You’re all wrong: John Wick is about Stunt Coordinators being tired of watching regular film directors not know how to film action. Read more
You’re all wrong: John Wick is about Stunt Coordinators being tired of watching regular film directors not know how to film action. Read more
Joan Summers is right. Read more
Thank you for this, I have spent all morning looking for a website to tell me who won last night’s game. Read more
Stick to politics, Barry. Nobody wants to read about a team that wasn’t good enough for Philly or KC.
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Depressing/eerie summer reading: Read more
Blood Meridian is a once a year habit for me. Its some of the most terrifying and beautiful writing ive ever read. Read more
You’ve perfectly summed up why I quit reading Stephen King as a teenager and reminded me of the boys in my AP-English class who all wrote their junior research papers on “The Stand,” and the teacher letting them. Read more
My summer bummer this year has been A Little Life. 800 pages of tragedy porn that I just could not put down. Read more
This article reminds me I need to re-read The Stand. I have the 1150 page version and I liked it, but it’s been a while since I finished it, so I wonder how my perception of the book will change with time. I’m looking forward to the new miniseries, though. Read more
ARGH - I tried to take multiple versions of the pill for about 20 years bc I bought into the BS that I needed it.
It’s one of those medications that worked for almost everyone I knew, but I would get psychotic and violent on it....like screaming at random people for perceived slights and having intrusive thoughts about… Read more
There are different issues here. They’re valid to be discussed as one big lump, but valid in their individual points, too. What The Pill has done is incredible, but to dismiss the concerns of many (or a few - their concerns are still valid - human bodies are not one size fits all!) is to ignore so much. Read more
This sort of vague, anecdata driven complaint sounds a lot like what got the whole wellness/power of positive thinking movement jump started in America in the nineteenth century. Barbara Ehrenreich’s Bright-Sided does a nice dive on the history of the middle class people who suffered from all sorts of “nervous… Read more
I was one of those children. Not who was abused by a teacher, but when I reported an assault to McGrew he threw me out of his office after saying some horrible things. That night changed my world and I go public until decades later with the truth (I did tell a teacher at a new school, they told my parents, my parents… Read more