The Texas prosecutor who, IMHO, straight-up murdered Cameron Todd Willingham is ACTUALLY FACING SOME MISCONDUCT CHARGES:
Following a preliminary inquiry that began last summer, the bar this month filed a disciplinary petition in Navarro County District Court accusing the former prosecutor, John H. Jackson, of obstruction of justice, making false statements and concealing evidence favorable to Willingham’s defense.
“Before, during, and after the 1992 trial, [Jackson] knew of the existence of evidence that tended to negate the guilt of Willingham and failed to disclose that evidence to defense counsel,” the bar investigators charged.
oh man I did not KNOW I needed a bunch of actors and actresses and composers to tell me exactly why they love Stephen Sondheim until THIS MINUTE:
“I was 16 years old when I played Charley in Merrily We Roll Along at my summer camp in upstate New York. I suspect that everything I know about how to craft musical theater scores comes from having spent those four weeks inside that show, getting to know it as an actor, as a pianist, and as a young writer having stumbled upon the keys to a creative life I didn’t know was possible. Steve has said he’s spent his whole life trying to fix Allegro; I think maybe I’ve spent my whole life trying to fix Merrily. Aspiring to work at that level is the most delightfully impossible task I could have ever set for myself. I hope I never get all the way there.” —Jason Robert Brown, composer
i can read an unlimited number of pieces arguing about Rory Gilmore’s boyfriends:
Joel: It’s almost unfair to talk about the two after taking in the whole series because Jess becomes almost a beyond human android boyfriend created for Rory in a lab by Season Six, after starting out as a bratty close-up magician, and poor Dean starts off as a rugged Cormac McCarthy-reading boy from Chicago, and descends into a bizarre blue collar Tennessee Williams reject. In a perfect world, I would choose the Dean of Season One or the Jess of Season Six, as both iterations in Seasons Two and Three are such garbage. Season Two Dean is controlling and runs to her mom when things begin to go south and Season Three Jess tries to bully Rory into having sex in the middle of a party. No thanks!
Mallory and Choire invented being lazy, and God bless them for it:
Charting the rise of the no-caps, low-punctuation line is trickier. Empirically, the style seems popular within a certain circle of literary online writers. Schnoebelen points out that dispensing of punctuation, or separating sentences with commas, wends closer to oral speech patterns. Doing so aligns with the personality of the sites these writers represent, which don’t claim authoritativeness in the same way as old media publications where formatting is standard, and content therefore (presumably) trustworthy. (Neither Sicha nor Ortberg returned a request for comment.)
You will not regret watching this video of an unflappable Englishman saving a baby swan from a fence while the swan’s dad tries to beat him up.
Our own Jaya Saxena tried to become Jewish with chopped liver, it did not work!
All brides probably worry that they’ll never be good enough for their in-laws — that even if you’re everything he wants, you’ll never be everything they wanted for him. For me, this revolved around Judaism. Jaya, I imagined them thinking, might be an amazing match, but Jaya-but-Jewish would be perfect; they were just putting up with me because the Jewish version of me hadn’t presented herself. None of them actually made me feel this way. I’m positive nobody in the family gave any thought to this but me, but it rooted in my head so thoroughly that extracting it would have torn the whole thing up.
So instead, I thought about it more.
*
Millihelen has a guide to wearing binders:
I have always been a husky man. I am now one year post-op, but when I had breasts, they were nothing to play around with – no pun intended. So binding was always difficult.
For many, chest binding can help them pass. For me, however, I knew even if I got my chest fairly flat, it would not be enough for me to publicly pass as male. Still, there is something about that feeling of having a flattened chest that brought the peace of mind that I desperately needed.
*
One of our very own Toasties has written a romance novel under a NOM DE PLUUUUUME and you can find it here!
*
