pickStiff will always be my favorite because it was my first Roach. This one was not bad. I sometimes get annoyed that she doesn‘t go more in depth on the particular topics I find the most interesting 🤷🏻♀️. I like my science with a sense of humor.
“I try to suggest not going that far,” Daza-Flores says. He tries to get inside their heads, to see why they‘re asking for this. Is it something their partner wants? He counsels patients against getting implants to please someone else. Because, as he puts it, the surgeries often outlast the relationships. He has had patients who‘ve “changed out their breast implants every time they change boyfriends.”
Now on Netflix. Godard would hate this.
This video is on one of the biggest reasons the new “Wuthering Heights” film probably won‘t be very good. Emerald Fennell‘s inability to or unwillingness to deal with class and race. https://youtu.be/9mdegALUYrE?si=ubcn0P9oMweUjMXJ
New longer “Wuthering Heights” preview 🙈. https://youtu.be/3fLCdIYShEQ?si=dnDMRje5f3Zjuio-
Pulp :Tiny Desk Concert
https://youtu.be/x_KlY-AegeE?si=USDysTBq3M1WJxJV
#TuesdayTunes on Thursday @TieDyeDude
Im going to watch Frankenstein on Netflix this weekend. The book is one of my favorites. I very much enjoyed Pans Labyrinth and The Shape of Water.
Here‘s a negative review from a big fan of the book. Who says he changes and leaves out big parts of the story for visuals sake, which is my fear with Del Toro.
https://youtu.be/M75fAaKvHng?si=iUCxt47pw1NUmQMC
When working at a bookstore with a horror section, I mostly avoided the section. “What! I don‘t like horror.” Shirley Jackson, Daphne du Maurier, Angela Carter, Bloody Frankenstein are some of my favorites, so I do like horror. To be fair the ones I listed were shelved in fiction if I remember correctly.
I‘ve skimmed the above book. The glaring problem I see is NO ANGELA CARTER. 🫤
From my bookshop trip yesterday. There‘s a theme. I couldn‘t have one without the other.
Happy Halloween
Witch Girls video: https://youtu.be/77O8GNbHp98?si=jullBRA5XgtTO4jF
Down Cemetery Road started last night. Starring Ruth Wilson and Emma Thompson. On AppleTV+.
“Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight? The same thing we do every night, Pinky… try to take over the world.”
Second session talk of Dr Mary Claire Haver, Dr Stacy Sims , Dr Vonda Wright and Dr Natalie Crawford talking about women‘s health, peri, menopause and strength training. https://youtu.be/P1CeHGJOX5g?si=xX-piSa3K2V73yTz
“The Sunshine State is nothing if not unique, a cavalcade of sheer, unremitting absurdity of every possible variation from the Panhandle to the Keys, and I love it because there is nothing that delights me as much as the utterly bizarre. In this sense, I hold Florida to be a generous dispenser of gifts, bringing me great joy with places like Gatorland, whose slogan is, “You know what y‘all need? Y‘all need Gatorland.”
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“The symbolic relationship between women and bears has a long history across many cultures. In ancient Greece, there was a shrine to Artemis, where prepubescent girls danced in imitation of bears in a ritual to prepare for womanhood, for bears were sacred to that goddess. Followers of Artemis were expected to remain virgins,though, and in one myth the nymph Callisto was turned into a bear as punishment after she was “seduced” by Zeus and became-
“There is also a faint but odious whiff of incestuous desire here, the cornerstone of any properly Gothic family. As repellent as it is to contemplate, the entire story with the “lover” may have been a cover-up, the poor boy a fall guy for Roberval‘s misdeed, Damienne a deliberate choice of midwife, the baby a double Roberval. Or perhaps the lover wasn‘t so innocent either-as writer Edmee Lepetcq has noted, in the sixteenth century, rape was -
“These villains are everywhere in Gothic fiction; most of all, Roberval and Marguerite make me think of Signor Montoni and Emily St. Aubert in The Mysterious of Udolpho. Marguerite actually has a lot in common with the heroine of Ann Radcliffe‘s novel: both are Frenchwomen, orphans from noble families in reduced circumstances whose stories take place in the sixteenth century, and both of these heroines will be imprisoned in isolated places -
“Bear woman lived in a cave.” 🐻
#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl
“People don‘t realize how dangerous anesthesia can be, said Jordan Newmark, who is the anesthesiologist I met. “I‘ve been saying for years, they should make a movie like Top Gun but about anesthesiology,” he said when we first spoke. At the time, this confused me. It was as though Jordan had access to some bizarro elevator-pitch app that randomly combined hit movies with medical specialties. Like Gladiator, but about urology. He was insistent:
“Stoodley doesn‘t dwell on it. “There are two kinds of micro-biologists,” he said. “There are the ones who say, “Bacteria are everywhere! We‘ve got to sterilize everything!” His wife is one of those. “Then there‘s the ones who say, “Bacteria are everywhere! And yet we‘ve survived! “ That‘s Stoody. “I‘m very cavalier,” he said. I am too, though a little less so now. One thing I‘m funny about is drinking from Mason jars. You just know there‘s mouth-
I‘m not reading much current fiction. This one caught my eye.
“Certain surgeons kind of like thump their chest that they made such a big one,” Garcia is saying. He takes a last swallow of Chianti. “It‘s so stupid.” (In fairness to surgeons, trans men fairly commonly, Garcia says, request a neophallus larger than the average natal penis. But the extreme cases seem to have been the surgeons doing.) “
“I find equally remarkable the inventiveness and confidence of surgeons who dream up operations like this one. Who looks at the human digestive tract and thinks, moist, tubular, stretchy…Might that make a reasonable vagina?”
“Locanda Veneta is an old-school Italian restaurant in the shadows of the Cedars-Sinai urology building, in Los Angeles. It is quiet, softly lit, and a bit of a splurge. It‘s the kind of place you might take your date for a romantic meal, especially if your date is , as mine is, a urologist. I‘ve reserved table 12, a cozy corner two- top where most other patrons can‘t see or hear you, and the banquette is just long enough for two people to -
I like this cute little guide. I‘m going to ignore the proverb in the introduction. Just style advice, please!
WTF RIP🥲
“Even more insidious is the “affliction and addiction” element to women‘s fashion. Consider that back in the Victorian times, tuberculosis was thought to make women beautiful because it made us literally waste away. Fast forward to the nineties, when we glamorized “heroin chic” and waif-thin supermodels (many of whom smoked cigarettes to stay that way). “
“Muscle also generates a hormone called irisin, named after the Greek messenger goddess Iris, who delivered news to the gods on Mount Olympus. First discovered in 2012, irisin is also sometimes referred to as the “exercise hormone” (which I love), because it increases in response to muscle contraction and physical activity.”
“The chilled heart sits in a bowl while the two surgeons work the tubes. With no blood pumping through, a heart is a pale, floppy thing, a far cry from the familiar red graphic of emojis and Valentines cards. This one, at the moment, reminds me of a skinless, boneless chicken breast. Drake holds a slice of the aorta and passes me a pair of surgical scissors so I can get a sense of how thick and rubbery it is. I would defy you to distinguish-
Plant based 🥗. Some look fantastic. Life-changing 🤷🏻♀️.
