This film covers a lot of ground and both of the leads are engaging and believable.Issues such as serious illness, the workings of the big pharmaceutical companies and their attempts to influence the decision making of medical professionals, the struggle people have to pay for treatment and a ...
Look, I am a straight white woman with a good paying job and health insurance and I know I have won the birth lottery several times over, but I’m not totally ignorant of the ways in which people can be cruel to each other. I have made my own mistakes that caused others pain and ...
As long as they look cute and taste OK people will shower you with compliments– Such is the joy of cupcakes, no one gives enough fucks to bother you with suggestions or complaints (and if they do, kill them). Surely, with your new found “Dick-It-Yourself” skills, you’ll be the...
Now this picture was actually a bit of a joke for the guards when Cash performed at Folsom Prison. But Cash found himself in a mug shot at other times, including in 1965 when he was arrested in Starkville for trespassing to pick flowers. Since then, Starkville has pardoned Cash for his ...
"That word has different roots, but the Lord works in mysterious ways. Far be it from me to discount the suggestiveness of our living language." "And the key word is 'monai'?" "Yes, in the singular, 'mone.' The letters are 'mu omicron nu eta.' It's pronounced like the impressio...
"Your appetite's improving of your ways. "If you starve a little longer your manners may grow strong. "Since you're such a wondrous bucker" "Why don't you Buckwheat Cakes?" "Is this what they call a cabbage, ma, "I've been eating for an hour?" "No, you silly little child "...
I guess it was a momentous story because of the manner in which the boy died. But at the same time, perhaps somebody should stop just for a paragraph and mention the fact that there are many children being eaten alive by this bear of a city, New York in the 1980s. To say many is...
The Gay Recluse: Observation, philosophy and other notes on the beauty and dissonance of life in the city
The creators working to translate Springfield’s idiosyncrasies had to be adept at not only making a good comic, but finding ways to make the characters’ distinct charms feel right. But in comics, there is more than one solution to a creative problem. Ian Boothby:“Characters like Itchy and...
Was the joke just as funny in Lithuanian, or was the subtle brilliance lost in translation? Lucas, If both real wages and inflation are rising fast, then I’d say monetary policy is probably too expansionary, the economy may be overheating. There’s a danger that if commodity exports were...