well, somehow, the camera loves it.

Well, for my own self I'm reading Pynchon's Mason & Dixon so I feel like balance has been attained.

I'm mostly reading kids stuff to kids these days so I read:

Long ago, in either the first or second class I taught, I had just finished the first lecture and a group of students came up to me after and said, "Are you an Eddie Izzard fan? 'Cause you seem like an Eddie Izzard fan."
"Ha ha, yes," I replied and went home and rewrote the syllabus to feature, well, a lot of things,…

Also, just to note, was this Alicia actually having, at least temporarily, a friend?

I'm not certain the House of the Chill Cat was down for non-schismatic opportunities.

You know, I could also see the original writer having Prady say, "I follow Ignatian spirituality" and then it getting cut down to "I'm a Jesuit" when notes declared the conversation to be too wonky.

The 'Greeks' I work with tend to be noticeably well organized and to be exceedingly good at putting together volunteer efforts and communication campaigns. Mind you, there are all sorts of reasons why they are not a representative sample, but in a field where lots of people do those things their experiences clearly…

I had a friend who was married in a schismatic sect of the SubGenius.

Yeah, I've not seen it commonly done and often in other contexts. I can kind of make it make sense as Prady trying to tell it to her in terms she could kind of understand? That's some fairly tortured thinking, but it's also the only way the Jesuit who responded to it for AmericaMagazine thought it made sense.

Maaaybe?

He's Perry without the nuance and sophistication a Texas upbringing can bring to any man.

Research people, it's not just something you tell your boss you're doing while making comments on AVClub.

Sometimes "I'm a Jesuit" is also slang for someone who has gone to a lot of Jesuit schools and taken that formation very seriously. Mostly, though it just read like a miscue. The Jesuits don't even have a formal lay order.

I wonder what the origin of that phrase is. I heard Molly Ivins use it decades ago, but it has an older patina.

I know a guy who does investing on pictures put together either explicitly for this audience or for the LGBT channel on Netflix. His reasoning is that, from a financial/audience analysis standpoint, the situations are basically parallel.

She's been in some good European series. Just doesn't help her much in other markets, for some reason.

She was also in that not horrible Chow Yun Fat movie - The Replacement Killers.

According to the faiths that issue things like indulgences there's no way to know and you should never not be confused.

Yeah, the loss of faith in gift cards can be a terrible blow, but it's natural in those advancing towards middle age.