JAZMINE HUGHES IS A QUEEN AND SHE DRESSED LIKE COOKIE FOR A WEEK:
Like all good things, it started at brunch. It was a bitter January, before Empire even premiered and the idea that I would ever wear a leopard-print fedora was even a possibility. I was sitting in a restaurant, sipping my tea and absentmindedly checking my email, patting myself on the back for the biggest accomplishment of my life so far — going to two brunches on the same hungover Sunday morning — when a hiring editor at the New York Times magazine emailed me about a job opening. I choked on my tea.
Several weeks of interviews and edit tests followed, but through it all, I kept thinking: There’s no way I’m going to get this job. Most of this anxiety was rooted in not looking and feeling the part: For one, I’m not a white dude. My career is relatively inchoate; my editing experience meager. I don’t speak any other languages. I didn’t go to an Ivy League … I can barely spell the word “February.” It seemed totally unlikely, so I forged ahead, practically insouciant, convinced I had nothing to lose because I didn’t have much to offer.
Jamil Smith on that broseph with the rape sign:
Lawlor’s “crushing disappointment” that this wasn’t an invite to the latest shindig or pub crawl was palpable—but he began, as do most people about to say something horribly ignorant, offensive or impolitic, with a qualification. “Let me explain, I love consent,” he wrote. “Of course people should only interact with mutual agreement, but I still found this invitation loathsome. Like any self-respecting individual would, I found this to be a massive, painful, bitchy slap in the face.” Calling the Facebook invite “incredibly hurtful” and the “biggest insult I’ve received in a good few years”—he’s 19—all while using vulgarities to condemn people who were taking active steps towards ending sexual assault. After spending several words telling us what a great guy he is, Lawlor, without any hint of irony, slurs I Heart Consent as “smug, righteous, self-congratulatory.” The meat of Lawlor’s argument asks us to sympathize with him as he gives those anti-assault educators the tough love he feels they need. “I feel as if I’m taking the ‘wrong’ side here, but someone has to say it—I don’t have to be taught to not be a rapist. That much comes naturally to me, as I am sure it does to the overwhelming majority of people you and I know.”
I love Daniel Craig not giving a fuck anymore:
The interview continues, for some reason.
On Bond’s physique, Craig says, “It’s an aesthetic choice. My female producer always makes sure I take off my shirt often enough.”
And on Bond’s way with women: “Let’s not forget that he’s actually a misogynist.”
This mama bat is rescuing her baaaaaaby and it’s so cute.
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Mia Matsumiya’s Insta collection of her collected creeper correspondence is absolutely horrifying.
My friend Carrie’s new puppy is REALLY too big for laps now:
RH Reality Check has a great investigation about the Right’s proposed alternatives to Planned Parenthood:
The receptionist at the clinic at Washington D.C.’s Correctional Treatment Facility seemed baffled to receive a call last week from a reporter asking whether she could schedule a breast exam at the facility.
“This is a jail,” the receptionist said. The reporter asked whether people from the community could nonetheless make appointments at the facility for a breast exam, a Pap smear, or a test for sexually transmitted infections. “Ma’am, this is a jail,” she said again, before suggesting that the reporter contact doctors’ offices nearby.
Indeed, most people would consider it unusual to pick a corrections facility if they were in the market for a breast exam. But that’s exactly what is suggested by a new website launched last month by some of the nation’s most prominent anti-choice groups.
I had only watched American Horror Story: Murder House (A++++) and now Mallory and I are watching AHS: Coven (I am enjoying it but Ryan needs to stay in his lane with race-related torture). Which is your favourite of the seasons? (I have not seen Asylum or Freak Show or Hotel yet.)
This super-hot Olympic freeskier just came out, which is great (you should read the whole thing, it’s GREAT):
Almost immediately, Kenworthy says, he felt pressure to fit in. Friends weren’t an issue; he was good-looking and likable, the kind of guy who gets along with everyone. But girls were an inescapable part of the role. “In skiing, there’s such an alpha male thing about pulling the hottest chicks,” Kenworthy says. “I know hooking up with hot girls doesn’t sound like the worst thing in the world. But I literally would sleep with a girl and then cry about it afterward. I’m like, ‘What am I doing? I don’t know what I’m doing.’”
