Maria Bello has a new memoir out discussing love and labels. This piece over at Brain Pickings compelled me to buy the book though I have not yet read it.
Plastic surgery and the drug trade?
In the late 2000s, right about when the economic bubble burst in the United States, Colombia’s government finally began making headway against the narco-crime that had plagued it for decades. Homicide rates dropped, drug production moved to Venezuela, and negotiations with the left-wing guerrilla movement gained traction. Before long, American and European newspapers were reporting that wanton violence and Escobar-era wealth in the former cocaine capital were giving way to a gallery scene in Cartagena, to eco-lodges near Barranquilla, and to Brooklyn-inspired restaurants in Bogotá.
Do you get your nails done? Do you pay a really low price for that service? The New York Times did a major investigation into the world of nail salons and the women who are paid criminally low wages. If something seems too good to be true, it is too good to be true.
The women begin to arrive just before 8 a.m., every day and without fail, until there are thickets of young Asian and Hispanic women on nearly every street corner along the main roads of Flushing, Queens.
As if on cue, cavalcades of battered Ford Econoline vans grumble to the curbs, and the women jump in. It is the start of another workday for legions of New York City’s manicurists, who are hurtled to nail salons across three states. They will not return until late at night, after working 10- to 12-hour shifts, hunched over fingers and toes.
And here is an interview with Sarah Maslin Nir on how she reported this story.
Because it is still nice to get your nails done, here are three ways to do so in a socially conscious manner, all common sense.
Black social media activists are leading a revolution.
In the evening of April 25 at the corner of Pratt and Light Streets, in Baltimore’s revitalized downtown district, more than 100 police officers in riot gear stood shoulder to shoulder, shields up. Six officers on horseback fidgeted behind them, staring down at a crowd of about 40, an odd mixture of protesters, journalists and protester-journalists. Earlier in the afternoon, well over a thousand people marched from the Western District police station to City Hall to protest the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man whose spinal cord was severely injured while he was in the custody of the Baltimore Police Department. Only a handful of live-streamers, an older man in a kente-cloth kufi, five or six teenagers with bandannas drawn across their faces and two young women in cocktail attire who had just been kicked out of a wedding were left. Each person was filming the police.
Portraits of lesbian families in the Deep South.
Buzzfeed has a great list of Asian American writers to read.
Air ambulances are well and good until the bill comes.
Drone vandalism.
An oral history of Redman’s iconic episode of MTV Cribs.
On the black upper class.
Are We Rich?
Mother raises those plucked, deep-toned eyebrows that did such excellent expressive work for women in the 1950s. Lift the penciled arch by three to four millimeters for bemused doubt, blatant disdain, or disapproval just playful enough to lure the speaker into more error. Mother’s lips form a small, cool smile that mirrors her eyebrow arch. She places a small, emphatic space between each word:Are. We. Rich? Then she adds, with a hint of weariness: Why do you ask?
I ask because I had been told that day. Your family must be rich. A schoolmate had told me and I’d faltered, with no answer, flattered and ashamed to be. We were supposed to eschew petty snobberies at the University of Chicago Laboratory School: intellectual superiority was our task. Other fathers were doctors. Other mothers dressed well and drove stylish cars. Wondering what had stirred that question left me anxious and a little queasy.
Here is a review of Shanna Mahin’s Oh! You Pretty Things. Can’t wait to read this one.
Lauryn Hill, slaying acoustically.
A selection of stories from writers of color.
Poet Jericho Brown has words for Wolf Blitzer on how not to interview black people about police brutality.
Apparently the nail salon piece was one of a series, and here’s today’s: Perfect Nails, Poisoned Workers.
I…have a lot to think about. I know on Twitter a few of us were talking about how there’s a lot of #NotMyNailSalon going around, and Ms. Nir’s followup piece from yesterday was a good guideline on how to spot a place that isn’t criminal, but today’s companion has given me even more food for thought (I type this with gel tips on my nails).
I read it this morning thinking there is a big difference between consumer safe nail products (did my toes last night, am unconcerned about the level of chemicals); and worker safe (all day, every day, no protection).
Yep. This is the same reason I get mad when people complain they can’t smoke in bars or restaurants anymore. Yeah, sucks for you. And other patrons can walk away from you if they want. But your server? She can’t. She has to stick around frequently 8 hours or more inhaling smoke from you and maybe more people. Doesn’t even matter if she’s a smoker or not, because she’s smoking whether she wants to or not. It was a public health issue but also an occupational health and safety issue.
