If you’re covering Biden’s age issues without also acknowledging that Trump fell asleep and drooled on himself *every day* he was in court — or that he often didn’t start working until noon when he was in the White House — you aren’t being honest with the American people.
Nobody loves that Joe Biden is 81. It would be great if he was 35. But you know what I really dislike? Authoritarianism. So I humbly beseech people to get a goddamn grip.
“Think of every horrible smell you’ve ever smelled. Multiply it times 10. Cram them all into your novel.”
—Orientation at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, prolly
@TheScribblerCMB The Joe Wright film understood the assignment. A truly great adaptation takes the essence of the story and translates it to another medium, respecting both the origin art and the new art in the process.
Still fuming at the gall of Tina Fey to let it be marketed as “not your mother’s Mean Girls” and then cast her 20-year-older self in THE SAME ROLE. We formerly cool teens are now just lame moms, but Miss Norbury is AGELESS.
4 CT Towns make Zillow's list of Top 10 Popular Markets in 2023:
1 West Chester, Pennsylvania
2 Nashua, New Hampshire
3 Manchester, New Hampshire
4 Wethersfield, Connecticut
5 West Hartford, Connecticut
6 Stow, Ohio
7 Middletown, Connecticut
8 Twinsburg, Ohio
9 Newington, Connecticut
10 Concord, New Hampshire
Pet peeve in uncanny or alien contexts in movies, books: Some person changes podlike and *molts*, and then they don't eat their molt. Show of hands: Shouldn't they eat their damn molt. EAT YER MOLT, LADDIE, IT'S GOOD FOR YE, ya ungrateful moltin' bastard, yew. Jesus.
Thirty-something singers with ten years of roles will be like, "Theresa Egan is an up-and-coming soprano," while writers with one book are like, "Theresa Egan is an American Novelist."
I know a lot of you wanted a technical breakdown of this meme so here it is!
I don't think you will find this level of detail anywhere else so keep reading if you don't want to miss out.