KLAXON KLAXON KLAXON FOR KITH FANS:
Kids in the Hall alumni Bruce McCulloch is bringing tales of his rabble-rousing youth to the small screen with a new comedy series on City.
Young Drunk Punk is set in Calgary in the 1980s and follows two recent high school graduates who embark on a rebellious search to figure out who they are.
The show is semi-autobiographical for McCulloch, 53, who grew up in Alberta and has performed a one-man play of the same title.
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I didn’t want Benedict to go public, because of my marriage, but you cannot harness a warrior soul.
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AHP on why you should read like a teen again (apparently, she does NOT mean “with frequent breaks to furtively touch yourself”):
As adults, our lattice of responsibility, guilt, and shame often makes it nearly impossible to make a conscious decision to read like a teen. It’s hard to say, “Today I’m going to shirk all worldly responsibilities!” Which means we often have to be tricked into teen reading: not by our peers, or our partner, but by the power of a book.
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Hey, cool idea, patent office! THE UNLIKELY HARBINGERS OF SOCIAL CHANGE.
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I would love to be the sort of person who doesn’t find chess boring and awful, and I can’t figure out if cheating would make it more or less fun. Also, I had hoped the cheating would be of the “LOOK OVER THERE” (moves pieces) “Oh, sorry, thought I saw a dragon” variety, but it’s not:
To catch an alleged cheater, Regan takes a set of chess positions played by a single player—ideally 200 or more but his analysis can work with as few as 20—and treats each position like a question on a multiple-choice exam. The score on this exam translates to an Elo rating, a score Regan calls an Intrinsic Performance Rating (IPR). There are, however, three main differences between a standard multiple-choice exam and Regan’s anti-cheating exam. First, on a standard exam each question has a fixed number of answers, usually four or five choices; on Regan’s exam, the number of answers for each position equals the number of legal moves. Second, on a standard exam, one answer per question receives full credit, while the other answers receive zero credit; on Regan’s exam, every legal move is given partial credit in proportion to how good it is relative to the engine’s top choice. (Partial credit falls off as a complicated nonlinear relationship based on the engine’s evaluations. Credit also abides by the constraint that all moves taken together for a position must sum to full credit.)
eyes glaze over i hate myself
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I will trust Sondheim to the gate and past it, but my heart is full of fears:
Sondheim continued, “You will find in the movie that Rapunzel does not get killed, and the prince does not sleep with the [Baker’s Wife].” He added, “You know, if I were a Disney executive I probably would say the same thing.”
Another teacher asked if the song “Any Moment,” which follows the encounter between Cinderella’s Prince and the Baker’s Wife, had been cut. “The song is cut,” Sondheim stated. Following outcry from the teachers, Sondheim added, “I’m sorry, I should say, it’s probably cut.”
When pressed that he should have stuck up for the inclusion of the song, Sondheim said that he and Into the Woods’ Tony Award-winning book writer James Lapine did so. “But Disney said, we don’t want Rapunzel to die, so we replotted it. I won’t tell you what happens, but we wrote a new song to cover it,” he said.
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On the general fuckery of family cap restrictions:
There’s little evidence that family caps work as advertised. What is unquestionably true is that they make poor families poorer. A 2006 report from the Urban Institute found that family caps increase the “deep poverty” rate of single mothers by 12.5 percent, and increase the deep poverty rate of children by 13.1 percent. It’s easy to see how this works. In Maryland, a state without family caps, the average benefitfor a single-parent family of three is $574. If, while receiving that benefit, the parent had another child, it would rise to $695, a 17 percent increase. By contrast, in Virginia—where the benefit for a family of three is $389—it would stay the same (as opposed to growing to $451). And when you consider the generally low benefit levels of family cap states—in Georgia, the average monthly benefit for a three-person household is $280, in Mississippi it’s $170—what you have is a recipe for greater poverty.
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Even Jane Austen couldn’t get a break from other people’s damn opinions.
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Tags: feminism, link roundup, the internet
I AM NOT OKAY WITH THIS INTO THE WOODS NEWS
But I AM OKAY with the patent office’s decision, as much as it made all the nonsense “freedom of speech” “government overreach” people pop out of the woodwork with their “UGH WHAT’S NEXT, THE SEMINOLES?” and their “UGH WE HAVE $$$ IN DEBT AND AN OVERSTRETCHED MILITARY AND THIS IS WHAT WE’RE WORRYING ABOUT?” as if “Government” is just one guy in an office in DC with an overstuffed inbox who can only handle one thing at a time. I swear. At least they made themselves known. If your argument is “But I want to keep using the hurtful word because football,” then you and I cannot be friends.
