I think I would have bought this a lot more if the movie didn’t set up the terrible Lester/Carolyn dynamic. Because of her, you could practically smell every middle aged man in the audience think, “OH that poor guy, he’s clearly just reacting to his terrible wife” when he almost rapes Angela and then…

Oh there’s no absence of pop media out of East Asia at least. I’m thinking the entirety of Ukiyo-e. And a lot of the classics are pretty swashbuckling, in the manner of Dumas... like Journey to the West or The Tale of Genji.

There’s a wonderful adaptation of DQ for children through Oxford Press. My kids thought it hilarious and they re-read it every 6 months or so. It’s probably best aimed at middle school, but it was accessible enough for my modestly precocious 8-year-old.

I rtually no other worldviews informed by art to choose from, and that’s simply not true in 2019. He was much more trapped inside a framework than modern pop culture consumers are.

Oh yeah. I was having a good time with a guy and looking past his edu/$ snobbery, until I found out he didn’t know who Nietzsche is. We hate-banged afterward, me because ew, and him to prove to himself he was still man enough, despite being emasculated by the conversation.

I mean, let’s be honest. Upright bass players all the way.

My husband, on our first date, told a story about Thelonious Monk. And then he told a self-effacing story about telling that story to someone else.

I didn’t realize smoking was a thing for me, but by virtue of my type (Jewish scientists), I didn’t really date a smoker from beginning of college to my mid 20s.

Thank you. Alta vista was solid back then. The internet was not yet good at giving information about obscure things, but it was just fine for most standard information. 

I’m pretty pumped about the new season of Elite.

Ugh, I was just htinking this.

Tracy Flick is Leslie Knope.. seen through the eyes of a sociopath.

When my husband sold his 2002 Civic in 2007 to buy a Volvo stationwagon...

As I said, there are things to criticise and there are things to like. As noted in the linked article, Mormons donate more, both in time and money, than non-Mormons.

I maxed out at 5". Man I loved those boots.

Yeah, one of the things that people don’t get about the Mormons is that they’re essentially New Englanders. The culture that produced Massachusetts also produced Utah; you can see this in the genetics, and you can also see it in their paternalistic-but-giving hierarchy and approach to social protection. I have a…

There are very reasonable things to criticize Mormons for.

I have been going back and forth on that precise jacket for months, and I don’t even live in a major metropolitan area. If I lived in a city, it would be a definite buy. All I can get away with here is a whole lot of massive flatform boots in colors like purple iridescent.

I feel like 2019 Bjork is basically a gift to 1988 Bjork stans. Honestly, my 16-year-old self is saying, “Birds and flutes you say? Does she also sing about Marshall McLuhen in a coded way? I mean, obviously, right?”

This is a huge deal!