YouYou would think it was obvious, but I’d been told growing up that I HAD to keep onto some things to avoid upsetting family members or because I would one day regret parting with them. So I personally needed this lady to come along and tell me that if it doesn’t spark joy for me, that I do not have to keep it,…

Kondo’s whole thing is reducing clutter and making sure to only keep things you really like. She doesn’t say what you should get rid of nor what exact criteria you use to decide if something sparks joy or not. Out of all the things you could collect, physical media are the easiest to keep tidy.

Amen!

Also, if the guy was not such a douche, he could suggest that his girlfriend read a book about giving head. We're not born knowing that stuff!

Somehow I had missed that detail. Ew!

If there was an Oscar for elevating the source material, Crash would definitely have won!

It’s funny you mention that. BP winner Crash is the reason I saw Cronenburg’s Crash. I kept hearing my coworkers with conventional taste in movies gassing on about how great Crash was and I had to keep reminding myself that they weren’t talking about the f*cking in crashed cars movie. Then I brought the existence of…

It isn’t only the familiarity of those old movies we’ve watched that we love. Time gives you a different perspective on old things, and it’s fun to rewatch things you know and see new things in them. I just rewatched Heathers, which was my favorite movie for many years but I hadn’t watched it in at least ten.  It’s…

Probably because that's what those things used to be called...

Username/comment synergy is off the charts!

Thank you for performing this valuable public service! This is precisely the kind of thing I need to know!

Yes! The Frighteners is such a delightfully weird movie. Everyone should see it!

OH! I wasn’t getting what was funny about grown-up Fred Savage in this movie. I had no idea Fred Savage was the kid in The Princess Bride! Thank you for enlightening me!

I wonder if the person being interviewed misunderstood what the author was telling her. Because yes, if you think the woman said that she met her husband in an elevator means that they rode the elevator together once and he asked her out, that would be weird and quite possibly creepy. What the author is trying to…

Because he was recently reported to have talked some smack about the Tarantino movies he scored. FTR, he claims not to have said those ugly things the magazine quoted.

Well, as to the economics, we moved here with a job with a significant higher wage, and found our standard of living to be roughly the same as it was in the land of low wages. And the snow and cold get old, but I’m so much happier here. The politicians don’t all get elected by vowing to oppose abortion and lower…

It takes time for people to learn to say no to their families. I wish I’d learned all this sooner, I might hate the holidays less.

I want that emoji right now!

I’m reading Alice In Chains: The Untold Story right now because clearly, I want to read something heartbreaking. It’s hard to find time to read, and I think the author was really green, so the writing style is, shall we say, uneven. But the reason to read it is that it is packed full of details about Alice In Chains’s…

You’ve convinced me to try it. Hold placed with my library.