I saw someone on facebook complaining along the lines of “‘Government’ shouldn’t focus on this because taxes and benghazi and syria or whatever” and someone replied “uhh, pretty sure the USPTO doesn’t have any authority to fix those other issues” Didn’t make him shut up though. :-/
Yeah, I saw that same thing happen in three different places on my facebook feed 😐
Almost nothing can convince those people to shut up…
you can, if you wish, smugly note that the florida seminoles (team) partner with the Seminole nation and use the name/imagery with the tribe’s approval, so, whole other kettle of fish, crazy facebook people who fear government overreach and/or having to not be an asshole at some point.
Or just, you know, start humming really loudly and staring into the middle distance when these idiots start talking, also a 100% legit approach.
*(though there are many, many critics of this arrangement, and its existence does not mean that the use of this imagery is accepted by all indigenous people. More here: http://nativeappropriations.com/2013/01/interest-…
A DRAGON!
A DRAGON!
I swear I saw a DRAGON!
Pete’s Dragon? No? *scuttles away*
A green and seething, fire-breathing, monstrous in sight!
(I got you!)
It’s a razzle dazzle day.
OMFG that song. The BEST.
I was suspicious about the Into the Woods movie but this is too far! “Any Moment” is fantastic. *Flames, flames on the side of my face.*
These lines are perfection:
“Life is often so unpleasant-
You must know that, as a peasant-
Best to take the moment present
As a present for the moment.”
I’m kinda anticipating when the fans of the neutered Disney version go “Boy that was fun! Hey let’s see the original play!” and then it’s all SEX AND MURDER AND SISTER-BLINDING.
Also it only recently hit me that Into The Woods is The Avengers of fairy tale characters.
this is the only positive spin on that into the woods shit. the obc is on netflix! yeah totally watch that with the family! THEN EVERYONE DIES
IS IT REALLY ON NETFLIX? *scuttles away in joy*
Yeah it’s some bullshit to Disney-fie Into the Woods, the entire premise of which is to un-Disney-fie the tales it is based on. Blech.
They’re toning down the leering, predatory loucheness of the Wolf, too, which is to say they’re omitting the entire point of The Wolf and indeed of Little Red Riding Hood. I don’t mean they’ve missed the point of the Little Red Riding Hood of Into The Woods; I mean they’ve missed the point of the centuries-old tale of Little Red Riding Hood.
And to talk about a “relationship” between the Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood that’s anything other than predator-prey is to engage in some next-level victim blaming. The whole article makes my blood pressure go through the roof.
“No More” is my personal favorite (though maybe not as fun). Though when I was going through drama at work, I often thought:
You’re so nice.
You’re not good, you’re not bad,
You’re just nice.
I’m not good, I’m not nice,
I’m just right.
I’m the witch.
You’re the world.
and imagined disappearing with a screech in a puff of smoke.
Anyway, how is the second act going to go without Rapunzel’s death? Most of what the Witch does in the second act is a result of Rapunzel dying. Like, how will they do “Lament”/”Children Will Listen” if Rapunzel is still happily living?
These were exactly my thoughts/the quote I pulled out in a discussion yesterday. The whole point is that the musical ISN’T nice, isn’t Disney-esque with the edges sanded down, but it’s true.
Act Two is the key to the whole thing: what happens after you get what you thought you always wanted, what happens when your vision of what the world *should* be like clashes against people’s human weaknesses/mistakes and pain and senseless deaths and grief-stricken giants etc.
I’m not insanely attached to “Another Moment”, but if half the cast doesn’t die in Act Two (ESPECIALLY Rapunzel) It takes the power out of it and loses the pathos of its most heart-wrenching moments.
EVERY LINE in that song is perfection.
“And if life were made of moments,
Even now and then a bad one…
But if life were only moments,
How would you ever know you had one?”
I quite often deliberately spend evenings with no TV, no internet, phone on silent, quiet music and just a book. I get quite fed up of always being available and interacting with people, I love my ‘go away world I’m reading’ time.
I really want to do this! Sadly it is quite difficult. 🙁
It gets easier the more you do it and the better the book is! Also if you actually remove yourself from the distractions – I go into my room, leave the laptop in the lounge, music via ipod dock rather than on computer, phone on the other side of the bed, that kind of thing.
