Get it together (the news confirmed over the weekend he was one of those laid off):
E. Ethelbert Miller, a noted poet and longtime director of the Afro-American Studies Resource Center at Howard University, believes he was laid off last week in a round of staff cuts after working for his alma mater for four decades. He cites solid evidence: He was locked out of his university computer and e-mail account. A larger-than-usual paycheck from his employer was deposited Friday in his bank account. A local television news station reported that day that he had been fired along with more than 80 others.
But Miller said he still isn’t quite sure what’s going on. As of Tuesday afternoon, he said, no one in the university administration had directly informed him of his termination or told him what his severance package will be.
This has not been the greatest year or two for the CBC:
So there you have it. The CBC pulled a documentary from the air when a company objected to footage the public broadcaster had legally licensed from Global. Under pressure from its insurers, the CBC then edited the documentary for a later broadcast and removed criticisms of the company, who claim the CBC told them the doc would be free of criticism. In doing so, the CBC misrepresented the views of one of its subjects without her knowledge or consent.
you should only every scam UPWARDS, don’t scam cabbies, but this is legit amazing:
Not sure he’ll ever live this one down pic.twitter.com/pwy2V1B0rh
— Meredith Frost (@MeredithFrost) April 11, 2015
SOLID interview with Liz Phair.
By now you should know that I will always link to stories about The Mountain Goats:
Darnielle’s troubled adolescence has become a rich source of material – he’s gone back to it, obliquely or directly, on albums like Transcendental Youth and The Sunset Tree, the 2005 record where he opened up about his stepdad. (In the liner notes, Darnielle said the album was “made possible by my stepfather, Mike Noonan [1940-2004]: may the peace which eluded you in life be yours now.”) “There’s a sense in which adulthood is much less interesting than youth,” Darnielle says. “Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I don’t feel everybody can connect to. If I’m writing about dope, not everybody’s into dope, but everybody knows what it’s like to feel desperate. Everybody knows what it’s like to feel degraded.”
One Asian Book Is Quite Enough:
The fact that it didn’t sell didn’t in itself bother me; indeed, looking back, I’m very happy that book never saw the light of day as it clearly wasn’t my best work. What disheartened me was the type of feedback that my agent got from editors. Much of it was all over the map, with one exception: Three different editors from three different publishers said that it was too similar to another book with an Asian-American protagonist on their list.
In all honesty, I think that these editors were probably looking for kind ways to say that the book wasn’t up to snuff. Publishing as an industry was going through a very, very tough time. Of course houses didn’t want to take on a book that was too similar to something they already head – it was difficult enough to market the titles they already head. But still.
What comments like this tell me is: “We’ve filled our quota.”
Matt and Jaya were visiting me this weekend, and we had the BEST TIME. Matt emailed me before they got here and asked “are you watching Game of Thrones?” and my heart BROKE for anyone visiting someone who wasn’t watching Game of Thrones this weekend! Also, Jaya wrote basically the Moneyball of Four Weddings.
This workout was really fun! You could do it with any set of exercises. Just set a thirty minute timer, and work on hitting 650 reps OF ANYTHING. Like, if you want to get your 650 reps from just sit-ups, do that! And if you have a Competitive Spirit, like me, you might find yourself AGAIN going head to head with your trainer’s fifth grade son (I got 725 reps. He got…more.)
“University Administration” means never having to say you’re sorry, or, really, anything at all.
Amen. When there’s no one to report to, there’s no standards to meet.
This is perfect.
oooh, “Ball Slams”. I have nothing further to say.
sounds like the most misandrist of exercises
So, wait. For this workout – if you’re trying sit-ups like you say – would you do, like, 50 sit-ups and then stop and breathe and lie on the ground cursing the world for 3 minutes, then repeat? Or would you do other stuff in between? Also I LOVE seeing your workouts in the link roundups, they inspire me and propel me forth into the day in a beautiful way, so thank you for this.
Yeah, also: any combo of any activity as long as all the reps together to 650?
