I still can’t get over the fact that there are healthcare workers, who see what Covid does to unvaccinated people every day, refuse to get vaccinated!

“Fuck you, and your mom, and your sister and your job, and your broke-ass car and that shit you call art, fuck you, and your friends that I’ll never see again, everybody but your dog, you can all fuck off”

Passing logic tests has never been in the GQP/conservative wheelhouse. 

Greg Tate, Eve Babitz, bell hooks, and now Joan Didion. This month has decimated my favorite authors luist. All love top theior friends and family. I’m gutted, can’t imagine how they feel.

Anyone who didn’t think Elon’s first love would always be his work, reeeeally wasn’t paying attention.  The man’s a flashing set of hazard lights.

I agree that a series should stay together. Maybe one shelf especially for books in a series.

Color coding looks cleaner and nice, no question. I’ll even go further if the colors are the same and organize by height after. I leave some shelves by genre though for series- I feel like that’s the exception to this. I would never separate a book series just because they’re different colors. It would be a personal…

Seconded. All people, everywhere, should read Dune.

I agree the books are great, although Dune itself is very long, took my dyslexic ass a while. I’d also suggest pretending they end at Children of Dune. A nice trilogy and NO MORE BOOKS WERE EVER WRITTEN.

That “The Spice” thing that everyone who’s read Dune keeps going on about? One of the reasons it’s as valuable in the fictional universe as it is is it extends lifespan, up to a factor of about three. Thus, you could argue from canon for the woman playing Jessica to be eight years older then the guy playing…

Same issue on Netflix’ Midnight Mass. IRL Henry Thomas is 50 and Zach Gilford, who plays his son, is 39. I’m only halfway through so maybe there will be a reason for this, but it’s notable.

“Again, I have not read Dune! Does the space Jesus boy, chosen one of the desert, canonically have weird sexual tension with his mother?”

Yes. Not exactly sexual but a bit related to the power of a Mother in general. Power dynamics in the story are all over the place. Hope you give the books a chance; they were speedy…

I have not read Dune!

If I had to guess how old Rebecca Ferguson was from watching that movie I’d have said around 45 and Oscar Isaac looks about 50 in the film. I don’t know if that was makeup or what but they both looked entirely age-appropriate to have a teenage son in my opinion.

Okay, fair. But he looks really young! He looks like he could be a college freshman.

[Mild spoiler for later in the book/series]

unlike Ben Platt some actors.

Chalamet cannot pull off 15.

My 51st birthday is next week. I’m an old white guy who can tell “back in my day” stories all day long. And, yes, I’ve grumbled about some of the young whippersnappers I work with once or twice.

This is a weird, even-more-perverted flip side to the idea of American Exceptionalism. Like, no, [bad thing] cannot possibly be bad, because it’s American, and American means Good! Obviously the American way must be superior, whatever it is, now stop bothering me!