Taking the book and going somewhere is pretty key for me. And leaving my phone somewhere not where I am 😉
I quite often deliberately spend evenings with no TV, no internet, phone on silent, quiet music and just a book.
That is amazing. Kudos to you. Just reading that sentence made me break out in hives, though. I’m all for not interacting with people nine nights out of ten, but I usually do so with loud music and internet porn AO3 images of pretty people and fanfic.
To be fair, my other evenings when I’m not out interacting with actual people are spent with internet porn, AO3, facebook and a box set of something or other on in the background… Sometimes I just need to STOP.
Hush. You stop that talk right now. *hisses menacingly at any who try to take any of those things away from you* *except for maybe the FB* *that can be a problem*
I wouldn’t let anyone else take them away, but I do like to take myself away from them sometimes.
I have been doing this recently and it is my favorite! It’s like rediscovering an old friend, as this used to be my ideal pastime growing up. Partly this has been a measure of necessity because I’m trying to get through Capital in the 21st Century and have to really *concentrate* (because apparently I have forgotten all the econ I ever learned) but I am hoping to keep the habit going. Books are my OG BFF, I don’t know why I felt the need to gild the lily with all of the distractions!
I feel like even when I’m available, people don’t interact with me, i seldom get texts and important emails, so putting my phone/computer away would be pointless.
Family Caps are nothing more than Eugenics. Imagine the outcry from the RW if there were caps on your income tax personal deductions based on the size of your family? Say it was capped at two children? Any more, sorry, no additional deductions. Because we aren’t subsidizing your personal choice to have more children than the government recommended amount. There is a court case here. Their constitutional rights are being violated.
Speak up now, Quiverfull! People who hate China because of their one child policy, here’s your chance to fix this at home. If you are against both abortion and birth control, and also against poor people having children, that can only mean that you are against poor people having sex. So come right out and say it.
Yeah, the thing that makes this really funny to me is that the same people who are in favor of mandatory family caps are against birth control, real sex ed, abortion. It’s this whole stereotype of poor people who can’t keep it in their pants, we are going to punish you for having sex.
So, this news story caught my eye, because it takes place in Mr. Noodgeforlyfe’s former high school. Summary: suburban high school principal wants the school paper to print a racially offensive name for an American Indian contained in a letter to the editor (instead of editing it out according to AP standards), school paper wants to refuse, places a editor’s box in place of the letter explaining the situation, principal goes a little cray and runs around the high school with a shopping cart confiscating the school papers the day they are printed. http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/The-w…
What strikes me as especially ironic is that the name of the school principal (Robert McGee) is the same name as a person who survived being scalped by a Sioux Indian in the 19th century.
Anyway, the story is pretty cool, and gives me some faith in our high school students. This school is populated by the offspring of a lot of the Philadelphia white-flighters, and even so they have the chutzpah to stand up against their principal on this matter.
UGH UGH UGH the First Amendment protects your right to speak. It doesn’t require others to give you a platform on which to speak. UGH.
THIS INTO THE WOODS NEWS IS EVEN MORE UPSETTING THAN DWARVES
Dwarfs?
DWARVES ARE VERY UPSETTING 🙁
More upsetting than a thick thicket of thorns that draws blood from even one prick?
That’s just sick.
(Not forgetting the task’s unachievable, mountains unscalable
If it’s conceivable but unavailable—
AhHhhhhH AhhhHHHhH AhhhHHH ahhh…)
I have parsed the Cumberbatch news with an eagle eye and determined the following: that person is HELPING him FIND a girlfriend; he does not already have one. Clearly that person is Not Looking In The Right Places, specifically the library, book fairs, publishing conferences, and my backyard.
I know of an unassuming office building in Queens she could also try.
Yes, Cumby Girlfriend Retriever has clearly not conducted the right kind of search. For one thing, she could start by posting a query in the open thread this Friday and just see what happens! There might be a few people around here with a casual interest in dating B Cum who could help her out.
I’m willing to consider a long-distance relationship, or relocation.
I mean, I’m *technically* married, but I can be flexible on that. Just a casual interest. I certainly don’t follow several BC tumblrs or rewatch Sherlock obsessively or google his name often. Nope, nope– just a casual interest.
Nicole is RIGHT HERE, girlfriend-recruiter-person!!
