The male actor created Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

How about we don’t infantilize adult women. I work with a bunch of 23 year old grad students who could hand me my intellectual ass. If they decide to date a man in his fifties, that’s their business.

Nah the lesson is to let the baby drown

“I said my piece”.

“When I came to open up one morning, there you were with your head half in the toilet. Your hair was in the toilet water...

No, it was about the nature of power. It was about the nature of ideologies. It was about how societies progress. It was about how old cultural mores get abandoned and new ones take their place. It was about how to conduct oneself in life. How to weather the challenges life throws at you. How to change. How to grow.…

Big true. Laughable. 

lol this article 

The most preposterous part of this whole thing was that rabid racists and homophobes watch Empire and recognized him. 

I remember when this story first hit in early 2019. I was watching tb with one of my roommates when the story was airing on local socal news. I said, “this sounds fishy af!”

When the story broke, I thought it was the most cockamamie thing I’ve ever heard in my life.

Less the Cartman-ing and more just the self-deluding douchebag of it all that sticks in my head about it. Some egoistical whackjob who has convinced themselves that it actually happened by repeating the lie enough to themselves loudly and anyone within earshot. Trump and his ilk do the same thing too.

Good.

The dude lied about what happened. He initiated a police investigation. He got found out and continued lying. He took this to trial, and he carried on lying to the judge and the jury, even in the face of video evidence proving he staged the attack. The sentence would’ve been nowhere near as harsh if he hadn’t stuck to…

South Park bit that keeps going through my head whenever reading about this case:

William, so you still think MAGA attacked him? I know you were one of the last people who were still on Team Jussie, so I am sorry for your loss.

“Although Chicago PD initially pledged to investigate the assault, the department quickly began to question details of Smollett’s attack.”

I don’t know about mentally ill, but here’s a white bus driver who was convicted of staging an attack on him:

It’s starting look more and more likely that we’ll never know exactly what led to or caused the deadly incident on the set of Rust,

Oh boy, you have no idea about Amos’ life expectancy given what happens in the last book.