If we get to a point where people are saying “You can’t read this story; it’s not meant for your kind,” the world will lose understanding and empathy of others, both of which are desperately needed.

I stopped doing karaoke because I went to a party once where each singer got a cassette tape of their performance afterwards. Listening to that cassette tape alone, sober, in the light of day, was one of the most regretful moments of my life. I finally learned just how awful I was.

karma!

I had a karaoke performance that resulted in me and my 4 friends getting kicked out of the bar. 2002, we’re all 23 years old. There’s a bar that does karaoke kind of in a back room full of tables and chairs (important detail? no). I decide to do System of a Down’s “Toxicity” and I sort of go nuts on stage (which…

Watching on demand, a new commercial featuring William Jackson Harper for Old Spice appeared. I was not at all ready for this. He looked and acted quite different than Chidi. It was a jarring switch.

As a librarian, I can say with confidence that 60% of book reviews are trash.

See now, there’s a good explanation of it all.

I’m interested more in Groff’s self-flagellation that the particular author. Its one thing to say “Only Latinx people should write Latinx stories,” but is there an argument being made that LatinX stories can’t be reviewed by white people?

or Julia Sweeney. 

Zero nominations for Uncut Gems? yowza.

Surprised Frozen 2 was passed over for  the 7th “How to Train a Dragon” movie and that horrible-looking “Missing Link” 

Also it doesn’t seem like Beck didn’t know the words, he just started singing a few bars too early. then got flustered.

I want to knee drop the person in this video yelling for people to sit down.

Jon Stewart’s old Daily Show would have a package ready to go of Fox News clips from the Obama era saying how war with Iran would be terrible.

Don’t be disingenuous. Even if you don’t buy a ticket, you can’t live in this society without being bombarded by Star Wars stuff. It’s part of our collective visual environment at this point.

This is my favorite short story from King. Brooding and haunting. Epix will fuck it up somehow.

I find the grinch to be a sympathetic character, moreso than scrooge.

Should I tell my 70 year old father he has a half-sister he doesn’t know about?

I could HEAR people chewing their popcorn during this movie. It was so awful.

This doesn’t seem necessary at all. The first movie was...fine...with a somewhat interesting concept (if you ignore all the logical flaws) and some decent scares. No need to go back to that well.