*shudders*

I know that Eddie Murphy's main venue for playing a ton of different characters was The Nutty Professor and not Dr. Dolittle, but now I can't shake the idea of a Mariah Carey series where she plays every role.

There was an interesting NPR article about it a while back. The other weird part was how Harding's adulterous love letters have this sort of liturgical flair, as though he cribbed his dialogue from a hymnal or something.

Pierce may have been a terrible President, but you've got to have some compassion for the guy—he entered office under horrible circumstances. He and his family were on a train from Boston when the train derailed. Wikipedia notes:

Interviewer: "Will your autobiography be conventional in form?
Waugh: "Extremely."

The concept of a "safe space" is a double-edged sword. Without a robust heuristic identifying what people are being kept safe from (and a collective agreement to accept the price of that safety) it's a bludgeon that can be used by anyone against anyone, for any purpose.

I was just thinking that if this was on NBC they would air it as a live musical, but I hadn't even considered that that musical might be a hip-hopera.

But I think his point is important inasmuch as it illuminates that regardless of what the state is doing, each of us should be thinking about how the things we do can be subtly exclusionary or condescending. The state can address income inequality (and it should), but it can't make people welcoming and inclusive.

Along the same lines, check out the chart at the beginning of this article:
http://www.ucreative.com/li…

I went on a tour of the NPR headquarters earlier this year, and as luck would have as we went by Bob Boilan's desk they were setting up for a Tiny Desk Concert, and they were willing to let us stay. It was Maren Morris (who I had never heard of before, but had just won a Grammy) who was quite good. I had always wanted…

Tangent, but I love this picture of Pat Nixon with her father at a Washington Senators game when Richard Nixon was Vice President:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media…

In fairness, we often have a hard enough time accepting it when people we know die in real life.

Tertishness? Tertillini? Tertullianish?

"Now came still Eevning on, and Twilight gray
Had in her sober Liverie all things clad;
Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird,
They to thir grassie Couch, these to thir Nests
Were slunk, all but the wakeful Nightingale;
She all night long her amorous descant sung;
Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the Firmament
With living…

I'm tracking that you're making a reference that I don't get (just like Milton—hi-yo!), but man, I really found Paradise Lost to be really poetically compelling, with visuals so strong that it can be like being enspelled if you give yourself over to it. It's difficult to find art that can really hit that sweet spot of…

To be sure. But even before it fails, Freeman has foreseen its eventual redemption in DVD sales.

"Why not?"
"Oh, Nature abhors art in a vacuum. "

Writer James Lileks pointed out on Twitter that perhaps some of the grief about West's passing is further augmented by mourning for an age when Batman could be fun, rather than grim and relentlessly bleak.

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MOS?