Well, you might want to warn him that it could cost him half a million dollars: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/patient-s…

But...but...why do they have to be CRAWLING ON HER. I hate you guys, I’m going home.

That is, unfortunately, a thing people who work in fashion say. Not ALL, but stating loudly that you’re opting for clothing over food when you overspend is not uncommon.

Does Heather’s fancy silk robe have built in armpit ventilation for tropical climes?? Man, the rich really are different.

What will Directioners do? Well, if history is any indication, they will finish up puberty and stop listening to One Direction, generally around the time the first member of the band enters inpatient rehab. One dude quitting and one dude knocking up a groupie are just the first two horsemen.

Absolutely! And we all have deep unconscious biases and preconceptions about the world that inform how we write and see things, and it often takes other people reading our work with different experiences in their background and a different point of view to expose those things to ourselves. Not saying this NECESSARILY…

I could point out something logical like “Right now, if you take 3-4 boutique classes a month, you’ve already paid for ClassPass. In two months, if you take 5-6 boutique classes a month, you will have already paid for ClassPass.” But in reality, fuck y’all, I’m supes excited for everyone to leave ClassPass so I can…

I’m confused that you see a difference between “not reading a book” and “shunning a book” but okay. Is shunning just like, not reading with extreme prejudice?

We don’t disagree. No one said that interpretations stand on their own—it’s literally impossible for an interpretation to stand on its own, because that would make it an original thought, rather than an interpretation. I said reader response, which is a specific group of theories which posit basically that a reader…

And reading is an individualistic endeavor through which people seek edification, identification, and interpretation of the human experience; saying you write but have no intention of letting your audience interpret is tantamount to saying you intend to write a book and hide it under your mattress. Writers own…

The use of the word “canon” in this context makes me weep for our education standards in this country. This is not FANDOM for some goddamn comic book movie. This is the age-old literary question of authorial intent vs. reader response, a topic mused on by Derrida, T.S. Eliot, Barthes, Lacan, even Marx! Stanley Fish is…

Right?? I feel like I’m 19 again! This thread is glorious, I’m going to go get all my Derrida out of storage.

This deserves to be much higher up. People in this thread seem mainly to be comparing this to the modern world of shipping/fandom/canon questions, but this is a much, much older question—the issue of authorial intent vs. reader response is one of the original questions in literary and artistic criticism, and while…

One of my fondest childhood memories is of my dad coming home early from work to braid my hair before a ballet recital. He was a motorcycle-riding pseudo-hippie badass in the 70s, and had hair down to his butt, and his college girlfriend taught him how to French-braid so that he could braid her hair to fit under her…

Couldn’t say, don’t work at CAA. Could have been whoever repped him there was part of the group of agents that was planning to move, and thought they might want to re-sign him at UTA, so they kept it quiet in order to keep him open to working with them. Could have been that the agency simply didn’t want to get…

Not to be that person, but...fake fake fakety-fake. That’s 10x higher res than any surveillance tape in history. And also, yeah, confirmed fake.

oh man.

Deadline.

I didn’t work directly for Trump, but I worked for his magazine for a while—a licensed product, like most Trump endeavors.

Wait REALLY?? Because that is literally my biggest fantasy in life is knowing how to sew so that I can make all the things that are in my head and fix all the godforsaken off-the-rack garments that are 90% right but not quiteeee perfect. We should probably join forces.