you are a bartender. a creepy posh guy dressed as some kind of dracula walks in demanding a fancy french wine. he stalks your address and follows you to your flat. with no explanation tells you to run. insults your boyfriend. blows up your house. leaves
I’m sorry but it has to be said. Paul Hollywood (derogatory) in recent years has DILUTED the significance of the hand shake. The Hollywood handshake last year was given out WAY too many times and no one is talking about it. The market is flooded with handshakes, value is at an all time low, handshakes have no meaning anymore.
I'm reading The Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr (finally), and I'm on Chapter Two and I'm so fucking mad.
I'm fully on board with what she's saying. I'm mad at patriarchy. A lot of the arguments are familiar to me (I've been egalitarian for years), but the one that's standing out to me and making me rage at the way the church patriarchy has sanitised and obfuscated things, is learning how dang GENDER TRANSGRESSIVE women in the early church were.
"One more piece of evidence that convinces me that the household codes should be read as resistance narratives to Roman patriarchy is how early Christians were perceived by the Roman world: as "gender deviants". . . . Not only did early Christians place women in leadership roles; they meet together on equal footing—men, women, children, and slaves—in the privacy of the home, a traditional female space. Christianity was deviant and immoral because it was perceived as undermining the ideals of Roman masculinity."
Early Christianity was QUEER. It was all about breaking down gender norms of Roman society. Like Paul said "There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."
And I'm so mad that we haven't been taught that.
I watched this whole thing, but I honestly wasn’t a huge fan. It’s just sad. The whole premise is kind of messed up and unbelievable. Don’t believe that it’s a love story. I don’t have much to say about this one and I wouldn’t really recommend it.
Sex/nudity: 2/10 (implied sex between a gay couple, almost sex between a man and woman, kissing, talk of both hetero and homo relationships)
Language: 4/10 (more than one f-word but I don’t remember how many, other profanities as well)
Violence: 0/10 (I don’t remember any violence at all)
The first episode of Dexter's Laboratory premiered on March 24, 1996 according to IMDB (people in the trivia gave the date as premiering as a special on TNT on April 27 or 28). It was actually the third episode produced. It was the first Cartoon Network original series produced by Cartoon Network Studios and the first Cartoon Cartoon original series to premiere on Cartoon Network since What a Cartoon! ("Deedeemensional", "Dial M for Monkey: Magmanamus", "Maternal Combat", Dexter's Laboratory, TV Event)
The Object Of My Affection: after a social worker tells her roommate that she’s pregnant, they agree to raise the child together while remaining platonic besties. Paul, still quietly recovering from his ex-boyfriend, prepares himself for fatherhood while navigating an ocean of mixed messages with Nina!
Coming to America (1988). An extremely pampered African prince travels to Queens, New York and goes undercover to find a wife that he can respect for her intelligence and strong will.
I didn't really know what to expect with this one, but man, what a delight! Just a really, really fun romantic comedy that threads joy through practically every beat. It flirts with deeper themes of tradition and wanting better for your children in a way that infringes on their agency in ways that feel authentic but never overtake the main arc of connection and coming of age. Plus the costumes are killer. Just delightful. 8/10.
Paul and Prue: <changes one of the hosts> Look we have listened to the peasants! We have fixed Bake Off!
The audience: What about--- enough time every challenge; clear instructions for the technical; reasonable requests for each challenge that are things the bakers have seen/eaten/baked before and/or in the realm of what is relevant to the average home baker; critique standards based on the life of an amateur baker and not a professional???
Paul and Prue: ....
Paul and Prue: We have fixed Bake Off! We are perfect! We are taking no further input from the peasants!