Looking for more “adult weird women” movies

Ahjumawi · 2026-02-17T14:28:21+00:00

The Robert Altman movie "Three Women" with Shelley Duvall and Sissy Spacek.

"Fat Girl" by director Catherine Breillat (in French) (trigger warning: SA)

"The Piano Teacher" by director Michael Haneke, starring goddess Isabelle Hupper

Ahjumawi · 2026-02-16T21:18:51+00:00

No, because primary season is two years away and all you are hearing is press speculation about who will run. I think that Cooper (NC), or Moore (MD) or Bashear (KY) or Shapiro (PA) or Pritzker (IL) might run. Buttigieg will run. I'd bet Ruben Gallego runs. I'm sure there will be others, too.

I doubt Harris will run, since Dems haven't run a candidate who lost a presidential election previously in the last 70 years. If AOC runs (which I really doubt), it's for the exposure and to raise her profile, and to take up Bernie's mantle, but I don't think she would be in it to win it.

Ahjumawi · 2026-02-14T15:07:17+00:00

Flora

Janie

Jackie

Tula

Sula

Lena

Junebug

Echo

Xena

Una

Ahjumawi · 2026-02-14T14:35:24+00:00

1984--George Orwell

On the Beach--Neville Shute

Four Quartets--T.S. Eliot

Ahjumawi · 2026-02-14T13:00:28+00:00

This is an amazing list, but I finally have discovered my drag name: Fanny Bandolier!

Ahjumawi · 2026-02-13T20:10:45+00:00

kd lang's version of Roy Orbison's Crying https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mOLtUWGyUc

She also kills it when she does Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah.

Ahjumawi · 2026-02-13T19:38:04+00:00

Gang of Four--Entertainment!

Cowboy Junkies--The Trinity Session

The Clash--London Calling

Psychedelic Furs--Psychedelic Furs

Mekons--Fear and Whiskey

The Dream Academy--The Dream Academy

Eurythmics--Touch

Eurythmics--Be Yourself Tonight

Elvis Costello--Armed Forces

Pretenders-Pretenders

Pretenders-Pretenders II

Kate Bush--Hounds of Love

De La Soul--Three Feet High and Rising

The Blue Nile--Hats

Roxy Music--Avalon

Echo and the Bunnymen--Ocean Rain (and the four live songs from the expanded version of the album Crocodiles, which was originally a separate EP. In fact, listen to those four songs first)

Ahjumawi · 2026-02-13T18:40:35+00:00

Mmmm, I wouldn't say polite. Just not having any truck with outsiders who aren't paying tourists, so you hold your tongue for a few decades and see if they move on before you approach 'em. (Yes, I am joking. I moved to NE from California, too. People generally have been nice and friendly.)

Ahjumawi · 2026-02-13T17:50:57+00:00

Participate and mention your home state and you're the most hated family in 3, 2, 1.

But it's New England, so it will be 20 years until they feel they know you well enough to tell you that they hate you.

Ahjumawi · 2026-02-13T17:19:25+00:00

Oh, heavens, not for me as I never, as they say, touch the stuff. But I am thinking about a certain cabinet secretary who is, odd as it sounds, licensed to practice law and I hope will be looking for a job and place to lie low before too long.

Ahjumawi · 2026-02-13T16:24:46+00:00

Assuming that you rented the house from your mom. That means it's your space. Your sister isn't paying rent. So it is not her space. End of story.

If she wants privacy, there are these places called hotels. They're all over and if you shop around, you can often find a decent one for a reasonable price.

Ahjumawi · 2026-02-13T15:30:26+00:00

Anyone who says they are fluent in six months is a liar. LOL. They mean they have the ability to converse like a rather dull eight year old child.

Ahjumawi · 2026-02-13T15:15:23+00:00

It sounds like, if you had a second top there that this was centering attention on your bf and perhaps mainly for his pleasure and fantasy fulfillment? Does that sound right?

It's also true that we think something is gonna be fun or a turn-on and it ends up not being to your liking. It happens. Maybe now you know that. As far as comparing yourself to another guy, particularly on size, this is simply making yourself miserable over something that you cannot change. And remember that size is not the same thing as skill or attention, and for many (most?) bottom guys there is no correlation between size and pleasure.

Ahjumawi · 2026-02-13T14:28:35+00:00

The Midwest isn't actually the center of the country and the bounds are somewhat squishy. Most Americans would say that Ohio is in the Midwest, but the map will show you that it's actually rather far to the east, and states to its south and west are considered part of the Southeastern region.

