I would argue that the mid-late 70’s were far more harmful - beyond Lolita - in terms of young girls being portrayed as sexualized ‘nymphets’. 12-year-old Brooke Shields in Pretty Baby. Jodie Foster in The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver. Pop songs: Hot Child in the City, My Sharona,…

Hazlit has a long read about the US news story that likely inspired Nabokov. It def increased the ick factor re. Lolita for me. I’m happy that more female authors are taking a turn at this subject.

Took me YEARS to come to terms with this, but basically it’s this... the reason shopgirl and ny152 were compatible is they each had and nurtured something the other lacked. Joe’s a sharp, tough hardass who says what he thinks and gets his way, but he’s kind of lonely and aloof. Kathleen is gentle and intuitive and…

But he’d probably give Kathleen’s ex Frank a columnist job at the Post, so there’s that.

Love this movie so much. It’s the perfect form of escapism. Tom Hanks’ typing finger, bouquet of newly sharpened pencils, Generalissimo Franco, the Rooftop Killer. love it

Environmental toxicologist here - it won’t rinse out, it’s used to water proof clothing.  However, these are large compounds that are not likely to cross the skin barrier in high enough concentrations to cause the cancers associated with PFAS, those are caused by this chemical primarily in drinking water.  So unless…

“He wore ripped jeans and a jacket”

A jacket?

More like he wore ripped jeans and the quilted jacket his Nana made for the 1993 Orange County Quilt Fair.

I would wear that blazer weekly.  That is a Mary Berry fever dream of a blazer.

I feel like there’s a whole new generation coming up that looks at the classic SNL mom-jean commercial parody that doesn’t even get the joke anymore.

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Seeing that the whole “planet killing laser” is 0-4 for Team Bad Guy, it kind of makes you wonder why they keep gong with that plan.

To quote a great movie: Amazing. Every word of what you just said was wrong.

To be fair, so did The Last Jedi. Luke Skywalker laughs about the absurdity of facing down the First Order with his laser sword? Then he does it. Kylo and Rey are bound by some strange connection to the force? Nope, it was all Snoke. Who’s nobody, cut in half, and the connection doesn’t matter. Benicio Del Toro…

You can now expect an email to you and your employer sometime within the next 24-48 hours 

The shabby treatment of Finn has been unforgivable. Guy shoulda been a romantic lead.

I know hard core and even casual fans love ROTJ, but that second death star plot was boring. And I hate ewoks and I don’t care who knows that!

On the other hand, do you think there may be some medical benefits in consuming the flesh of a person who has recently completed a steroid cycle? Mind you, I’m not hating. Those guys worked hard. But they’re totally chemically enhanced. You don’t turn from late 30s-early to mid 40s schlub to having 15 lb. of extra…

To break a lance for Belgravia, it looks like a rough match for the Grand Duchy Lithuania - it’s part of the forgotten kingdoms: there used to a huge ass country.

I, too, found this documentary to be confusing. 

Instead of calling British 911