Ugh, yes. My mother, who was generally respectful and open-minded and considerate, LOST HER MIND when it came to her “rights” as a smoker being curtailed. She was furious when she couldn’t smoke inside the building at work anymore, and furious when she couldn’t stand right in the doorway (in a school administration building!) It was like she had this huge blind spot where, since she loved smoking so much, she couldn’t fathom how much of an imposition it was on other people.
I recently stopped getting gel manicures. If I’m totally honest, the decision was mainly economic, but these pieces that have come out have made me feel better about my decision.
If I’m REALLY honest though, I didn’t need these pieces to tell me what I kinda already knew: I’ve befriended my nail tech over the last year, and I know she works seven days a week, tirelessly. It’s contact work, always touching and talking and soothing people which is mentally and emotionally draining (and sometimes somewhat traumatic). She works this intensely so she can get 3 weeks of vacation at a time to visit her family overseas – a benefit I appreciate along with weekends off. And we all know the smell of chemicals that greet us when we walk into a nail salon. Were we honestly thinking that wouldn’t be harmful to an individual who spends 10 hours a day or more, 7 days a week, in that environment?
I don’t know the answer, unfortunately, but will gladly go au naturel in the meantime, even though I miss my manicures.
(ETA: but I also struggle with the knowledge that these pieces will probably result in many people choosing to forego manicures to avoid supporting an exploitative industry. What will happen to these workers then? no easy answers…)
I’m very friendly with my tech as well – I go to a relatively small place in the suburbs, and she is the owner of the salon. I talk with her about how her daughter is doing in school, how her arm recovered when she fell in the snow, and her prices are certainly not as inexpensive as the NYC salons in the pieces ($25 for a fill in, she didn’t do my initial set so I don’t know how much a replacement would be, but I’d expect to pay around twice that most likely). She wears a facial mask when shaping my tips, gloves when she paints my nails…these are good signs, right?
I feel like this is a hard habit to justify. I don’t want to exploit anyone, but as you said, if people stop entirely, will that effect the workers even more negatively? The article explicitly mentioned women in the winter months who wouldn’t get paid as nobody was coming in for pedicures…
I work in environmental consulting, and one of the things we look for around sites is if there is a nail salon, because the levels of toluene in soils/groundwater can absolutely be affected by the salons, not to mention acetone. We’re typically looking for gasoline byproducts, but knowing that really raises multiple eyebrows.
I know what you mean about it being a hard habit to justify, but I also go to a small place in the ‘burbs owned by an Asian-American woman who treats her techs well. I pay more than NYC prices and am happy to do so. And I don’t think quitting will help my tech (who is married and going to school part-time).
That said, I’ll see what I can find out about how well she gets paid next time I go in for a manicure.
Does anyone have tips about home pedicures? I have actually never been a regular pedicure person, mostly because I do not want to subject someone to my feet, but I’m sure as hell not starting now and my toenails are still gross.
Do you own basic nail care stuff? Decent nail file, good nail scissors, a REALLY GOOD clippers (the ones with the handles, not the key chain ones that boys use, ew), and some of those wooden pokey sticks? if you have these you’re fine, just keep your nails clean, short and well shaped. Coconut oil is a nice foot moisturizer if you’re feeling classy 😉
TBH I’ve never had a pedicure (cause ew someone touching my feet), and don’t get regular manicures, actually it kind of surprised me to find out that some women don’t know how to do their nails themselves and get mani/pedis regularly. I do my hands pretty regularly because of freakish fast nail growth, and my toes maybe once a month and they look grand
To keep my heels from being all cracked during sandal weather, I sand my calluses away using a foot file (I LOVE this one) and then before bed I slather on some heel repair gel (you can find a few brands in the nail care aisle of your drug store) and wear socks through the night. Works like a charm!
Other than that, just a regular routine of clipping down the toenails, getting any dirt and lint out from the corners (I just use a toothpick), shaping with a nail file, and then painting them! I love home pedicures and – given that series of articles – I’m super happy about that!
I had to go through that article and make sure that they had a shoutout to some of the Asian American-led organizing going on in this issue. I know the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum had been doing some organizing on this for awhile, although it looks like the national-level effort (National Healthy Nail Salon Alliance) has maybe regrouped and acting more in the state of California.
It’s a crazy-ass environmental justice issue, for sure.