I’m overthinking this, but I prefer overthinking exercise to overexercising, so…
CORRECT
What I did was like 20 reps each of five things, then I wrote 100 on the board, then a total of 100 more reps of various things, to help keep count.
Why does the reporter even feel the need to note this?
“Their tale takes a sad turn” = almost every Mountain Goats song
Really, you would only have to draw attention to happy songs.
“Sad turn” for Best Ever Death Metal Band? That’s, like, the last one that would occur to me if you asked me to name a sad Mountain Goats song. Dark, sure, but it’s so exuberant and defiant.
TOASTS, my tiny nephew went home from the NICU on Saturday! (Orthodox Easter miracle?) He is still very small – I think 4×6 of him could fit comfortably in that crib – but he’s healthy. And adorable.
My mother called and gave me a breakdown of who she thinks he looks like. Apparently from the nose down he looks like me, and from certain angles his hands look like my grandfather’s hands, but “his facial expression isn’t our facial expression” because we only have one in my family, apparently? Anyway. Everyone is very happy about this.
Being exhausted but delighted is in fact the standard feeling on Orthodox Easter. Congrats to all concerned!
Hooray! I’m glad I made it to the comments today to see this.
Good piece on the weird decision making around the CBC documentary, but this line was odd,
“This is shortly after the narration makes an implicit critique of volunteer tourist groups going to Ecuador at all – the country has high living standards and a growing economy, so why are these groups there?”
Ecuador? High living standard? Compared to some places, sure, but that’s not why voluntourism is misguided and Ecuador is still pretty poor.
I did a dumb voluntourism summer in Ecuador during college, and I sort of see where they’re coming from? It’s like, I could understand that you might(?) want to fly in volunteers for short stints if your country truly had no functional infrastructure, or if there was some sort of immediate need for people to pile sandbags or something. But instead I was just getting in everyone’s way in a clinic that seemed to be functioning pretty well without some idiot who barely spoke Spanish hanging around. In my own experience it seemed like those programs can be more of a burden than a help to the charities that take in volunteers. And in a country like Ecuador with a relatively stable government and a middle class, those charities can largely run on their own.
yeah I absolutely think voluntourism like you described is really ineffective and not a good use of time and resources.
Compared to other countries, they could be perfectly correct to label Ecuador as having high living standards, just seemed off to me.
The Mountain Goats are indescribably important to me. I got the CD in the mail on Friday but then left town, so I listened to half in the car on the way to work this morning and will finish it up tonight. It’s great so far (of course it is) and still just as raw and vulnerable as any other album, despite the “concept” (but I love all the previous concept albums so much). I’ll refrain from picking a favorite off the album until I see them live tomorrow!
Also I’m really glad his kid listens to metal and dances to his dad’s music. I know Darnielle doesn’t usually share a lot about his family life, so I appreciate the gems he passed on in that interview.
He talks a fair bit about his family on his Tumblr.
And an unrelated piece of info: a guy I know has made by hand several of the pedals The Mountain Goats currently use.
John Darnielle is a total delight on Twitter, and he occasionally talks about the weird stuff his kids do/say. Highly recommend a follow.
So off-topic from the links, but I’m pretty much incapable of talking about anything other than Daredevil, so please someone talk about it with me so I don’t run up to random people on campus and start spouting off about my love of Claire Temple
Talk me into it! I watched the first episode last night, and I am not sure if it is just that first episodes have to do so much heavy lifting or if it’s less fun to watch action TV by myself or perhaps my TV is exceptionally dark (I had a hard time following the fight scenes), but I didn’t get sucked in.
I’m prepared to be persuaded though. What do I have to look forward to if I adjust the brightness on my screen and continue?
I’m only two eps in, but I feel like it is hitting its stride. I kind of think a lot of shows need a bit of time to get going (e.g., Fringe, which took a whole season to realize what kind of show it was). DD seems like it maybe knows what show it is, and just needs time to get there?
TBH though I’m really just marking time until Luke Cage and Jessica Jones.
HDSKLDSFLKDFHDF I CANNOT WAIT FOR THEM, I NEED JESSICA AND LUKE RIGHT FREAKING NOW.
