I got absolutely torn to pieces when I said that Katherine Ryan was talking about Brand being the known predator on the comedy circuit. So, yeah.

Hopefully dinner is good.

The idea that scientists are ever part of an upper echelon elite is always weird. The average scientist is probably bucking just above minimum wage and they'll never have a choice in policy.

Watched Kaneto Shindo’s Kanawa (The Iron Crown). An adaption of an original Noh play that weaves in and out of the Heian era, the present day, and a performance of the play itself. Far more stylistically opaque than Onibaba or Kuroneko, while textually very simple. Loved it!

Americans will -istan anything if it means not admitting America is frequently the villain.

Are you someone who's likely to read a long leftist consideration of Batman, globalization, racism, misogyny, patricians, the rich, and how it reflects the dire straits and ugly paint job of the contemporary United States? There's a ten thousand word essay coming.

As someone with selective mutism, a stutter, and an accent, when I teach public speaking or communication in any form, I try to really entrench that flubs are going to happen and nine times out of ten if someone makes a fuss about them, they weren't going to listen to you anyway.

“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.” - Audre Lorde

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I haven't read the non-Kirby one, but the two Kirby Superpowers minis are so so good! And, if you're a Grant Morrison fan, full of things which creep (or dance loudly) straight into their JLA, Seven Soldiers, and Final Crisis.

Piggybacking off this, I'm not sure this is actually true. Ones I think were solid: Samit Basu, Chris Burnham, Alex Child, Malachy Coney, Jamie Delano, Keith Giffen, Bryce Ingman, Dan Curtis Johnson, Doug Moench, Rachel Pollack, John Smith & John Wagner.

I finished the essay. If you read it and don't think, "this is stupid!" at least once, I may have let you down.

the gavin newsom viral tweets can be funny and all but the things this man has done to the unhoused people in california is absolute evil. he even destroyed what little property some of them had with his own hands. it’s horrific and i don’t want him gaining traction for president

You're going to tell me Dyke (on the floor, in the puddle of her own making) isn't canon sapphic and I've misinterpreted things?

Others have mentioned Katharine Hepburn, but Sondra Locke, Joan Scott, Ruth Gordon, Lena Horne, Dorothy Parker, Ireene Wicker, Vera Caspary, Edith Atwater, and Lillian Hellman. And, they THREW Eartha Kitt out of America!

Top 5 smartest moves adapting Candy Man: 1 Tony Todd 2 casting Madsen because she looked funny with her hair dyed that blonde 3 moving story away from Liverpool 4 casting the director to play the obnoxious white man 5 Ted Raimi death

Goodbye to Twitter. I never called you X and I never got to drop this pic with a screenshot of someone getting throttled in the QTs. So, we're 50/50 you disastrous ex-bird app.