapidly arranged surgery…

Love her, and love her honesty and openness. I’m glad she’s sharing her experiences and giving voice to so many who have felt this way. 

Yep. Even the eggs are mostly him thumbing his nose at authority. Granted, the meager and stupid authority of a dumb bet but still, Luke is all about shooting everyone the bird. (Even himself, considering what eating 50 eggs will do to you.)

Only because she started at the top of Mount Everest.

That intro scene is critical to properly understanding Luke’s character. He’s not some drunken asshole smashing up parking meters, he’s methodically cutting them off with a pipe cutter.  However ineffectively, he’s raging against a machine he no longer wants to be a part of.

It’s also a reassurance to the person asking. It lets them go on with their lives. They want to think the person is improving, not that life is hell and they sometimes think about stepping in front of a train.

I don’t think anyone with a chronic illness is surprised by any of this. People love to ask how you’re feeling so that they can congratulate you on being brave/a fighter/etc when you politely just say “fine” and downplay things. People don’t like when you actually acknowledge how much it fuckin’ sucks because that’s…

Or at least Austin Butler and Tom Hardy.

Parking meters. . . .

Can’t blame her at all. MS sounds like utter hell.

The Chicago accents in the trailer are soooo bad. I laugh every time I hear them. It’s makes “The Superfans” look toned down.

i felt the same way about paul newman in cool hand luke. iconic coolness as he...smashes gumball machines, get put in jail, then eats a lot of eggs.

Looks like he could kick Austin Butler’s ass too.

i’m excited for this one, but it does make me laugh that it’s a movie based on a photo book.

she’s a much more compelling actor than Austin Butler. Cast her in the Benny role, and then this gets interesting.

I was introduced to the film when I was in high school, taking german class, and it was a mind-blowing introduction to modern European cinema and way more interesting than the stupid TV show designed for learners we also had to watch. A couple of years later in University it was one of the first movies I acquired in a…

Jack Antonoff?

Depends whether you can prove monotony. Since it’s Jack Antonoff, the answer is a resounding, synth driven, yet weirdly tuneless “yes.”