I want to be this woman. I’ll start with Halloween. 

It’s almost as though if you’re a garbage person, non-garbage people won’t want to fuck you. 

Tom Hanks is just such a nice, lovely human being. They interviewed him on the “So Many White Guys” podcast as their token White Guy for the season, and he was humble, charming, and genuinely kind. I love how much he loves his wife. 

I’d probably buy my sister a house so her kids no longer have to share a room, and then I’d buy my mom airline tickets to go see them twice a year/tickets to every knitting event she wants to go. I’d buy myself a house in DC proper (but not in Georgetown; fuck Georgetown) and multiple vacation homes. 

Ooh, this is true! Updating my wrong-dar.

Oh! And check out We Rate Dogs on Twitter! They found a corgi that got lost in a storm this weekend and returned him to his human! They were so happy!

I would like Tiffany Haddish to have all of the gigs, please and thank you.

Exactly. He’s a mediocre hack who used his platform to normalize a fucking fascist scammer to the American public. Now, he’s a mediocre hack who, upon facing the justified scorn of people around him, decided this counted as making amends so he can go back to being a mediocre hack with more money.

Oh, I LOVE Katherine Hepburn! And I’d heard that PEI isn’t terribly diverse nowadays (though some Mikmak relatives on my mom’s side moved to Boston from PEI back in the day). And do you mean the Anne of Green Gables with Meghan Follows? Because I adore that one!

Just gonna put it out there: I am both a Black woman and a die-hard Little Women stan. I got it from my mother, whose middle-school book fair copy I read under the covers as a kid (she is also Black, and grew up in Massachusetts, so maybe it’s local pride? IDK)

That was a thing I always appreciated about the 1994 version—as a kid reading the book in the 1990s, I knew literally nothing about Transcendentalism or the progressive/bohemian movements of 19th-century New England, and the film gave me really helpful context. Of course, now that I’m a 20-something…

Never. I still remember how old I was when I realized that the reason Alcott cut from the end of John and Meg’s fight about the lavender silk to Daisy and Demi’s births is because they had major Make Up Sex.

Oh my GOD, yes! She moves to NY, lives in a shitty apartment, and falls for Professor Fredericka Baehr, an expert in German literature who is also raising her two adorable nephews after their parents’ deaths. They get married, Fredericka gets a tenure track position at a college in Massachusetts, and they take over…

Meatball77 2020: a pickled lime in every backpack!

YES. I dig it. Now, I just need to find a copy of “Screenwriting for Dummies” and get on it!

IF it had to be remade (it didn’t), and you wanted to change the time period, WHY would you think a contemporary white family is the way to do it? Make them a Black family in WWII: Meg works at a factory instead of as a governess; instead of pinching her nose, Amy attempts to lighten her skin to fit in at school.

Here’s Bella (she wasn’t supposed to be on the couch).

Gotta throw the whole man out.

That’s smart.