Someone suggested that Turk should be the connecting factor between all the shows and they should all open with him getting punched by the title character, so now literally all I want from life is for Jessica Jones to punch Turk in the face.
Yeah, it’s a darkly lit show and you deeefinitely need to adjust that brightness to see everything. And the pilot is pretty heavy handed on some of the cheesier dialogue. But if you make it to the second episode, you get Claire Temple (who is my FAVORITE and a sorely needed voice of reason) and one of the greatest action sequences I’ve seen in years. And past that you get some truly stunning character development (even for the villains), some beautiful cinematography, Foggy and Karen continuing to be an amazing duo, Ben Urich (who is the best), and some straight up Macbeth/Lady Macbeth interaction.
Really, give it another two episodes or so and if it doesn’t work for you, that’s completely understandable.
I am shipping Foggy and Karen pretty hard. And I don’t really care if Matt Murdock ever finds true love. So.
Do we get a let-up at all on the limb-breaking? I’m 3 episodes in and liking the show/characters/build-up, but fairly traumatized every time I hear CRACK and see bones protruding through skin. *sob*
I don’t remember there being much more limb breaking, but the most upsetting scene for me was the end of episode four. So yeah, it stays pretty visceral and violent.
That scene….yeah. Even the sounds were too much.
Ohhh daaaaang! I am super happy with Daredevil! That fight at the end of Episode 2: Somebody Saw the Raid, has got to be the best five minutes of fighting I have ever seen on television. You know, 90% of the time I feel like fight scenes are just, “oh, and then he has to beat up some guys” kind of placeholders, but then someone just said, “hey, what if we, like, directed it? Like a SCENE, you know?”
The whole show is great because it’s this sort of pretty standard, guy-becomes-a-vigilante-hero storyline, but they just went to a lot of trouble do do a good job with it.
A+, will continue to watch.
They talked to the stunt coordinator about it here and IT REALLY WAS ALL ONE SHOT ugh I loved it so much.
That is kind of amazing, because I definitely counted at least three places where they could have squeezed in invisible cuts. I guess, though, if the guys have to do the whole thing at once anyway, then why bother?
Man, I would love that job so much.
Yeah, so did I. I thought for sure they buried cuts. Wow.
We’ve only watched the first two episodes at our house, and it’s really good!!! BUT, and I have to ask other Toasties if you’re feeling the same way, Mr. Wren and I were kind of taken aback by his willingness to torture someone to extract information. I mean, yes, ends justify the means, this is clearly going to be different than the rest of the MCU, etc etc, but…he just seemed…fine with it? Like…not ethically conflicted? I dunno, it just seemed. Extra dark I guess. Thoughts??? Have I become complacent in my enjoyment of other Marvel fluffiness? Or is this actually a strange moral oversight? Or is it a purposeful moral oversight that they’ll address later?
Oh, I think it definitely gets addressed, although it’s going to stay waaaaaaaay darker than anything Marvel has put out. This show is NOT FOR CHILDREN. But now that Claire is in the picture and things start moving into place, there’s a lot more discussion of what is going too far and the line between Matt and those he fights. Plus, the Catholic guilt.
Hmm. I am willing to ride it out. It’s just interesting to me, given all the real-life discussions of the ethics of torture, etc, that it would be light on scrutinizing the consequences. But we’ll see! Or I guess, I’ll see, once I finish more episodes! ha!
This is a good question. It seems (I am only about four episodes farther along) that this is maybe a personal moral quandary, like they’re setting him up to question whether or not he really can be as bad as the guys he beats up. BUT ON THE OTHER HAND, they’re also lifting a lot of stuff right from the Frank Miller run of the comics, and Frank Miller is deifnitely a fascist who is fine with torture, so I dunno.
(It seems especially weird because of all the people who SHOULDN’T have to torture to get information, you’d think the guy with the magic power of “knowing when someone is lying” would be the one. On the other hand, I guess at least this way we know for sure that he’s not torturing people for no reason? But yeah, I’m willing to ride this out, but it is more torture than I am necessarily comfortable with.)
