Whoops, I didn't see that you had posted this when I replied. Sondheim is great, but it was such a grumpy old man move to give everyone palpitations before he had even seen the movie.
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"Any Moment" being cut just got put out there because Sondheim was being grumpy. (I love the dude, but he is super grumpy). It's in the movie.
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I am also pregnant with my first (hello, fellow traveler!), and I really hope to have a "natural" birth. Not because of any kind of status or granola aspirations - when people ask me where I plan to have my baby I always say something along the lines of "Where they keep the doctors" - but because I have a crippling…
I would still eat it if they called it applesauce, although I'm sure that would confuse people. Calling it "chicken" (or, more often, "chick'n") is a convenient shorthand for "soy protein seasoned and prepared in a manner similar to the way chicken would be in this situation."
I am a vegetarian that in no way misses or is tempted by meat, but I do sometimes like to eat things like imitation chicken sandwiches (especially the fake chicken parm sandwich at Red Bamboo in NYC, mmmmmm). This isn't because I'm lying to myself - I would find an actual chicken sandwich disgusting. It's because I…
Obviously I don't know where in the country/world your perspective comes from, but I think some of this might be regional. I've lived in urban areas of both the "deep South" and the northeastern US. In NYC, I would probably be uncomfortable or at least caught off-balance if a stranger paid me a compliment, even an…
It doesn't really seem worse to me than other religiously inspired names (Jesus, Mohammad, Angel, etc). Even if the name were questionable it's certainly not taking any medals in the unusual names Olympics. And, of course, it's not nearly out there enough to justify legal intervention.
The situation was particularly weird, because the parents were in court due to a dispute over whether the baby would have the father or mother's last name. They were in total agreement on the name Messiah, and the mother's last name was Martin. So the judge took it upon herself to rename the baby his mother's last…
Happy to share; I was super relieved to see that it was!
Links, ahoy! I don't think all the details were usefully in one place, so here's the spattering of details.
I feel like it's worth mentioning that the judge in Tennessee who ordered a baby's name changed from "Messiah" to "Martin" (because only Jesus Christ can be called Messiah) had her ruling very quickly overturned, lost her job, and was publicly censured by a judicial review board that unanimously found her decision…
Why is this coming from the hospital's chief financial officer? That seems like a strange source for this already-bizarre nightmare.
One of my cousins has a pet snake (and it's a goddamn ball python), and I have steadfastly refused to enter their home since they got it. They try to be all, "Ah, it's pretty. It's sweet, and it's lazy and harmless" and I'm more along the lines of "WHY DO YOU HAVE A PET THAT WOULD EAT YOUR BABIES IF IT COULD???"…
Yeah, seconded. My husband recently had outpatient, fairly small-deal (medically speaking) knee surgery, and there were so many safeguards and double-checks to make sure everything was squared away. Like, three different nurses asked exactly what he understood was going to be done, explaining the procedure, having him…
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Did you ever watch House of Mouse? It was essentially premised on Mickey running a nightclub which was frequented by all Disney cartoon characters. This kind of reminds me of that (in that characters who have no business hanging out are in the same place). Particularly the Halloween special when the villains take over…
I think there's an issue of definitions here, where you may be conflating "evidence" with "proof." Because, yes, absolutely, there is not proof. But evidence doesn't have to be completely unproblematic to function as evidence. So Josephus writing less than 30 years after James' death (not 150), is evidence. There's…