I just finished reading this beautiful essay by Jeanette Winterson on her friendship with Ruth Rendell: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/08/ruth…
And, UK Toasties, my jaw was dropping as I watched the election results last night.
I feel more than a little bit sick about the election results.
It’s always nice to be reminded that 30%ish of those who cast a ballot don’t give a flying fuck about anyone else in the country, isn’t it?
(see almost every Canadian election too)
I went to bed after the first three seats came in and so had a false sense that everything was going to be fine …. then woke up to a Tory explosion. What’s everyone doing to keep calm?
I am crossing my fingers that not too much damage comes out of this. MrChouffe’s dad is more or less protected (he’s retired and rather well-off) but his mom is a public sector employee and his sister is really, really susceptible to any austerity cuts to social programs as she’s a stay-at-home mother with two tiny boys. This new government scares the crap out of me.
Ugh, everyone keeps talking about how the Tories have improved the economy and they’re creating a fair world for ‘hard working people’ and just ugh, I’ve never wanted to yell ‘SHUT UP YOU ARE WRONG’.
People lack the basic economic education, and media-savvy, to see through the austerity lie we are being sold. I’m just thankful I live in London which is mostly Labour, which is only a slight consolation, because they may sell themselves as the ‘left wing’ party, but they are in no way left wing or liberal. Neo-liberal maybe. *cry*
What is Ed Milliband going to do with his monolith now?
I’m SO angry about the election 🙁
This American Toastie can empathize with you. The day GWB was re-elected was a dark, dark day.
It’s good to see the McSweeney’s kickstarter is off to a healthy start. McSweeney’s was my first foray into reading internet literature, and their mobile app has been a constant friend for years. They’ve stopped supporting the app, which breaks my heart, but I owe them for years of good reading & will definitely back.
ETA: Danticat’s prayer is so beautiful. Her recent pieces on her mother have been breaking my heart left and right, but they’re so crystalline and incredible so I still want to read them. But maybe I should not click links bearing her name at work, where I don’t want to publicly cry…
Oh man, their app. I switched from iOs to Android 2.5 years ago, and while all in all that was a good decision, I missed two apps: hipstamatic (yeah yeah I know) and the McSweeney’s app. Sad to hear they stopped supporting it.
There’s always Pixlr-o-matic, which is free and great if you’re mostly looking for effects.
I tried that. It’s fine, but it lacks the feel of hipstamatic. I especially thought choosing the filters (or well “lenses” and “films”) before taking the picture (and without a preview) had a certain charm.
I’m an app minimalist (in part because I refuse to update from iOS 4 (what, my battery life is phenomenal)) but Hipstamatic and McSweeney’s are two apps I’ve kept around. I can’t bring myself to delete the McSweeney’s app–maybe they’re bring it back as a Kickstarter stretch goal??
I can count on one hand the number of manicures I’ve gotten in my life (and they’ve all been as a bridesmaid in someone’s wedding) and all of a sudden it feels like a good life choice? My mom and sister love going out to have their nails done when we’re visiting for the holidays and it’s always felt like something I should be doing but don’t.
The series is horrifying, incredibly well reported, and I think it’s even better that they’ve got them translated into Korean, Chinese and Spanish.
But in happier news, Agent Carter was renewed! As was my other favorite new show, Fresh Off The Boat! Jessica Huang will continue to be everything I want to be in life!
Fresh Off The Boat and Agent Carter are both gym shows for me, I was SO HAPPY to see they’ve both been renewed (along with The Goldbergs, another favorite for the gym).
I love that I’m not the only one who has dedicated gym shows! My new favorite one is iZombie, but Agent Carter also has the same blend of energy and lightness.
Yeah, now I am glad that I’m just too lazy and unfeminine to care about getting my nails done and have never had a manicure or pedicure. Lately I’ve been feeling like it’s something that I should do if I want to present myself in a more professional way, but now I’m like NOPETOPUS, gonna avoid.
Hahaha, Playing It Cool sounds awful, but it also makes it sound like there’s a whole section of Hollywood dedicated to realizing 20-something dudes’ screenwriting juvenilia.
99.9% of all Hollywood inside baseball movies are completely unwatchable rubbish.
And that .1% is Sunset Boulevard.
Hollywood talking about itself is just a spewing fountain of secondhand embarassment, but this movie does sound particularly egregious.
Plus, didn’t we already have the twee, wry romcom takedown with 500 Days of Summer? Like I think we can close that door okay.
