I recall this story as being the rare Lovecraft work that wasn’t horrifically racist. Ironic, considering “color” is right in the title.

I’m aware of that, having plenty of friends who are a decade-plus younger than I and who laughed just as hard (if not harder) at this debacle. That’s why I didn’t condemn all Millennials (a cohort of about 80 million Americans) in my comment or conflate them with the kinds of spoiled trust fund brats that were Fyre…

Having seen both and had a few hours to think about them, I respectfully disagree. The Netflix movie has more details of the festival itself, but the Hulu one goes into more of the economic details of the scam. The Hulu one paid McFarland for an interview, but they used that access to absolutely go for the throat,…

I threw away HER book, does that count? I’m a member of several planner Facebook groups (yes, this is a thing, my preferred planner is the Hobonichi Cousin), and everyone in them was going bugshit over her book a few years back. I bought it, and once I got to the part where she admitted throwing away family…

Yeah I just finished it and hoo boy. Shouldn’t he be better at this? Really doesn’t speak too well of anyone who talked with the guy for more than 5 minutes and still fell for his bullshit. Nothing about that bro-faced douchebag screams “I can be trusted with millions of dollars and am definitely not a con man”. I…

Ewww, really? That reminds me of the one single time Seth MacFarlane has ever made me laugh: when the cartoon dog accidentally runs over a man walking by the side of the road, gets out and asks “Oh my god, are you Stephen King?” When the man answers “No, I’m Dean Koontz”, the dog gets back in the car and runs over him…

In the years since The Social Network was released, Facebook has had its fair share of controversies

I’m torn. I find the idea of watching McFarland trying to defend his disgusting con to be physically repellent. On the other hand, the Netflix documentary might make me inadvertently empathize with spoiled trust fund brats and the kind of idiots who would sell their earthly possessions to get snubbed by Instagram…

Mahershala Ali is tall but not crazy tall, he’s just over 6-foot. Dorff is pretty short (although not by Hollywood standards, where wee little men abound).

Apparently the “crooked spiral” reference was a fun call back to season one and places both seasons “in the same universe”, but doesn’t have any deeper implications:

THAT’S who Stephen Dorff reminded me of! I kept thinking he looked a lot like some other, older actor, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it.

I noticed that too and thought it was really subtle and well-done. There was probably still a lot of blatant racism in 1980, but it was the smaller, less obvious stuff (I live in Louisiana, and believe me that hasn’t gone away) that was more aggravating to deal with, precisely because it was so ingrained and not even…

Maybe she’s just a big Jackie Earle Haley fan. (That dude continues to have a weird but well-deserved late-career renaissance after essentially disappearing for about 2 decades.)

all the aspects of Babitz that made an iconoclastic It Girl before that was a thing

I do cross stitch, too! And embroidery. I know how to do needlepoint, but for whatever reason I’ve never loved it.

Mail art is still a thing! There are still a few of us snail mail nerds who persevere in mostly forgotten pastimes like pen friending and postcards. Postcrossing has thousands of members all over the world. I originally got interested in mail as a way to use my fountain pen collection more. (I also collect vintage…

I didn’t dislike it so much as feel let down that I didn’t totally love it, given that multiple friends have talked Miéville up to me for years now. The next two books I read corrected that, though. (If I’d hated Kraken, I probably wouldn’t have bothered to read more of the same writer.)

Most of the stuff I read this year was pre-2018, except for a couple of true crime books (Bad Blood and I’ll Be Gone in the Dark). This was also the year I finally started reading China Miéville; my first try was Kraken, which I didn’t much care for, but I read Perdido Street Station next and liked it a lot, although…

Wow, that sounds amazing. As in “I am buying the Kindle immediately and will read it as soon as I’m done with my current book” levels of amazing. The last book I finished was Maplecroft, so I’m definitely on an “inspired by Lovecraft” roll, although this seems like a more direct connection. I like Lovecraft but it’s…

I wonder why we’re just now hearing of it if she died last month? As a child of the ‘80s whose parents were big Eastwood fans, Locke was a prominent figure throughout my childhood. My brother and I have had a running joke for years that we’re going to get “Clyde and Philo” bumper stickers made during election years.