I am sorry, but as someone who is covered in scars...I’m not here to be ‘admired’ by anyone. I don’t want to be anyone’s INSPIRATIONAL moment. My disfigurements are not things YOU get to write some lame narrative about Overcoming Challenges!! about. I lived. I survived. I get to tell the story of my body. Not you.…

Audio means that the person has the TIME to listen to the whole thing again, and do the 'digesting' thing later. Why? That saves NO time at all.

Hey, Katharine, could you expose yourself as a total Lovecraft newb more by repeatedly misspelling Cthulhu? It's especially hilarious since, you know, it's spelled RIGHT in the promo you're talking about. And by hilarious, I mean 'author hemorrhaging credibility and looking like a fool'.

Ugh, I never do April Fool's day, but now I feel like doing something just because I am so tired of these 'comedians' trying to become cultural shepherds. I'll decide my own tacky American culture for myself, thanks. I don't need British expat input.

With the rise of creakyvoice, American English is either going to embrace it and we'll all sound like Kardashians (with bonus uptalking), or we'll rebel against it and become more mellifluous in tone. That's where I think the change will happen: less in the flattening of vowels (like Nelly and his Err Ferrce…

As a native born American, I had to provide my immunization records to the college I attended. Including an MMR booster and updated tetanus. It's got nothing to do with your country of origin. In fact, there was a scare back when I was an undergrad and students *had* to provide records of a recent MMR or they were…

My sister is a doctor. She has to get a flu shot every year. Has to. She will not be allowed to work (and will not be paid) if she does not get it by a certain date. It is a public health issue and she works in a public hospital. At first I thought it was ridiculous because, hey, I didn't get the flu shot, blah blah,…

I agree that there was some unnecessary dumbness in this episode. Dawn's "you don't need to be loved, just respected" was epic levels of dumb, since we've seen for, oh, gosh, FOUR AND A HALF SEASONS now that people will follow you way more if they care about you than if you're a psycho. It's the lesson I'd thought…

I think hoping for any cinematic trend to be 'over' is sort of a forlornhope. We still have slasher movies, after all, even after Scream and horror parodies allegedly laid it to rest.

THere's a huge fascination with Nazi resurgence, including Iron Sky, and the two Dead Snow movies and a whole bucket of Nazi zombie movies. It's not about glorifying Hitler or making genocide anything 'funny' or entertaining, though. If you actually think about these films, they're about the idea of a resurgence of an…

Um. Yeah, I know it's cool and hip to be like "WEIRD AL WAS WRONG" but it really startles me that people who say this don't seem to realize that really simple thing that's common throughout all of Weird Al's songs: he's adopting a persona. Saying Weird Al is a wrong wrong grammar nazi because he wrote a song from the…

Honestly, after the last season, the walkers did seem to diminish as threats, at least less dangerous than the Governor, Lizzie, etc. Don't get me wrong, I think the last season was kind of clumsy in how it handled the split story arcs (sometimes we'd get a whole episode just on one plot like Daryl and Beth),…

Ugh it is totally promoting rape culture. The thing with Gaga is she thinks that going against things makes her edgy and smart instead of stupid and dangerous. Like Beyonce, she also feels this way because her celebrity insulates her from a lot of the effects of these attitudes she's turning into a song.

I only recently stopped wearing underwear under my yoga capris, and that's because ugh hot yoga and the last thought I needed to have in Down Dog is 'am I slowly steamcooking my ladybits?' but other than that I am an all underpants all the time. I'm also from the generation that thought it was BLASPHEMY to let a bra…

Have you seen many of the post-war movies? Because a lot actually deal with those issues of returning home and alienation and fitting in. Veterans don't need to watch war movies., and find most of them offensive as hell for being mythmaking on the backs of their buddies and themselves. (ftr I am a veteran).

I've read accounts of soldiers who had those movies screened for them (for 'morale' of course) and they threw things at the screen, made fun of them, etc. They knew the war movies they were being shown were, to be blunt, bullshit. The war movies weren't for them, they were for those back home.

Let's keep in mind most of what we know of the WWII narrative—as in those WWII movies—were products of a direct collaboration between the War Department and Hollywood. The War Department basically handed a set of five or so plots that they deemed acceptable (basically propaganda like the brutality of Nazis, the…

Sorry, but I'm going to have to go with Rorshach. Misogynist, anti-Semite, right wing conspiracist, psychopath. I don't adore him, I don't want to hang out with him, but 'cool' and far more interesting than the guys Moore thought the audience would be rooting for (Dr Manhattan and Veidt), yes. Hands down.

I thought I read somewhere that the people hanged in the country club had been victims of a sort of class riot, the idea that the rich snooty people were being dicks even after the apocalypse and the people who worked in the country club had just Had Enough.

I have to admit my initial feel after finishing the book was very much 'wtf did I just read!' but as I thought about it, it really struck me on a number of levels. It reminded me a lot of Philip Dick's work in a lot of good ways, the sort of headwork the reader has to do to figure out the rules of the world, and the…