Amazing graphic is amazing.

I can only add that the cinematic James Bond isn’t really Fleming’s Bond. The womanizing, condescending James Bond that was really defined by Sean Connery and which feels so out of date now isn’t a big part of the books. In fact, the books don’t really characterize Bond very consistently. He’s a very different guy in…

Which is a problem with the interview, then. Judy has written some important books. Why, in a short interview of an author of influential books who has turned 80, are they grilling her about #metoo and Woody Allen? Wtf is that about?

I think Kate started rich.

To some degree, Lyme Disease falls into that same category as CFS, Fibromyalgia, and Chronic Migraines as a symptomatic condition that is hard to diagnose or understand. Unlike the others, I am not aware of it disproportionately affecting women, but when women get it, it feeds into the same narrative of women either…

Reports say 1900 block of Bienville, at 1:30am. That’s just on the other side of the highway from St. Louis Cemetary #2. It’s an important nieghborhood, historically, but still a rough place in a city that is always vying for the top spot in per capita murder rates. I think it’s likely that this wasn’t related to his…

Yep. The source material for the first season, Alias, was on a whole different level than the regular comic fare that inspired the other Marvel TV shows, so I wasn’t surprised at how good that first season was. But they pretty much used all that material up, and now they are off into the unknown, and I wonder how…

This isn’t just Timberlake. Before cultural studies majors swamped the internets, I’m not sure what reviewers were actually doing: some kind of aesthetic, formal evaluations of music, movies or books, whatever that could be? I guess there was some aesthetics that we were all presumed to share? But now I would say…

Step up to the plate about what? Have you thought that maybe he is doing right by Janet in not commenting further on the incident beyond his apology? Do you really want him to give a full accounting of how it happened?

It was a miscalculation, I believe, not a malfunction. But few will talk about it. This is as much as you’ll get.

He didn’t marry his daughter. That’s factually incorrect.

I agree. This kind of nuance doesn’t play through the bullhorns driving important social movements like #metoo, but I think we can sit back sometimes and recognize that we’re humans will always fail to resolve a host of contradictions that are just part of that.

Yeah, I can’t see anything more happening with this case.

I will be astounded if this case makes it to trial.

What I struggle with is the way Rose seems to be using this moment in a self-aggrandizing way, even as a career opportunity: “rosearmy,”the teasers for her creative projects in her documentary, etc.

great quote

He ain’t wrong.

She’s as entitled to her opinion and to sharing it as anybody on Jezebel. Disagree with her, fine. Being outraged that she won’t be silent. That sounds like the people on the other side of #metoo.

She was beaten by her father. The idea that she was molested by him is speculation outside the text, a thought-experiment that opens up the novel to be seen in a new way, and valuable for that purpose. But there isn’t much evidence in the text itself to support the idea that she was being molested by her father.

There is some retrograde discourse buried in Forrest Gump, but the backlash against it is so exaggerated. A movie can have some backward themes, and it’s interesting to talk about that, but whether it succeeds as a movie doesn’t hang on a textual analysis of its politics.