We’re watching “Totally Under Control” this week in the uni classes I teach. I ask the students to reflect on if they think the government should play a role in keeping people safe and healthy, what that role should be, if they think we are currently doing it, why or why not. We’re halfway through the film and…

Loved the Peruvian one! Reminds me of (un)well, the docuseries on Netflix. They did one about ayahuasca. 

For the first part, what’s your point?

Ok, OP is 33, born 1987, let’s say to a 25 year old mom. Let’s say bro was 3 years older, 28 in 1987...32 and serving in the military for the war in 1991. What doesn’t add up about that?

Exactly. And my phone loves to glitch and send me back up to the top so I have to start scrolling from scratch all over again.

Not vying for the contest, but the Ouija story brought back my own Oujia memories...

I second that! I hate trying to read all of the stories in the comments section every year -- hundreds of stories, thousands of replies. Both my phone and my computer browser won’t let me bookmark where I am in the comments to pick up where I left off reading.

Wow, Caroline, why did this movie review make me cry? I really enjoyed your writeup, and all of the memories it brought back of watching it with my own sister and witchy mother. I was 14 when it came out, so the perfect age of old enough not to get too scared by the spooky stuff, and young enough to not be bored by…

I’m not on any SSRIs, so as an uninformed listener, I took her comments as they were helping her brain but made her body feel numb. I wouldn’t have thought she was comparing folks on SSRIs to zombies.

I had a guy I liked over to my apartment for the first time. We’d had some wine and one of those conversations where things keep clicking and you get super intellectually turned on, which turns into regular turned on and you just want to devour the person.

I’m not going to star you, as I think this pattern of behavior is clearly predatory and more than a misunderstanding. I will validate your friend’s experience, however.

To all the trolls harassing this post... what the fuck? I’ve been a commenter here for years. I’m an academic and abortion care worker, so yes, I really do curate what I spend my almost non-existent free time on. We’ve had white men’s perspectives on everything for literally forever, andI deal with the fallout of that…

I don’t watch sports, and I usually avoid white male-led shows, preferring to spend my time consuming media by/about/starring POC, queer folks, and women. But I’ve made an exception for this show, for the reasons discussed in this essay. It is something my cis male spouse and I can watch together and discuss, and has…

I had the honor and pleasure to see this song performed live in the “before times” when people could gather in places. It made me choke up with surprise, delight, and happiness. We need this! Thank you Viva!!

Same thing happens to me all the time. I call him a ninja and threaten to make him wear a bell.

One summer my college BF and I lived in a 2-story building where a business was on the first floor, and our apartment was on the 2nd floor. It was a bad, emotionally abusive relationship, but we were 20 and thought we could “figure things out.”

Agreed. The first one was like a bait and switch when it was first released. The trailer showed all the hard bodies and dancing, and then you get treated to 2+hours of dialogue and sad Channing. The second one realized what people were paying good money for.

These movies are my not-so-guilty pleasure. I took my mom to see them! And then, when my friends and I found out that Magic Mike Live was a Vegas staple (back when folks could travel), we went. And then I went again while in town for a conference and treated myself to first row. WORTH EVERY FUCKING PENNY.

Very aware of my field, thank you. If 5 or 10 years from now I was seeing 200 applicants for every job, I’d tell people to stop pursuing it. As-is we have only around 10 applicants, and only about half of them actually qualified with the credentials and skills we need, for every TT job. We don’t have adjuncts because…

Yes to all of it. I say this as a faculty member in the sciences (whose positions are growing, not being cut) — that part of being a well-educated graduate student is doing one’s research and reading the proverbial room.