I was also confused about all the references she included to her being the unattractive one, and really, really confused to all the worship references of how beautiful Calloway is. Calloway isn’t unattractive by any means, but at the same time, there’s nothing to particularly gush about?

Ever since I left home to go to college, I’ve been blown away by how many people look at other people as “rich people” without the self awareness to realize their position. Kids who were gifted brand new cars, worked unpaid internships in NY for summers, went on spring break trips and study abroad semesters, referring…

Well of course you feel sorry for her. You're a really big fan.

Right?! You bought a transatlantic flight for anywhere between $400-800 (so you have a credit card!) and then fly on to Amsterdam for cocktails, but you can’t charge a further €30 for a safe place to sleep??? You can also somehow afford to feed yourself for months in a country you're not allowed to work in. Ok...

I think Natalie is a good writer, but it kinda seems like it was a toxic friendship all around. 

Behold:

From the comment section on the source article: “I don’t even know who either of these people are, but I must say, as a straight black man who loves white girls messiness...this is top shelf."

Today I watched Lost Highway and realized its much better than I remembered. I also remembered that I went on a date to see it and we witnessed a guy jerking off during one of the sex scenes. The jerk off dude has done more in his life to deserve media coverage than any of these two messes this articles about.

This is some serious white people shit.

Stephen King’s “It” is more suited to a manga adaptation by Junji Ito than any moving media adaptation.

And after all that racist abuse, who ends up being school shooters???

Hey all. Just wanted to drop in here and give a very sincere thank you to everyone who’s read the piece and everyone who’s commented below. I had to kind of talk myself into writing this, for a number of reasons, but I’m glad I did, and I’m deeply moved by the responses here—by those of you sharing your own…

Such an excellent piece, thanks for writing it.

It's also one of the absolute best sequences in the book and a fucking sham that it was removed.

This is so beautiful and well-written that it makes me feel bad to note that Mike doesn’t see the bird in a water tower, he sees it in a destroyed smokestack at the former Kitchener Ironworks. 

you and i have different definitions for the word “essential.”

Henry Bowers is fucking terrifying. One of King’s big strengths in writing about young people is knowing how bad young people can be and not forgiving them for it.

I’ll say that the scene where Bev’s dad completely goes off the deep end and chases her across town is bar none the scariest scene in the book.  By far.  Nothing IT manages to do even approaches this part.

When people say “the book is better” they aren’t really talking about how well the movie adapted the book, they are saying that the book as a piece of art did a better job telling a meaningful/interesting/appealing story than the movie did. Like here, the book managed to convey a deeper, more universally human truth…

This is damn good writing, A.A. It resonated with me in many ways. Like you, it seems, I grew up in a household that could be kindly described as volatile, under the thumb of a cruel and violent stepfather and a mother who encouraged and occasionally participated in what he did. And also like you, I first read IT at…