Hi Taylor!!!

I’m reminded of the time when Billy Joel played at Notre Dame college, and they warned him not to play “Only the Good Die Young,” which caused him to play it five times in his set.

The Shallows, the one with Blake Lively and a shark. It was mostly Blake Lively and a shark.

I have tried to avoid everything Taylor Swift has produced for the past year and a half, especially since she dropped “Reputation” and her not taking agency in ANY of her actions of the past, and her brand of white feminism, and it hasn’t been easy, a couple of times I almost listened to “Look what you made me do”…

Tillerson speaks out against Russia in the poisoning of the British spy. Tillerson is out of the job 24 hours later. And the new chief diplomat of the United States is the former chief spy of the United States.

I understand that Taylor has creative control over her videos and music at this point in her career. But watching her dance isn’t fun. It’s neither technically enjoyable to watch, nor is she able to really dance like no one is watching (which is what I think she was going for here). I’ve been really underwhelmed by…

all of her recent videos are rip off of other, better videos/things. you could call it homage or something, but at some point it also just becomes gross. really expected better of joseph khan but i guess he peaked back in the 2000s with his p diddy videos.

This is a complete ripoff of the Kenzo video from a couple years ago. Even some of the dance moves are the same:

Kelly Clarkson, jennifer Hudson, CarrieUnderwood, Katherine McPhee, and fuck, even Justin guarini (LIL SWEET) are doing much better away from AI than on it. Hell, I remember ai tried to say “hey, we make Oscar performers here” one season. Nah.

This is all so fucked up. I live in Cleveland, it’s not just a fertility clinic- it’s one of our major hospitals. Over 700 families affected. They can’t tell if the embryos are ruined until they thaw them completely to check...and then they can’t re-freeze them.

HA! Well thank you. Classy is not something I get that often :)

Your response is ignorant, but not unusual.

As an adoptee pushing 50 who works as an attorney representing kids in foster care, I would never adopt. Never. I help other people adopt kids. I help kids find adoptive homes. But I would not do it myself.

You have so much class. My husband and I are struggling with infertility too, and I could not have written anything close to the last paragraph in your response. Like you, I’m fine with adopting. My husband very much wants to have biological children, and it’s nothing we can negotiate on. Infertility is the hardest…

I know you’re just asking an honest question, but please do not ever say “why don’t you just adopt?” to someone struggling with infertility.

As someone who went through the ivf process, it’s not just the money for ivf, it’s the money for the meds, time off work, rearranging your entire life because NOTHING ELSE MATTERS when going through fertility treatment ADDED to the fact that whatever is in that freezer might be your best/only shot at parenthood. I…

I thought the same thing after watching that behind-the-scenes special on Netflix, but apparently that was misleading. Have you read the Indiewire interview with Sadie Sink? I’ll quote the relevant passage:

(content warning - various kinds of violence)

I’d add to this that not only does tone matter, but so does the lifelikeness and realism of the violence depicted (which ties into tone). I’ve seen this brought up semi-recently re: Game of Thrones, where people have concerns with the show’s depiction of sexual violence,…

The movie you live in sounds terrible.

But the problem is that the movie treats Sam Rockwell’s bigotry and violent behavior as minor flaws that don’t need to be corrected. It’s not attempting to comment on the prevalence of bigotry among police or at the very least the director doesn’t see it as an issue, which is disturbing.