I got over my fear of flying by doing the opposite of what everyone says to do. I read up on accidents. I helped me understand how (1) how planes work and (2) incredibly rare accidents are.

Stop being so damn reasonable.

Wait ... the Denver Airport?

Yeah ... I just hate the idea that anyone who gets something wrong or says something stupid is bad and terrible forever even when they’ve admitted they’re wrong and taken steps to correct it. If she said, “I’m sorry you were offended,” then by all means, rage on. But when someone says, “You’re right, what I said was…

So, person says something dumb, admits fault, tries to rectify it, but we’re all still mad? I mean, I get that insincere nonapologies shouldn’t be accepted, but if someone says something out of ignorance, but is willing to admit fault and be teachable ... what’s ... what’s the issue?

I think there’s another weird element to the story where the water tank was in a place it would be unlikely/near impossible for guests to access, and the lid was crazy heavy and she would have had to replace it after she was already in it — also apparently nearly impossible.

We call him out on it, but you sound fun.

Heh heh heh heh heh heh, I got you Kyle.

I think what you said is the point I’m trying to make. I’m not saying what SR did was morally equivalent to my Dad’s goober-ry, just that it comes from the same basic impulse. The difference is a matter of degree and not necessarily a matter of kind.

I’m not sure anyone could get caught up in a lie of this magnitude, but I agree that there is a human impulse to embellish that what Steve does here is the most exaggerated and destructive form of. Lots of decent people embellish stories. My Dad has one about meeting a celebrity that was initially just, “he was in…

I probably put my arm around my boyfriend’s shoulders in public as much or more than he does.

I feel dumb trying to comment on Kendrick ... his work speaks for itself better than ... probably any other popular artist working today ...

Could not get more surreal if it happened in the black lodge.

Pope’s been on a roll this week:

This is. This is too good. It’s too good.

I don’t think I’ve ever been on a date where we didn’t split the bill. Sometimes a split was assumed. Sometimes the guy initially offered to pay, but I insisted on a split. They were occasionally resistant but never weird or put-off about it. My boyfriend and I will buy each other meals. We don’t keep track, but it…

Re-Redmayne’s casting, that seems like a tricky question. On the one hand, Hollywood has a bad habit of patting cisgendered straight actors for taking on roles where they play GLBT+ people, and then themselves for being progressive enough to make a movie about non-straight people even though the cast is straight, but…

I mean — he’s right, right?

True, but then Josh Brolin had some absurdist comedic moments in inherent vice. I think that’s a slightly different kind of thing than being a convincing funny person. It’s a tough call. I will say if he is able to play a funny person it would be probably be an amazing. Especially with Cate. It’s the kind of thing…

And both have already been connected to a few successful franchises. They should go with someone relatively unknown or at least low profile (kind of like they did with Craig), so the person can really shape the role without people projecting their public persona onto it.