Or if you want your haunted house to have specific ghosts.

Does anyone have a recommendation for if I want to buy an audiobook that I previously checked out via Overdrive or Hoopla and want a copy to keep? Or an audiobook player app that has a good interface (I do love the Overdrive interface)?

Does it still work well if you deny access? Obviously, you won’t be able use any feature they point to as a justification for needing access but if you don’t plan on using those features, does the app work well? (I’ll frequently deny access unless there seems to be a good reason and I don’t see voice controls as…

They’re the “fuck your feelings, snowflake” who will rush to take offense if the person who said it is not on their side.

I read a third of Shattered, the book about the Clinton campaign (then I had to return it to the library unfinished because other people wanted to read it) and I was left with the impression the campaign just didn’t think it would need a plan to deal with her negatives. A lot of those negatives were bullshit but there…

It’s not like I can go into an Olive Garden and file a discrimination complaint because they won’t serve me a bowl of ramen. That’s how much sense it makes to compare this to a Muslim shop not selling ham.

The Wonder Woman TV show did something similar when it was revamped to go from the 40s to the 70s so it could also be “because homage”.

I remember when Blair Underwood showed up for an arc as Miranda’s sexy neighbor. Cynthia Nixon called out the show for being so white, saying she campaigned for some more diversity and how she was basically told that they were depicting a universe that isn’t diverse anyway so...

That’s the thing. I grew up in some evangelical communities and went to summer camps where we watched these movies. They’re formulaic and shallow, with plotting that grinds to a halt so that they characters can talk about being born again. They’re movies where that person who is looking for any excuse to talk about…

I watched Sex and the City when it aired, when it was seriously outrageous at the time for depicting men as the sexy accessories to the characters learning life lessons and for depicting it as normal for a woman to have a lot of sex. I think a lot of the dismissals of the show, whether that be jokes that call Carrie…

I thought it was a good drama about attitudes towards sex in the 80s, which is the kind of thing you could only do 20 years afterward, when we gotten over things like people getting outraged every time a teen character lost their virginity on a TV show. (Yes, this was a thing.)

Having lived through the Clinton administration, it makes me sad to think about how the only people with power who were willing to listen to the women Bill Clinton harassed were people who only wanted to use them as a political weapon and as a tool of vengeance (going after Clinton’s sexual misconduct was partially…

I’m guessing this is Antoni’s version of the time Jessica Simpson ate from a can of Chicken of the Sea in a video.

If the first season demonstrated the slightest understanding of the original story, I’d think ‘Heathers but retold in Versailles’ sounds pretty amazing.

It’s a matter of marketing but IP rights probably make things worse. There’s a Brave New World TV series in the works at Syfy (a corporate sibling of NBC), the initial announcement came 17 years after the NBC movie, which aired 18 years after the first NBC movie... which suggests NBC can keep the rights to adapting…

As I recall, it was originally announced as a Fargo-style anthology with each season doing a different riff on the original Heathers story. Versailles is actually an apt choice, except that the team who made this show already proved they don’t know how to play on the margins to tell a story like Heathers.

It’s such a strange game show to someone like me, used to game shows that won’t risk the audience’s apathy by writing a question that’s too hard. It’s also odd to see one that allows such randomness, no way would a US game show ever allow a question to go on the air without producers debating every possible answer.…

What strikes me is they’re using their fake outrage to cover why Bee called her that — for posting a picture of herself with her child at a time when a big story is the administration separating immigrant children from their parents — not just undocumented immigrants, also families who came here and petitioned for…

Sigh. It’s a common defense of people who say bigoted things, as if the terrible things one says when they’re “just playing a persona/character” doesn’t work to make the world worse. You have to have the privilege where you don’t feel threatened by the kind of hate speech the “persona” puts out.

Conservatives were scandalized about it at the time but since then Barr became an open bigot so now she’s on their team and they’re only about politics as a team sport.