ZOMG! I used to hear this song on the radio when I was in France in the 80s! I’ve never seen this video before, though.

I’m With Stupid, Bachelor No. 2, and the Magnolia soundtrack all got me through some tough times way back when. So many of those songs - the melodies and lyrics - still slay me. Lost In Space was also very good. Thank you for writing about this, Alex.

Look, I feel like he’s genuinely trying to apologise, but he still says, “I apologize to those who were genuinely hurt or offended” rather than “I apologise for doing something hurtful”. The passive voice really is a way of shifting responsibility and people need to stop making it a part of their contrition. 

Probably because she didn’t actually think she knew the owner?

“You asked for me?” said Earl Grey, hotly.

James is wrong. Thank you for coming to my TEA-Talk.

But wouldn’t they then be sued by the Jonas Brothers?

Lady Colonialism it is.

Hey, it was a quarter after 1, they were a little drunk, & they needed a name now.

Or the nickname for a serial killers basement 

Sometimes I am fully prepared to make my statement, but then I see the work has already been done. Kudos.

A palpable hit.

Ah, so the “A” now stands for “Appropriation." Got it.

Change it to Lazy A, reflecting how much work and thought they put into first picking the original name, and also in changing the name

I was more mad about the dead animals, mostly because I think you’ve got the storytelling purposes twisted.

*takes a quick look around*  Outlander, we have your woman!  OUTLANDER!!

It was horrible how she was forced to sign on to play this role without seeing a script or having the chance to talk about her character’s arc or anything else.

Oh, wait.

She didn’t write it, and she only directed it because the woman who DID write it was fired as director during pre-production so Olivia could be gift wrapped a movie. That writer/director was then shut out of doing press or attending the premiere for her own movie, while Wilde makes sure to simultaneously never mention…

The thing that frustrates me when actors make gaffes like this, whether it is Wilde playing a reductive character who trades sex for career advancement, or Timothee Chalamet working with Woody Allen, or any number of cis actors who play trans, or straight who play queer, is that in so many cases, they don’t NEED this…

I wanted them to cast Daniel Day Lewis, who would inhabit the role so intensely and commit to his method so strongly that he’d become a paragon of kindness.