I had a roommate in college who used to get into screaming fights with her mom over the phone in Hebrew. It would have been annoying in any language, because she was so loud and whiny about it.

Are you reading Clean Room? Because holy shit that book is so damn good/scary/beautiful/awesome.

HE’S IRL BEN WYATT HOW DARE YOU.

Right? Bull Durham is my all-time favorite movie, but it’s going to be a long time before I can watch it again because of her.

Truth. We have my husband’s grandmother’s old one, and it is decades old, and still works great when we use it (which is admittedly, rarely, but still).

That’s the biggest separation between the two of them. W has a sense of humor, even about himself. Trump is just a mean and petty old asshole. He’s Mr. Potter from It’s a Wonderful Life. W is more like Sam “Hee-Haw” Wainwright. An obnoxious rich asshole, but kind of fun and doofy.

He better not do anything to jeopardize Making History! I wasn’t sure about it at first, but it’s a really fun show, and I love Leighton Meester on it.

Once when I was traveling in Ireland with a friend, we stayed overnight with an elderly distant relative/family friend of his, and when she served ham at tea, even though I don’t eat pork, I ate the fucking ham, because she was our host and was going out of her way to be accommodating to us and I wasn’t going to be…

Thank you for this. I watched this adaptation SO MUCH when I was a kid, and my sister and I definitely used to do the “Are you good men, and true?” little dance there.

I read the transcript from this NPR piece last week about the Mercer family with the author of Dark Money. It touches on this Happer guy, and their connection to Bannon and Trump. All these people are completely batshit. It’s long, but really interesting, and you can read or listen to it. I highly recommend it.

She does a ton of work in Baltimore— she even orchestrated a big Wire reunion at Artscape a couple years ago, in the wake of the Uprising, in support of her organization.

My husband gets a lot of that from people who think he’ll be cool with them saying their racist/sexist/homophobic bullshit to him (He’s worried he might have “Resting Racist Face” or something). They see another white guy and assume he must think like them.

To know that prior to this, he was living in my city— in a neighborhood I frequent— creeps me out and makes me sick.

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I was reading about naming children in Iceland yesterday (because I’m going there in a few months and I’m SO EXCITED so right now I’m basically ingesting any and all Iceland information I can find) and it’s really strict there. First off, there are no surnames. You use one of your parents’ first names (from what I can…

i watched the whole first season and thought it was ok. Then I missed the second season premiere and realized I didn’t care, so I never bothered picking it back up. I’m usually into all the genre shows, but TWD just never grabbed me.

It really was. Dude IS Doc Holliday, now and forever.

Ah, you beat me to posting my favorite Madmartigan moment!

I had/have SUCH a crush on Madmartigan!

And from the guy who did In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths! I’m so in for this.