I read The Help and wanted to know more about the working women and their perspectives. The Help’s author referenced Telling Memories Among Southern Women by Susan Tucker, so I got a copy.

Three most important pieces of advice I wish someone had told me before I had my first baby:

Quoting the relevant passages for those who didn’t click through:

The real star of the Harington-Leslie wedding was Madden in his kilt—the strongest Scottish style...

I would also like to mention “Swamps of Dagobah” and “What’s a potato?”

I might try to take another dive into it (beyond my pre-air review). It’s certainly worthy of discussion, for good and bad reasons.

I came here to comment the same thing.

The first season soundtrack album is absolutely gorgeous.

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I’m taking great delight in watching the “OMG political correctness run amuck good enough for me when I was a schoolboy what’s next the rainbow flag will replace the maple leaf spitting in the face of veterans blah blah blah” crowd lose their shit over this. Their ignorance of the fact that if they really want to hold…

Perhaps influenced by the recent popularity of sexposition, Altered Carbon goes all-in on the nudity and fucking, with nearly episode featuring some form of explicit sexual activity. This hits its nadir early on, when an encounter between Takeshi and Bancroft’s wife (Kristen Lehman, doing her best femme fatale) goes…

Over a cliff. Shondaland forever.

Knowledge is power. I was at a job where they were salty that I had the nerve to have two babies in a row (and so was I but that’s beside the point). When I went back and they were patting themselves on the back for being so tolerant I pointed out to them that it was the best thing that ever happened to them because I…

And Markle will be binge-watching The Crown on Netflix this weekend.

Consider this, though: there are probably a hundred people who work on the show that expected to have one more year of steady paychecks. Something that I think is worth grappling with is how we take down abusive powerful men without massive collateral damage. Recentering stories on women is one way to do so.

Just want to give a quick shout-out to the 53% of white women who are “making this country great again”. Thank you.

Um, Johnny Depp plays Grindewald not Dumbledore. Jude Law is young Dumbledore.

Cross-curious is the WOD (word of the day).

Plug in your phone! You’re making me very nervous!

They make a very pretty couple and, more importantly, seem to genuinely lile each other. So this is good