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Post by twigz on May 31, 2024 16:07:26 GMT -5
This article is quite comprehensive, spanning from ATATWE and his personal experience with assault, the watermelon controversy, to all the dirty parts. I think this was a very important opportunity to speak up about sexual violence, especially that experienced by male children.
Read here.
P.S. Whilst I do appreciate the length and breadth of the article, I do feel as though there was a wasted opportunity to condemn "the war in Gaza". We cannot be apolitical in these trying times. If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
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Post by Tiran O'Saurus on Jun 5, 2024 20:31:46 GMT -5
Your link is to this thread, it doesn't go to any article. I must say, it's quite interesting that two people liked a post that contained only a dead link and a lukewarm political take. It's almost like they want to look like they're keeping up-to-date on Handler news without actually reading anything.
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Post by soufflé on Jun 6, 2024 0:22:54 GMT -5
condemning sexual assault and genocide doesnt strike me as lukewarm but okie
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Post by twigz on Jun 6, 2024 2:25:57 GMT -5
My most favourite bit of the article is: He puts the boot into the producers who annoyed him during the making of 2004’s Unfortunate Events film (“raving lunatics”), and tells the story of his odd friendship with the Magnetic Fields frontman Stephin Merritt. Handler plays the accordion on the Fields’ 69 Love Songs – often ranked as one of the greatest albums ever made – and for decades has been working on and off with Merritt on a movie-musical based on Henry James’s novel The Spoils of Poynton. For years, he tells me, they sat in the same diner day after day, “hopped up on black tea”, talking excitedly about a film they’ll probably never make.
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Post by Violent BUN Fortuna on Jun 6, 2024 4:24:50 GMT -5
Your link is to this thread, it doesn't go to any article. I must say, it's quite interesting that two people liked a post that contained only a dead link and a lukewarm political take. It's almost like they want to look like they're keeping up-to-date on Handler news without actually reading anything. That's not a particularly nice thing to say with no actual proof at all. There are many possible reasons for liking the first post, and given that the article headline was quoted, I certainly found it very easy to go and find the piece from one Google search; who's to say the people liking the first post didn’t do exactly that? Or that they simply liked the sentiment of the post itself, and wanted to express support for what twigz had said? Or maybe they simply liked that Twig had put in the effort to share this with us, and decided to look into it more later. Making the most unkind and frankly baseless assumption about two fellow members simply because they liked a post is disappointing.
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Post by bear on Jun 6, 2024 5:17:41 GMT -5
are we seriously wondering why *the telegraph* didn't say "free palestine" in the middle of this interview, though?
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Post by HAL 10,000 on Jun 6, 2024 11:41:51 GMT -5
It's nice to hear a man speak about SA, since it's so often ignored with regards to us, let alone males. He's only the second male I've heard open up about it, after Korn in Daddy.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Jun 6, 2024 17:20:08 GMT -5
Your link is to this thread, it doesn't go to any article. I must say, it's quite interesting that two people liked a post that contained only a dead link and a lukewarm political take. It's almost like they want to look like they're keeping up-to-date on Handler news without actually reading anything. Maybe I saved this to read when I have the time, and wanted to show appreciation for someone actively keeping up to date on Snicket because I don't? I didn't even see the "PS" in the OP because of its purple font. But you do whatever to feel uppidity, idc Btw, the article is behind a Paywall for me, but it's the effort that counts to be a Snicketologist.
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Post by Violent BUN Fortuna on Jun 6, 2024 17:39:26 GMT -5
I somehow managed to break through the paywall, I think by forcing the page to stop loading before it had finished. I read the entire thing in a state of high tension that at any moment it might be snatched away from me.
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Post by Tiran O'Saurus on Jun 6, 2024 18:12:29 GMT -5
That's clever. I just stuck it into 12-Foot-Ladder. (And it wasn't originally purple, note the edit)
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Post by Violent BUN Fortuna on Jun 6, 2024 22:56:23 GMT -5
Weird (and again, disappointing) to focus on that out of everything we've said.
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Post by B. on Jun 7, 2024 0:36:49 GMT -5
I'm not sure why we're questioning anyone's interest in DH/Lemony Snicket when we're on a dedicated fansite. Tiran O'Saurus I'm not sure who you are or how old you are, so I'll let it slide, but let's be more mindful of what we post in future and focus on the topic of the thread, rather than needling veteran members who have been consistently contributing to this community for a decade before you even joined. Now let's stay on the topic of the article - if anyone can retrieve it from behind the paywall that'd be great.
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Post by HAL 10,000 on Jun 7, 2024 9:10:30 GMT -5
Weird, for me it wasn't behind a paywall.
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Post by twigz on Jun 7, 2024 16:25:01 GMT -5
Now let's stay on the topic of the article - if anyone can retrieve it from behind the paywall that'd be great. 12ft.io/
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