Just in case anyone feels like crying even more, I highly recommend the linked NYT Magazine story about the letters people wrote to Obama. It’s a beautiful, heartbreaking piece.

Buzzfeed’s podcast Another Round is great - it’s basically like hanging out with two of your smartest, funniest friends. They also do a lot of interesting interviews.

Gwyneth Paltrow is obviously ridiculous. Saying that white people don’t have culture is also ridiculous.

From the Buzzfeed article:

It’s okay, I’m 21 and I do the same thing.

Jesus christ, why can’t we let this poor woman just rest in peace already? The ongoing cultural necrophilia around her is beyond creepy and distasteful.

He also wrote a hilariously fawning, “look at this tough masculine writer” profile of Nic Pizzolatto, in which he compares him to a bear:

What a condescending douchebag. It’s worth noting that several other directors who have worked with Knightley defended her on Twitter, so he seems to be the one with the problem.

Yeah, there is something about her that feels very free and charismatic. I like the post LaineyGossip did about meeting her: http://www.laineygossip.com/Falling-in-lov…

God, Daveed Diggs is so sexy. Actually, the whole cast is pretty damn sexy.

Yeah, I feel the exact same way. I loved (and still love) the Harry Potter series, but I have zero interest in reading about Harry as a middle-aged dad.

Okay, so the novels take place in a rough, working-class neighborhood in Naples and follow the lives of two best friends who grow up there, Lila and Elena. The 4 books span from the late 1950's to about the present day and, in addition to the lives of the two girls and their families and neighbors, cover the social…

That’s exactly what hit me about that passage - he’s just idly daydreaming, oh-so-casually, which makes for a shocking juxtaposition with the horribleness of what he’s contemplating.

Exactly. As a romance of course it doesn’t make sense, but as a tragedy (which is what it was intended to be - people seem to forget that) it’s great.