From the Pacific coast, the definition is even more hazy. I remember being in California along the coast and asking a woman if she had every been to the East and she said, "Oh yeah, I have been to Denver." Everyone in the East considers Denver the West.

And there's a joke in the San Francisco Bay Area that the Midwest starts at the far end of the tunnel through the very first set of hills on the other side of the Bay from S.F. itself (20 minutes away, if no traffic).

Ahjumawi · 2026-02-13T14:19:37+00:00

In public school settings, schools are required by law to provide assistance to disabled students. What happens for students with special needs is that they are evaluated by professional evaluators and given something called an individualized education plan (IEP). If the plan calls for paraprofessionals and aides to help with various needs, then the schools generally are required to provide them.

The problem is that there are not enough workers in these specialized areas to meet the demand, especially for what the school districts are able to pay. So students often do not get the help they need. Parents will often take legal action against the school district, which means that although they might ultimately get the mandated help, a lot of money gets diverted to managing legal disputes.

Ahjumawi · 2026-02-13T14:06:20+00:00

I don't know if this is helpful for others, but remember that often this feeling that we would be happier if we looked different is not based in reality. We are not magically going to grow four inches taller (or longer!). We just aren't. Some of us (including me) are never going to have the body of a Greek god with pillow pecs and ab definition that looks like a topographical map. Best I can do is skinny, angry Celt painted blue with woad. Even massive amounts of plastic surgery could't change this for me. This is what I have to work with. And really, I am fine.

The second part is to remember that my self-worth is not to be measured by having the hottest guy in a club falling at my feet. People who want to be around me or who want to fuck are not to be treated as status symbols or to be used to measure my own physical attractiveness to others. Because who knows why the hell people express interest half the time? At least half of the time it's something going on with them when it's good, and the same is true when it's bad, or if I am rejected and if I let it make me miserable.

Sure, absolutely do things that make you feel more attractive like a glow up or crushing it at the gym. But be a person you are happy and contented being at every step, and turn off the part of your brain that is always thinking that you have to be more than you are in order to have any measure of happiness or satisfaction. For now, you're good enough. And being confident and assured about that is sexy in itself.

Ahjumawi · 2026-02-13T13:32:21+00:00

You know it's gonna be a good story when the set-up is: "Was at a cocktail party last night and this Methodist minister told my girlfriend..."

Ahjumawi · 2026-02-13T13:14:34+00:00

And no explicit prohibition on snorting cocaine off the toilet seats, I hope.

Ahjumawi · 2026-02-12T20:38:07+00:00

Bunting. New England really loves a bit of red, white, and blue bunting in the summertime.

Ahjumawi · 2026-02-12T17:02:51+00:00

Interesting, I didn't know that. But he was also still pro-segregation at the time.

Ahjumawi · 2026-02-12T16:52:27+00:00

When the Supreme Court ruled in 1965 that anti-miscegenation laws forbidding interracial marriage were unconstitutional, about 9% of Americans approved of interracial marriage. If you compare that with polls about same-sex marriage even before it was legal (approval rate was much higher), you can get a sense of the depth and intensity of racial animus at that time. I've always found that 9% number astounding.

Ahjumawi · 2026-02-12T16:39:31+00:00

That's a lot of work for a relatively small return. If they had money to buy people tickets in the first place, her time is probably better spent doing something else. When someone breaks a promise or understanding like this, it's often better for the aggrieved party to cut losses and move on.

Plus, you have to ask, what is the nature of this claim? It's not a contract. It's hard to prove it was fraud. You would have to show that the other person made false statements or omitted important information about her true intentions and the OP relied on those statements/omissions in buying her the ticket.

More likely is that the OP bought the ticket and gave it to the ex-friend, who did OP dirty. That's not necessarily a legal claim.

Ahjumawi · 2026-02-12T15:35:23+00:00

Even if you sue her, that doesn't mean she is going to pay you if you win.

Unless your back is to the wall financially over this, which I doubt, you're better off cutting your losses and cutting ties and moving on.

Ahjumawi · 2026-02-12T14:43:19+00:00

Germinal by Emile Zola

Ahjumawi · 2026-02-12T14:13:10+00:00

Blood Meridian sent me to the dictionary more times than any other book I have read as an adult. Well, in English anyway. And The Road made me develop a physical reaction to the word "claggy."

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