C and I watched the movie Whiplash last night. I know some people thought this was a great film, but I found the central conceit extremely problematic. Essentially, the movie says that, to achieve success in art, you must sacrifice …
The world is full of cliches of writers as drunks, addicts, horrible spouses, slobs, sociopaths, delusional freaks, hypersensitives, narcissists, hoarders and so on. And there are the cliches of writers as great lovers, wild adventurers, warm-hearted parents, magnanimous, free-thinking geniuses, …
So Jimmy Kimmel has this thing where parents film their kids as they tell them they’ve eaten all their Halloween candy. The kids wail and cry and generally freak out, and these classy exemplars of good parenting then send their …
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