Oh no, she knew. She particularly gave me shit because I had to use the elevator rather than the stairs at the time, something that students needed a pass for, and made fun of me being a “cripple”. Because that is so hilarious, a 15-year-old too weak to use stairs.

I’m with you 100%. I had serious health issues when I was a high schooler, which caused me to miss a lot of school. My sophomore biology teacher apparently found this hilarious and made me an object of ridicule when I was in class and when I was absent. I found out from a dear friend that she was saying particularly…

Basically. Sharks don’t have hands or paws, so biting you is basically their way of touching you and figuring out what the hell you are. They’re very curious creatures. It sucks for the people that are bitten, absolutely, but they aren’t actively going out and looking for people to bite because we are not their…

People with a PhD in nursing definitely take the hippocratic oath, and they heal this sick. And they’re about to become even more common, now that states are requiring nurse practitioners to get a PhD rather than just their masters.

Well the old bitty did run for congress back in the day.

Faust is wonderful. Murnau did pretty well for himself when he came to the States too- Sunrise was a great film. But yeah, Faust is incredible. I find new things to love about it every time I see it.

I have a clotting disorder, and I already have a clot in the same leg. I started having cramping pain in the calf, and it started radiating to my foot and up my thigh and went from “cramping” to “throbbing”. Then it began to swell and it was off to the hospital. They did a Doppler scan and confirmed it. Even on…

Great choice, that is a good one. Silent films are actually my favorite era of film- there was so much that people had to do with so little at the advent of motion pictures, and they were making it up on the fly most of the time. Not everything was a masterpiece, but most of what survives to this day was just so…

Excellent analysis, and you could be right. And I love the MP reference.

I have to get mine custom made and fitted for pressure at a pharmacy. I hope they have cute patterns like that. Mine will be the full pantyhose ones since I have an earlier clot that was all the way up from my knee to my groin that is just now starting to resolve. I’m just not looking forward to wearing those hot…

Aw it’s alright. I’ve got a clotting disorder so I’m used to it, it’s just the timing that sucks so much. And now they want to make me wear those support hose- yuck. I’m young, I shouldn’t have to wear support hose! And I’ve been home for about a week and a half now, just kind of unable to do much of anything but…

It’s sad she won’t see the first woman be elected as US president, but at least there will be at least four years for her to roll in her grave.

That sounds like one hell of a show! Nosferatu is a magnificent film, and I’m so grateful that some of the copies were saved after the Stoker estate sued Murnau for copyright infringement. It’s so eerie and well done.

Indeed I have! It’s his first talkie, and you can still see a lot of the silent film style in it. That’s one of my favorite films ever. It was particularly incredible that at a time like that, in a place like that, he managed to make the child killer somewhat sympathetic, and had the families of the victims not…

Yeah, several years back they found a bunch of the missing reels in (I believe) Argentina, remastered and restored it, and it’s the fullest version of the film that’s been seen since it was released nearly a century ago. I highly recommend checking it out. Netflix has slim pickings on their silent and classic film…

Maybe I’ll just stop celebrating them altogether. Last year I found out I was the reincarnation of Elvis, this year I got a blood clot, what’s next year? Will my house burn down?

Thanks Tina. It’s my third one. I started getting symptoms four days before my birthday, and was admitted to the hospital two days after I turned the big 3-0 for five days. Same leg as last year, too. Just my luck, my birthday present to myself is a blood clot!

When I lied about a Thanksgiving play at my school in kindergarten and my parents made me a turkey costume for the play at the eleventh hour. My punishment was to wear the costume the entire day and there is video footage somewhere of a five-year-old me running around in said costume, my uncle “shooting” me, and me…

I’m spending Labor Day with a DVT, some great old silent films, and though I’m in pain, the happiness in knowing I will be starting school again in about a year and my entire degree will be paid for through my partner’s job. So cinephiles, what’s your favorite silent film? Mine right now is probably Dr Mabuse der…

They appear to come from a mindset that devalues women, and who see Brocky boy as the villain. I can see someone giving Brock a position in the back room of a business. Out of sight, out of mind, but still able to make a living. There’s likely to be at least one or two sympathetic contacts of his family’s that would…