I think we should just all be glad that while they may have lifted the violence from the Miller era, they did not lift Karen’s characterization from there. THANK GOD.
I looooved that Karen actually got to like, do stuff and pursue her own goals. I know nothing about her from the comics, but she could easily have ended up a really passive character here.
The Frank Miller aspect is definitely a good point. He’s nutty about all that stuff (morally grey/super dark/super violent things), so it shouldn’t really surprise me. I definitely agree about being surprised/slightly squicked out by it. I like it enough to keep going, but I am maintaining a healthy dose of skepticism about its usage as a plot device.
And as ppyajunebug said, HOORAY FOR CLAIRE. Whew. I really love Rosario Dawson, and it’s great to see her in something awesome.
Hahah, I definitely watched the first episode with her thinking to myself, “Oh, that’s so weird, that actress is a dead ringer for Rosario Dawson.”
*Watches villain beat a man’s head of with a car door.*
“This takes place in the same continuity as the movie with the talking raccoon!”
(I love the show, but you can definitely tell it has the same showrunner as Spartacus, another show with fabulously directed, visceral violence.)
Yeah THAT got me. Oof.
I’m in a sort of opposite camp. Namely, I’ve lately been watching a lot of Korean movies (which are super violent) so I barely noticed the torture and violence at first. Once other characters came in (Claire) and started questioning his willingness to do that I noticed it.
Anyways, I guess maybe this is a sign I should return to watching non-violent media for awhile.
I agree–I was also very surprised how quickly he got into torturing people :/
My computer crapped out Saturday morning. I WAS going to be able to talk about it with you, but I just got back to normal last night.
WEEKENDS, huh?
SPOILERS (as vague as I can manage)
I loved Claire, and was excited for her character, then she just sort of disappeared, then reappeared, then disappeared again.
Karen was a great character (as was Deborah Ann Woll in the part). She had agency and personality. I loved the jokes she cracked when they went to the big expensive law agency.
I’m pretty sure Claire is supposed to show up in the other Defenders shows as well, which makes sense considering she’s the Night Nurse. So I’m banking on that.
So I only watched one episode, but I am totally bored by Matt Murdock. I felt like a major strength of the MCU movies was taking time in the origin story to let you get to know the main character before they become a hero, and we got none of that. TBH the only way I could tell he’s supposed to be a good guy is that a lot of the other male characters are violent thugs that hit women, and he’s… a violent thug that only hits other thugs? I would just rather watch The Foggy Nelson Show.
Okay, I finally started it this afternoon. IT’S REALLY GOOD!
I wanted you to know.
YAAAAS AHHH I AM SO GLAD YOU ARE FINALLY GETTING TO WATCH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hdtKdRld4A
Of the few things I miss about my ex, I miss his HBO password most of all.
They just launched HBO Now and you can get a free 30 day trial!
I somehow talked mine into letting me keep the password. *ninja-kick*
That Four Weddings article! So many good points! I also love watching certain wedding shows, but now in the heat of planning my own, some things seem utterly ridiculous. I had to fight my mom on having a buffet instead of plated dinner, because I like buffets better! And it’s way less expensive! How is that not a win across the board? Also people trying to get me to care about things I have no interest in caring about. What are my parents and in-laws going to wear? I don’t know! Not my job! They’re grownups who can dress themselves! It will all be fine! I’ll still end up married and my guests will be fed and that’s all I really need!
My cousin had a selection of pies at her wedding and my aunt told her that she was bringing shame to the family by not having a wedding cake. Meanwhile, my mom got mad at me for arranging for a stylist and makeup artist only for myself and my bridesmaids, because apparently the proper thing to do is to pay for every woman in the groom’s and the bride’s families to get their hair and makeup done. So we ended up taking everyone to the salon and my cousin got a migraine from all the hairspray and left in tears.
