You’re all wrong: John Wick is about Stunt Coordinators being tired of watching regular film directors not know how to film action.
Molly Osberg
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Molly Osberg is a writer on the East Coast who reports on crime, class, and the U.S. healthcare system. Her work has been anthologized in the Best American Science and Nature Writing collection.
Joan Summers is right.
My heart isn’t ready to go on.
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Thank you for this, I have spent all morning looking for a website to tell me who won last night’s game.
Also the hat is dumb. Does she think she’s an Arby’s?
This is Jezebel.
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Stick to politics, Barry. Nobody wants to read about a team that wasn’t good enough for Philly or KC.
Hahaha, oh no, never
The core concept of the outfit was “a bodysuit, with variations
They may yet (try to) do that! That they haven’t already done it is entirely attributable to fear of our union, not any admirable qualities on their part. Read more
Depressing/eerie summer reading: Read more
A Little Life imprinted on my soul like no other book has ever done. I don’t know how to describe it to people and I hesitate to recommend it because it is so tragic, but it’s also so beautiful and I loved it so much.
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Blood Meridian is a once a year habit for me. Its some of the most terrifying and beautiful writing ive ever read.
You’ve perfectly summed up why I quit reading Stephen King as a teenager and reminded me of the boys in my AP-English class who all wrote their junior research papers on “The Stand,” and the teacher letting them. Read more
My summer bummer this year has been A Little Life. 800 pages of tragedy porn that I just could not put down.
This article reminds me I need to re-read The Stand. I have the 1150 page version and I liked it, but it’s been a while since I finished it, so I wonder how my perception of the book will change with time. I’m looking forward to the new miniseries, though.
ARGH - I tried to take multiple versions of the pill for about 20 years bc I bought into the BS that I needed it.
It’s one of those medications that worked for almost everyone I knew, but I would get psychotic and violent on it....like screaming at random people for perceived slights and having intrusive thoughts about… Read more
There are different issues here. They’re valid to be discussed as one big lump, but valid in their individual points, too. What The Pill has done is incredible, but to dismiss the concerns of many (or a few - their concerns are still valid - human bodies are not one size fits all!) is to ignore so much. Read more
This sort of vague, anecdata driven complaint sounds a lot like what got the whole wellness/power of positive thinking movement jump started in America in the nineteenth century. Barbara Ehrenreich’s Bright-Sided does a nice dive on the history of the middle class people who suffered from all sorts of “nervous… Read more