Deleted comment of the day:
Oh lord. I need that baby bat video to pull me through the day right now and it’s only nine.
Jazmine!!!! I didn’t think it was possible to love her more. This slayed me. Absolute perfection.
I was just coming here to say JAZMIIIIIINE! I have developed such a dislike for those “I did (insert silly stunt) for a week and you won’t believe the results!” but this one is just genius and DAMN she looks so good and…. I have to go read the article now 🙂
I initially read the hook as “dresses as a cookie for a week,” but was not disappointed.
Oooh, shall we make it a goal to make the deleted commenter puke again?
Also: the “—he’s 19—” is glorious shade between em dashes.
Also also: the best part of that Craig interview is that when the interviewer called Monica Belucci “an older woman”, he corrected him by saying “I think you mean […] a woman his own age.” I still think he’s not a great Bond, but he endeared himself to me there.
I will stan for D. Craig until the end of time! I love his face, which looks like a craggy, sexy mountain; I love his Bond’s flirty relationship with Q; and I love his not-giving-a-fuck lifestyle. DANIEL FOREVER.
The thing is, I find Whishaw-as-Q infinitely more attractive than Craig-as-Bond. And Q’s not supposed to be sexier than Bond! That’s against the laws of nature or something.
HERE for Q being monumentally sexier. But I have a very weird and unabashed crush on Whishaw. I can’t help it. The HAIR. The glasses! The BRAAAAIIIINNNNNSSSS
I just want to ruffle the hair! Also, tall nerdy guys with a big head of hair who don’t seem to know quite how to arrange their limbs are totally my type (I’m living with one, too)
Let’s start a petition for Craig to replace Renner as Hawkeye, yes?
The fundamental problem with James Bond as a character is that any actor who actually likes him and finds him relatable is not somebody whose interviews you want to read.
There’s really nothing wrong with James Bond as a character as long as he’s not being held up as any sort of role model, which Daniel Craig not only gets but is willing to admit. (He may be the first Bond actor to do so.)
Kenworthy is great, but didn’t you puke a little when the article referred to the “post-acceptance world?”
yeah, I find that phrasing terrible, something ESPN is using to describe the series. Like, Michael Sam would be in the NFL (imo) if we were truly in a “post-acceptance” world.
YES.
I don’t use the terms “pro-life” and “pro-choice” any more. I use Choice and NO CHOICE, because that’s exactly what they mean.
I am very fond of “Forced birthers”. The phrase, not the people. The people can eat a bag of something unpleasant.
“Pro-life” to mean “no abortion” also refers to a specific narrative that only suits the most privileged subset of pregnant people.
NO CHOICE is brilliant. How has that not been a thing already?!
I don’t know, it just seemed obvious to me. We should make it a thing.
I mean, it is a thing, though the usual terms are “pro-choice” and “anti-choice.” That phrasing is a lot more reflective of the positions than “pro-abortion” and “pro-life” (which, whoa, logicbutton’s point above about the assumptions in that term is eye-opening).
Honestly, I use pro-abortion and anti-abortion because anti-abortion activists are always accusing us of being disingenuous and refusing to admit the reality of what we’re arguing for. So I say, fine, I have no problem admitting it– I’m arguing for women to have access to abortion. I am pro-abortion if that is what the woman in question and/or her doctor(s) feels is right for her. Period the end.
That ‘I dressed like Cookie for a week’ article is great and also – I hope the writer keeps some of that shit or at least approximates it because she looks 100% amazing in every outfit. A++
I did originally read that headline as “I dressed like a cookie for a week” and was rather perplexed how that would be related to self-confidence.
Thank god it wasn’t just me.
I didn’t realize my mistake until I read these comments (I have not yet read the article)
I did, too. I guess the internal thought process would be that “I am delicious” is a real ego-booster?
I want to dress like Cookie Monster for a week!
Sometimes I’m covered in crumbs and basically at that point might as well be dressed as a cookie but I feel really self-confident if there are some cookies left over I didn’t eat.
I also did this.
