Yes, I’m always kind of perplexed by the adulation of Portman as an actress. I always find her incredibly bland. Saw “Annihilation” last year and I think with a different lead it might have worked well, but Portman was so wooden, I ended up not caring what happened to her character.

Well right, there are roles where simply looking like Audrey Hepburn from the side is enough. Particularly where her character is supposed to be a cipher or projection or symbol of delicate beauty. But anything outside that lane is a disaster for her.

“Hey, I’m Nat, and today lets all make believe I’m a   Actress  .”

It’s very strange to me that she’s regarded as a good actress. In every film from the professional through this hot garbage, her “acting” is just looking kind of like Audrey Hepburn from the side.

Nat dont exactly “disappear” into her roles.

I’ve not seen the show, but can I just take this moment to say: fuck all guns and fuck you if you need your penis extension.

Ryan Murphy has always only been able to keep a show on track for 3 seasons max. Nip Tuck went soooo far off the rails after its third season, Glee was nuts by the time season 3 ended and Coven was last really solid American Horror Story season. They should just recognize this trend and not give him unlimited time to…

This right here. This is the sort of thing that created the huge chasm between the original Star Wars trilogy and the Prequels. In the original trilogy, Lucas had multiple people reining in his wilder/more destructive instincts (using a voice over artist instead of Anthony Daniels’ performance, for example). With the…

It is said that the Roman emperors would keep a slave whose one task in their household would be to stand by the shoulder of their master and, every so often, whisper into their ear “You are a mere mortal”.

Possibly. I just sighed and rolled my eyes at it.

Perhaps a more apt title for this season would’ve been American Horror Story: Inferno. This is not an allusion to the fire-scorched post-nuclear landscape, all the trips to the underworld, or the excessive mentions of Satan, his followers, and his son, but rather, to the hell we, the dutiful fans of this series, now…

I don’t know why, but I just love the way you wrote this post — “cooking me with their tender little furnace bodies.” It’s just beautiful.

Six days. Six. I’m a gay dude and even I know that’s not a good sign.

WTF is the point of living in modern times if a person doesn’t avail herself of some of its luxuries, like a freaking pre-natal appointment to a midwife or something? Yet she will chatter on FB about the “primal instinct” that takes over. Guess what? Birthing can be pretty deadly, just look at history. But no, the…

Computer systems and real-time international communication were not a thing back when DST came to be. It is now rather important to medical, financial, and many other computerized industries exactly what happened when. And here we are with most of the country messing with their clocks twice a year. Every time the…

DST is stupid, but not as stupid as the concept of changing your clocks twice a year. Arizona doesn’t observe DST, NO ONE ELSE SHOULD EITHER. Just leave the clocks alone. Its an obsolete custom.

Alex. You lose one hour *once* Just once. And everyone born after spring 2019 will NEVER lose it again. And fuck, it won’t be dark when you go home after 5 pm there come the deepest middle of winter. Isn’t that worth one last hour of your life? To not have that flip-flop is worth it, in spades.

Ikr? I was hoping to see mention of eco-funerals, but millennials are totes into irrigating corpses with toxic chemicals that end up in our food chain, I guess. 

It’s horrible, worse than car salesmen.