Ok I saw Chris Fleming live last year and he has finally posted a video of the bit that has my favorite thing he’s ever said which is:
“[St. Vincent] said ‘I am so glad that I moved to New York City and met all the freaks like me.’ Those aren’t freaks, St. Vincent, okay? Those are attractive people with heavily vetted idiosyncrasies. Every eccentric fashion choice has been run through a think tank of NYU undergrads that would blow your hair back. You wanna see a freak? Go to Albany.”
listen I know it’s heartbreaking that Claudia dies and it’s understandable to wish she didn’t, but let’s please not accuse the writers of fridging her. to do so is a fundamental misunderstanding of the story and is frankly insulting to the intelligence and skill of the writers of the show.
Claudia’s death, and the overwhelming grief and regret her parents experience because of it, is quite literally the point of the entire story. she dies because Anne’s daughter Michele died of leukemia when she was five years old and there was nothing she or her husband could do to prevent it.
writing IWTV was how Anne coped with the unimaginable loss of a parent losing her child. she created a story about a little girl that could not die and then killed her anyway. Claudia’s death is a senseless, unavoidable tragedy, just like Michele’s was. the grief that haunts Louis and Lestat for the rest of their lives is the same grief that haunted Anne and her husband.
so when you’re accusing people of killing Claudia off to benefit a story about two men, please remember that in real life sometimes parents lose their children. please remember Michele Rice.
I need people to stop buying into the idea that “small business” = “ethical business.” Many small businesses are wonderful, and absolutely deserve your support, but plenty others aren’t. If you’re genuinely concerned about where you spend your money, you have to do your due diligence even if a business isn’t a mega-corporation.
The lady who owned the small business I used to work at was horrible to work for, gave free coffee to cops, treated us all like shit, and got pissed if you didn’t worship the ground she walked on for giving you a job. I would never work for her again, and if someone asked me if they should apply to work for her, I’d tell them to run for the fucking hills. The turnover rate was atrocious when I worked there, and I wouldn’t be surprised if she still burns through employees at an unholy rate.
Small businesses are just as capable of worker abuse as big businesses, and they frequently get away with it because people refuse to believe that their beloved Mom & Pop Shop is run by rancid assholes who think Jeff Bezos has the right idea about how to run a business.
Small business owners CAN be better! They CAN be pro-worker and pro-union! But it’s not inherent, and small business owners can be some of the most abusive pieces of shit you’ve met in your life.
trump and biden dying in october, trump of a heart attack and biden of a stroke, would be the funniest outcome
especially if trump died first, you’d have senators talking about the biden administration heart attack gun. meanwhile who the fuck knows v harris has a month before november to make a campaign. lowest turnout in recorded history
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