You also dressed as a cookie for a week? Pics plz
I know right! I saw the title and was kind of skeptical because, man, most of the stuff Cookie wears is wonderful in the context of the show, but not the kind of thing mere mortals can pull off. But then I saw the outfit photos and she looked SO GOOD in everything! Super jealous of her ability to wear that much leopard print and not look bananas!
I love her for doing this for all of us mortals because SOMEONE needed to wear a leather shirt and then tell us how sweaty they are!
Bond has actually become a bit more chivalrous in the most recent films, hasn’t he?
That’s because we’ve surrounded him with very strong women who have no problem putting him in his place.
And this time you’ve gone one better, showing 007 succumbing to the charms of an older woman.
I think you mean the charms of a woman his own age. We’re talking about Monica Bellucci, for heaven’s sake. When someone like that wants to be a Bond girl, you just count yourself lucky!
Thank you Daniel for balancing out Jeremy Renner’s most recent shittery.
These answers and Monica Belucci being in the film has made me want to see a Bond movie for the first time since I was 13 years old. Well done Daniel Craig and company.
Yes, I did not think anything could whet my appetite for a Bond film, but that may well have done it.
It’s so great! The interviewer is doubling down and Craig is not having any of it!
I seem to remember him hitting a similar level of not-giving-a-fuck for the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo press tour. The man has zero patience for dudebro interviewers and it is glorious.
Take it from my parents’ 18 month old, 75 lb puppy – puppies are *never * too big for laps. Thankfully my mom’s current favorite chair is one of those armchair-and-a-half things.
My sister’s rottweiller would also like to respectfully disagree about being too big for laps.
Yup! My 65 lb lab / pit definitely thinks he is a lap dog.
My 70 pounds of happy pitbull lap sits if she wants to, lap size irrelevant.
My parents’ 85 pound mastiff/lab mix would also like to respectfully disagree, now just sit there while she gets up on your lap so she can discuss this with you.
Agreed! Our family labrador mix Cinnamon weighed in around 60 lbs I think and she was definitely a laptop till the day she died. She also used to wait till my Dad fell asleep on the couch and carefully climb on top of him to co-nap. So sneaky!
My 100 pound bullmastiff would like to say that a dog is never too big for laps.
A friend would respond to “Is your dog friendly?” with, “Dangerously friendly. If you sit down, he’ll climb into your lap.”
This was an extra large rottweiler named Itty Bitty Dog. Seriously. That was his name. One of the sweetest, most patient dogs I’ve ever known. With a head as big as my husband’s barrel chest.
I know I’m late to this but I had to chime in that Rottweilers are big baby-puppies and I love them. I want to hug each and every one of them.
NEVER TOO BIG FOR LAPS.
Team Never Too Big For Laps!!!
Help me. I read that first one as Jazmine dressed as a cookie for a week. I fully expected to see her cosplaying girl scout cookies. Please send coffee.
Ok, at least I’m not the only one. We really need to get more sleep y’all.
Oh thank god, it’s not just me
Me too, and it’s 2.30pm here.
Ditto. Oh my god sleep sounds amazing right now.
Oh yes. I thought it was going to be an article about ~WaCkY jObS~ she’s had in the past. Like dressing as a cookie.
Same. Gonna go put some more coffee on.
I did that too! I don’t drink coffee, but maybe this means I should start…?
I did not know I liked Daniel Craig, but the misogynist comment just…that’s beautiful. #ToastEmbroidery
Baby bat!!
I liked Coven the best – wasn’t massively fussed on murder house, got three episodes into asylum and stopped, and haven’t seen the others. The Kathy Bates storyline really creeped me the fuck out though, especially knowing (thanks to an old toast article) that she was more or less a real person and although the stuff she did in Coven was exagerated, that shit like that really happened. It felt quite out of place with the rest of it.
I think Asylum is my pick for best season and Murder House was the most fun, though I haven’t watched Freak Show so I can’t speak to that. I like what I’ve seen of Hotel as well, mostly because it’s the tropiest one yet.
Oh god, the LaLaurie story. The house is constantly for sale in New Orleans, and people keep buying it because it’s prime real estate (French Quarter) in spit of (or because of) the fact it’s one of the supposedly most haunted houses in the US.
