You deserve love now. Not once you lose weight. Not once you accomplish that thing. Not once you move. Not once you get on medication. Not once you start therapy. Not once you get that job. Not once you're more like them. Now. You don't have to earn the right to be loved. You deserve it right now, and always have.
Boring photo....but I just got back to my hotel from the Hit Man premier and it was SOO good!
The movie is incredibly funny and well written, Glen and Adria were perfect and played really, really well off of each other.
A little sad that the cast couldn't have been present to experience the audiences reactions, but Linklater was there and provided an entertaining Q&A after.
I have to say....this is probably the most fun I've had at the theater in a while. Definitely go see Hit Man when it gets released, it deserves all of the success it gets.
Sometimes corporate speak is good. For example, Space X calling their rocket explosion a “rapid unscheduled disassembly” is the funniest thing I’ve heard all week
Look. I have literally no horse in this race when it comes to the WGA/SAG Hollywood strike. I do not watch enough TV or movies to be affected and I’m not a part of the industry. I really haven’t cared.
As a lawyer and orchardist, however, I am now utterly entranced by the fact that some Universal Studios exec thought it was a good idea to cut down city-owned trees in the middle of summer.
There is no way to get around the absolute clusterfuck they have brought down upon themselves.
First, the ownership question. These trees are not owned by Universal. They’re the City of Los Angeles’ trees. That means the responsibility, and the right, to maintain them belongs to the city government. If you want to touch city property like that, you better have their permission. If not, you’re looking at anything from fines, to replacement/maintenance costs, to jail time.
Now, I don’t know LA, and I’m not licensed in California, but a lot of cities also require permits for any massive trimming like that that can affect public property (like the roads and sidewalks).
Second, they have zero excuses that can even remotely minimize the trouble they’re in. Anything that justifies that kind of pruning at this time of year would have likely required the full removal and destruction of the trees.
Because that level of pruning? You don’t do that in summer. You absolutely do not do that in summer unless the trees are dying or infested with something. Why? Because summer is healthy growth time. Summer is when your trees need all the energy they can get so they can grow and strengthen their branches and roots.
It’s also when they’re susceptible to diseases. Various bacteria, fungi, and insects strike during the summer and can cause severe damage. By trimming those trees so severely, not only are there a ton of gapping wounds for diseases to enter the tree, they’re now stressed by trying to replace that lost growth, which makes it even harder for them to survive any further damage.
Basically, Universal Studios might end up accidentally killing the trees. Which will make everything so much worse.
Did you know flight attendants in Canada work for an average of 35 hours for free every month?
Because airlines don’t pay flight attendants for duties like assisting passengers with boarding, pre-flight safety checks, deplaning, and other delays, flight attendants spend nearly a full workweek every month working for free.
This makes it incredibly hard for most flight attendants to make ends meet in their first 5-10 years. Most of us have second or third jobs to stay afloat and it's completely unsustainable.
NDP MP Taylor Bachrach has sponsored an official House of Commons petition to fix the Canada Labour Code and make sure that when flight attendants - or any other workers - are at work, in uniform, performing work duties, they're being paid.
The petition closes on July 6th, and we can use all the signatures that we can get. I dont have a massive following on here, but if you can, please click on the link and add yours!
My local Drive-In just announced a Top Gun Double Feature next week!! It's going to be wet, and cold, and miserable thanks to spring taking so damn long to arrive, but it's going to be so fun!
I'm honestly just so happy to get a chance to see it on the big screen again.
I've been coming across a lot of toxic shit over the last few days.....at work, at home, on socials, and within my own head.
Sometimes...we just need to remind ourselves to let all that shit go so we can keep our heads up and keep building our lives into something that we love.