Looks are inherited. Talent isn’t, but acting is a skill that can be learned, especially if you have support (emotional and monetary) from people that have “made it” and know the right people.

Constantly comparing filmmakers and actors to historic ones is a dumb practice that needs to stop, even when it’s supposed to be “praise”. It’s reductive on its own when it’s valid (when comparing art), but comparing people almost always ends up setting high expectations that will never be met due to confirmation bias.

Look to the proto-twink ascendant, Mark Hamill

As a man allow me to mansplain the use of mansplaining in this article: Sometimes it’s funny to just toss it around, especially in an article about the Bachelorette.

The United States would be a better place is every slaveowner over the age of 18 was hanged after the Civil War.

Grand Wizard perhaps?

Listen, if college me (before I started running, even) could get railed while leveraging myself against a mass-produced plastic chair in my dorm room (because fuck those tiny beds), surely the world’s best athletes will, uh, find a way.

Think Cronenberg (both father and son) films. It typically involves really good (typically practical) special effects to really sell it.

Yeah, this review just confirms two of the things I was hoping for: Delaney’s commentary being self-aware, and great prosthetics. Only thing that would make it better would be if it were 2010 and I’m drunk-watching The Soup and McHale’s set aside 5 minutes to talk about it.

It’s three rounds. First are the literate (about the topic), so people with science backgrounds, public health backgrounds, and the generally informed on these sorts of things. Second are those where the promise of freedom of movement without the fear of disease. Third are “stick” that if they won’t get vaccinated if…

Facepalme D’oh

Yeah, weird that their second season didn’t get any acting nominations last year, though did get nominated for casting (in general) which is something

Stranger Things’ maximalist spin-off?

Are you saying that De Palma is finally gonna rub out Hitchcock? Outlook not so rosy.

Same. If I’m really liking a game with a high difficulty option, I’ll try to beat it on that setting after I beat the game in “normal” mode with a solid idea of game mechanics, play-style, equipment &c.

It’s wild because what’s being taught isn’t CRT, it’s basic history without all the makeup on. A few of my courses in grad school touched on CRT and they should not be taught to kids. Partly the subject matter (genocide, slavery, rape), partly because they’d be bored out of their minds.

If it means that GOP individual donors’ pockets are empty for fights of actual substance, I’m fine with Trump getting all of their money in this grift.

Yeah, the Biden photo-op is a political down payment. DeSantis is betting that Trump either not running in ‘24, or sundowning regularly enough that he can be trounced in the primary.

My partner’s (paying someone to) redoing the downstairs bathroom and I’ve found myself siding with Christina more and more in that yes, it’ll cost a bit more but it should at least look decent. So yes, I’ll smoke toad with her.

I hate sounding like a gatekeeper, but Swift has shifted to pop, and even her country music is fairly mainstream. Does Blackburn actually listen to Country music outside of what’s on the radio? It’s not like Simpson, Price and Childers are complete unknowns in that neck of the woods.