I don’t personally believe in ghosts, but some of the stories there are terrifying. The ghost of LaLaurie supposedly tried to strangle a servant to death in the nineteenth century, but she was saved by the intervention of other, friendlier ghosts.
The scariest one (warning: this is a baby in danger ghost story) I’ve heard recently was about a couple who bought it a few years ago because they also didn’t believe in ghosts. One night, the husband woke up, and saw a woman standing over his infant’s crib. He assumed it was his wife, but he turned and saw she was sleeping next to him. So he got up, and the woman over the crib turned and looked at him, straight in the eyes, and ran away. He went to check on the baby, and one of the baby’s socks was in the back of its mouth.
They moved out. (The baby was okay)
I maintain that even if ghosts are not real, the things that have happened in a particular place leave residue behind, therefore the LaLaurie house will never be filled with anything other than BAD SHIT.
I recognized that Coven started to get narratively weaker as it went, but who frickin cares. It was witches in New Orleans and Frances Conroy’s look was gorgeous and you had Kathy Bates and Angela Basset doing their thing. I was into it,
Murder House is my fave though.
Oh man, I read the first link as “dressed as a cookie” and I clicked the link to see what that would even look like…. I did not sleep well last night, obviously.
OK, glad I wasn’t the only one. I imagined her dressed like a giant chocolate chip cookie.
I don’t know why it’s revelatory for a big actor to *not* be a misogynist, but it is. So thanks, Daniel Craig.
I’m generally indifferent to 007, and never really thought much about Daniel Craig in particular (wasn’t he in the terrible movie version of _The Golden Compass_?).
But now I can sort of understand why that goddess Rachel Weisz decided to marry him.
Anyhow, apparently, mansplaining misogyny to another man (who has a GREAT name: Rüdiger Sturm?!?) is a-ok by me.
He WAS in that terrible movie of The Golden Compass, but to be fair, he was fantastic in it. So was Nicole Kidman. And Sam Eliot, who was literally my mental image of Lee Scoresby before I knew he was going to be cast.
I am eagerly awaiting the day when this is not news but BOY HOWDY is it news now! More news like this, please. Please. Sometimes when I’m having a bad day I rewatch Tom Hardy being so disdainful that someone would ask him if he thought there were too many women in MMFR. At least not all of them are the worst, at least not all of the time.
Good lord, the misogynist comments tumblr.
I feel like I need a shower. And a flamethrower.
I looooooved Murder House, but the show has only gone downhill since. Freak Show was so bad I gave up halfway through.
Saaame. Murder House is actually the only one I haven’t watched. Of the ones I have, Asylum is by far the best imo. I also recently watched Suddenly Last Summer and a lot of the look of Asylum was referencing that. As it’s such an excellent film, that made me very happy.
Asylum is by FAR the best season. It is (imho) the creepiest and most coherent, plus it has the name game bit which may be Ryan Murphy’s greatest contribution to mankind (although he doesn’t actually run AHS, I think, so that is someone else’s doing and god bless ’em for it).
I think Coven was the most fun, but also the worst mostly because of the slavery and torture because god forbid someone on this show handled anything with a mere modicum of respect. This may also be why I’m enjoying Scream Queens so much more than AHS at the moment, because it’s essentially Coven, but slightly less awful. I’m pretty sure the main house set was just recycled from Coven, too.
Me and my friend perfected doing the Name Game on everyone we met after watching that scene and funnily enough it really freaks people out if you just immediately go into that in unison when they walk into a room.
We also took to singing Life on Mars loudly in terrible German accents just all the time after Freak Show, so one good thing came out of that season at least.
Ryan Murphy seems to be unable to sustain a full season without everything going to shit. Asylum was definitely the best season, and Murder House was fun (although in restrospect, I may have enjoyed it more just because it was still novel). I find myself enjoying the first few episodes of each season, but give up on it pretty quickly. It’s such a shame since that so many phenomenal actresses are being given such shit to work with.
I have to say looking at all of the seasons in retrospect, Murder House was probably the strongest overall. At the time I was watching it, I thought Asylum was an utter disaster, but now, in the light of Coven and Freak Show, I think it holds up far better.
