Anna Faris is really amazing. She needs a better agent. An absolutely fearless actress. I don’t get shocked by scenes in films very often but she had one line in Observe and Report (Why you stopping?!”) that made me audibly gasp in the theater. She should be at the same level of Ryan Reynolds & Seth Rogen right now.

This. Drag Chris all you want, but leave J-Law out of it unless you’ve got receipts.

Chris Pratt is giving me major I’m-in-a-cult-vibe

The church he’s a member of is basically Evangelical Christianity’s answer to scientology. They actively recruit and promote actors, entertainment industry people, and celebrities. Position themselves as a replacement for drug and alcohol treatment or Mental Healthcare. They seem to part of the same Prosperity Gospel,…

I think so too. Dude should have taken a moment before hitting Send and thought, How will this look to those outside my family? How will this make my ex-wife and our child feel? 

Jennifer has emphatically denied that rumor, saying she even reached out to Anna during her divorce from Chris and empathized about how shitty it was for Anna to have to read those stories on top of everything else. Do you have any links that confirm or give solid evidence of the affair?

This is my dad. He is extremely self-absorbed but has no malicious intent, he just doesn’t realize he is hurting people by only thinking of himself and how he is perceived.

That is great. I am on a journey of my own. Down 25 pounds so far.

Punch across, not down.

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow has been my best witch book in awhile. Loved it.  I feels like Practical Magic felt the first time I read it.

I agree, Thundercats. What being described in this post, keeping Connery compartmentalized, that’s the definition of separating the artist from the art. It’s only been recently, in my lifetime anyway, that more people are seeing a more complete picture and NOT separating the two. This was confusing to me as well. 

Nothing to add except WTF Gaugin???? This is a new and horrible fact for me.

The culture hasn’t decided to separate art from artist with regards to cosby and weinstein as far as I know. People still watch and love many projects both were involved in.

Large Marge.

The thing about The Jaunt is that it sucker punches you into forgetting its a horror story until the last paragraph. Which is wjy the jumpscare of an ending works so well .

Holy cow, Poe’s “Hop-Frog” messed me up for days, and I was in high school when I read it.

Hell yes, “The Jaunt” is probably my favorite short story of King’s though obviously he has hundreds and many of them are very very good. The Men in Low Yellow Coats and that one with the mill basement full of rats are probably the favorites off the top of my head.

By the way, your love of The Jaunt means that I need to read all of your recommendations here. So thank you!

The Jaunt!  JFC that is some troubling shit.  “It’s longer than you think, Dad!  It’s longer than you think!”

I read a lot of horror and I don’t get scared easily, but the following books and short stories all made an impression: