SAME. It was his attitude and bad acting that really convinced me this guy is a hardcore narcissist. Although I have to admit there felt like a lot of gay-shaming, like the fact that he was bisexual was supposed to be this scandalous shock and he couldn’t possibly love his wife and still have sex with men. And she…

This whole thing reminds me of the Netflix “documentary” The Staircase. It’s about a guy who is accused of murdering his wife by pushing her down the stairs, but he says she fell and the only reason he was convicted was because the local DA’s office had a personal vendetta against him. I started watching it and then…

I don’t know. I go back and forth on these kinds of issues. I would hope that murderers and their victims don’t become entertainment. However, there is something to be said for challenging the justice system and trying to right wrongs. And documentaries in all forms can do that. The flip side is when truly evil people…

Does the film have distribution yet? It sounds interesting and moving--I would like to see it.

I’ve dealt with this first hand. I just completed a film about an unsolved missing person’s case, that I’d been working on for six years. This person disappeared while on a class trip, and so I sought to interview his classmates. Some spoke with me, others didn’t, and I wondered why. I wondered, “What do they have to…

I’m reminded of Meredith Kercher’s family, and how difficult it was for them to watch Amanda Knox’s trial become a total circus and then get her appeal and ultimately released. I personally believe Knox is innocent and her first trial was a total sham with an overzealous (to say the least) police and…

Yes, we can and should feel empathy for the family, but at the end of the day we shouldn’t simply not discuss the case just because the family doesn’t agree with the decision. The family is never going to want to revisit a horrific crime that their family member was a victim of, but ultimately it’s more important that…

I agree, it must be traumatic for them, in a way that neither I nor most commenters here can understand. With that said, Syed is entitled to a fair trial, and while his guilt might be debatable, I doubt many could claim that his first run through the system was fair. Lee’s family didn’t sign up for this, but if Syed…

I broke my front tooth pretty much in half when I was 8. If there’s enough real tooth left, they can kind of just glue (using real dental glue and definitely not superglue) a fake rest-of-the-tooth thing there, but the glue only lasts about 8-10 years. Which is why it fell out in the middle of class in high school.…

Ugh, I hate to say it, but the phobias are totally founded.

I totally prefer to eat my apples sliced but as the designated person without orthodontia in my house as a kid, I had to “start” everyone’s apples by taking the first bite.

What is the repair process like? I know some people just superglue it back in. Is that exactly what the dentist does?

For what it’s worth, once you actually chip your tooth you get over that fear. Sort of.

Ugh, god, sorry! Fwiw, I eat an apple every day for breakfast, but I cut it with a knife. I don’t like biting into fruit.

She got a lot of grief from the Jez staff for coming late to the politics game. I thought her response to that was good as well.

Great, thanks for the mental image. Now I have a fear of apples AND stairs!

I have a mild phobia of concrete stairs for this reason. My brain always makes me think I am going to trip and lose my front teeth. 

As someone with short roots (banned from biting into apples the rest of my life) and a lot of orthodontic work, the thought of getting my front tooth punched out is terrifying but highly plausible.

Aren’t all chaps assless and crotchless?

I’m wearing mine to egg the houses of men who’ve hurt me.