Terri Francis Archives - Reading the End https://readingtheend.com/tag/terri-francis/ before I read the middle Sat, 11 Apr 2020 13:15:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://readingtheend.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cropped-reading-the-end-with-words-2-32x32.jpg Terri Francis Archives - Reading the End https://readingtheend.com/tag/terri-francis/ 32 32 53371782 Every Coronavirus Link Is Immediately Out of Date: A Links Round-Up https://readingtheend.com/2020/04/11/every-coronavirus-link-is-immediately-out-of-date-a-links-round-up/ https://readingtheend.com/2020/04/11/every-coronavirus-link-is-immediately-out-of-date-a-links-round-up/#respond Sat, 11 Apr 2020 13:15:02 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=9674 WELL my friends, we are now a full month into full coronavirus pandemic mode, and I hope that you are all hanging in there. Have we all sort of recognized that we’re going to be inside until the end of May? That’s how I’m reading the situation, but please weigh in if you feel differently. I know officially the end of April is when this stops, but like. Will it? No. Probably not. I am having my toddler godson over to my house later today to PARTY PARTY PARTY, and our agenda includes playing on my main bed, which goes…

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]]> WELL my friends, we are now a full month into full coronavirus pandemic mode, and I hope that you are all hanging in there. Have we all sort of recognized that we’re going to be inside until the end of May? That’s how I’m reading the situation, but please weigh in if you feel differently. I know officially the end of April is when this stops, but like. Will it? No. Probably not.

I am having my toddler godson over to my house later today to PARTY PARTY PARTY, and our agenda includes playing on my main bed, which goes up and down with a remote control, and my spare-room bed, which is a loft bed that you climb up to sit upon, and my fancy bean bag chair, which Toddler Godson enjoys to be thrown upon from a distance. I did not deliberately set up my life to have a ton of furniture that’s fun for a toddler, but I do find it curiously validating. Anyway, here are some links!

These GE workers are absolute heroes.

Tiger King represents something fundamental — and grim and doomed — about American culture. Also it’s deeply weird that the show wants to make Carole Baskin the villain. (Except it’s not that weird, because: misogyny.)

HISTORY OF MURDER BALLADS. I love murder ballads. Please share your favorite murder ballad in the comments.

I’m not as mad as some about the How I Met Your Mother finale but it was dumb and unfair and Cristin Milioti deserved better.

“To be a teenager is to be a testing ground for the assembly of your person; to be a young adult is to have free rein to make mistakes. At some point, we make a plan that reflects the self-knowledge we’ve accumulated thus far — I am this, I like that, here are my intentions.” On learning to swim.

Black scholars discuss the film of The Color Purple and its complicated legacy.

Emily VanDerWerff tried Quibi so you don’t have to.

Elizabethans dug true crime. (Sort of.)

“Hoelscher said she’d submitted the puzzle with no men, but wasn’t surprised when the Times editors changed that.” Once again, the white dudeness of crosswords.

“You’re Paul Kinsey, you pretentious fucking fraud.” That “what character are you” personality test has been confronting for some.

Amazon’s self-publishing platform has been a welcome home for white supremacy.

Happy belated Passover if you celebrate Passover! Happy early Easter if you celebrate Easter! Stay safe and stay inside, and one day we will be free of this!

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