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Harron Walker
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Freelance journalist (GQ, W, Esquire, elsewhere), here on weekends

Not to try to derail this post, but how would anyone have already binged their way through ‘I May Destroy You’? AFAIK, there are still 6 unaired episodes in the first season if you live in the UK (and, like, 9 unaired episodes (if you live in the US)?
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Thanks Harron.  I watched (and loved) Salacia a couple days ago.  I’m so glad to see it getting coverage here.  Read more

The amount of people acting as if their life is ruined and America is crumbling purely because some mediocre TV shows removed episodes is alarming. It’s one thing to know how much people over-identify with media because their lives lack any true meaning, it’s another thing to see people talking about “crying for Read more

Yeah I enjoyed Midsommar, but did not find it as memorable as people hyped it up to be. It is certainly a visually stunning film with a beautiful color story, but it’s also just kind of ...boring? Also not as scary as I had heard it would be (and I am a giant baby). Read more

I have to say, it is Knocking Me Out how many shows are having to do this. I never watched a lot of them, including The Office, but looking back there have been several occasions where I’ve found myself thinking, ‘wait, so if it’s satire it’s okay or something...?’. It’s a very strange and specific kind of gaslighting. Read more

I’m at the point, where it’s easier to just assume all White people have done Blackface. The onus is now on White people to prove they’ve never wore Blackface. I’m going to save my shock for White people who don’t wear Blackface:) Read more

“that was used to criticize a specific racist European practic.”

Yes, a practice you obviously knew fuck-all about because if you even did the tiniest bit of research you’d know that Black Pete has absolutely nothing to do with Belsnickel.
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This past week was mostly miserably hot and humid, so it was mostly food on the grill, and cool desserts, like chocolate mousse, in a juice glass!

This week I’ve learned that the Lost Cause was probably the single most successful rewriting of history in all of time. I’ve also learned that most Southerners don’t really know SHIT about Reconstruction. Read more

After months of getting by with a shitty laptop, I got a new one for my birthday. Now I will be able to get on this site a lot easier. Yay! I’ve been running a fever for a few days so all fun is cancelled for now. In other news, I have a mild crush on someone I’ve only spoken to on the phone and I ate a dozen lemon Read more

As always, I hope everyone is doing well this evening. After more than 100 days of social distancing, I feel like the tiny human & I are in GroundHog’s Day. We pretty much are doing the same thing every single day. Our twice daily walks have kept me sane and the weather has been favorable so we can be outside luckily.

“This is happening because much of the country around Memorial Day and the weeks that followed…opened up while we still had a large number of cases,” Read more

As far as I’ve read, IL, NY, and NJ are the only three states to have met the Trump Administration’s guidelines for reopening (Guidelines they hate even though they put them out??), and their curves look like European countries. Read more

Pence is an idiot, he misread his talking points notes and failed to correct himself of that mistake. The talking points said “fattened the curve” not flattened. Read more

Graham Lineham is Irish, “Father Ted” the sitcom is Anglo/Irish and made by C4, the British broadcaster. Who cares that you’ve “never heard of it anyway” things aren’t popular or of value according to whether Americans have heard of them or not! Read more

I mean, aren’t the first three Pirates films also female-led? Jack Sparrow may have gotten most of the attention, but throughout the trilogy Elisabeth Swann is clearly the protagonist. Read more