I kind of loved how much of a disaster Asylum was – I mean, at least it was a fun disaster. Aliens! Nazis! Murder! Demons! Freudian tendencies! I never loved Coven and then Freak Show was just awful. As we all knew it would be when they announced ‘Freak Show’ as the title. I haven’t seen any of Hotel yet but it looks a bit more promising at least. It could hardly be worse at any rate.
Oh, absolutely. Looking back on Asylum it was a *glorious* mess – I think my problem was, watching it week to week as I did, I had serious doubts about whether or not they’d be able to tie everything together. And at the time, the Anne Frank thing was just so unbelievably audacious I kind of couldn’t believe it was happening, which may have colored my opinion.
However, comparing it to Coven or (ugh) Freak Show, Asylum was far superior and definitely managed to stick its landing in what felt like earned and moving ways. The characters (at least Sarah Paulson’s and Evan Peters’) were people who made choices and lived with them. Both of which were things that didn’t happen in Coven or Freak show, in my opinion.
The occasionally French axe murderess ingenue was delightful.
1) Murder House; 2) Coven***; 3) Hotel — so far! The clothing / architecture is so sumptuous its made the top 3 on that alone.
Aslyum people loved and it won all the Emmys, but I couldnt deal since it managed to hit every thing that REALLY creeps me out, namely : aliens, bondage/whipping, post 1st album Adam Levine
*** = NOTE: I did have some problems the aforementioned racialized violence, although part of me is like YEAH THAT HAPPENED and this may be one of the only ways people learn about it bc of revisionist US history so I come out at a neutral ehhh? Its fiiine? I feel like Ryan Murphy just didnt stick the landing with the finale of the season though. He was SO CLOSE!
I can absolutely see your point. Interestingly enough it was for precisely those reasons I ended up enjoying Asylum when all was said and done – it utilized fears I 100% relate to. The ‘conversion therapy’ Sarah Paulson’s character went through, and what happened to Sister Jude near the end, those are things that get to me on a very visceral, relatable level.
My main issue with Coven (beyond the racial implications, which, I completely agree with Nicole – stay in your lane, Ryan Murphy) was the lack of stakes. To me, when you introduce the concept that characters can be brought back to life at any point, you take a lot of the dramatic tension out of the story. Which is a shame, because I really wanted to love Coven!
SAME. I remember having that conversation with my friends – if everyone comes back to life, why the fuck do I care about anyone?
Coven also totally squandered it’s premise… they were supposed to be in a witch school but then never did anything with that! And I think they took too much on by doing both New England style witches and voodoo / New Orleans.
NOT ENOUGH WITCH LESSONS.
They never actually went to witch class!
That one old timey video about the tests you have to complete to be supreme was cool though.
I am really impressed with Hotel so far, though I haven’t seen this week’s episode yet. (I think the rape scene was a misstep, but Ryan Murphy’s projects are so full of those I don’t even know what to think.) I’m glad Sarah Paulson gets to play someone a little darker! And I hate to say this, but I am SO GLAD Jessica Lange is not in this season. I love her in Murder House and Asylum, but I was SO TIRED of watching her play the same character every season.
Also, wtf was up with the end of Freak Show? WHY does Elsa get to go to “heaven”???? SHE WAS TERRIBLE TO EVERYONE.
Oh god, the end of Freak Show was THE WOOOOORST. Let’s kill every character that was still halfway decent about ten minutes in via shooting spree! Then let’s follow Elsa’s climb to fame and fortune with absolutely no punishment whatsoever!
(not sure how to embed gifs, sorry)
http://i1080.photobucket.com/albums/j322/cawalker…
Hotel is pretty good so far (still a lot of season to go though). The rape in the premier was too far, but now we have an Angela Bassett / Lady Gaga vampire-off and that is pretty good. Also the music is awesome this season.
omg I haven’t seen the most recent episode and I did not know that’s what Angela Basset was going to be up to and now I’m very excited.
Most disappointing thing (besides the rape stuff) about Hotel so far: Evan Peters’s creepy-ass mustache. Make him a serial killer, fine, but did you have to do that to his face???
I kind of love his look, he looks like Gomez Addams.
