Here’s your regular reminder, the article explaining which I can sadly no longer find, that this trend of men’s sneakers with stupid oversized heels was all due to one Italian designer who insists that small feet aren’t masculine, and so made designer sneakers with giant oversized soles so that insecure men could butch…

a posture of morality and cultural acceptance contrary to that of Whitefield Academy’s beliefs

pfft. If we’re crash-landed on some mountain in the Andes and you die, so would people eat you.

You could do a whole lot worse than taking inspiration from PoI.

“The uploader has not made this video available in your country.”

This was standard practice at Wal-Mart for decades. In fact, California estimated that the public subsidies Wal-Mart employees were consequently qualified to receive amounted to a taxpayer-funded subsidy of Wal-Mart’s business that was worth billions.

Aside from Moffat’s reputation, there was no reason to believe that Dracula couldn’t stick its landing,

This would be great. Cut everybody’s wages 20%, but like the article says they’d actually be more productive, so the JOB CREATORS can see even more return for their business acumen. Also, keep the classification of “full-time” at 40h/wk, so now nobody gets benefits (as if anybody were getting any health insurance or…

As the saying goes, “Baptists who can read.”

As my Ladybird Book for Grown-ups The People Next Door puts it:

holy shit. I never in a million years would have thought of that casting, but you’re absolutely right: that would be perfect.

really enjoying him showboating with a walker during the perp-walks.

This has to be it. There’s no way the production values would be this shoddy if we were talking HBO money.

Welcome to late-stage capitalism! Where the market eats itself, shits itself out, and then eats its own self-shit again!

I don’t know, y’all. I had a really tough time getting into the acting. Aside from McAvoy, everybody, even Keen (which really surprised me, because she’s really good in the other stuff I’d seen), seemed really stilted and weird. Like, they just couldn’t sell the fantasy-novel style of language.

Word. This:

AdBlock is your friend. You can block the container for those videos, and it’ll block them out regardless of the actual video. Do it once per subdomain.

But our tobacco is … “toasted.”

was gonna grumble about how you aren’t linking the original source, but apparently the facebook page where the voting took place got deleted. But at least could you link to an article that isn’t paywalled? Here’s an NPR link:

House of Leaves is actually what started me on this journey! (And I’m kicking myself that I’ve lost contact with the colleague at Uni who introduced me to it. Danielewski also has a long, multi-volume story called The Familiar that looks really interesting, but I haven’t been able to keep up with it.