After noping out of one episode of The Golden Bachelor because I could not bear to see elderly people crying, I switched over to trying out the new Fall of the House of Usher series on Netflix, because it turns out I can very much bear watching a bunch of rich shitheels coming to unpleasant ends. The premise of the show is that there is this rich, awful family whose company created a drug called Ligodone, which fueled the opioid epidemic. There is an awful patriarch and an awful matriarch (his sister), and six awful children (two legitimate, four illegitimate)…
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Remember when there were links, and I rounded them up? Well, friendos, I have recently given myself a new and exciting tool (I love new tools!) to try and keep track of the various outlets that I try to read regularly. It is called Inoreader, and so far so good, I think? It’s hard to know. I have only been using it for like a week. Certainly I am finding it very pleasing for keeping track of which Ask a Manager letters I have read yet and which ones I have not. Here are some links! The Britney Spears truthers…
Leave a CommentHappy Tuesday, friends! I have kept meaning to post this dumb thing on a Friday, then forgetting about it, then getting distracted, then feeling too guilty about not having done it to do it, and then pushing the whole thing off to next week. No more! I’m just posting it on a Tuesday, a perfectly cromulent day to read links. ENJOY. Uh-oh. The Millions and Lithub both have their big second-half-of-the-year book previews. RIP me and my admirable resolution to read my own damn books rather than constantly checking out huge stacks of 15 books at a time from the…
Leave a CommentTap tap, this thing on? I thought I’d actually share some links, for a change! I hope everyone reading this is staying safe at this absolutely idiotic moment in our climate emergency. I guess like, stay cool, get air filters, and call your elected representatives to demand that they take action to fix the goddamn planet. The always-great Angelica Jade Bastien reviews the new The Little Mermaid. At the close of the inaugural #EndOTWRacism campaign (but hopefully there are many more iterations to come!), Stitch reflects on what fandom needs. “The music of a bygone time, a simpler, better era,…
Leave a CommentThese are some links! Have an amazing weekend! Soleil Ho weighs in on Beef, Asian American representation, and the really awful things David Choe said he did but now says he didn’t do. “It dies with us.” Linda Condega on keeping the memories, but not the nostalgia. Wesley Lowery still wants the journalism industry to be better. Here’s what to expect from TV shows if the writers’ strike continues. Stand with the WGA! Support labor! The studios are greedy jerks who don’t care about making good art! The research is in (again): Knowing the end doesn’t stop you from enjoying…
Leave a CommentNothing but Blackened Teeth Surprising nobody, this is my favorite Cassandra Khaw book. I love haunted house stories, and I love it when a bunch of people are stuck in an enclosed space together and all the tensions among them rise to the fore. It’s even better if they then maybe kill each other. Lol! Friendship! The house is haunted by the ghost of a bride whose husband died on the way to the wedding. She asked the guests to bury her alive in the foundation of the house, and ever since then they buried a new girl in the…
Leave a CommentI mean, look, guys. At least Elon Musk lost thirteen billion dollars yesterday. Is that money fake? Yes. Will he probably get it all back pretty quickly? Yes. Is money made up? Y E S. Nevertheless, I am basking in his suffering. And like, the $13 billion dollars is actually probably more impactful, but what feels more satisfying to me is that he’s paying for Stephen King and LeBron James to have blue check marks they don’t want. That is just. That’s. It’s like, my guy, you don’t have to keep inventing new Ls to take. You could just do…
Leave a CommentI hope y’all are having a happy New Year so far! I have not yet made a determination about how mine is going, as I find there have been pros and cons. I have been super duper productive, yet there is still so much more to do. How? Science doesn’t know. On the up side, there are all these book previews to enjoy. You decide! Today’s Friday the 13th! What is anything? Well, we know what one thing is. We know what the Millions Book Preview is. We have looked upon it, and we have found that it is good.…
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