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I own a lot of DVDs now: A links round-up

A couple of years ago, I decided to go all in on DVD acquisition, because I found it within myself that I did not trust the streaming ecosystem. This was a great decision, especially because it was right about the time that FYE stopped selling DVDs and they were getting rid of all their used shit for like, pennies. I got three seasons of Babylon 5 for five dollars. Total! Not each! Imagine what a great investment this will turn out to have been once I finally get into Babylon 5! It has already paid off with Voyager, the first…

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Lies, Conspiracies, and Scandalous Emails: A Links Round-Up

Oops, I let many years pass since my last links round-up, and you have all been deprived of the best links on all the internet. I am sorry for this long hiatus, and I bring you here what I hope is a particularly stellar collection of links. As we head into Mardi Gras weekend, I hope your personal bon temps are roulezing away! Catch some beads! Drink some beer! Here’s the definitive update on the indie romance writer who faked her own death. It is, perhaps not unexpectedly, a pretty sad story. On the resemblance of dinner to a magic…

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It’s Scary How Many Links There Are: A Links Round-Up

LOL I keep meaning to post these links, and every Thursday evening, like clockwork, it falls right out of my brain that I have ever seen such a thing as a link in all my born days. So much has happened! Angela Lansbury died! Elon Musk might buy Twitter after all! Burkina Faso had its second coup of the year! I hope that y’all are all hanging in there as we head into spooky season. I hope your neighborhoods have lots of good Halloween decorations. I hope that the Locked Tomb fans among you are enjoying my scaaaaaaaaary Twitter display…

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LINKS: Some Links

If you only knew how many times I’ve intended to post this links round-up and gotten distracted! It is twice! Twice I have meant to do so! Then time went on, and I didn’t post them, and everything was and is chaos. You know! You know how it is. So now here it is, a month since my last links round-up, and I have a crazy number of links, but that’s just how we’re going to have to live our lives now. Like if I told you how many times I have eaten popcorn for dinner in the last month,…

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Yes, There Are Some Takes on the Slap Thing: A Links Round-Up

I apologize in advance for extending the life of the slap discourse, and I invite everyone to ignore it and move forward with your lives. It is also notable (to me) that there has not been an equivalent amount of discourse about Louie CK winning a Grammy, which — since you ask! — does indeed make me want to set myself on fire. So amazing how confessed abusers get to carry on having richly awarded careers! It is almost as if the industry doesn’t actually care about protecting people from abuse! I don’t know! Without further ado, some links: “Blackness…

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I’m Sorry But I Need to Talk about It: A Links Round-Up

Look I know I KNOW we are all tired of the kidney / group chat / bad art friend discourse, it was fun when it dropped and now it’s the end of the week and we’re tired, I KNOW. It’s just that I need to talk about it with my mother at Sunday coffee, and for that to happen I need her to read the article, and for her to read the article I have to be like MOM READ THIS HERE on my blog or else one of us is going to forget that we ever wanted her to…

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I do not want to go to avalanche school: A links round-up

Welp! Things are very cold here! And everything is awful! 2021 just won’t stop doing things — in this case, dumping a ton of ice on a bunch of places not structurally equipped to deal with ice or extreme cold! If you would like to be of service, Southwest Louisiana has been absolutely slammed by weather in the past few months, and this is a mutual aid organization that continues to supply aid to people who were hit by Hurricane Laura, and then Hurricane Zeta, and now this ice storm. So now here are some links! What I learned in…

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HOUSE MEAL, a Revolutionary Concept: A Links Round-Up

It’s another Friday that feels like a Monday! Not in a good way! But this Friday-that-feels-like-Monday isn’t like the other Fridays-that-feel-like-Mondays, because today is Oscar Wilde’s birthday! Oscar Wilde’s birthday! He would be, let’s see, one hundred and sixty-six if he had not died tragically young of ?stomach cancer? and if he had also died of nothing else due to advances in science that allowed people to live to be sixty-six. Hooray! I also watched an episode of Star Trek: Discovery and it was x-tremely enjoyable and I was in favor of it. I have not seen other episodes of…

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I’m Weirdly Not That Into the Millions Book Preview: A Links Round-Up

A weird thing has befallen me, and I need help understanding how to feel. The Millions finally released their second half of 2020 book preview, and I have read it but yet somehow I have added… very few books to my own TBR list? Is it possible that 2020 has finally broken me? Do I no longer possess the capacity to feel joy? Is that what… Nevertheless: The Millions Book Preview, July – December 2020 Edition. (link) Hope Wabuke on the KKK joke. (link) Isabel Wilkerson considers the persistent caste system and the old, broken-down house that is America. (link)…

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Atul Gawande Saves the Day with Common Sense: A Links Round-Up

Welp, the end of another week is upon us. Is the weekend a punishment or a reward, or neither? What distinguishes our days, if we can’t even go to the goddamn library? (Oh my God I miss the library.) (I don’t want the library to reopen until it can do so in a way that’s safe for library workers; I just miss it.) I have a plan to mark the passage of time by making a new batch of frozen breakfast burritos. This seems fine, but do you remember the time Before when a person could go out to a…

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