I mean, I was uncomfortably attracted to him as #1 Murder Teen in the first season, so my feelings on this probably can’t be trusted.
Dressed like a cookie didn’t make sense, so I mentally edited it to ‘dressed like Cookie Monster.’ In retrospect, this also doesn’t make sense, especially given that CM is naked. I need a weekend.
Asylum was my favorite. The new one seems like it might be good too. It’s certainly beautiful looking.
That ‘Not a Rapist’ guy is the reason we need sexual consent and relationship education as early as possible in schools.
I am so tired of men’s feelings and reputations being deemed more important than womens safety. The fact of the matter is that no one ‘looks like a rapist’ (unless you’re a racist prick), but a lot of people ‘act like a rapist’.
ETA: http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1758-… in case any dudebro in your life insists he could never rape a woman, here’s a first hand account from a young man who assaulted his girlfriend and didn’t even know it.
Cracked is surprisingly good on these things, which is great because it’s aimed at teenage boys who need to hear that shit.
Yeah, I also don’t hate their series on the realities of sex work. The language isn’t the greatest but overall they didn’t do a bad job of showing the human side of it
I think a lot of their personal experience stories are too basic/top level, they have a set length and that’s all they do, when a lot of the stories would be better with more information. But they are shining light on issues that a lot of their audience would never think about and showing a different side to life. Although there is an unfortunate contingent of readers who stick their fingers in their ears and scream that The Feminists are taking over cracked.
yes, agreed — a little basic, but glad it is out there for the right audience.
I wish they had covered more about how/why “Tim” initially thought making out with an unresponsive person — first asleep, then frozen, so, basically, playing dead — was good or normal or pleasurable. Beyond the (crucial!) issue of consent or lack thereof, there is something creepy about his not being able to tell if she was conscious or not/apparently not knowing what it would be like to make out with a genuinely responsive person. How he didn’t sense she was frozen – didn’t have that empathy with someone he was presumably attuned to, since they were making out. That “just lying there” is not really typical sexual behavior for women. ick.
Now I’m disappointed that Jazmine didn’t dress like a cookie because that mental image made me almost spit my tea out. I don’t know if it would’ve helped her confidence, but it would’ve brightened my day.
I tried to watch AHS: Coven because witches/Stevie Nicks are super on brand for me, but when that first scene involved torturing black men in cages I reaaaaaally couldn’t continue.
The Stevie Nicks parts are a little bit hilarious. You expect her to just be in the one scene where it makes sense but nope, she just keeps popping up again where she’s not wanted, Jessica Lange gritting her teeth every time she does. I swear there’s one scene where someone’s angsting on their own and SUDDENLY STEVIE NICKS DISPENSING UNASKED FOR ADVICE.
And those scenes are SO UNNECESSARY and incongruous with the rest of the plot and tone and it’s just like why? Why did you feel the need to do this? Because outside of those scenes Coven is just really ridiculous fun for the most part. But nope, we can’t have fun ridiculous things without gross racist torture/murder.
Yes! I am guessing they put them in because that (or a version of it) was what Lalaurie actually did in real life, but it really sat badly with the rest of it for me.
Yeah, but at the same time they definitely could’ve showed what a monster she was without making it torture porn. It felt like they threw in some half-baked racist Eli Roth into a campy B horror film.
Same. I am basically Stevie Nicks in a wide brimmed hat casting spells on a teenage mean girl already (is assume that is the plot), but I couldn’t get through those torture scenes and they make me too viscerally angry to just fastforward through them and continue watching.
Jazmine. “I’m a woman and I’m alive, so men give me weird looks all the time”
THANK YOU.
This is why I could never be a reporter; my aversion to doing something as stupid as calling a jail to schedule a breast exam, even if it is to make a point, is simply too strong.
I took a sociology class wherein we had to do something “deviant” and then write a paper about it. I ended up writing my paper about how I couldn’t make myself actually give a strange fake survey to people at the mall. Because I couldn’t do it.
And I read that and was sad again that there aren’t enough reporting jobs out there so I can’t have a job doing things like calling a jail to schedule a breast exam to make a point! As long as eventually you fess up to why you’re calling people are usually really nice about things like that. I mean, I think they’d appreciate the warning at least if people really do start using that list as a way to find care!
