Recent content by Arilynn

I finally saw CODA. I really wanted to see it when it first came out, and I can’t remember why I didn’t. Then I read a lot of grumbling about it, and it fell off my radar. After all this time, I was hopeful, but, wow, did I hate most of it. That it has been embraced by people like those in Deaf...

Does anyone else get this somewhat panicky, vertiginous feeling when contemplating possible scenarios of how the presidential election and the federal prosecution may end? And now all the VV1 emojis are grey and unavailable. /sobs

I mostly liked it, but I can’t remember a single thing about it except a baby crocodile.

I loved the movie, but I emerged from it furious and despairing over our society. It took many days to feel normal again.

The ending of a Little Life made me sob more than any book I’ve ever read. I’m now reading Matrix by Lauren Groff. It’s about a French gender-transgressive lesbian who ends up the prioress of an English abbey and is set in the 1100s. So far not exactly the rollicking fun I expected, but it’s...

A Little Life From the Amazon listing: ”NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune...

So saying Jews constitute a race is antisemitic.That makes sense to me. Maybe this is part of the divergence: I don’t think either antisemitism or religious intolerance is “not as bad as racism”. Antisemitism includes the Holocaust, pogroms, and hundreds of years of often murderous action. More...

I’m not sure who the woman in the news clip is. It makes sense to me that it was antisemitic for the Nazis to say there is a Jewish race. But then wasn’t Whoopi Goldberg reflecting this when she said it wasn’t about racism? I’m completely confused. :ashamed:

I know this may be ignorant, but wouldn’t it be wrong to say that Jews are a race, and if so, didn’t Goldberg’s comments reflect US racial ideas? Also, if it was anti-semitic for the Nazis to label being Jewish a race and thus lumping disparate people into one racial category, then isn’t it...

As the necromancy has already occurred: Any word on Luc and Io? Miss them both!

My boys love Star Wars. We just watched the first two epizzzzZzzZzzzZZZZZzzzz

I didn’t know you could use copper! I’m definitely going to look into this. ——- This community is amazing. So many fascinating people with varied experiences and POVs who are willing to share. Thank you! :grouphug:

Have you used those? Was it awful? They look like a good idea that I would find torturous, like a monkey with a bell on its tail. I‘m a really tactile person.

Stained glass making would be so cool. But isn’t done with lead?

Funny and informative! :flower: As silver is an element, can you repeatedly reheat silver after mangling it? *Warning: Display of total ignorance in 1, 2, 3* I have a supposedly really great butane torch for making all the crème brûlée that I’ve never made. Would it be hot enough to melt...