I BELIEVE SUE SNELL

I thought you guys were talking about a new Robert Pattinson Robert Hanson movie and I thought it was a little disrespectful to Chris Cooper but I was excited to see Pattinson take on the whole Opus Dei cuck porn thing. Alas.

Ive been thinking a lot lately about time traveling back to my teen self and saying that a lot is bad, some is good, but the only thing I’m allowed to say is that our first socialist senator in a hundred years is at Andover right now. Y2K Leah would have beaten me with hammers.

Douglas Preston’s Monster of Florence book is the best book about Amanda Knox that isn’t about her. Douglas Preston and his Italian co-author Mario Spezi presented a theory about the monster of Florence case in which the authorities elaborate satanic conspiracy theories were rejected in favor of a theory that it was this regular dude with a long record of socially excused misogynistic violence. Authorities responded by charging Spezi and Preston with participation in the satanic conspiracy and many of the same authorities both prosecuted Amanda Knox and openly suggested that all three were part of the same satanic conspiracy and that it was also behind 9/11.

The belief that Amanda Knox owes any deference to the Kercher family and not the other way around is so wild to me and seeing how the British press describes the situation makes me feel very 1776.

They should dig the Orville Hubbard statue out of whatever municipal basement lockup it’s in and plop it in the viewing stands at the Labor Day Parade, make him watch. I think this will be both a solid exorcism ritual and good for morale.

A challenge one often has with female characters one loved as a girl is the feeling of wanting to be them and then realizing the cultural dominance of men who want to fuck those characters. And this is the relationship that Joss Whedon and I have with Charlie McGee. And to be super clear, I am not making the literal and much more serious accusation that Joss Whedon is attracted to a fictional seven year old. I am however suggesting, simply, that anywhere from 2-8 Joss Whedon characters could be described as “Fuckable Charlie McGee.” Also anywhere from 2-6 of the characters are presented as dangerously unable to make moral judgements despite immense capacity for violence. This is how Charlie McGee is described by the villains of the story who torture her parents to death. We are definitely not supposed to take that as like, accurate worldbuilding. I’m not sure Joss Whedon is solid on that.

A funny, bordering on charming example of people knowing about Octavia Butler but not actually reading her is that I saw a picture of a book display labeled, “they saw it coming” with several of her books on it, including the one where earth is taken over by tentacled aliens who make humans be in polycules with them. And friends, either we were, in creating this display, working off of a vague sense of what black ladies write about or there’s something I’ve missed about modern family structure since I have noticed zero tentacled throuples in my day to day life.