HA HA, surprise, my landlady is selling the apartment after all! This news comes 48 hours before I fly overseas for 9 days, plus I am gone the week straddling July and August as well as a long weekend in mid-August for Fanworks, which means I am in for the pre-September crunch I was dreading, minus the month I just lost where I could have been ( Read more... )

As a cis het, I experience Pride Month as a more concentrated than usual opportunity to celebrate friends*; identification feels like appropriation. Still, I've enjoyed wearing my stealth gray-ace necklace, courtesy of
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Watching

Did you know there is a Drunk History episode where Adam Beach, Q'orianka Kilcher and Zahn McClarnon do the reenactment/lip synching? It's in the Alcatraz takeover segment of "National Parks," season 6 episode 2. A good time. You can tell that they, along with Dallas Goldtooth as John Trudell, had fun with the swearing and flamboyance. I' ( Read more... )

Spring greenI don't really go to Starbucks except during a fun period of springtime when pollen and/or antihistamines give me a sore throat in the morning, which iced milky tea relieves on my way to the office. But that gets expensive fast, so this week I bought a gallon of milk and a 14-oz bag of matcha powder from the corner Korean-Japanese ( Read more... )

Two thirds of the way there! We're up to mid-March! Continued from here and here.

( The Innocents (1961) - potential spoilers )

No one needs another take on Game of Thrones, but I seem to be having a different experience from most of my friends going into tonight's finale, and I feel like jotting it down before the moment passes ( Read more... )

WATCHING

So much stuff while
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Friends


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All right, these two movies provoked such complicated responses that I had to wrestle with them in a separate post.

What they have in common:
- Alexander Skarsgard
- Total disarray
- General WTFery
- Experiences that make more sense if you know the director's body of work
- Compulsion to keep watching

( Hold the Dark (2018) )