I’d laugh if I wasn’t already crying.

I recently tried to reread this, but I guess I’m too (woke?) for the whole angsty boy schtick. Maybe if they did a gender-reversed Dune?

BRB, writing the fan version.

For a million reasons, I missed the 1990s as a cultural phenomenon, and was, instead, immersed in the pre-war and war-time radio culture. I heard all manner of radio plays and songs. Vera Lynn was so pure a voice from that era, and so radically different from the swing/jazz of the USA.
Iconic and lovely;…

You’re doomed.

I frequently reply to people, “An hour?” (said in my best posh voice), “I don’t have an hour!”

I’m clearing my schedule right now to watch the whole thing.

Right! I’m super excited that it’s so accessible straight away!

Bless you for doing this. I imagine being there as similar to spending time near a nuclear meltdown: you want to run screaming, your skin is sloughing off, and yet you need to flip the lever to save humanity.

I live in Somerville, and there are homes in certain neighborhoods with zero fucking bars!!! Zero bars!!!! Oh the humanity.

LOVE HELENA.

I keep worrying that these marches are going to end up doing what Occupy did: nothing long term. They feel great, I grant ye, but we need lasting change!

Also Boston area (Som/Cambridge). We’re considering putting together a weekly group that can meet for inspiration/direction/planning, etc. Would love to connect it to Jezebel Resistance Group (which should be the name of our new political party....)

Oh, those books were my bible(s) as a kid. So I was grossly disappointed in the film. Is it too much to hope for a new TV series based on them all? The books have all the right elements: wise old dude, young hero, piquant princess, pig!, hapless adults, etc. Perhaps we could update with some further gender and…

Club Tropicana set up an entire lifetime of disappointing tropical vacations for me. (In the first place: he doesn’t mention that the drinks are free because they’re crap!) But my are his teeth dazzling!

Oh. I had forgotten about this. Fucking love this.

BRB, I need a creamsicle.

Is this a thing? Please post a link, because this thread *almost* makes me happy this post election season, and a link to this would put it over the top and into the basketball ring for me.

I’m so heartened (and yet heartsick) by your comment. My dad, a pediatric cardiologist, has recently come out of the closet as a climate change denier. He is utterly nuts at this point.
It feels good to have peers, even though its for an awful reason.