Julia Garner’s dots

Programming note: We will be dark on Monday, August for Canada’s Civic Holiday. We will be back with our regular gossip programming on Tuesday, August 5.

Fresh off The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Julia Garner is promoting a new movie, Zach Cregger’s Weapons. This is follow-up to Barbarian, I have watched one (1) trailer and avoided everything else about the film, because Weapons seems like another Barbarian deal, where the less you know going in, the better the movie is for it. 

Julia showed up for the premiere in polka dots, which are, apparently, very on trend this summer. I can’t do polka dots, even though I think they’re either very cute or a fun splash on a more sophisticated look, depending on how you style them, because one time a friend was wearing a polka dot dress and a Mean Teen™️ said scathingly Disney dog ass looking skirt as we walked by and the burn was so severe I felt it secondhand. I will never not hear “Disney dog ass looking skirt” when I see polka dots, but I DO like this dress on Julia a lot. This is exactly what I mean by “sophisticated fun”. 

 

I know she was up to play Madonna in the biopic that got scrapped (by Madonna herself), but I really need someone to cast Julia Garner in a historical romance, she has a face made for the 1920s. You know how people say some actors have “iPhone face”, so they stick out in period films because they just LOOK like they know what an iPhone is? Well, Julia Garner has gramophone face. That is a face that has marveled at the wizardry of sound spilling forth from a gramophone. Someone cast her in The Great Gatsby or something. 

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What else happened today…

Once again, yes, masturbation is good for you. No shame if you’re into it, it’s self-care! (Popsugar)

Speaking of polka dots, Rose Byrne also wore a Disney dog looking ass skirt. (Go Fug Yourself)

Justin Timberlake has announced his lyme disease diagnosis. That really sucks. It also explains all the complaints about his low energy tour performances. It does beg the question why he didn’t just cancel the tour, but the answer almost certainly has to do with money. As we learned through Justin Bieber, cancelling tours is not easy. Rough era for JT. (Celebitchy)

Part of the effort to defund and sell off America’s public lands, including opening up national forests and national parks for resource exploitation, are repeated talking points that the national parks are trash-strewn sh-tholes. SOME parks do, especially during peak season, have issues with garbage maintenance, but that is because the parks service has been underfunded for years in an effort to weaken them and create an impression of problems that did not and do not have to exist (see also: United States Postal Service). 

The national parks really are America’s best idea, besides preserving spectacular landscapes and historical places for all to enjoy, they also offer budget friendly vacation opportunities for working families (another reason certain political persuasions hate them). In an effort to see how the national parks really are doing, Drew Magary visited Yosemite, one of the most-frequented parks in the US. Guess what? It isn’t a sh-thole. It IS, however, a perspective-altering and soul-healing landscape that SHOULD be protected for future generations. Do not let them take our parks! (SF Gate)