I also liked The Player. I think I’m okay with any Hollywood movie that is about, “yeah, this is an industry of incomprehensible sociopaths, and who the hell understands why ANYTHING gets made”; that seems like a real intuitive idea to me.
Admittedly, Altman isn’t my favorite, I’ve got a major pro-Billy Wilder bias, and it’s been awhile since I’ve watched The Player. I remember it being fine? Like I finished it and I was like, “Huh, that was fine,” in the same way that LA Story was fine.
There’s just often an element in these movies that reminds me of being an outsider in a group of people who all know each other really well and won’t stop telling inside jokes. So sometimes the conversation is 3/4 comprised of those jokes and sometimes it’s 1/5 or something and that’s the part that’s jarring.
I know you’re probably talking about writing and such, not so much acting, but I’ll stand up for Hollywood Shuffle. How Robert Townsend isn’t a bigger star is beyond me.
Additionally, in a weird back corner of film, I love Barton Fink’s take on screenwriting and how terribly offensive and anti-Semitic it is.
Adaptation is still the best Jonze/Kauffman production, IMHO.
You know, Barton Fink completely slipped my mind which is inexcusable because it’s pretty much my favorite Coen film. So yes, Hollywood, have more of the actual devil (as played by John Goodman). More of that.
I think there’s a real insider/outsider divide in movies set in Hollywood. Like, I do love noirs and a ton are set there, but that’s on the outside of the Business of Hollywood, you know? Sunset Boulevard, for me, manages to perch on a very narrow ledge between an examination of the Business and a noir while also being about a more amped-up version of things that can happen (especially to women) as they fall out of favor and become outsiders again.
Favourite line from the review: ” It feels like screenwriters Chris Shafer and Paul Vicknair once heard a colleague toss off the term “deconstruction” at a cocktail party, and decided it might be fun to try out, without any additional research”
In college I took a screenwriting class, and that is 100% exactly something everyone in that class would have done.
Relatedly, I saw Avengers 2: 2 Goddamn Many Avengers, and I tried my best to explain what my problem with it was. I know that a lot of people disagreed with me, and there is much debate about feminism and politics and such, and I am happy to concede other people their own readings, not everyone is going to see it the same way, life is a rich tapestry, &c.
http://threatquality.com/2015/05/07/avengers-2-to…
But actually I think I kind of loved Ultron as a villain? He was such a dope! Like, a terrifying, dangerous robot monster, but also what the hell was he doing? No one understands, but because he is an evil robot, kind of no one has to?
Ultron’s sarcasm was the only enjoyable part of the film for me. Granted, I walked out about 45 minutes in, so….
Oh, you missed it then, he had a couple really good lines at the end.
I also missed so much of all the other crap, so I’m okay with it.
Actual LOL @ “Avengers 2: 2 Goddamn Many Avengers”
“Avengers 2: 2 Goddamn Many Avengers”
I’ll say! (grumbles)
I read the “monster” dialogue as not referring to her being sterilized but to the flashback scene where she had to kill someone who was blindfolded and helpless as part of her graduation from the Red Room.
Yeah, but the story she told Banner was about being sterilized, not about having to have to murder someone.
If she had told him a story about how she had to murder someone, and then said, “I guess we’re both monsters”, that would have made infinite percent sense and actually been a kind of a good scene.
Instead, she told a story about how she was sterilized for Communism, so. Like, I don’t know, maybe if we’re being generous, that’s not what the dialogue means, but on the real, the English language is effectively infinite in scope and form. There was a better way to say it.
That’s a good point re: what she was telling Banner. I too took it as her being made into an elite assassin as the reason she is claiming to be a monster, but that is because we the viewer are privy to her flashbacks and history, but that isn’t what she said out loud to Banner.
If you think there were too many Avengers in Ultron, just wait until you see Civil War.
Avengers 3: Captain America: Civil War: 3 Civil, 3 War, 3 God-damn Many Avengers
it might just be a function of the civil war plot. you can’t really show a civil war without also showing the superheroes taking sides!
at least, that’s what i’m hoping. because otherwise it kind of looks like “supposedly a cap movie: more cast members than an avengers movie” right now.
Oh for sure, it makes sense, but I still find it funny that there will be so many heroes in that movie that there will be new ones that don’t even have their own movies / shows yet, plus everyone existing has to report for duty. I am hoping it will be mostly cap focused though.
maybe they’ll all die and avengers 3 will just be like, spiderman and hawkeye having to get jobs in the construction industry to repair all the superhero inflicted building damage. they have a tea break every now and then. they see an interesting bird. spiderman struggles with the crossword. nothing explodes.
