There was a whole movie genre of Italian movies about evil nuns back in the ‘70s, right? Innocent girls dragged off to convents, forced into prostitution and foul rituals, like a giallo version of The Handmaid’s Tale.

I beta-tested it last summer. It’s very nice, with a clean interface that looks like a Criterion DVD menu, and a decent selection of movies, though there’s more Criterion stuff than TCM. My problem is that I own a lot of Criterion titles already — they’re about the only physical media I still buy, movie-wise — so it’s…

I feel old now

I have smoked on and off for over half my life. I am currently off due to job searching. Pot is addicting, at least to me it is. I’m at currently going through withdrawals(quit yesterday after smoking literally every day for the last three years) I’m bored as fuck and kind of testy. It will pass in a few days like it…

I’m sitting here with my degrees in Art History and Film and going “well shit, now that this has hit the internet, they’ll definitely get people with actual history degrees to apply”. So looks like it’s a no for me, but I think the Art History/History combo would be a winning one, especially considering there’d be a…

What about pot being a scary gateway drug? It’s going to suck you in and ruin your life. Sarcasm aside, I smoked pot more than I ever drank when I was a teenager/young adult, but never tried anything stronger than that. It’s not very scientific but none of my friends who smoked pot with me ended up being heavy drug…

The problem with clinicians is that a) they see a relatively small portion of the population, and b) the sample that they get ALREADY has a problem - that’s why they’re going to a psychiatrist in the first place. And since they’re not scientists, they don’t understand that correlation =/= causation. So they end up…

Hey! Molly was the best! And she danced!

I remember when there were only three dolls too, but I loved Molly! (I am a glasses-wearing plant nerd, so it fits, I guess.) I got to wear her person-sized clothes in an American Girl fashion show back in 1993 and I am pretty certain I’d wear most of them today as an adult lady person.

Or just anything Ben “pyramids were built to store grain” Carson says.

There is no greater proof that everyone needs to take history / liberal arts classes than Ben Carson claiming that enslaved people were immigrants.

Just don’t ever play with cats. They have an uncanny knack for history and world origins (I blame the unfair advantage of having nine lives).

My PhD in History really paid off when I won a Trivia Night tie breaker by knowing how long America was embroiled in WWI. My trivia time (We called ourselves “T.M.I” because we had Too Much Information) won a $50 gift certificate to the bar with that answer!

Reminds me of when my grandfather-in-law scream asked what I would do with my anthropology degree when I met him. Luckily he died before he could see that I got a great paying job outside of my degree.

I had Samantha because I’m so old there were only 3 dolls when I saved my allowance to buy mine. If I’d been born a few years later I would have wanted Felicity or Addy.

Could I help in the development of an Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”-era doll who is a Lithuanian immigrant living in Chicago and performing child labor?!?

I was no longer into dolls when American Girl Dolls came out but I do fondly think of my Talky Chrissy Doll. My aunt lied to me and told me it was named after me so, it’s kind of similar.

Fully qualified person here! Normally I’d be like “no, thank you” because I was never a doll kid but watching the Black-ish episode with the two terrible black dolls (one was a fugitive slave, the other a civil rights figure named Sassy Selma) recently gives me pause. This is kind of an important opportunity for…

I know you’re joking, but this does sound like exactly what I’ve trained for, and I had a Felicity doll!

AUGH I have a library science degree and love research this would be awesome!!!