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14 Oct, 7 tweets, 1 min read
The Haunting of the Overlook Hotel
The Haunting of Scrooge's Bedchamber
The Haunting of Manderley (Again)
The Haunting of Wuthering Heights
The Haunting of the Apartment Building at 55 Central Park West Designed by Apocalyptic Occultist Ivo Shandor
Mike Flanagan: *scratches out "Who you gonna call?"*

Mike Flanagan: *writes "Whom exactly do you propose to call regarding this?"*

I honestly have no idea what Flanagan et al would do for a third series of The Haunting but I never would've guessed The Turn of the Screw for round 2 and probably would've bet against it if anybody had offered odds, so *shrugs*

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15 Oct
So the thing about Garrison Keillor saying we should "let the culture war rest" and focus on policy... the "culture war" exists because for the GOP it's a means towards their policy ends. You can't separate them.
Like, even getting past the very privileged point that his idea of letting states "outlaw LGBTQ and then deal with the consequences" means making human people in those states criminals for existing, even getting past that... his idea doesn't work. It doesn't add up.
He's talking about "let's feed our people" LIKE THAT ISN'T A CULTURAL ISSUE THE GOP IS WILLING TO GO TO WAR OVER. Like it's somehow different than all the other policy disputes where the GOP has claimed a moral basis for perpetuating massive structural evils.
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14 Oct
"People want a hand-up, not a handout."

A "handout" is a hand-up.
We could feed every child, every family... every person.

Society (and the people being fed, they count, too!) would be materially better off if we did.

So why get bogged down in the semantics of what this would be?
Our whole country would be in better shape if back in March we had decided to shut everything down and put the economy on life support. Pay businesses to keep them afloat. Pay people to keep them fed and, when at all possible, home.

We'd be better off if we had.
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14 Oct
Back in the 90s SNL did a Mother's Day special that was mostly compilation of old sketches with some interstitial material, much of it involving the cast and their mothers.

One of the new bits was Phil Hartman's mother begging him to drop character and just talk in his own voice
And the joke was that he's been doing characters for so long he's forgotten what his own natural voice sounds like and couldn't remember how to do it.
I miss Phil Hartman. That was one of the first celebrity deaths to really hit me in the gut, both because he was on a current show I watched and had long history with two others (Simpsons and SNL) that could have kept bringing him back for things, and it was such a tragedy.
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12 Oct
Six episodes in, I'm really unsure how I feel about Bly Manor. I'm less invested in it than I was in Hill House, and I feel like that's a combination of the very different dynamic of varied employees vs. tight-knit family, and the relative lack of compelling recurring ghosts.
I think Hill House felt more like a character than Bly does in large part because it was less shy about its ghosts.
Honestly, Miles being so deliberately off-putting so often... it's one of the more effective things in the show but it doesn't add to the experience of watching it.

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9 Oct
I keep mentally referring to Ratched as American Horror Story: Disability, but that could really describe so much of Ryan Murphy's corpus.
I think the character of Ratched is better when she's unexplored and unexplained. You really don't need a Joker Origin Story for the ableist control freak medical professional who just bulldozes over patients' lives. That's *normal* in our society.
But as a prequel for the book/movie and an origin story for the character as she exists within it... Ratched worked better than I had expected? It understood the character better than it might have, showing a character who can identify institutional and personal pressure points.
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8 Oct
The day I learned about "shots", as a small child... I don't know how old I was, except pre-K. I couldn't contextualize it except that one of my friends was going to the doctor to "get shot".
When it was rephrased that he was going to get "his shots", I started to imagine that at the doctor's office they had like a wall of cabinets with little compartments that had people's names on them, which had like guns or ammo in them.
The clarification that it was "a needle" just made me picture something like a nail gun. Like, they shoot a needle into your arm? And if not, why was it called a "shot"? They needed somebody better at naming things to straighten this out.
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