Sleep paralysis is the worst. Sometimes, if I’m really tired I fall asleep accidentally with the TV on, and then I have to listen to whatever’s on the TV, which is then incorporated into the hallucinations, and There’s No Way To Turn It Off.

Yeah pre-alien mythos, hags and demons and other entities like that were associated with it since so many people feel the sensation of something on their chest and black shapes hovering around the room. Our brains like to anthropomorphize everything so that combined with the general feelings of anxiety and dread sleep…

I’ve had night terrors and paralysis since high school and am pretty used to it. My ex in college, however, was convinced she was getting visited by aliens every night. She felt one at the end of her bed and even though her eyes were closed she could still “sense the alien there”. I’m like “yeaaaahhh that’s a night…

That's the thing. It's totally got this time dilation thing going on. It only lasts a few minutes, but the struggle against it feels like an hour.

I get them more often than that but I can manage it at least since they seem to happen when I am off my regular sleep cycle, usually lack of sleep causing it. There is a really excellent book by David J. Hufford, The Terror That Comes in the Night, that chronicles all of the folklore that has sprung up throughout…

I don’t get the hallucinations, just the paralysis itself. I’ve gotten better at clawing myself out of it, but it’s still miserable. I don’t even know how long it lasts. I have no frame of reference, I can’t even open my eyes.

Her segments with Seth Meyers, watching stuff like GoT, are priceless. It’s not enough to make me watch GoT, but it’s hilarious all on its own.

Personally I think Jones works best as someone outside the film commenting. Marvel should hire her and sell tickets for “the Leslie Jones experience” where you get to watch the premiere of a Marvel movie with Leslie Jones for the first time.

She’s one of the 10,000.

Can we get Leslie Jones a role in the Black Panther movie? She’d be great as a Darcy-esque audience surrogate.

My sister read the Harry Potter books after me. I had a great time with the third one, telling her the bad guy was someone we met in Book 1. She actually stopped reading Prisoner and skimmed Philosopher’s Stone, trying to find him and guess.

SPOILER FOR A BOOK THAT CAME OUT ALMOST 20 YEARS AGO

I got an e-mail a day or…

Cat Dude
Is
Serious.

We recently watched most of the MCU movies over a week with my mother-in-law. It was great.

Double down, have one of the orphans be Esther.

In Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, the titular home is protected because it’s located in a time loop. A time loop that hates this baby squirrel and is trying to kill it.

Well, if rodents oversee the concept of time, does this mean squirrels are secret gods with immeasurable strength and look alike because they are all one and the same capable of living forever?

Now Edge of Tomorrow is exactly Groundhog Day. Just in a sci-fi setting.

Robbie Amell looks so much like a young Tom Cruise it’s uncanny.

MCU Failing Female Characters #112136