WHO EQUATES PIE WITH SHAME???
ugh we are only just beginning to discuss the concept of a possible wedding and I’m already vaguely stressed about the “do traditional thing I don’t want to do (so many anti-white-dress feelings!)” vs. “have the dang ‘why aren’t you doing X’ conversation 300 times” decisions. Burn it all down and start over!
We had wedding pie along with our wedding cake because my husband’s family loves it so much. My grandma (RIP) complained that it was “against etiquette.” I told to step away from the pie table, or risk getting run over by my in-laws.
I find it hilarious how many UNBREAKABLE WEDDING TRADITIONS are relatively new. In fact, I just wikipedia’d wedding cake to see how traditional it really is, and there is historical precedent for wedding pie! As if you need justification for pie aside from “it’s delicious.”
One of my friends reported that when she and her now-fiance first moved in together, her mother said “I hope you’re not thinking of wearing a white dress when you get married, missy!” I was confused, because I thought she meant she didn’t think white would suit Friend’s complexion and I thought it was weird to bring up when no one had talked about a wedding. ANYWAY, turns out it’s some kind of “”””purity”””” reason that I had never heard of before! TO which all I had to say was, “NO ONE WORE WHITE WEDDING DRESSES UNTIL QUEEN VICTORIA DID, IT IS EXACTLY THE SAME THING AS ALL THE DRESSES INSPIRED BY KATE MIDDLETON’S OR PRINCESS DI’S!!!!!!!” (p.s. the mother has since relented, especially since Friend thinks she’d look better in ivory anyway)
**rage at “purity”**
that Queen Victoria fact is my favorite though, I remember being totally mind-blown when I first heard it and it’s such a perfect example of “things have always been this way” meaning “things have been this way for a relatively short time, in some cultures and social classes, anyway.”
A very good friend of mine got married last summer and she had a selection of pies at her wedding instead of cake as well. No one complained and as far as I know, her family has managed to avoid shame and scandal in the year since.
Were I to get married I would absolutely have a variety of pies available. And actual cakes for those of us who like cake (but think wedding cakes are gross).
A college friend of my girlfriend’s is a baker by trade, and when she got married, she baked about 12 different wedding pies (along with sewing all of her bridesmaids’ dresses using vintage patterns she custom-tailored to their measurements, because she’s apparently also a wizard). It was amazing.
My girlfriend and I have also decided, whenever we get married, we’re going to strongly suggest that Kristen bake us some kind of wedding dessert as her gift to us. Or we can pay her. Basically, we also want wedding pie, because who wouldn’t?
I made wedding cakes professionally for several years and have always said that if I ever get married I will have a pie buffet and punch. 2-4 pm so no one expects a meal or stays too long. Probably in my mom’s back yard (unless it’s winter or something) If he’s really into cake, we can have some single tier cakes as well, but I’m not having a wedding cake. The pressure of being a former wedding cake designer/baker/decorator is too high. Everyone would expect me to make the cake (not that I wouldn’t make the pies, pie baker was probably my favorite bakery job) and for it to be the BEST CAKE EVER. No thanks.
…every woman in the two families? Why? My brother’s getting married this summer and I’d have to put my foot down right there if anyone tried to insist that all the women in the family had to go get their hair and makeup done for it. Just bride and bridesmaid makes a whole lot more sense to me.
I love watching wedding shows with my mom when I’m home (my brother worked on Say Yes to the Dress, so it was some kind of support thing), because she finds absolutely everything about wedding-show weddings baffling. “Bridesmaids? Why are you even bothering with that? What’s the point?” All of it seems ridiculous to her. She’s always said that if she was to get married again (she and my dad are at 30+ years) it would be in Vegas by Elvis. Now my brother is actually getting married, and his fiancé seems to want an actual wedding, and my parents have said they’ll help pay for it but don’t expect any input or planning help or anything, because my mom seriously just does not see the point. I think she’s even a little freaked out that she’ll have to actually be involved somehow.
Your mom sounds awesome.
She’s great! I learned everything I know about making fun of television from her.
