Author: BLAH
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Two Words No Person With a Disability Wants to Hear
Young Fred and his orphan father Charles worked as itinerant horse meat grinders right up until the Second World War. Now I bet you are thinking that I am about to say that Fred was called to fight in the Great War, and that was why the burger meat business went away.
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What It’s Like To Star In A Movie With Your Mom When Your Mom Is Tilda Swinton
The amount of research and preparation she did before I was even conceived, I think, to a lot of people, would be excessive, but as Tilda always told me about acting, which was pretty much the only thing she was ever really interested in talking to me about, never boys, or god forbid-my feelings, was…
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I Spent Sixteen Months of My Childhood Locked in a Basement and No One will Publish My Memoir.
Yes, I forgive my mother for the trauma she put me through. That was part of the process of writing the book. Anger? Sure, I have anger, I hurt, but mostly I am upset at Harper Collins for saying they were going to publish the book and then dropping it six months later after those…
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Double Penetration
Amis takes his humor seriously, and perhaps this is a good working definition of what wit is: humor applied with seriousness, instead of silliness a straight face. The ability to keep straight face, Amis says, is one of the prerequisites of porn. Porn stars are “very bad at acting,” but very good at “keeping a…
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La La Land was better than Moonlight and other thoughts on Wonder Woman 2
Maybe having Wonder Woman lead a squad of grizzled BIPOC/LGBTQ though still male-presenting mercenaries through the harrowing trenches of WWI to stop a disfigured manufacturer of poison gases is just what little girls need.
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Don’t Feed the Cannibals Your Own Flesh
Headlines should read “Warren takes lead by slapping McConnell. Biden falls in polls after giving Megan McCain a titty twister. Buttigieg and Tom Cotton to duel at dawn. Bernie nursing broken hand after punching Nazis in Nevada. Klobuchar stops beating her own staff, instead smacks several members of the Freedom Caucus with a hairbrush.”
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Shout at the Devil Your Abortion
You can guess what my friends had to say. Not very supportive. Beth saw me leave the bar with him that night and she was of course super judgey about it.