My high school English teacher incorporated a lot of modern literature into the course. Then had to defend doing so to a pretentious tightass who thought if it wasn’t old and exalted, it was crap.

Not even that. They’re just arguing for actual thought, reflection, and context in the choice of books to assign, rather than reflexively falling back on the same 15-20 books that everyone seems to read in high school over the last 50+ years. To stop and think about what these books actually say to POC instead of just…

The gummy rubber spiders, coated in a thin tacky film. Packaged in plastic, at the bottom of your cereal box. They were intended to be hurled at the wall and, by way of the adhesive and legs, slowly crawl down the wall.

watch good time. watch the lighthouse.

Oh man, the Land Before Time puppets!  I loved the Petrie one so much that I took it to bed to sleep with every night.  That is, until I started waking up every morning in pain and my parents realized that I was rolling over on top of it during the night.  Turns out sleeping on a hard-ass rubber puppet with a long…

Song Kang-ho should’ve won an Oscar. Look at how much he’s saying in that moment without saying anything at all.

It is crazy that when multiple people, and parents, complained, Sarah Lawrence was like “there is no rule against a parent visiting with their child in the dorms” - fuck that noise, that is not what this was. Sarah Lawrence simply didn’t want to deal with it, and if I was a student, parent or alumnus from that school…

New Yorkers: “Go fuck ya’self Jersey.”

Johnson kind of threads a weird needle with it. He does acknowledge there’s a kinship between the two of them, and something that could definitely be more defined down the line. But as of that point, whatever you want to call it, romantic sure as Hell ain’t it.

EDIT - That said, as far as Johnson v Abrams…

Boyega is one of the few good things about the sequel trilogy. And watching other films he was in, I honestly think he’s the main reason Finn was my favorite ST character.

In his Yelp review, in which he refers to the Salt Bae as a “communist loving, piece of crap,”

People have assumed this and it’s probably true, but you’d be surprised how insensitive people can be when it comes to pointing negative criticism out to writers/musicians/artists — I’d just as easily believe that a fan/friend/family member sent it to her because they were outraged by it. 

... you’ve never had a bad day, or few days, or even longer, where something that usually wouldn’t bother you just ended up being the last straw? seems unlikely.

Of course young women are allowed to dislike books “written for them.” (Although it’s worth noting that intended audience is a marketing concern, not a literary one. Most of us can get something out of most books, regardless of whether or not we’re the intended audience, and thank god for that. Reading books you’re…

“acting like any and all criticism is a personal affront”

“I became involved simply so I could stop them from ever choosing Sarah Dessen” *is* personal and *is not* criticism.

But hey. Facts, right? Who needs them?

Look, this is why this shit is a big deal. YA novels aren’t some kind of frivolous bullshit that isn’t worth reading because they aren’t The Great American Novel. If you’re at a university to challenge yourself academically, the Common Read isn’t the only place you can do that, and telling everyone that you joined a…

Thanks for the “Well, actually...”

The whole thing is very dumb. Americans know that Americans are overweight. Most overweight Americans know that they themselves are overweight and that it would be healthier to weigh less.

As long as one is wearing clean, untorn, non‐smelly socks, take off the shoes (if they are odor free) and be comfy. Just don’t use ANY PART of another PAX chair to place your feet on... not the back of armrests, not the tops of reclined chairs, not shoved between 2 chairs and on the armrests, and please not on the…

I’m gonna sleep on my 7-hour flight and I don’t sleep with my shoes on.

I do not care what you think about my feet.
They’re clean, don’t smell and are none of your damn business.

Everyone’s just trying to get through the flight, don’t be a cop.