Oh man, I love Rasputina. They sound like no one else.

And this is actually quite common - Google revoked ad privileges from a ton of Tumblr sites that were misusing them a few years back. This isn't unprecedented or anything.

The spice must flow.

I didn't see The Iron Lady, but there is certainly a strange trend in biopics lately that focus primarily, or even exclusively, on the subject's relationships rather than the thing they are actually famous for. Kinsey, The Theory of Everything, Walk the Line - apparently, The Iron Lady. Even a touch of it with…

My few crystal-clear memories of reading the books a decade ago are mostly related to Esme's outfits (oh my, the stiletto shoes). I don't know if that counts as 'charisma', but it's at least adjacent to it.

I think another difference is that celebrities are constantly, incessantly reported on, and yet these kinds of allegations are rarely mentioned. It seems to take somebody outside of the media to actually start the conversation (Hannibal Buress on Cosby, Constance Wu on Affleck).

Creepy as fuck, but still of a different magnitude than drugging and raping a thirteen-year-old.

From what I've read, Amber Benson chose not to pursue acting any more because she didn't like the industry. She only works occasionally for friends these days.

I agree whole-heartedly. Cinephiles like to sneer at the Oscars for being "mainstream", but can you really imagine movies like The Hurt Locker, Room, Boyhood, Still Alice or The Artist even getting a wide release if it wasn't for the Oscars? Obviously it's frustrating to see better films ignored every year, but the…

Man, I feel like this would be pretty dark for most kids. Monty's corpse? Olaf hitting Klaus? My sister is ten, and she mostly watches Disney channel shows featuring mild social dilemmas and lots of dance interludes.

The child actors really haven't been bothering me - they're the straight man characters, they're just doing what they can with the material. And I agree with you that they're actually less of a blank slate than the children in the books. Even the actress who plays Violet, who has the fewest emotional character…

Yeah, I found Woodard's acting very false here. She never really came off as genuinely afraid or anxious, and to me these two episodes were the weakest of the series.

In their defence, several of the techniques discussed are only really possible with, or are greatly enhanced by, digital processing.

He also holds his tie together with scotch tape, because he has apparently never heard of a tie clip:

Bravo.

Ugh, I remember that. It's one of those incidents that, cynically, makes me feel like there's no point trying to conciliatory with people, they'll just see it as weakness.

See, he's already demonstrated more self-awareness than the Orange One ever has.

I was surprised by how much it hurt me to be ghosted, because I usually handle actual break-ups really well. It really is a different kind of beast, a different level of rejection.

A quick google didn't turn anything up, though it might be out there somewhere.

More advice on cross-dressing: if there are any queer friendly sex stores near you, they'll probably carry some sexy costumes and stuff in a range of sizes, and you wouldn't even be in the top ten most interesting customers they have for the day.