Would totally watch.
So I watched both of the Hulk movies, however they were so boring that I hardly remember them–but apparently in one of them it’s said that Banner can’t even have sex because an elevated heart rate could cause him to hulk out. So that’s why he can’t have kids.
well, I’m not sure how much the Hulk movies are actually supposed to be canon (the Edward Norton one I guess is, but I feel like there’s a lot they pretend didn’t happen in it), but still, is artificial insemination not an option? I actually feel like “I don’t know what it will do to kids if I have them, they might turn into baby hulks” would probably be more of a concern for me.
There were a few references to the Norton movie, so maybe it’s half-canon? Semi-canon? But agreed, no neither Hulk nor Natasha can have kids the traditional way, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other options. I can see Hulk’s problems over it more though–what if he gets mad at his surly teenager or colicky baby and he hulks out?
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/08/s…
My Scottish long-distance non-boyfriend/sex friend/whatever volunteered for her campaign this week. They’re in the same program at university. She’s the youngest MP since 1667 and I now feel extremely lazy.
That nail salon story is completely horrifying.
Wolf Blitzer is White America’s clueless grandpa. Maybe he used to be a journalist, but not anymore, and so I’m at a loss to explain his presence on television.
When he first came onscreen during the first Gulf war, I thought “No WAY is that his real name!”. But I was wrong.
It is a family name! There are generations of Wolves Blitzer!
Another Boomer who won’t fucking retire?
Sub Blitzer for all of CNN in your sentence and I think it still mostly works (maybe all cable news?)
A very touching memoir from Margo Jefferson. Thanks for the link.
This article about a 13-year-old girl who has found respite from Tourette’s Sydrome by running long distances much faster than anyone her age INCLUDING MOST BOYS filled me with glee during my commute this morning!
“Behind him, flying down the hill as if there were no rocks or roots at all, emerged a figure with long, wild blond hair. This runner accelerated, eyes on Jordan’s back as if he were dinner. ‘That’s a girl. That’s a girl,’ said one of the coaches. People pressed against the restraining barrier to catch sight of her.”
AMARIIIIIIIS!!!!
a 13 year old ran a 16:57 5k!!???!! That’s so fast.
thanks for the link, great story.
Awesome story! Also, HOLY SHIT. That’s the kind of 5K time that SOME of the female varsity runners at my COLLEGE were doing!
You would think from the widespread political freakout of the last five years that we had made revolutionary advances in health coverage, and that we were no longer using basic medical services as an excuse to ruin people’s lives. But then you read stuff like that medevac article and LOL HAHAHA NOTHING CHANGES.
$40K for a helicopter ride to the hospital? You can tour the Grand Canyon the same way for $99. This is nothing more than screwiing people who are vulnerable. Like you say, nothing changes.
And the insurance would have covered a traditional ambulance ride! So the same injury costs an extra 40K just because it happens on a farm. Jeez.
I work in health care billing and reimbursement, and (until recently) ground and air ambulance claims were a big part of my job. It’s quite, quite depressing, and people get stuck with all kinds of bills in sometimes very unfair circumstances.
Maria Bello’s piece in the Times a couple years ago was so, so important to me and I cannot wait to buy her book! I personally have a romantic and sexual relationship with my spouse, but also a long-term partner who I do not have that type of relationship with, and for a while I had a hard time defining it — I’m poly, so I have a vocabulary about multiple romantic/sexual partners but not about a long-term supportive and loving partnership that doesn’t include sex. Reading that piece was so great and feeling like someone else out there understood was invaluable.
I was hoping that the eternal loop link was Channing Tatum related and my wish was granted. Thank you! That whole trailer is embarrassing and wonderful and makes me feel 12 again #BadFeminist.
I’m definitely going to be experimenting with inserting zippers into a few of my button down shirts this weekend. I’m really looking forward to seeing how it works.
Re: nail salons:
FINALLY, I can use my laziness and low standards about personal grooming to feel morally superior.
And here I was claiming my hairy legs are a Feminist Statement like a chump.
Right? I’m a 32 year old woman who lived in Brooklyn for 8 years and I’ve never had a mani/pedi in my life. A NEW WAY TO FEEL SELF-RIGHTEOUS! I’m all over it.
I just do not know how to feel about the Siegel family. Queen of Versailles was so damn good, and Jackie seems like a lost but nice person… but her husband, man, I want him to be broke as hell forever.