Turns out the news about canceling the “Redskins” trademark is a little more ambiguous than it appears. I mean, it’s definitely a good thing, but it doesn’t actually open the floodgates to knockoff merchandise, because the team can still sue (just without the benefit of certain legal presumptions). More here: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/06/18/wa…
So, it’s not clear how it all shakes out, even if Snyder loses his appeal. It probably at least gives the league more leverage to change it, though.
It means they have to work a lot harder to sue for knockoffs, with less certain outcome, which for a media empire that pretty much exists to passively rake in millions from charging rent on a logo and sometimes pay some big men to toss around a ball for a few minutes could be the apocalypse.
Snyder is going to have absolute yonks to drag his feet to save his precious ego, though, and can probably gracefully retire before the appeals run out.
I don’t feel guilty at all for finding chess boring. My dad taught me the basics and I actually did a little chess training camp when I was a kid–but as an adult, literally everyone I’ve met who professes a love of chess is kind of a douche who takes a lot of pleasure in what he imagines as intellectual jousting. Except for my dad, who preferred to play against a computer. Then it’s more like a puzzle than a joust–a solitary mind exercise–but I do puzzles on paper, so I don’t feel that I’m missing anything.
When boys put chess on their dating profiles I’m like:
I am also at one with not being interested in chess.
Yeah my partner loves chess for the mathematical/puzzle aspect. I respect it, but I am never tempted to give it a try myself.
This is only sort of related but I once got an email on an online dating site from a lawyer who referred to himself as having a “doctorate.” I wrote back and said “oh you have an SJD? That’s really cool, there aren’t many of those.” He then proceeded to tell me that a law degree is a “juris doctor” making it a doctorate. I was like “yep, I have one of those too but I don’t need to artificially inflate my worth, peace out.”
Yeah, I mostly find the people who make a big deal out of chess (and how smart they are for liking it) boring.
Wow guys so much chess bashing! I think what you mean is that you dislike people who brag about liking chess because it makes them seem smart. I know several people who play chess competitively who are pretty awesome, and I hope to be good enough to play in a tournament someday. I would argue that playing against another person is not terribly different than playing against a computer, especially if you don’t talk at all during the game. I also enjoy doing puzzles because right now I don’t have the patience or emotional endurance to play an entire game.
#NOTALLCHESSPLAYERS
Ha, ok good point.
I am afraid to play against strangers because I’m afraid they’ll think I make poor moves because I am a girl and not because I don’t have a lot of experience yet. Also there are some pretty awful people who play chess or who are involved in chess politics at a high level. And there are horribly offensive articles published trying to explain the difference in the number of highly successful male vs. female chess players, including one published today. It doesn’t exactly encourage more girls to start playing. Lots of problems to start fixing!
I hate chess.
(because I’m terrible at strategy & also remembering what each piece is allowed to do)
That’s exactly why i hate chess (and also poker). I babysat for a 5 year old chess prodigy and he tried to teach me but eventually gave up and said with a heavy sigh, “how bout we play Candy Land?” Candy Land is my jam. Princess Lolly forever.
Hey chess prodigy, how ’bout a game of Boggle? I can guarantee you a thorough ass-kicking (even if I can’t remember exactly which chess piece does what).
The only time I’ve ever won a chess game was when I was stoned out of my mind. Usually I can’t even follow a movie when I smoke or a game of chess when I’m sober, but that one time it was like I was seeing 20 steps into the future. If I could replicate the effect I’d be a chess mastermind.
That is fascinating- I’ve run across similar things in video games. One friend was pretty good at fighting games, but if he played while he had a headache he was unbeatable. Another one performed absolutely optimally in World of Warcraft when he showed up to raids drunk. Maybe it’s something about reducing outside distractions?
Chess sucks. This is well known. I know how to play, but theoretical regicide is boring. I guess I just prefer armed insurrections to imaginary ones. But you do you, nerdy guy who tried to “teach”me chess so you could feel superior, who I then checkmated in 6 moves. Guys just don’t get the HINT that it is all about the Queen.
I have trouble playing chess because I find it extremely unfair that you’re supposed to be willing to sacrifice all the pawns for a king who is more useless than any one of them.
But the queen is pretty badass. Even if her job is ultimately to protect the useless king.
It just feels undemocratic. My pawns declare themselves an independent force and establish a commons in the middle rows.
