Sarah Welch-Larson

CUIDADORAS quietly bodied me, and it’s been growing on me steadily in the hour and a half since I watched it

So far my favorites of the fest have been TROPICAL PARK, AANIKOOBIJIGAN, and CUIDADORAS

Today’s day of screenings at True/False so far has been all bangers, no skips, including the shorts ahead of the features

Becoming Alien, Second Edition- Wipf and Stock Publishers The Alien films are perceived to be a fractured franchise, each one loosely related to the others by the titular monster. They are nonlinear, complicated, co...

And speaking of Alien

That would have been better than it being incomprehensible to work tbh. I’d rather have a flirty coffee maker than one that’s playing hard to get

Nothing like a weird coffee maker to make you feel stupid in the morning before you’ve had any coffee

John Waters current MVP of this year’s True/False

I love this

A sign in a pizza shop that has a swivel arrow and times for current wait for pizza. The arrow is pointed toward 20 minutes (normal). The other times listed are 30 minutes (busy), 45 minutes, 60 minutes (we’re hustlin’), and 90 minutes (anarchy)

True/False…………hello

Speaking of Alan Dean Foster

A shelf with an assortment of well-loved books. One of them is the novelization of Alien by Alan Dean Foster

The Airbnb I’m in has got my number

I’m gonna die mad about the voicemail thing

Your staff had the time to come up with this shit but not to set up a voicemail?

Writing is thinking! If you’re changing your mind while writing about a movie you should change the rating for that log imo

I third wheeled my priest and her husband on a date to see Blade Runner

Review tk this weekend over at seeingandbelieving.substack.com

In the weird position of liking THE BRIDE! more now that I've written a review of it, but still thinking it's a real mixed bag

Me in 24 hours. Can’t wait!

Oh hell yeah

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Hot damn

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

As the daughter of a pair of Naval Academy graduates who both broke conservative evangelical in Reagan’s America: lmao

Starting to suspect that the Troop Respecters do not, in fact, respect the troops

All truth is God’s truth*

*and nothing is more true than when we’re claiming objective victory over everybody else’s respective worldviews because the version of truth we wrote is on our side

I was eight, homeschooled, and living on a military base in Hawaii. Because of the time difference I woke up after the second tower fell. Came out of my room to the TV on, which never happened before 4pm, and I didn’t understand the magnitude but I did know something had changed

I’ve blocked most of it from memory, but I think it was four or five? I might also be conflating some of the A Beka curriculum we used in there too

I can see the book cover in my head

you have to have a pretty impoverished vision of God if you're able to convince yourself that (a) starting a war will somehow trick God into doing something and (b) that God will pat you on the head for it upon return

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