But wedding culture really does baffle her. She was sort of convinced my brother and his now-fiancé weren’t engaged yet (before the engagement) because we’re Jewish and she’s Irish-Catholic, but it was 100% because they wanted to make sure they could afford an actual wedding. That just didn’t even occur to her. I tell her that Dutch people don’t go in for weddings as much as Americans, and she thinks that’s great.
I was offered a horse drawn carriage to take us from the church to the reception by the wedding planner my mom hired (who my mom basically made every single decision for and who was basically redundant to my mom). I looked around, at the wedding planner, my mom, anyone else there and thought, “Am I being punked? Why would these older ladies punk me? That seems weird.” But then I realized there would be brides who would choose that. That industry is insane.
Oh, Ben. I would die of embarassment at most of the cheesy/romantic things he did for Leslie, but he really is such a darling.
Well I mean if someone offered that to me and it would have been actually feasible (and offered to pay for it) I would totally have done that. Because HORSES! I say yes to every opportunity for horses because deep down I am a 10 year girl still. We would have had to schedule a lot of time for me to pet those horses though…
My cousin arrived at her ceremony in a horse-drawn vehicle – I think on the seat of a wagon, though I’m not sure, because the details of the vehicle were not what I was paying attention to. But the wedding was on her dad’s farm, and I think a neighbour lent them the wagon & horses. And drove. So it was a good deal more practical and less expensive than a horse-drawn carriage in the city.
I like your wedding priorities! I went on a mild My Fair Wedding bender a couple of weeks ago and while it’s a different show from this one, the analysis is absolutely on point, including the desires and tastes of POC being deemed “tacky,” “different,” or “exotic.”
Spouse and I got married at the courthouse. The only people in attendance were the judge and two random people who worked at the courthouse to serve as witnesses. I don’t even know their names. I wore a $20 white cotton dress and my shiniest handknit shawl; spouse wore jeans. (I convinced him to put on a blazer because we were getting MARRIED, for goshsakes.) Part of me is self-congratulatory at avoiding all the fuss and hullabaloo of a big wedding, which would undoubtedly have ensued between his family and mine. And yet…
Part of me watches these shows and thinks, “Dammit, I wish I’d at least tried on the giant sparkly white dresses,” because the narrative is just so strong. The bride wearing some sort of Cinderella-esque concoction floating down the aisle (I’m over 200 pounds–I only float in water), her partner getting misty-eyed at how lovely she is…
I am considering just popping over to David’s Bridal at some point with Spouse and trying a few on just for a lark, but I would sort of feel bad about wasting the salespeople’s time.
I had to go look it up, and the World Bank classifies Ecuador as an upper-middle-income country, along with Brazil, Iraq, Turkey, South Africa, and others. For whatever that’s worth! NB: I have never been to Ecuador, but have read stuff about modern capitalism meaning that more and more poor people are living in middle-income countries.
That’s one of my mom’s favorite activities too- identifying familial similarities even in the very very very new babies. I don’t in any way see it, but she loves it. Loves it. In about 30 years, will I do it too? I wonder!
Anyway, congratulations to everyone! Yay!
That is completely bananas! I have never heard of paying for all that hair and makeup! I’m only paying for a hair person for myself and my MOH, and maybe one of the groomswomen (if she decides she wants her hair professionally done, since it’s super short). We are all doing our own makeup.
Really, the planning process has been super easy for us. My fiance has taken over several of the aspects I have no interest or aptitude in, but also our families are super reasonable, which I feel like is probably the main thing we have going for us.
MrChouffe and I thank our lucky stars at least once a week that our families aren’t going nuclear about our (tiny, tiny, extremely nontraditional) wedding. It is HUGELY important.
This is also off-topic open-thread stuff, but I couldn’t wait all the way until Friday to invite all Philadelphia area Toast readers to join a google group. There are already so many more of us than I knew!
PHILADELPHIA TOASTIES REPRESENT
One of the taxi pranksters was heard to remark: “Let ’em say we’re crazy… I don’t care about that.“
Ta-Nehisi Coates was on my flight from SFO to JFK yesterday! I stared at him a lot and came ::thisclose:: to approaching him and fangirling all over him, but I restrained myself. He is exceedingly tall and was dressed in a suit and took several pieces of luggage down from the overhead bins for other people. He was with his family and all of them were gorgeous.
