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Vivarium, 2019 — ★★★½. fully fund urban public schools
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Barbie, 2023 — ★★★★. I apologize for all the times I played guitar/Matchbox Twenty/The Zack Snyder Cut at a person.
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The Green Knight, 2021 — ★★★½. The ‘Appa’s Lost Days’ episode but for Groot.
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Leave the World Behind, 2023 — ★★★★.  It wasn’t their day, their week, their month, or even their year.
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Finished reading: Heartburn by Nora Ephron 📚
The funniest book I’ve read in ages. The audiobook is read by Meryl Streep herself!
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Finished reading: Babel by R. F. Kuang 📚
Love the universe more than the book, I think (Poppy War for life, though!).
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While You Were Sleeping, 1995 — ★★★½.  Ahhh a classic comacomedy!
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Sort of related to the previous post, here’s Anne Helen Petersen working through the recent Nazis On Substack situation and choosing a different path forward:
So here is what I can promise you, reader: that I will continue to be a thorn in the side of Substack’s leadership when it comes to this issue. That I will continue to use my power as one of its initial writers — one who they use as counter-evidence to the claim that they profit most off anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theories — to hold them to account. That I will try to make this particular home better and safer, because we are all so weary of building new homes only to have the Nazis (and anti-Trans assholes) show up once again and drive us to the fringes - which is where they belong.
I have a direct line to the founders at Substack. And in the weeks to come, I will be re-publishing the emails I send to them every week on Notes. I hope you’ll join me in telling them: to make the spectacularly simple decision to turn off Nazi monetization. Let’s start there.
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Lots of smart thoughts and tough questions in this piece from Erin Kissane as folks flee Twitter for Threads:
I personally think Meta’s machinery is so implicated in genocide and a million lesser harms that it should be trapped inside a circle of salt forever, but even I recognize that there are billions of people around the world who have no other social internet available. These are the trade-offs.
Thankfully, I don’t need to rely on social media to sustain Good Morning, RVA, but I have started experimenting with using Instagram as a way to share the content more widely. Now I’m reconsidering how I do that (and maybe looking for my salt cellar)…
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Is there another way to talk to Siri?
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Christmas in Connecticut, 1945 — ★★★.  I demand a zany kitchen scene!
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Finished reading: Bomb Shelter by Mary Laura Philpott 📚
Ughhhhhh either the perfect book to read at the perfect time or the worst book at the worst time. I can’t decide!
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Finished reading: Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 📚
Audio book narrator has the absolute creepiest “pigooon balooon” voice—recommend!
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Funny Farm, 1988 — ★★★★.  Juice is on! Water’s on!
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Is George Ford rich? I must know! 🔥
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Renfield, 2023 — ★★★.  Why does this movie turn into an earnest action film every 10 minutes?
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Barefoot in the Park, 1967 — ★★★★.  Pound of grapes for dinner!
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The Fly, 1986 — ★★★★½.  Just how many Cronenberg pelvic exam scenes have you watched, would you say?
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, 2023 — ★★★★½.  Are we finally done with Pixar’s boring smoothness??
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The Odd Couple, 1968 — ★★★★★.  Ohhhhhh nooooooo I am the same age as Jack Lemon in this film <hurts back opening a window>.
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This is exactly how a Stephen King novel starts.
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Escape Room, 2019 — ★★★½.  I guess I’m not the only one who constantly thinks about 1997’s Cube!
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I want to do a messy holiday rope light situation, but can’t figure out which rope lights people use. Any suggestions?
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About twice a year I think about how much impact that paper towel TED Talk guy had on my life.
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Finished reading: Ninth House (Alex Stern Book 1) by Leigh Bardugo 📚
Not for me, but maybe something good for adolescent boys to read?
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