I just think it’s funny that she was actually at the beach (a fun place to be), pretending to be at a music festival in the Inland Empire (the 9th circle of hell).

I agree. The main reason we finally bought was because rents were going up so fast in our area, we needed to lock in a mortgage payment that, in a decade, will likely be less than rent for a comparable property. I’m not counting on my home value increasing, but I am betting on the probability that my rent would have…

+1 for Barry.  It is emotionally complicated, takes you from laughter to tears, and features incredible acting.  I get mad that more people aren’t obsessed with this show.

I haven’t read any leaks, but I assume Jon gets the throne, which is the most boring ending possible. Dany is killed because she has gone mad, because the writers really, really wanted her to go mad*. Tyrion becomes Jon’s advisor. Sansa rules the North. The end.  ZZZZzzzzzzzzz.....

As I saw someone say on Twitter, Robert’s bastard is placed on the throne as a weak compromise, the final scene shows people bustling around him, actually running things, and he looks hapless on the Iron Throne as the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme plays.

I had just read a mystery novel with a character named Trevelyan, and I love Rebecca, so the name Maxim Trevelyan sounded like a character I was dreaming or something.

Okay, this is where I reveal my ignorance of the genre, but I’m not sure why I should have a problem that, “James’s entire schtick is building structural inequalities between her characters into the fantasy itself, rather than to imagine two people enacting those fantasies together on an even playing ground.”  For…

I love Rebecca so much. Of course, I read it for the dead Rebecca, not the living second Mrs. De Winter. I always admire how, even dead, she intimidates everyone. Talk about holding your own! And it seems like she knew how to throw one hell of a party.

Since The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell made me want a Dremel, this seems like the place to ask- how do I clean the attachments? When going between polishing jewelry and hollowing out cookies to make elaborate Halloween skull ornaments, can I just clean with dishsoap and water, or should I have a different…

Since The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell made me want a Dremel, this seems like the place to ask- how do I…

I’m just really glad I’ve held onto my Golden Girls DVDs.  I can’t remember if I still have my Friends DVDs, but for now I can probably still purchase it relatively cheaply.

I know, right? I can’t think of any persona more authentic for a professional actress than “weird theatre kid vibe,” and yet people think it is a symptom of being phony? Like, wut?

I mean, I still love Anne Hathaway.

Yeah, I saw a tweet from a French paper referring to the name Archie as “un prénom très Américain,” and I thought, “Nope. Definitely not.”

Same. Cunt is usually used as an insult when someone is acting like a fucking prick. ;) But bitch is used as an insult in an often much more gendered way, to describe behavior as being either “unbecoming in a woman,” or unbecoming because it is “so stereotypical of women.”

“Testosterone is a performance-enhancing compound for sports (for men too)...”

I just love this theme so much, because no matter how the celebrities botch it (points to the first celebrity that dresses up as a different celebrity from last year), I’m seeing discussion of camp all over the internet today, which is what the internet should be like every single day.

Thanks! I saw it mentioned above, but I didn’t see a link for it.

Someone posted the 2002 NYTimes article about him above. He went on a class camping trip as soon as the district determined he could come back in the classroom:

I just realized that when my daughter starts school in a few years, I should probably google the name of every teacher/bus driver she has, in case there is a fucking New York Times story detailing their rape of children, and how happy the district is to have them back: https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/03/nyregion/back-i…