I lived in Florida for almost five years and we never had any hurricanes hit us directly while I was there, but the year before I moved there, they had three. A guy I worked with always mocked people going to the store only to find empty shelves. “If you haven’t prepared for the hurricane before it even forms, you’re…

Have you ever read Anthony Lukas’s Common Ground? Shitty schools all around, and why not bus poor black kids into shitty underfunded white schools, and vice-versa. Through the whole busing crisis hopes were pinned by the white community that it would be rescinded by someone, the City Council, the Mayor, the courts,…

No, I understand what you’re saying, you just misunderstand the nature of the nature of the exercise. You’ve clearly just never taken an acting class or spoken on a personal level with young people with a destitute/exploitative background, at least not since globalization happened. You’re hearing some things that…

I think 100% of the people deriding this exercise have never taken a real acting class and have no idea what they’re talking about

pre-literate small child

I think what gets me is that if she hadn’t cast a Cambodian child then we’d, rightly, be upset with her for that, but she did cast a Cambodian child and we’re upset with her because because we don’t like the casting process. How did they want the casting process to work? Realistically? Were the kids supposed to bring…

And the full transcript is clearly different from the Vanity Fair summary. Now I do think this was on accident and perhaps the Vanity Fair author doesn’t realize how what they intended to write and what they actually wrote significantly change the presentation of the process. But VF editors have no excuse, especially…

when they announced his name, i spent 2 whole days beign unable to fully concentrate because i kept writing bohemian rhapsody parody lyrics in my head. never fully coalesced in a full parody but some good limes were “scaramucci, scaramucci, can you do the trumps scandal” and “nothing really matters, anyone can see,…

They dont go to Ibiza or Mallorca. They go to BENIDORM (Europe’s answer to Cancun; the discount, bargain destination of the package-deal set)

yes, generally.

To be fair, the reason I didn’t watch the new Muppet show was because the commercials made it look like they were all acting out of character...

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Yeah, he probably did have botulism and was given sleep pills, but was also given methamphetamines to help with his symptoms. Meth is very common in North Korea and doctors give it to kids as young as 11. The government publicly shut down their program a few years ago to get food aid, however there is still a huge…

I thought I was the only one who did the inappropriate cards gambit! I only do it to my husband’s birthday, though. For a while I was getting him cards meant for Spanish-speaking grandmothers (60th anniversary congratulations, bereavement, the more references to la Sagrada Familia the better) but lately I’ve been…

Jonny Kim: *single-handedly fights through hordes of henchmen*

I actually thought she had quietly left a year or two ago, but now I don’t know.

Yes, exactly. She could be quietly trying to get family and loved ones OUT of Scientology, for all we know. It’s a horrific cult which victimizes all of its members who are not named Tom Cruise or David Miscavige.

“Boop!”

I agree, while he seemed curt, who wouldn’t be? “You won! Wait, no, sorry... it’s a mistake.” That’s a lot to process in a few short minutes in front of a huge audience. He handled it well.