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Barreto brought us the nun-murder dramedy One Tough Cop, a film that cast Stephen Baldwin (who alternates between a pout that says ‘thinking is hard’ and the smile of a post-poo baby basking in gooey relief) as an Italian American. A director brave enough to do this is just the man to cast Paltrow as a girl from a trailer park.
Vaginal eggs are the result of taking the name of a body part and placing it next to the name of a breakfast item. Vaginal eggs are no more real to me than penis toast or anal pancakes. As my mother would always say to me, nothing that can hatch belongs in your vagina.
Business Insider UK continues: ‘There are two varieties: a rose quartz crotch egg that costs $55, and a jade version for $66.’ If I were to put something in my vagina, I would like the feeling that I’d paid the extra $11.
Various aspirational messages are affixed to the surface: Teamwork is not a solo sport. Go hard or go home. When the going gets tough, the tough get going.* The ship moves when everyone pulls an oar. Kindness is contagious. There is no ‘I’ in ‘team’. Two things are apparent. Firstly, Donna Jensen has no fear of cliché. Secondly, at the end of the day, Donna Jensen is a pack animal.
‘But how?!’ she asks, helpfully making exterior a thought that acting alone might not convey.
‘Don’t Stop Believin’’ is perhaps the most potent paean to credulity in rock. Indeed, the only thing ‘Don’t Stop Believin’’ asks of us is to persist with our current belief. As regards what we should believe, the song is silent. Journey don’t care who we are; we could be Satanists, as long as we’re consistent.
the call to arms seems a little self-serving, as if the time for believin’ is tethered to the track: highly convenient for a stadium-rock act with its inevitably fascistic focus (let us note that the premier pop phenomenon of recent memory was called One Direction).
Sliding Doors is a film that asks us to have sympathy for someone who works in PR, and shows that whether you catch the tube or not, you will never get away from John Hannah.
