The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...
I implemented precisely none of that messiness during my teen years btw, which was probably to the detriment of my mental health, but I made up for it with a vengeance in my twenties
I’m turning 35 in four days but I feel no existential angst about it, surely in part because I’ve spent plenty of my young adulthood making an absolute mess of myself
My terrible advice to people in their 20s is: drink a lot. A LOT. Not to a problem level, but oh my god once you hit the back half of your thirties and beyond you will NOT be able to drink (or to recover from drinking) nearly so easily.
Reagan era : HELLRAISER franchise :: Bush 2 era : SAW franchise. Someone smarter than me and/or with more free time could probably do a better job of making this argument
Some of us are old enough to remember when the end of the world was supposed to happen in 2012 because of the Mayan calendar (?) and there were a bunch of NPR segments and Slate podcasts about how people have claimed the rapture was coming periodically since they invented the concept of the rapture
Just performed the customary ritual of trying on all my NYFF-appropriate autumnal wardrobe items in an attempt to answer the perennial question: “which of these still fit me well enough that I won’t embarrass myself during on-stage appearances and professional soirées?” and I have been duly humbled
Genuinely delighted to know I’m not the only person in our field with this attitude! I’ve been harping on to friends in bars about ASMR-as-cinema for years but long ago accepted that I would probably never manage to convince anyone to take the idea seriously 😞
I will probably not have time to see it until after NYFF… but I have reached a state of acceptance and even gratitude that my take will arrive after the initial frenzy of opening-weekend takes has settled
