It is completely unreal watching him place a match in a paper-filled bag that he JUST put a lighter-fluid covered tissue into... Yikes.

I don’t want her to run, I want her to become a Congressional monster who strikes fear into the heart of Gohmerts.

Any time I see Lou Diamond Phillips, I remind myself that he is not Reed Diamond.

Wait, though - admittedly the racial mansplaining thing was quite the moment in foot-in-mouthery, but the other two are blown out of proportion. The one about sexuality is a media-hyped skew on comments that were basically “actors shouldn’t talk about sex lives, straight or gay”.

Holy shit. Reading up on other articles connected to Hera, it looks like she had a daughter by sperm donor a year after her son died, in large part so that family court could never send her child away to someone else.

Oh, wow. I thought Hera McLeod sounded familiar - the little we could know of her from a reality show made her seem really lovely.

I know a Biddy, but obviously that has its own connotations. She rocks, though?

Narrators do the voices, and generally don’t take line-by-line direction - they consult, record it, send it off, then get back corrections and re-record. There is vocal stress, though - if the character yells, you do this weird muted yelling that has to encompass the emotion without blowing out the speakers, basically.

Good, because I rent so I can’t remodel my kitchen but I just had a dental nightmare and it’s sharing time:

As a Reverse SAD sufferer (actual thing!) I welcome autumn’s chilly, apple-scented, knit embrace!

I know some narrators, and they’d say that the “6 hours in a booth for $X” isn’t really reflecting their rate accurately. I’m not sure how different it is for video game voice actors, but the narrators do a read-through, then go through marking up things they need to research (place names, accents, really anything…

The BBC. And Talking Points Memo.

Sadly not new - just continually amazed that Gawker managers think that this kind of needless brattiness is appropriate in one of their staff. Also pretty surprised that Kara doesn’t realize that this is going to come round to bite her in future employment prospects.

There is no “we.”

I recently got a dog hair splinter in my foot. Hurt like a motherfucker and was embedded a good inch. I did not even know this was possible until I googled “hair grow from foot” and found a wealth of comments from dog groomers and hair dressers.

“Thank you SO MUCH for taking over what I was trying to say,” I joked. “I probably couldn’t have explained it so well because I’m a lady.” Everyone then laughed at my coworker, he felt properly ashamed of himself, and I continued to look awesome. That, my friend, is how you lean the fuck in.

Honestly, having a little kid scream and bang the glass is probably much more irritating than a guy who sits on the opposite ledge and responds to your gestures to flip through photos. That was a definite interaction, with the human following the gorilla’s commands.

It doesn’t look like his jaw is stuck that way, more like it’s a habit or maybe it’s the at-rest state of his jaw. So it could be a subtle correction needed.

I did too, except that it’s happened SO OFTEN that I’m starting to get spooked. You know when you think something makes perfect sense, but everyone else thinks you’re nuts, so you start wondering if you’re crazy? It’s like that.

Would have been so much better if you’d worked “kerb” into this. Half a star off, but excellent effort.