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Wake up! Wake up! It’s a dark and stormy night, and you’ve been sleeping under an old patchwork quilt on an old brass bed in your attic bedroom! The ho…
Daniel Lavery
31 min
Yes, I’ve been watching Smiley’s People and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy again. [The doorbell rings.] [The doorbell rings again.] [A pause.] [The doorbell…
Daniel Lavery
21 hr 1
Previously: How I Caught My Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria and So Is The Flesh A Problem Or An Opportunity In The Eyes Of God Or What? You know the one I…
Daniel Lavery
Oct 28 4
Isaac Fellman beat me to some, but not all of it: “But what [Salieri’s] really doing, by railroading [Mozart] into a place of lonely illness, is forcin…
Daniel Lavery
Oct 27 1
ARE YOU A PROTAGONIST IN A DAPHNE DU MAURIER NOVEL? DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM, SUCH AS GOING TO CORNWALL OR A MAN LOOKED AT YOU? PERHAPS YOU STRUGGLE WITH …
Daniel Lavery
Oct 23
I was showing the Indianapolis scene from Jaws to Grace last night and I was struck by how much the first few minutes, where Richard Dreyfuss and Rober…
Daniel Lavery
Oct 22 1
Three trans men of a certain type (were Mary McCarthy writing The Group today, they’d have featured prominently in at least the Vassar flashbacks, say.…
Daniel Lavery
Oct 21 7
Most recently: “Nails were never much good against Mother,” Henry mumbled, his whole mouth thickly forested. “Remember Violet?” “I’ll take the matches,…
Daniel Lavery
Oct 20 2
Ah! my friend, please think of my hardships
Daniel Lavery
Oct 19 6
The second season of Tor’s horror anthology, Come Join Us By The Fire, has just launched on Google Play, where it’s available for free. Chapter fourtee…
Daniel Lavery
Oct 15 1
Watching Alec Guinness quietly-yet-forcefully react to various catty declarations through Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is like a slow canoe ride down B…
Daniel Lavery
Oct 14 2
And not the 2011 version with Colin Firth and Gary Oldman either, the one that holds your hand and says reassuring things throughout, but the 1979 mini…
Daniel Lavery
Oct 13 3
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