It seems more reasonable the person actually writing the story would have contacted and confirmed facts first. I worked in journalism and its generally considered an important aspect of the process.

It doesn’t say much about Roiphe’s brand of journalism that the fact checker, who’s supposed to be the one crossing the “t”s and dotting the “i”s not doing the actual reporting, was the one calling up to check on Moira’s thoughts on being the “woman widely believed to be one of the creators of the list.” Sounds like…

The reason Yi Tien Cho’s speech seems abrupt and vague was because the show wisely chose to ignore one of the weirder and dumber aspects of the character that motivated him in the books, which was that SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS (I’m not kidding) he had an intense foot fetish for bound feet, and was mad that he ran…

I thought it was one of the bigger surprises of TV this year. It works on a couple of levels as both an extremely spot-on satire of popular crime docu-dramas that have taken off post-Serial and just a silly look at high school drama and culture in general. The “mystery,” while silly, is extremely well structured and…

Yeah I feel you. I used to live in a Houma, Louisiana, for awhile about 100 miles southeast of New Orleans and any time a hurricane came it was the same thing: Everybody worries about New Orleans getting hit, something does or doesn’t happen to New Orleans/Galveston/Houston, everybody moves on. Meanwhile some small…

Thanks. I live in Corpus now which took the good side of the storm and didn’t have much damage, but I have my parents staying with me in my two bedroom apartment because they’re in their 60s and there’s no utilities in Port A right now... no water, no electricity, no sewage. They go out to clean their house during the…

Pleeeeease don’t forget the Coastal Bend of Texas. I know the hurricane landfall was a whole week ago and that seems like forever but I’m from Port Aransas and this is just a fucking nightmare for us. The town was devastated. 90 percent of the town either lost their roofs, gross poop surge flooded into their home,…

Don’t forget about the landfall zone. I know it was a whole week ago, but I’m from Port Aransas. It was absolutely destroyed. Same with Rockport and Aransas Pass. The flooding in Houston has kind of eclipsed the initial devastation of this giant fucking storm’s landfall.

I’m sure she’ll get to your constructive comments right after she dies. Thanks!

Well yeah, I was being partially facetious.

I stopped using feather pillows because I got a feather in my ear (one poked up through the pillow) and had to go to the emergency room to get it removed.

I used to work at a big event center in Austin and one night they put me in the back where the band bus parked to make sure fans didn’t try to sneak past the barricades catch the band getting back onto the bus after the show. It was Alabama, a big country band that I knew jackshit about, but I was instructed to only…

I used to be an environmental reporter in south Louisiana during the Deepwater Horizon oil spll and once I got invited to a demonstration of some sort of experimental “oil cleaning machine” at a random port in the middle of nowhere. I wasn’t given much context and I was completely burned out after months of daily…

I dunno man. I moved across the country with my cats too and was paranoid about leaving in the car but I don’t equate that with having to take a baby to daycare on my way to work every day when I’m sleep deprived and running through the morning on autopilot. I love my cats too but I think you’re comparing apples to…

Did you figure it out because guy going into the heart of darkness and being corrupted by it is a pretty well-worn literary trope?

Yeah me neither, but I’m old enough to have been in high school post-Columbine when suddenly there was a crackdown and any weird, anti-social kid was getting targeted for severe discipline in case they were the next school shooters. Being weird, depressed, angry and anti-social is actually just kind of like, a teenage…

Normal peeps can smell it too if its strong. People often smell lightning strikes.

Yeah we had one at my small-town Texas high school that was still going when I graduated in 2002. We called it Senior Slave Day and all the seniors were auctioned off to the highest bidder to be dressed up and forced to perform embarrassing tasks for the day. I still kinda wonder what happened when someone in my…

Thanks! Sorry your flung yourself in the path of this troll lady but I appreciate your comment.

You seem really unpleasant and you literally know nothing about me and I know nothing about you. Let’s stop talking.