My worst neighbours have a now-large child (I think she’s at least 8) or possibly a small wolf that they are not bothering to parent. I have spoken to them about the noise, I have been incredibly insulting about the noise, I have called the police about the noise, I have requested a community officer, I briefly…

Well, that’ll be five of us, so at least there’ll be lots of room in Norway. (Signed, the person who can’t understand why the neighbours don’t grasp how to fucking live politely in a densely populated urban environment that winds up with weird acoustic effects.)

That’s a problem with AirBNB though. I mean, they don’t have a prescreen in place to ensure that somewhere is up to code, that’s on them. I can’t fault her for taking advantage of the fact that AirBNB didn’t bother to verify whether the home was at code. And she may have advertised exactly what it was, too.

I live in Washington, so it’s not usually a huge issue, but I can’t tolerate AC in the car, and I’m not a fan of it in offices and the like, though it’s more dispersed so less awful - there really is something about feeling cold air blowing on me that makes me unpleasantly cold. And we use more and more and more of…

Bang bang!

Have you read any of Weiner’s books? That is one task you cannot ask of her. (And I’m not trying to be mean, exactly; I am saying that if you want me to convince you that you’re a talented author, all of your main characters should not be dealing with the same damn weight issue you are.)

Yup, sorry. I think Good In Bed always bothered me at the end (it’s got some fun moments, but I would not ascribe a lot of depth to it) in large part because it’s just this wall-to-wall wish fulfillment. The only thing more that could have happened is if the baby’s father developed leprosy and begged Cami to nurse him…

The problem is, I think Weiner’s books ARE chick-lit, if that’s a genre we have to define. I mean, Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum stuff is by a woman, about a woman, and it’s not to my knowledge labeled chick-lit, despite having, shall we say, a similar level of fluffiness in the plot as Weiner’s books. Weiner’s…

Oh, I vote for shade - she’s saying that she regrets using the word half, not the word deplorable, so it’s very open to interpretation that her follow up means that half is a gross underestimate of the number of Trump supporters who are deplorable.

I have three sets of outlets in the kitchen, not counting the stove outlet, and if you plug something into both outlets in the receptacle by the sink and they’re on and the fridge comes on, the main breaker for the apartment trips. I don’t know who decided to cross-wire the entire goddamn kitchen through that outlet,…

Your “then it’s condescending” is exactly what I was trying to figure out how to say. Like, dude, Radcliffe, I feel you - I cannot say a number of racial slurs, and I’m pretty sure I couldn’t for a movie role, so good thing I’m not an actor. But apologising after every take is totally selfish; it’s just about making…

I know, right? So very good in that movie. I watched a number of his other movies and part of Carnivale and I think he really is incredibly talented, though he doesn’t seem to get really challenging roles often so it can be subtle to see his skill. I think he was also quite good in Bully if I’m remembering it right -…

I actually looked him up yesterday. It looks like he’s making movies again, at least, but I don’t know how promising that is - I think it took years before Edward Furlong stopped getting any parts for insurance reasons. But there’s nothing for Stahl from 2011 to 2014, and then he’s done a couple a year in the last few…

I think it’s a really strong performance by him. There’s a moment that I won’t spoil (though I will say there’s an extreme content warning there, not for gore or graphic depiction but ... yeah, thematically it could be a difficult scene) where he does a thing and then the camera shows him walking away from where it…

This one stopped working the second they put “Oliver Twist” and “sexy” into the same paragraph.

Well, except there’s a (very good) movie from about 2005 called Twist that’s a modern retelling of the story with drug-addicted male prostitutes, and also it’s mostly told from the point of view of Dodger.

Are you sure this isn’t the all-white all-New-York remake of Akira? Because I cannot think of any reason to specifically transpose Akira to New York other than to make it about 9/11, I have a bad feeling about that. Fortunately, development hell appears to have eaten it!

I was okay with this right up to Third Eye Blind, because NOPE.

I’m American, so I’m still working on figuring out what the Vagenda is. Manocide comes after I figure out the Vagenda.

No one should ever wear a dress that makes any part of their body look like it bends. That dress in the top photo is doing the wearer negative favours. It owes her so much rn.