Tag: Just Sayin
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Just say… wait?
The fact that articles like this don’t refer to Nancy Reagan as an activist is how well conservatives have fooled everyone into thinking that what they do isn’t radical or activism. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/opinion/rosalynn-carter-first-lady-politics.html
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Twitter doesn’t deserve my hot takes anymore…
Twitter post by @011scenes: “there’s no stranger things without her sorry” Well, yes and no. While 11 is the catalyst for much of the overall plot – the writers can’t seem to have the character do anything besides scowl, stretch out an arm, and grimace until her nose bleeds black. Sure, Stranger Things doesn’t exist…
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Name a thriller where a woman isn’t the one in peril…
There’s got to be a few, right? I’m not saying there’s not, but anything? Sometimes research takes you in weird places. Honestly, I’m taking notes on Stephen Spielberg’s 2005 War of the Worlds and in disagreeing with a scholar’s opinion — well, part of the opinion, or actually the way the opinion was stated, fine,…
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Always write your notes as if they’ll be found
While I was transcribing my notebook today, I came across this paragraph I wrote about the first chapter of Richard Miller’s Writing at the End of the World: Mary Karr’s The Liar’s Club is discussed in detail and while I’m pleased we found the time to discuss a female writer, I’m saddened that her story…
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Who gets to be a teenager?
An open letter to NPR: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/news-wrap-teenager-pleads-guilty-to-killing-ten-black-workers-and-shoppers-in-buffalo Why purposefully use “teenager” in this headline to describe the adult male pleading guilty? His attack was racially motivated and since we have a long history of “aging up “ Black people in our media to make them seem more threatening, this is a bad editorial choice. “Man pleads…
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Smile when you say that
A post in which I talk about a podcast, but also about how you can hear a smile and why that scares me.
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So I’m typing up my notes on Sorry to Bother You when…
I noted that apparently horrible real-life person Armie Hammer’s Steve Lift had to be based off the “WeWork” guy, so looked up Adam Neumann, clicked on his wife’s Wikipedia page and then found this: Her father had a direct mail business and spent a number of years in prison for tax evasion. Rebekah Neumann’s Wikipedia Page Because,…
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What about an NFT of a tulip?
“It’s a Ponzi scheme. When there was tulip mania, at least when you lost all your money, you still had a tulip.” Dennis Kelleher I watch cryptocurrency drama from the nosebleed seats. I have some shallow understanding of the system and, I’m not ashamed to say, I rely on my students to fill in some…
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If we’re talking about extensions…
Perhaps instead of extending your deadline, you should offer a hybrid option for people with limited means, not ready to get on a plane, or unwilling to spend a lot of money in the state in which your conference is held.