Let it be known, Jazmine Hughes is working every single one of those outfits like they owe her money. I have never wanted so badly to wear anything leopard print.
Not to one up y’all’s ‘I dressed like a cookie’ confusion,but my morning brain added monster to it. I win.
I really thought it meant Cookie Monster and ‘Cookie’ was how the cool kids referred to him. Despite knowing exactly who Cookie is. I have no excuses except Friday :/
Outrage of the day, a judge mansplaining away legal rights:
Lady, the criminal system is a system of criminals. Sure, their rights are violated. But not all rights are violated that you’re calling violation.
Blood pressure warning if you read it.
http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/fault-li…
Yeah, that guy’s failure to either understand or care about defendants’ legal rights is…troubling. I feel like if an elementary school kid can understand the concept of “innocent until proven guilty,” a JUDGE certainly should.
I am speechless at both his complete lack of understanding of civil rights and his insistence on saying, “Look, lady…”
RAAAGE
I might be more RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE about the “Lady” bullshit than I am the complete violation of constitutionally protected rights. It’s all rage-making.
May infected hemorrhoids infest his ass crack, and may he be charged with a crime of which he’s innocent.*
*course he would have the funds to lawyer up, but the process might build a little empathy.
Jazmine is great! Daniel Craig (#BestBond #SorryNotSorry) is great! George Lawlor, wanker extraordinaire, is not so great.
#BestBondUntilIdriis
I really really really don’t want Idris to play bond (even though I do, you know?) because then I would have to watch Idris being a mysogynist jerk and I would be so sad.
What I WANT is for there to be a NEW character in the same world who is NOT Bond, because everyone can finally admit that Bond is scum. And then Idris can play that person. While we’re dreaming…
does anyone have the link to an article published here or on the hairpin that described (jokingly) in list format how to break up a friends relationship/get rid of their awful bf? one of the tips was like steal things when youre all hanging out together but not when the 2 of you are along or something? i need it for…reasons.
http://the-toast.net/2014/05/27/wait-out-your-fri…
ty!
1) Murder House 2) Asylum 3) Hotel (so far) 4) Coven 5) Freak Show
Honestly, Coven and Freak Show are tied. I loved and hated many things about both of them. I have a LOT of feelings about American Horror Story in general and I am always HERE to talk about it. Asylum could’ve possibly topper Murder House if it weren’t for the alien subplot. (WHY WERE THEY THERE?? And WHAT was up with the monsters in the woods?? I wanted to see so much more of those creatures!)
I would probably put Asylum first, but yes. I gave up halfway though Coven and Freak Show.
I watched the bat video about six times trying to work out the logistics of the mama-bat carrying the (pretty big) baby bat. How do the wings get sorted??
I’m gonna be honest… I’ve never seen any of the AHS shows. I avoid shows that have rape (or rape-related plots) in them, especially ones that use it frequently and violently. (See also: why I don’t watch GoT, why I probably won’t ever watch Black Sails, and why there’s a very good chance I won’t be able to watch Jessica Jones either.)
I watched the first season, and there is SO MUCH RAPE. I do watch GoTs, also rape-stuffed, but that a least feels narratively consistent (to me). The AHS rape stuff seemed truly gratuitous. And do I remember an edge of humor any time men were assaulted? I might be making that up. But my AHS memories feel slimed.
Edited to add: yes if sexual violence bothers you, stay far, far away from AHS.
I’m with you. I’m having friends pre-watch Jessica Jones for me so I can watch it if I skip scenes or if it’s mild enough.
(I also was disappointed with Vikings and Reign over this. Ugh.)
Asylum is the best, Freak Show is the worst. Hotel is pretty good so far if you miss a very critical scene of sexual violence in the pilot! So I guess what I’m saying is that they need to take all the fuckin’ rape scenes out.
That baby bat is Stellaluna, and no one will convince me otherwise.
There's really nothing wrong with James Bond as a character as long as he's not being held up as any sort of role model, which Daniel Craig not only gets but is willing to admit. (He may be the first Bond actor to do so.)