If god is just a synonym for everything, doesn’t that take away its significance?
When I was younger, I naively believed what fiction told me about love: If two people fell in love intensely enough, the relationship would last until death. I have a different theory about long-term monogamous relationships now. I think they require three things:
1. A normal human conscience.
2. An adult mindset, meaning a habit of taking responsibility for getting what one wants, and the ability to regulate one's emotions.
3. A willingness to support and contribute to the other person's goals, and to shared goals.
Even if all of these conditions are met, the relationship can still end. What do you think?
I don’t know. What’s a soul mate? I definitely don’t think there’s only one person in the world that a person can fall in romantic love with. The longer-term, pair bonding sort of love is more a function of shared experiences and consistent support than it is of how special the match is. And even that kind of love isn’t indestructible.
Colossal (Nacho Vigalondo, 2016)
Underrated movie about a woman (Anne Hathaway) who drinks her way out of her dissipated New York life, moves back to her home town, and then discovers that she controls a kaiju monster that’s wrecking the city of Seoul on the other side of the world. Ultimately it’s a character study about how different people handle an awareness of destructive power. Some feel sober responsibility, while others revel in the opportunity to feel important, no matter the cost to others.
#filmstr #movies #kaiju
Yes, there are a few of us.
Possibly the YouTube algorithm penalizes short videos, too. I don’t know.
It’s not the amount of daylight, which isn’t affected by Daylight Saving Time anyway. It’s when the daylight happens.
“[E]xposure to light later into the evening for almost eight months during #DaylightSavingTime comes at a price. This extended evening light delays the brain’s release of melatonin, the hormone that promotes drowsiness, which in turn interferes with sleep and causes us to sleep less overall.”
#DST
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/daylight-saving-time-2024-brain-health
#running 
I can see the advantage over crutches: it keeps at least one hand free.
Ferocious Ambition: Joan Crawford’s March to Stardom
Robert Dance
University Press of Mississippi, 2023
Joan Crawford was born Lucile Fay LeSueur in 1905*, in San Antonio, Texas. Her father left immediately. She went to boarding school, but had to cook and clean in lieu of tuition. She lasted one semester at Stephens College in Missouri. Her passion was dancing, but she was never trained.
How, one might wonder, did Crawford become a movie star? Answering that question is the most interesting part of Robert Dance's biography. I think her formula was something like
1. Make friends with as many people in filmmaking as possible.
2. Study what they do and absorb knowledge like a sponge.
3. Cultivate a relationship with moviegoers.
To accomplish 3, Crawford made herself extremely available to photographers and journalists. She also answered much of her fan mail personally, nearly until her death. It took her years to work her way up from extra (and Norma Shearer's body double) to star. (In contrast, Greta Garbo arrived at MGM the same year Crawford did and was immediately given a well-paying contract and starring roles.)
My impression is that Crawford was very likable for much of her life, and she did have lifelong friends who had nothing but praise for her. Sometime in her mid-forties, though, she seems to have become anxious about her status. She started drinking 100-proof vodka regularly as a crutch. She was still capable of being friendly, but she also began to hold grudges. (Okay, she disliked Norma Shearer before then.)
Robert Dance gives his readers the full tour of Crawford's life, with an emphasis on her career. It's an excellent guide to her movies, with some behind-the-scenes stories. The book is also packed with beautiful black-and-white photographs. Unlike many celebrity biographers, Dance makes an effort to be objective about his subject. If he had a bias, it was slightly anti-Crawford; he never missed an opportunity to denigrate her dancing skills, and I think he was too credulous about Christina Crawford's memoir. But overall, it's a high-quality biography that I recommend.
* Crawford insisted she was born in 1908, but this was a lie.
#bookstr #biography #filmstr #JoanCrawford
She looks like Relena from Gundam Wing.
I consume one of those when I'm in a hurry. Otherwise eggs.
That’s okay. You can get your virginity restored:
Sophia Loren was famous for her unshaven armpits. I haven’t seen many of her films, though. 
“Latin America's slide toward authoritarianism points to the long-term cost of allowing political majorities to undermine the rule of law.”
#ElSalvador #bukele #bitcoin
https://reason.com/video/2024/02/27/the-bukele-model-means-security-without-liberty/