Sadly no one will ever take my reviews seriously because I work in marketing and that stuff seeps in :)

Every time! They have some of the same verbal tics or something. That through the teeth talking... Not that I’m judgmental about it - she sounds fine to me, it was just eerie how I kept hearing Keira every time she talked.

Part of it feels like the women are doing the “housekeeping” of taking care of the politics while the menfolk get all the action and get out and blow stuff up.

I want to see that. But I’m weird that way :)

Part of me hoped it would be a classic Waiting for Godot/Waiting for Guffman/Waiting for Lefty scenario where we never actually saw Luke by the end of the movie. But I knew Hamill was at all the events promoting the film, so it was just a sit back and wait scenario. Also, I’m an adult and not 5 so that helps with the…

Does Keira Knightly also bother you? Curious because Daisy Riddley just felt so much like Keira Knightly 2.0 to me - the same accent/mouth/speaking style.

I was honestly just so relieved that the women in the film were all wearing mostly normal clothes. Like, things that I would wear and feel comfortable in - flattering without being sexy/for the male gaze, and made sense for the characters and their lifestyles. Her dangling tunic bits are less than practical for…

Even the literal Biblical canon isn’t 100% consistent, within the authoritative “canon” that many fundamentalists believe in. If fundamentalists can deal with that ambiguity and still believe in the canon and their religion’s consistency, wtf is wrong with these fans who can’t deal with a play where Hermoine is black?

It depends on your grieving process I think - I fall into the suggestions in this piece, where I want work to be business as usual, and do any grieving in private or with loved ones/friends. Mostly because just someone asking “are you okay?” releases the waterworks for me, which is not what I want at work or generally…

Our city installed those bike share stations, where you can rent a bike short term and pick up/drop off pretty much anywhere. It’s great for ad hoc bicycle needs... but they don’t have helmets for rent. So pretty much anyone who uses them has to come prepared with their own helmet or just go without. Which is why I…

I think they mean cider (non-alcoholic) with mulling spices. Which would be freaking delicious.

You want scary + Nazis? Done.

Mine’s doing it so we’re less angry that no one gets a raise this year. Guess if it worked.

Why just income after housing cost instead of income, then income compared to total cost of living...? It just seems like a strange metric. I guess an easier one to calculate than actual cost of living...

See, this makes a lot of sense to me. Because your younger kid probably gets more excited at seeing a bunch of boxes to open than the older kid. My mom tried to keep the numbers close for me and my brother, but the older I got, the more I just wanted those one or two big things and didn’t mind if I was then playing…

Or they don’t because it’s often illegal. Over a certain number of children, they probably need a license in most states/areas.

I guess I was a little harsh with Samantha - but I remember her story line being about her jealousy over her uncle’s new girlfriend, and her more interesting orphan/poor friend. Addy learned how to read in secret. So cool!

Ha - I got Samantha because I asked for Addy, but my parents assumed they must have heard me wrong or misremembered (I was a little blonde white girl, for reference) and picked out the one that was the most popular. Samantha was so dull and snobby - I wanted the girl who freaking escaped slavery.

Are you a man or woman? Don’t read any judgement into that question - I’m genuinely curious. I’ve found it much safer not to stop, because stopping to speak for a minute can get you sucked into an uncomfortable situation, or worse. One of my friends once had someone on the street ask if he could use her cell to make a…

Or they were worried he was a panhandler. It’s an easy symptom of city living - some random person, possibly smelly/dirty, approaches you and you try to avoid them because it only takes once or twice to learn that random people approaching you are trying to get money from you, in some way or another. Or drunkenly…