The 2014 movie Boyhood follows a boy (surprise), Mason, from age 5 to 18. The movie used the same cast members and filmed over 13 real years, allowing us to watch the lead actor, Ellar Coltrane grow up from scene to scene. This was simultaneously interesting and disconcerting. Here I was watching a fictional, contrived […]
I never considered that I had an issue with spiders. I would scoff at people who couldn’t shoo a spider out of the house or couldn’t kill/remove a spider. It’s just a household pest like flies or silverfish. I’ve been the primary spider killer in my house (I also remove dead and partially consumed rodents
the doctors as ponies by_lissy_strata Last year, my kids became obsessed with Dr. Who, the long-running BBC science fiction TV show. Their friends were all watching the show and pressured my kids into watching it too. They binge-watched during the first few weeks of summer and emerged complete Whovians. Because I knew the time commitment
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Hanging out with friends one day, I was exposed to a long stretch of music videos I don’t usually watch. The videos featured Rap and Hip Hop artists that I might have heard occasionally on the radio. A full afternoon exposure was a cultural experience. The Nicki Minaj Anaconda caught my eye. Here was a
