She’s been pretending that Spanish is her first language and she has an accent for years, so... kind of?

Hell, Thelma & Louise was marketed as some kind of lighthearted road trip buddy comedy, and while it definitely contains those moments I don’t think anyone would say they define it. My mother went to go see it with a girlfriend whose husband had recently lost a long fight with cancer, and she started crying so hard…

I’ve been reading Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell for most of the month and just finished it last night. I think the last book I read that was that much of a doorstop was The Goldfinch. I really enjoyed it though, it wasn’t an effort to read or anything. The Regency Era has always been one of my favorite literary/movie…

Re: Cropsey. Staten Island. Not Long Island. (Also yes it’s very good, and Zeman has gone on to some very interesting documentary/true crime work, most notably Netflix’s Murder Mountain.) 

Her husband had a long history of trying to do shit for which he was in no way qualified--acting, singing country music, Bible bashing--apparently “flying” was another one of them.

I read Battles in the Desert last month and really enjoyed it. Part of me wished it was longer, but most of me realized it was exactly as long as it needed to be.

Their sandwiches are mediocre af. Especially here in the south where there’s guaranteed to be a Popeye’s on the same block. Raising Cane’s is also a far superior product.

“Now she's just a corpse with worms for eyes. Same as when she was alive." I'm going to miss Braugher in this role so much. And that tattoo reveal!!

I’ve already seen all of these! I love true crime documentaries, and especially the subgenre of scammer documentaries. I wish someone would make one about Juicero, which I refuse to believe wasn’t a scam. (I heard the Juicero guy, who came up with the idea when he was banned from his local juice bar for being a…

Jim Bakker is still out there grifting, selling apocalypse slop (being a post-tribulation Rapture guy is where the money’s at, nobody needs food buckets if you’re going to get hoovered up to heaven before the shit hits the fan), hanging out with the guy who discovered the “blood moons”, and boring the fossils in his…

I think what Buckingham actually still isn’t over is the fact that Nicks was about 1,000% more successful than him post-Fleetwood Mac.

I’ve always seen a weird parable of late-stage capitalism in Red Delicious apples. Like, think of the effort and money spent to grow, ship, and sell this trash fruit that everybody hates and throws in the garbage where it belongs.

I mean, Spike Lee did give some air time to “the levees were blown up” truthers in When the Levees Broke, so this is not entirely new ground for him. At least that conspiracy theory exists for a reason, because the levee was dynamited during the 1927 flood. (Plus there’s, you know, the entirety of US history and its…

Eh, A&E did this years ago, with Cary Elwes playing Bundy and Bruce Greenwood playing the psychiatrist trying to profile the Green River Killer. It was pretty good, and it didn’t make the viewer suffer through a scene where Bundy whines about porn to James fucking Dobson, who has probably been more corrosive to…

Now seize all of his Affliction duds.

Yeah, I was gonna comment that the Mayfair Witches books are like the platonic ideal of Rice starting out strong with the first book and then just immediately losing the plot. I don’t think I even finished Lasher, but I periodically re-read the “From the Files of the Talamasca” sections of The Witching Hour. They…

Madonna wasn’t the main character in the movie, she did fine, and it wasn’t a musical. “You kind of go ‘Is that true?,’” is total horseshit, and saying Davis “did OK” is the kind of catty backstabbing that plays into the worst female stereotypes. Winger has long had a reputation of being a nightmare to work with, and…

Yeah, I get it. That’s why I made the comparison.

I’ve tried to read The Silmarillion twice and never gotten farther than Ungoliant stealing the Silmarils. It feels too much like trying to read the Bible. I should try it on audiobook, I can just listen to it while I work.

It’s where they grow red potatoes!