FANNY Assingham! I’m not the only idiot that sniggered at that name every time, right?

I started out reading The Golden Bowl by Henry James. I’ve liked other books by him and Turn of the Screw is one of my favorites, but for some reason I resented this book from page one. For whatever reasons, I’m not in a place right now where I care about the emotional turmoil of extremely wealthy and privileged white…

I moved 3 times in 2 years, and when I decided to move out of state I decided I was done with humping around dozens of boxes of books. I sold, donated, and gave away about 4/5 of my library. I kept books with sentimental value, books that would be difficult to replace, books that seemed unlikely to be released in…

I wondered if some of the characters were based on real people; I know next to nothing about the genre.

One of my favorite novels to re-read on a rainy day (or, since I live in on the Gulf Coast, when I’m holed up during a hurricane) is Elizabeth Hand’s Wylding Hall. It’s an oral history of a folk band recalling how they wrote and recorded an album in the early ‘70s at an ancient country estate in the south of England.…

These are the kinds of churches those assholes were burning, by the way.

I mean, that looks okay, but it also doesn’t look like the queso Perino tweeted Sunday night. THAT looked like a crockpot full of raw sewage.

I see Jaws up there and I’ve probably watched it at some time during the summer for most of the years I’ve been alive (and I’m one year older than the movie).

Ironic that this is the woman who was caught on tape licking doughnuts and said it was because Americans are too fat. Hey sweetcheeks, maybe you’re not the best person to tell people what to do with their bodies.

I think he mostly raped their corpses? Which yeah, is hideous and vile and twisted. But maybe because it wasn’t something the women he murdered had to actually experience, there’s less focus on it than there is on the murder. Or maybe it’s the natural squeamishness around discussing necrophilia. I just finished The…

Go home internet, you’re drunk. (I was vaguely aware that “Venomfuckers” was a thing, but I thought they were just rabid Tom Hardy fans—which, guilty—who were mostly joking. Like, “Yeah Venom is a gross slimy alien who eats people, but there’s a smoking hot actor in there”. I should have known it wouldn’t be…

It had a couple of decent set pieces, but that didn’t make up for an overall nasty tone. If someone served me a perfectly cooked steak, but with a dog turd instead of a baked potato on the plate, I wouldn’t say it was a pretty good meal. (In all honesty, I think I had mentally checked out of the movie by the time that…

Are you including Polar in that, because I saw it last weekend and wow it was terrible. Even taking “adapted from a graphic novel” into account, it was overly loud, mean, garish, violent, and sexist. It felt like they were going for a John Wick thing and... this was not it. (Yes I know the comic precedes the first John…

shush now

I read Steve Hodel’s book and don’t buy his theory (and SPOILER ALERT I GUESS he’s like one of three guys all claiming their father was the Black Dahlia killer), but I do kind of want to watch this. Maybe I’ll treat it like I do JFK, as something that actually happened in an alternate universe.

LOL here come da Pizzagaters. These loons are all in the greys and replying to their hamster-brained gibberish would get them out (and also be a complete waste of my time, because they’re morons), so I won’t.

There was a moment in the first episode where Elisa said something about “the crooked spiral” that seemed to be a reference to season one, but an executive producer said it didn’t have any meaning beyond affirming the two seasons exist in the same universe.

Waterloo

“Night Moves”? I thought that song was called “Night Cheese”.

My current audiobook is Ann Rule’s The Stranger Beside Me, which I have been meaning to read or listen to for years. I just got to the Florida murders/attacks, and the descriptions of what was done to those young women are absolutely stomach-churning, even to an old murderino like me (I read Zodiac and Helter Skelter…