I’m not sure about paint, but I’m pretty sure you can get retro-reflective vinyl.

High production value only serves to cheapen the Hallmark movie experience. The cheaper they look, the better.

You forgot the best one:

Nah, Jess grew out of being an angsty teenager by the middle of the show. He’s shopping at Whole Foods somewhere.

This being CBS, I’m expecting a mashup of CSI and Criminal Minds. In other words, not especially great, but somehow lasting 18 seasons and developing nearly as many spinoffs.

Wait... is Hannibal not a character in this show? Clarice as a character without the Clarice-Hannibal dynamic makes this show just sound like a generic Criminal Minds spin off.

I’ve been watching Hannibal for the first time, and it’s so strange that what was basically a two-book series has turned into such a (mostly financial, sometimes artistically) fruitful franchise. I’m considering reading the books, but don’t know how engaging it’ll be, having seen Freddie Lounds’ Wild Ride depicted…

That’s likely part of it. The other thing that’s probably going on is throwing as many descriptors as possible to be picked up by the search. It reads a lot like the creepy kids YouTube video titles that throw in a ton of words to get noticed by the algorithm. That's a long-winded point, to basically say it's racist,…

Trump doesn’t give a fuck about anything right now except crying over the election. His raging narcissism won’t allow any other subject to enter his mush brain. Thousands of people are dying every day now. That’s not even a blip on his radar.

He did it on purpose to make Biden look bad.

“The New York Times also reports that Trump is now “scrambling” to secure additional doses for the United States,”

Did anyone think he wasn’t going to fuck this up? It’s just so on brand for him. 

It’s a style note. No one is knocking over boxes of toner down at the Daily TERF Gazette. They have the right to write whatever they want, but free speech is not the same as consequence-free speech. Modern values are shifting and fifty years from now the guys who are insisting on dead-naming today are going to sound…

Amazingly, I have read several articles about Elliot Page coming out and none of them used their deadname and it was clear who they were talking about.

As a former journalist who also went to j-school: nope. The story is not his name, the story is his announcement.

Also, Lavery changed name in stages. He became used the old first name with Danny/Daniel and Ortberg, in various combinations; “Lavery” is from marrying Grace Lavery and taking her last name. So that’s a non-typical case.

That’s why the convention is to include multiple identifiers for a person of note in these situations: “Danny Lavery, co-founder of The Toast and current author of Slate’s ‘Dear Prudence’ advice column” for example.
If that doesn’t identify the person for you, then you probably weren’t familiar with them under their…

You absolutely can.

I’m not a huge fan of this because I find the vapor off the cocoa makes the peppermint stick lose a bit of it’s integrity then I’ve got tacky fingers until I go wash them off.

“As a pale, skin-cancer prone communist with a penchant for arguing about labor issues in bars, there is not a whole lot I miss about living in Florida.” is maybe the single best line I’ve read in a long time.