Imitation of Life 2: 2 Imitate 2 Life 

I’m curious as to what he thought it was going to be. He doesn’t say so in the short interview. I mean, he signed on for a procedural that’s about serial killers and serial rapists. I’m not faulting him for his views, I just don’t get what he thought he was getting into. 

He surely wouldn’t mind introducing himself to you. He’s pretty good at that.

I mean, as my mother always said,

But Thomas Gibson got shitcanned for getting into verbal arguments with two assistant directors.

With his good friend, Snatch Leopard.

somebody find out where Dick Wolf was last night.

Agreed. Seems like a pattern there.

The irony here being that Johns only seems to be accused of going after men.

Pretty much the reason why Mandy Patinkin bounced early:

To be fair, we should absolutely be watching the gun nuts too.

Well, they’ll have a guy show up early in the season, pop back up for some reason at the midpoint (maybe ties to another criminal or advising the SVU team like Hannibal Lecter) then the penultimate episode ends with a phone call telling the SVU team that they escaped or Mariska Hargitay coming home to find out he…

If loving this guy is wrong, I don’t want to be right.

Yeah their replacements never really worked for me. Homeland was lucky to get Mandy, smart move. Gibson was apparently a dick, kicked a writer, maybe he was buddies with the DP.  

Those were the first truly great books I read in a long time. Makes all other sci-fi look like Pigs in Space. Got a little magical at the end but I guess it was in keeping with the theme.

I wish this and Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me were around when I was younger. I remember back before I came out as bi, a classmate of mine wistfully mused about how she wished she was gay, because “men and women have brains that are so different that it’s impossible for them to get along, I bet lesbians never…

Her Body and Other Parties was one of those books that felt made just for me, so I am beyond excited to read this. Also, Abandon Me by Melissa Febos is another gorgeous/heartbreaking memoir of queer relationships and abuse which I would wholeheartedly recommend if you enjoy feeling bruised by your reading material.

I read Her Body and Other Parties a while back and while I enjoyed it, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was reading multiple slight variations on the same story, or at least the same theme. I think Machado is a very fine stylist though, and “The Husband Stitch” and the Law and Order parody (?) in particular were…

Thank you. That really stood out to me, too. That statement is more about virtue signaling than it is a legitimate criticism of Phair, IMO.   

When someone is asked to “interrogate their own white privilege” isn’t that just the questioner demanding the performance they want to see? What is the point in that?