One bright spot from yesterday: they found one of people that had been missing since terrorist bombing took place. Laura Macintyre’s family found her in one of the hospitals after searching all over Manchester. She’s still unconscious and is severely burned but she’s alive and expected to make recovery. She and a…

I’ve been making it a point to read and find out more of each of the victims as they are named. I was reading through Martyn Hett’s twitter, a young man who tragically was lost, and he gave me an unexpected laugh this morning:

I feel awful for the children who lost their parents who were waiting for them after the concert.

I don’t want to like Blake Lively, but she was great in that film about the drug dealers, and I was also impressed with her ability to do a piss off the side of a bridge while standing up in that other film.

I think this needs more attention as well. A lot of people complain that anti-terrorist measures don’t work or that governments are slacking and thats why attacks keep happening but people seem to conveniently ignore how many attacks are stopped every day. Talked to a guy once who works with this kind of stuff.…

Yeah but people feel like they “know” her. She’s less anonymous. It makes sense to focus your sympathy on someone that feels more tangible. People do it all the time. Do you really think that people saying pray for Ariana aren’t concerned with everyone else? I think a more generous reading is warranted.

Good on her for taking this on. The whole “you’re not like other girls” thing is so, so gross.

This article has some analysis at the bottom I think we all need to read:

These are two grown women. And yet for some reason they seem to find it totally acceptable to act like high school girls. How are they not embarrassed by this?

Ugh this feud is so boring and stupid I am not rooting for either of them. However, I will say that this “reason” from Katy Perry isn’t the exoneration she seems to think it is. Encouraging your dancers to take another job but telling them how to do it so they can quit halfway through and join hers is still shitty,…

It discontinues student loan subsidies.

I’m only sad that the elephant that killed him died.

Good.

Ja Rule, the rapper and Mr. McFarland’s celebrity business partner, looked on the bright side. “The whole world knows Fyre’s name now,” he said. “This will pass, guys.”

I genuinely feel bad for the musicians, vendors, carpenters, and other service providers who have been burned by these fuckers. Making your living is hard enough without having to chase fraudsters who take your time and labor and fail to pay, let alone getting your equipment stuck in customs for debts that are not…

Do yourself a favor and read that NYT, it is very good. McFarland and Ja are snakes and deserve everything that’s coming at them. Also, be sure to peep those texts McFarland sent out. Because. ??????????????

Counterpoint, if you can’t be without your phone when watching a movie, stay home. If you can’t break from it for a couple hours, that’s your problem. You are definitely a sociopath.

Your schedule and texting activity is the problem of other people. You should follow your own advice and stay home.

Thankfully Alamo Drafthouse will kick people out for using their phones during a movie. I don’t go to them, but it’s a great policy.

You did not need to be a boy, but teens or early 20s and at least on the periphery of a drug scene sure helped. As a woman, I did not find any of the women in the movie to be “invisible”.