His dead-eyed thing worked weirdly well in Shakespeare in Love, too.

And blissfully unaware of how the system around him benefits him at the expense of his wife.

IMHO Ben Affleck was great in Gone Girl. 

I found this so confusing because isn’t your partner supposed to be like your best friend? You talk to them about everything, share everything, etc? It sounded to me like the men who made these “beta” comments just want a good looking, perfectly groomed sex toy, not an actual person.

Way to make it about you, “Joel.” There’s always an exception. I recommend talking to your local friendly therapist about how much this hurt you, since it was not directed at you.

I’ve received some grey replies that are butthurt about my commentary on 45+ year old men who want kids.

I’m not changing for anyone. The end. There’s a reputable study out there somewhere that says men’s quality of life and life expectancy go up when they are married while women’s go down.

Yes...not to mention the accessibility of a movie vs a theater production. I took my kids, who were OBSESSED with the soundtrack of DEH, to the musical in the theater and it cost me $600. Not all teenagers, who desperately need more emotionally intelligent media aimed at them, can come anywhere near the level of…

I went through a major growth spurt and shot up to 5’10” by 7th grade. My family was working poor, so couldn’t afford to keep me in clothes that fit while I grew an inch a month that year, and things like Goodwill didn’t exist near my rural town. The nearest WalMart was almost an hour away.

Important lesson about Trump’s popularity: It isn’t based on what he thought, said or believed, it was based solely because he told ignorant racist bigots what they wanted to hear. The second he stops telling him that, they’ll turn on him.

A couple weeks ago, I posted about auditioning for a Shakespeare play in which I’d have to gender-bend a role to be in.

I just read the Wikipedia page on Elena and my blood is boiling. She never wanted to do the move; she knew it was only a matter of time before she got hurt. When she broke her leg the doctors took her cast off early (twice) despite her objections as she knew she wasn’t fully healed, and after her accident the Soviet…

And a pitcher or golfer getting the yips is unfortunate, but not potentially deadly in the way a gymnast getting the yips can be.

This. A lot of people seem to be forgetting how damned dangerous gymnastics is. It’s not like swimming, where you might lose a bit of time and mess up your turn if you can’t focus. An unfocused gymnast can end up crippled.

I read that she said she doesn’t trust herself as much as she used to and that really hit home. The events of the last 18 months has completely undermined my trust in myself and other people in ways I don’t totally understand but it is a mindfuck. And I’m not flying through the air and landing exceptionally difficult…

Canada has otc tylenol #1 so that was my go-to for the cramping.

I won a very big award at work. Like the highest award for the type of work I do award. It’s very surreal, because the project was a lot of work, but compared to the people and work who have won it before, it doesn’t seem like I did anything new? Or different? I don’t know, I guess it’s what happens when you’ve spent…

I watched the opening ceremony—I always do, despite how terrible the Olympics is even before this year, partly for the pageantry and partly because the Olympics are evil but the athletes aren’t. But wow, it was fucking weird. No spectators other than a few dignitaries, but the seats are of various and semi-random…

The CDC fucked up. Lifting of mask mandates should have been tied to percent of local population vaccinated.