I BELIEVE SUE SNELL

I know this is really speaking to the specific middle aged demographic that I am a member of but John Ganz writing a book on Lyndon LaRouche is the most exciting news I’ve heard in months.

I am going to say something positive about Mike Flanagan’s creative vision, so, you know, brace yourselves, but the current Carrie information that is making people mad very much aligns with an adaptation that really leans into it being an epistolatory novel. And I think that’s great! A Carrie adaptation that uses congressional hearings as a framing device is my ideal Carrie adaptation. I would also accept all sorts of nonsense from a Dracula adaptation that tried the same thing.

Good morning, the entire outside smells like I’m in a building that is on fire and goddamn John James wants to declare war on Canada over it so all evidence suggests that I am currently in hell. Thank you for your attention to this fucking matter.

Some times you have a guy who gets so popular writing cool au fanfic that he gets full of himself and forgets pretty load-bearing world-building assumptions about the canonical works that we are collectively in a fandom for. For example, a fellow might forget that, in nearly a dozen interconnected works about witches that one consistent rule is that a single witch is a person in terrible danger who is going to suffer and but once you add a second witch, much less multiple additional witches, they are going to (mostly) live and everyone else is going to die badly. A one witch story is a tragedy, it becomes an action movie once you add additional witches. You know this! I know you know this!!!

I love learning when each of you have woken up and checked your phones this morning.

Robert Penn Warren’s All The Kings Men is the latest vehicle for me to have the experience of “wow, why didn’t anyone tell that this widely beloved classic fucking rules?”