It is definitely not a happier album. Just listen to Happiness. I did 3 times in a row, which is not advised when you are having relationship difficulties, and you don’t really want to break up, even though all signs point to you should probably break up, but you still love each other and aren’t ready. 

I like Taylor and have always liked Taylor! I wouldn’t write this many words, critical or otherwise, about someone I didn’t respect.

The entire LotR trilogy is, entirely without exaggeration, far and away my favorite movies ever made.

There are some great points here about how much pressure Columbus et al was under to make as literal of an adaptation as possible. Yet it made for such an interesting contrast to Fellowship of the Ring, which came out only a month later. The Sorcerer’s Stone reeked of a studio trying desperately to make money off a…

You know what I’ve done during quarantine? Coloring books, doomscrolling, and napping. Lots of napping. So thanks, Taylor, for making me feel worse for not even being motivated enough to make bread like everyone else did

I didn’t know people in 2011 could comment on this article!

folklore was such a gift. I am very excited and happy for her.

William Bowery aka WB aka Joe.

Your sexist joke is not only not funny but also is tired and unoriginal. Get some new material. 

Oh hell yeah, keep em coming please! That last record was such a pleasant surprise, can’t believe we’re getting another one like that already. I hope she keeps releasing music like this, and I don’t necessarily mean with this particular sound, but just generally less concerned with the big release machine cycle and…

I dunno, Taylor. Whenever I think of 31, I think of that line from “Pretty Fly for a White Guy”: “He asked for a thirteen, but they drew a thirty-one”.

This seems like someone who has decided to pursue art rather than stuck to an album promo cycle. Good for her.

Ok not the movies but a football game. Back before the Wisconsin Badgers regularly fielded a good team students would “smuggle” in bags of big marshmallows and would pelt each other with them in the student section. I decided to up the game by smuggling in about 10 pounds of cheap bologna I bought from my works…

Wine in Nalgenes is mandatory for summer outdoor “culture in the parks” events in NYC, even though the cops actively patrol and will write you big tickets for open container if they decide they don’t like your looks. But a free performance by the NY Philharmonic and a picnic with friends you don’t see often enough…

I took sushi into watch Finding Dory. The cinema itself might have had a special on fish finger sandwiches at the time.

100 hot dogs. When Terminator 3 came out the Wienerschnitzel had $.25 hot dogs. We thought it would be fun to order 100 of them and sneak them into the theater. The workers weren’t even phased by the size of the order. It only took a few minutes til we had bags in hand. We went to kind of an early showing and handed…

Please tell me you did this during Ratatouille.

As a teenager, the oldest of my sisters had one of those purses you could haul dead bodies in. The two of us were told one day to get out of the house for a few hours as the younger brats had pissed our mother off.

My story has nothing to do with movie theaters, but feels spiritually related.

Not very outrageous, but I miss wine in Nalgenes in theaters. Good in movies, but especially good for community theater productions.

You have more control of the salt level that way, whereas I suppose different salted butters might have differing salt contents?