I adore Spirited Away and also can’t see how or why this should be a play. But it’d be interesting to see how they capture moments like when Chihiro travels to Swamp Bottom on the train; one of my favorite film scenes of all-time. The images of the spirits and the whimsical score elicit very strong emotions.

Somehow she looks more attractive now than she did then and she was smoking hot then. This trend of women dying their hair red started with her. They all secretly want to look as fine as Dana Scully.

She’s quite possibly the most beautiful human being walking the earth. She could be wearing cardboard trousers and still look good. 

I think it is (unfortunately) human nature to focus in on a woman not bearing a child as making “her less” than in some way. Substitute “less than” with “monster”, and you have a line from a movie that people choose to remember in that way. It does not surprise me in the least that in the subconscious of some (many?)…

I honestly wonder if Whedon actually truly believed the things he was saying early in his career?

“It has crossed by my mind that I feel this way because I’ve never experienced the kind of love Robert James Waller describes,...”

As far as I’m concerned covered bridges are where you almost get run over by the town minister who’s a secretly a werewolf because he knows you’ve found him out.

It’s true. It is tragic. And I know he was well meaning. You don’t take the time to build a homemade explosive device if you aren’t excited about the prospect of having a kid.

The second greatest thing I’ve ever seen in public, the first being a golden retriever stealing a whole bag of hamburgers with medical precision, was a man in cargo pants at the airport. He was late for his flight so we all let him cut us, and then he started emptying his pockets, and emptying, and emptying. I swear…

Noooooooooooo!

Unfortunately I have to give you the bad news that cargo shorts are actually back in style. My 16 year old son watches and imitates the Ballanciaga and Vetements runway shows and the cargo look is back in. Sorry!

The great thing about cargo shorts is they’re never in style. Thus helping the wearer achieve a zen-like state of permanent dorkitude. Plus plenty of pockets.

Sun: LEAVE ME OUT OF THIS

Yeah, its like the same thing with Trump. People who got rich and famous spreading hate and still lived a long life with no actual accountability finally dying gives me no joy. Especially since there’s going to be quite a few “left wing” journalists lecturing us all on how inappropriate it is to speak ill of the…

Good that he’s now roasting in hell but, like when Reagan died (or Kissinger finally kicks it) he did so after a lifetime of basically getting everything he wanted and remaking the world as a far worse place in exactly the way he desired; tough to be too happy about it in anything other than an “oh that’s nice”…

I see people talking about a lot of emotions here, but I haven’t seen anyone mention fear. Sure, I feel frustrated, or sometimes angry with people who aren’t taking this virus seriously, but more than that I am afraid of this virus.

100%. It’s like the people dying of COVID who won’t acknowledge that fact--admitting they got taken for a ride is the fate worse than death.

So I saw this from my ultra-religious great-aunt on her FaceBook page. I think it’s that these people have so completely subsumed Trump into their own identity, that when the insurrection happened, and they caught glimpse of their own, ugly political reflection in it, they couldn’t deal with it. My great-aunt had this…

It’s a simple feeling of unfairness, compounded by the feeling that others’ irresponsibility is lengthening the pandemic, and even a personal hurt if they’ve personally lost friends and family.

Authoritarianism/conservatism is all about making weak people feel artificially strong while convincing them to obey those above them.