Chess is a meritocracy; any pawn that’s willing to show initiative and pull itself up by the bootstraps may become Queen if it so chooses. The chessboard royalty is hardly to blame for their indolence.
“Help help I’m being oppressed!”
bloody peasant
A player should be willing to sacrifice any piece (even the queen!) if it gets them a strong enough advantage in material or position. Plus the pawns become very important in the endgame, and the king becomes a powerful piece then as well! But yes, as a role playing game chess would not be very satisfying.
I’m GREAT at strategy.
When it matters.
So, not chess.
In case anyone missed it when I posted late in the thread yesterday:
THEY FOUND CHESTER!!!!
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/chester-th…
I’m still never flying Air Canada if I can help it….
Well, my own personal (and close family’s) experience with Air Canada proves true again: they often lose luggage but do find it, eventually.
But seriously they are terrible. Porter or Westjet is the way to go
i found a gif of basingstoke cigarillo and his… friend:
what larks they have!
(this video is the best)
I want to read like a teenager again! I’ve been trying to! I want a book to just grab me by the collar and not put me down, but I’ve been having terrible luck finding one with the right mix of plot plot plot and not-distractingly-badly-written. Suggestions?
Tana French, Agatha Christie, Attica Locke if you want mystery/suspense; Kim Stanley Robinson, Ursula K. LeGuin or Octavia Butler if you like SF!
Other good mystery writers: Dorothy Sayers, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh, Josephine Tey, P.D. James. Queens of the genre!
Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars series is responsible for getting me to read SF again after a decade-long hiatus.
Did you read 2312 as well? Because I just ate it up with a spoon. I’m waiting for my store to restock his Three Californias series and then I’m going to devour those, too.
I haven’t, no. I gotta say I couldn’t get into Antarctica and I haven’t made the time to read anything else that sizable in a while. We have it, though, since my partner is on an SF novel award jury and 2312 was a nominee. What did you especially like about it? Was it the plot, the characters, or both? Because what kept me reading Red Mars were the fantastic and equally-sympathetic portrayals of such a diverse cast of characters.
Being on an SF award jury is baaaaasically my dream in life, what a cool thing to do! The characters were definitely a high point for me–I was fascinated by them, as well as the descriptions of planetary alliances, new technology/societies (I am pretty sure it’s the same universe as Red Mars, just later), etc. I guess it wasn’t quite the most slam-bang of plots but I didn’t mind too much as long as I could hang out in that world, with those people.
Wow, that sounds great! I’ll pick it up this weekend, maybe. Thanks!
I looooove Antarctica. Try the Years of Rice and Salt – it’s an alternate history based on the premise that the plague wiped out nearly all Europeans in the 12th century (some century or other) and then Asian/Middle Eastern cultures took over and did all the stuff that the Westerners did in this timeline. Absolutely brilliant book.
I haven’t read 2312 yet, although it’s on the kindle waiting. I’m flying tomorrow so I might give it a go.
I am breaking my million months of lurking b/c I cannot resist a plea for a book rec (#editorproblems). Aside from that vaunted mix of the perfect absorb-read, is there a genre you want in particular? Or age market? If you list a few books you have loved in the past that you read in that full-out-teen way, I can try to help!
Probably more on the mystery side of things, bonus if it’s some kind of historical mystery. The last book I can remember not being able to put down was John Harwood’s The Seance.
Intensely second-ing Tana French and Dorothy Sayers! I’ve heard good things about the Miss Fisher’s series (also a miniseries, on Netflix now!). More on the Gothic-ish side of mystery things, The Thirteenth Tale, Shadow of the Wind, and, of course, Rebecca. Also, Sarah Waters is like Henry James meets Evelyn Waugh with more ghosts/lesbians, so A+++ (though plot is slower than you might prefer). If you haven’t yet read, The Yiddish Policeman’s Union has a wonderfully unspooled mystery with a haunting (non-ghost) atmosphere.
If you liked The Night Circus (which I *loved*–insanely gorgeous writing though more flexible with plot, it is a pause and savor book, I think), I’ve gotten strong recs from trusted friends about The Golem and the Jinni. For a novella: Six-Gun Snow White. If you like YA historical mysteries, you might like Philip Pullman’s Sally Lockheart series. If you like Fantasy YA, Fire is a 2nd world fantasy must (though you might want to read the first in the series, Graceling), and in our world, The Raven Boys (a series). For fantasy + rock ‘n roll, War for the Oaks. OH! and forgive me, as this isn’t out yet, but will be soon (August, I think?): Lock In, which is a near-future SF mystery. Also, one of my v. favorite non-SFF titles: Await Your Reply (meander-y but compelling as all get out, I think you might like).