DUUUUUUUUDE. I would have DIED of excitement!!!!!
I know! It was better than any celebrity sighting I’ve ever had! I kept whispering to my husband, “He’s a genius! We are in the presence of a genius!”
I saw him speak in person with Michele Norris in Santa Fe last week! He read from his new book and was extremely smart and charming. (Also because I am a student my ticket was only $2 which is easily the best $2 I have ever spent)
Awesome! I was wondering what he was doing on the west coast. I definitely need to catch one of his talks someday!
We had cupcake at our wedding because I violently refused to pay thouands of dollars for a crappy cake everyone would have been too drunk to taste anyway. Wedding Cakes are garbage food and a garbage tradition.
We had cupcakes after our courthouse wedding, but my mom ordered a cake for the reception she insisted on throwing us a week later and it WAS garbage food. It was 80% whipped cream with some fruit shoved in there. Bleh.
WEDDING PIE. It was like a couple hundred bucks for elaborate seasonal fancy pie + a vegan handpie for a bridesmaid + HEART SHAPED PIES ON STICKS FOR FAVORS. We will likely look back on that decision from our deathbed with pride.
I had cupcakes, too. This was before the cupcake trend so we had our friends bake them and we made the frosting and everybody got to pick a cupcake and a frosting flavor, and then there were sprinkles at each table so you could do your own cupcake. Including DINOSAUR SPRINKLES because DUH.
I also wore a red dress, so, you know, fuck ’em.
Another argument against the sharing of murders of Black people on social media:
http://www.forharriet.com/2015/04/is-my-living-in…
That is beautifully written. It made my heart hurt. Thank you for sharing
From Jaya’s piece: “Just a few years ago we watched Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding the same way we watch the Super Bowl.”
…at 4am, in a big hat (and PJs), crying uncontrollably with happiness? Just me?
At 6 am, in the process of pulling an all-nighter on a final paper. My roommates all woke up and came out to find me hunched over in the exact same spot they’d left me in six hours before.
I’ve forgotten what time it was, but in pj’s, eating shortbread and drinking a series of Pimm’s Cups.
I see the producers of Wolf Hall read Mallory’s piece and decided to give us more animals in the last episode.
Just drivin’ around Chicago, listening to “Exile” over and over.
Nicole, I refuse to find out what any of those exercises are. REFUSE.
Also: WHERE DA OUTLANDER RECAP? 🙁 I may have been checking since yesterday.
Wow that's a lot of wedding cake! I'm impressed by anyone who gets into events catering — it seems like a brilliant way to develop ulcers and stress headaches. Are you pro or anti fruit cake…? I have opinions but no practical experience of planning weddings.
I went to one last year where they did normal cake-cutting, and then they served more cake buffet-style after about 90mins of dancing, when everyone was getting hungry from all the groovy moves they'd been cutting. I thought that worked.
Aww sads. I don't really see how in most weddings you'd confuse a guest wearing a white dress (that's probably knee-length, accessorised by coloured hats/shoes etc) with the bride in a floor-length lacy gown. And besides, don't you *know* the bride already? But tradition, tradition.
Basically I think you'd look awesome in your dress, so I'm sympathising with your sad. But I know you'll find another dress which is equally awesome.
I am failing completely to work out where it is. Clearly I need to know Brighton better.
That scene….yeah. Even the sounds were too much.
I agree–I was also very surprised how quickly he got into torturing people :/
The CBC remains responsible for cancelling Strange Empire while giving Schitt’s Creek another season, which means that I still want to fight whoever made that call. FISTICUFFS AT DAWN.
The CBC remains responsible for cancelling Strange Empire while giving Schitt's Creek another season, which means that I still want to fight whoever made that call. FISTICUFFS AT DAWN.
Okay, I finally started it this afternoon. IT'S REALLY GOOD!
I wanted you to know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hdtKdRld4A