3 deaths:

You don’t believe it is possible to like something in a piece of fiction even if you would not want it to happen it in real life?

Think of this moment the next time you decide NOT to vote for someone you perceive to be a corporate Democract “because there’s no difference between them anyway”.

There’s actually no hard evidence out there for how much the episodes cost. Nobody with actually knowledge appears to have ever dropped a number. $5M seems above the more like $3-3.5M per episode, but who knows? Certainly not fans ...

The guardian had one the most awesome restaurant reviews of a place in paris, where the color scheme is described thusly:

Just a note to point out that most of the natural world doesn’t have targets. It doesn’t have teleological progressions either. Things may change, over various timespans, but they do so without targets, merely in response to circumstance (weather and climate as much as anything).

When a person such as Isabella Rossellini says something what do they mean by it?

That’s some good writing right there.

2 points.

Yep. My home town. Good description of that period.

Was at the gym last night and some dude in the locker room was playing Sade on his bluetooth speaker (“Is it a crime?”). I don’t normally like to think of music being uniquely rooted in a place, but somehow standing there in a Philadelphia L.A. Fitness in 2018 it occured to me that Sade’s music (certainly the early…

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We should forward this to the Texas lawmakers. I’m sure they wouldn’t want to be caught doing anything the same way the France does.

All of which speaks to the importance of ensuring that adolescents get exposure to a wide variety of music. I’m just as wedded to the music of my adolescence as anyone else, but it is an equal parts mix of minimalism and early electro-funk, berlin-school electronic music and dub, the osmonds and bauhaus, ligeti…

Thanks very much. I do remember that scene now, and I stand corrected and better-informed. For some reason, the mind-control aspects of what is described lodged themselves in my head more than the rape part. Thanks again.

I have a question. Pardon me if I am just totally deaf, dumb and/or blind.

“I just wished I could say to each of the museum directors: ‘If it had been your daughter who had been affected by Chuck Close and Picasso, how could you look her in the eye and say, Sorry, we’re keeping the painting and the painting matters more than my relationship to you,’” she added.

It’s so good to see you come around Jezebel. It seems like it was only yesterday (actually, 3 years ago) when this whole place was filled with people insisting that Beyonce or Rhianna or some other millenial favoritza was breaking ground by being a powerful women of color making her own career choices, scoring massive…

Regardless of the link (or absence thereof) between the gestational mother and the child, it seems extremely likely that there is a biological (genetic) mother involved here who is not a US citizen. So all the issues remain the same, really.

I’ve been wondering what will happen - in Congress, in the media, in the country - if someone yells out “You lie!” during this State of the Union address.