I’m still amazed at how sympathetic that documentary was, I was expecting a heavy-handed cringefest. I may agree with absolutely zero of her life choices but I get why she made em.
Except that I would really love for them to read a history book before choosing the name “Versailles” and expecting it to end well.
He’s definitely an egotistical dick. One of the bits from the documentary says that if David Siegal gave up the timeshare place in Vegas, that his money problems would be solved. At the end, he’s basically forced to.
I’m so fascinated by them, I will read/watch everything about them. There are a lot of similarities between them and my in-laws, so I watch with rapt horror at the prospect of my in-laws becoming even more Siegel like.
I’m interested to see it now, because I’m not sure how to make her sympathetic…and I’d love to see how you can be “bursting at the seams” in a 26,000 SF house. You have 20 dining sets? 50 beds?
“playing it cool” was truly terrible. one more on the list of terrible movies i have watched to see chris evans’ stupid face.
When did 500 point sans serif titles that Emphasize Points or Locations become a thing in movies? OK, silent movie title cards, but those were subservient to the narrative. These days, they’re oh-so-precious winks to the audience.
As an antidote to “Playing it Cool,” everyone should see “Clouds of Sils Maria.” Juliette Binoche AND K-STEW.
it was sooo condescending. the whole movie! jeez. not even chris-evans-with-a-beard could save it, and let me tell you, chris-evans-with-a-beard has a lot of sway over my viewing habits.
i can’t wait to see “clouds of sils maria”—feels like i’ve been waiting for it forever!
“When did 500 point sans serif titles that Emphasize Points or Locations become a thing in movies?”
I have to admit, I was okay with the titles of the five steps in “But I’m a Cheerleader”. I thought it played nicely off of the candy-colored horror unfolding at True Directions. I’m sort of in love with that movie, though.
Nail service prices are the same or less in NYC than they are in Buffalo. Not saying that the same abuses are not happening here (they probably are, but less visibly so), but that story was haunting and horrifying. Super cheap prices usually mean something or someone is getting hurt. But that’s also doubly shitty as inequality worsens and people can’t afford goods and services (and it’s unfair to tell the poors they can’t have a nice thing every now and again).
In conclusion: stronger labor laws and more visibility and services for vulnerable communities?
exactly….it’s just like cheap clothing and cheap fruit and cheap electronics…you know it’s too cheap but you don’t want to say “It should be more expensive, I’m happy to pay more, oh you’re not? Too bad.” And then of course because it’s cheap and ubiquitous it’s no longer a once-a-year treat, it’s a routine happy-making thing, and no one wants to give that up once they’re used to it. Blergh.
“Plastic surgery and the drug trade?” just made me think of Jane the Virgin, and how I’m not ready for the season to end on Monday. That show is the best!!! And I want Sin Rostro to come back and do something badass and terrifying. (Also, Agent Carter just got renewed, so Bridget Regan gets to be badass and terrifying on two shows!)
With that scene, I could see what they were *going for*—Natasha references her history and murder background, tells Bruce that she also can’t have children as a way to empathize (and to tell him that she doesn’t want him for his Hulk sperm) and then ends with “we’re both monsters.”
But it didn’t land that way.
EDIT: I tried twice to embed this as a reply to the Avengers thread, whatttttever
With that scene, I could see what they were *going for*—Natasha references her history and murder background, tells Bruce that she also can't have children as a way to empathize (and to tell him that she doesn't want him for his Hulk sperm) and then ends with "we're both monsters."
But it didn't land that way.
EDIT: I tried twice to embed this as a reply to the Avengers thread, whatttttever
If you need someone to out-smug RDJ, James Spader is the ONLY choice.
Re: nail tech story – I’m not sure why more people don’t go to beauty colleges and get work done by senior students? If you find a nail tech/stylist/barber/aesthetician at a beauty school that you like, then follow that person from the school to the salon.
Re: nail tech story – I'm not sure why more people don't go to beauty colleges and get work done by senior students? If you find a nail tech/stylist/barber/aesthetician at a beauty school that you like, then follow that person from the school to the salon.
well, I'm not sure how much the Hulk movies are actually supposed to be canon (the Edward Norton one I guess is, but I feel like there's a lot they pretend didn't happen in it), but still, is artificial insemination not an option? I actually feel like "I don't know what it will do to kids if I have them, they might turn into baby hulks" would probably be more of a concern for me.
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