I love the Miss Fisher books! Nicely saucy, a bit bold and really good fun. Good holiday reading I found – not Deep Literature, but they take you along nicely and I really like them.
I am TERRIBLE at picking out good books and mostly rely on recommendations from friends. I have just started reading The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway, which I am finding to be amusing, well-written, and meanderingly plotty so far. That said, I’m not very far in, who knows. Highly recommended by a friend, not something I chose for myself 🙂
I started reading that after I met him at a friend’s birthday party and he was lovely so I bought the book and was HOOKED. I’ve read all three of his books, Angelmaker is my favourite. Really really love his writing.
I was seriously into A Casual Vacancy, but that may just be me.
Two (rich, white) guys (one of whom is an ex football player) on sports radio yesterday were making the slippery slope argument about giving in to demands about changing the name of the Redskins. “Where does it end?” they asked, no doubt rending their garments. “What if PETA wants to get rid of all the teams named after animals?”
I don’t know guys, but my guess is it ends after the team name that is a blatant racist slur gets changed.
imagine a world where every so often all white men had to STFU for 24 hrs
Imagine that movie trailer announcer guy, saying portentously:
IN A WORLD WHERE THE VOICES OF MEN ARE SILENCED
Women everywhere perk up their ears, and say BUY ME A TICKET TO THAT WORLD
I have never been more jealous of someone having a conversation than I was following Ta-Nehisi Coates on twitter last night.
RIGHT? I so badly want us to be best friends.
The only chess I want to play is Wizard Chess, and not the life-size kind. Let’s be real tho Gobstones seems like way more fun.
No love for Bruce McCulloch? ALL THE LOVE FOR BRUCE MCCULLOCH! Can’t wait for his series, give it to me now!
<3<3<3 BRUCE! <3<3<3
Everyone read this absolutely incredible article on Star Trek semiotics, right? TNG bored me to tears, it was like watching a Model UN with a slightly above-average props budget, but this makes me actually sorta wanna try episodes again of my own volition.
Oh wow, that’s fantastic!
I had a linguistics/grammar prof at college who actually showed that episode of TNG in one of his classes, as part of his quest to discredit Noam Chomsky and universal grammar.
Oh my god the comments on that Bendandsnatch Clavicleboaster article, though. The response to some idiot’s misinformation that he was dating Louise Brealey: No server in the modern would could contain the sudden Tumblr fanfiction outpour if Sherlock and Molly Hooper were dating “IRL”. The internet would literally die.
I need to write like a teenager again. I found a hand written silly epic fantasy story I wrote I was about 15 or 16 and it’s actually decent. Back then, I wrote for the sheer fun of it with themes and characters I never read much about. Now I’m way too focused on making my writing “deep” and worrying whether my prose is absolute garbage that I forget to inject fun into it.
Needless to say, the AHP has inspired me to chill out more.
I had the same issue! I wrote prolifically until I started worrying about writing perfectly. Now I’m trying to get over it by treating all writing as practice. I’ll try something serious when I’m 40 and I’ve seen enough life to know what to say.
Honestly, for me Welcome to Night Vale has been especially inspiring. It’s goofy, funny, intelligent and has damn good writing, while having “deeper” themes throughout.
So I’m just going to work on my vampire witch novel with existential themes while having an extremely silly plot.
All I wrote as a teenager was erotic fanfiction. Which, actually, I feel like I should take up again, because I’m a broke-ass grad student and I hear smut-peddling can be lucrative.
"Help help I'm being oppressed!"
Other good mystery writers: Dorothy Sayers, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh, Josephine Tey, P.D. James. Queens of the genre!
Any Into The Woods adaptation that writes out “I was taught to be charming, not sincere” and “A child for warmth, and a baker for bread, and a prince for . . . whatever . . . never! It’s these woods!” is unworthy. It’s not good, it’s not bad, it’s just NICE. Ugh.
Regarding the Jane Austen criticism, I like how almost everyone for whom Fanny is mentioned liked her in some capacity. Only Jane’s mother seems to share what is in my experience the modern opinion on her: that she’s “insipid.”
I happen to agree, but I know there are some Mansfield Park lovers out there.
yo
Here, have a millin dollars.
*million