Yessir! I always find Patti inspiring but I was beyond moved tonight

Jeff I should’ve guessed you were there! Really walked out of there feeling like it might be THE best album

this still counts as evidence of scholarly impact

is THAT the portrait of Locke

The NYTimes review theorized that it was all about enabling the photography motif. IMO though it's more about the film's (disappointing) reversion to trope re class. Remaking Victor as aristocratic vampire rather than middle-class striver is simpler outside an Age of Revolutions setting

New York City is the Kampala of America, etc

In contemporary authoritarian regimes, they don’t ban dissenting voices—they have regime affiliated oligarchs buy up the big outlets and force out opposition voices.

Anyway:

The attack on transgender people is not made to solve a problem.

It is fomenting bigotry to take power. Concessions are encouragement to do more attacking.

Cut Ali Smith, such a tiresome book 😬

John Thorpe cannot talk about anything but FanDuel

Henry is a podcaster

Oh you know I think you're right and I take everything back, it'd just be true crime

I think the things are—it has to be mass-cultural (but also fandom-oriented), it has to be horny, it has to be feminine-coded, it has to be scary, it has to something Isabella would also be into/that would bridge them erotically, and it would have to be something JA would adore and sneer at both.

I said what I said

Probably still Twilight tbh