Last I heard about her, she was patrolling her Texas ranch for holes leading to aliens or something. I don’t really think Kubrick broke her, but I do think he was cruel enough to perceive weakness and extract a performance from her weakness to serve his goal. On one hand, it was a helluva performance; on the other…

I really wish that Oprah had never brought Dr.’s Phil & Oz out of the grays.

Is it supposed to have been written by a five-year-old? Typical high school students wouldn’t have quite that kind of difficulty with a pen. But then, a little kid wouldn’t get the idea to say something that horrible, whereas a high school student probably would.

It does. I believe there have been more racist outbursts in the aftermath of Trump winning. I saw one myself. But this note? It’s a weird combination of motor skills, prose, and concepts, that don’t seem like they fit any one age of child. If it’s real, it seems like it wouldn’t be hard to figure out which child…

That looks kinda suspicious.

Well, I mean most of us are amateurs at a lot of things, but that doesn’t mean there’s any harm in it.

As an art major, I was kind of conditioned to look down at amateur, self-taught artists. But I’ve seen so many retirees, big burly guys, housewives, etc get happiness and self-validation out of it - even if their work is objectively terrible - that I’ve turned down most of my snark on it.

To be fair, inflicting suffering on brown people is a totally bipartisan disgrace.

That’s very Jungian, and also true in my experience.

My therapist says that when we don’t bring light, clarity and understanding into our actual, real fears, they hide in our “shadow” and become monsters.

For what it’s worth I grew up watching horror movies, still watch horror movies in my 40s and I turned out fairly normal #notallkids

I was wondering what they were going to do about the election episode seeing as how nobody was expecting Trump to win. The Obama (first term) election episode is one of my favorites ever. I remember reading an interview where they said they really didn’t have much of a plan on how to alter the episide had Obama lost.

I still love that type of kid! The trick is to teach them it’s ok to like scary things but teach them it’s important to understand that other kids may not like or be ready for that.

I’m guessing the kind that inhabits 4chan and sleeps with an anime body pillow. Slenderman was born from the Creepypasta section of the internet and though he’s gotten a wider audience, the 4chan set is pretty keenly into him.

I give them suggestions (Godzilla, King Kong, dragons, the kraken, etc. ) or they can choose their own (there are limits on how violent a monster they can pick, I said no to Jason last year). The kids who play a lot of mature video games and doodle knives in their notebooks tend to gravitate to Slenderman because it…

I’m actually really curious about this, because monsters were a part of my MA Lit thesis. What kind of kid? What other monsters get picked?

I do a project on monsters every year with my fifth graders every year and let’s just say a certain type of child picks Slenderman every year.

Perhaps somebody can make a documentary about why teenagers are so fucking stupid.

Okay, maybe I am just super cynical right now, but seeing how the evening turned out, I just don’t believe someone that could be branded as a socialist Jewish person by the opposition was going to carry the midwest states and rural areas Hillary couldn’t (and I’m saying that as a Jewish person). Edited: maybe he…

“There will be years of recriminations in our future. Many Democrats will, as is their habit, conclude that the fault lies with the left wing of the party — that progressive party activists did not sufficiently support the candidate or that leftward attacks weakened Clinton. But that notion hides a simple fact: In an…