rayusa

a narcissistic diva who's decided to bring chaos to philadelphia.

condolences, philly.

what doesn't kill you, more often than not, makes you wish it had. and only rarely does it make you stronger.

that's me. if i were going to write three days later or wait for a reply, i'd send a letter.

right now if he wanted to, he could remove the president of argentina from office.

"science is the only true guide in life."

steve hanke

one of those rare works that can descend into the dark corridors of human psychology gracefully yet just as mercilessly. it confronts you with the truths that there's no state of pure goodness or sheer evil in life, and that nothing is what it seems. the writer built such a universe that he didn't write a lead, a hero, or a villain to be hated; he created flawed but real characters who come together like the petals of a lotus flower, wrestling with their weaknesses and complexes. even five-star luxury resorts, spectacular views, and privileges aren't enough to hide the unresolved emotional wounds, the power intoxication, and the class conflicts inside people. the spiritual quests and the wellness craze in the show especially make for a nice critique of the system. the characters think they can quickly buy calm and purification; when in reality peace comes from being able to sit with the feeling of discomfort itself. in the second season, the philosophical anecdote where the buddhist monk likens the realm of existence to a giant ocean and human consciousness to a water droplet that leaps up from the ocean and, when it dies, merges back into the whole and is freed from pain, summed up the show's existential depth. the show beautifully handles the rottenness lying behind money and those perfect vacation masks, the fact that no one is entirely innocent, and the fact that in real life justice doesn't always prevail.
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tanya... the fact that the dress she wore in the final scene was the same as the dress of the woman gunned down in the godfather diorama was a tremendous clue to her heading toward death. the ethan and harper couple saving their marriage by turning into cameron and daphne, the very people they were secretly disgusted by for their snobbery, was a tremendous irony too.
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it's a condition where the feeling of hunger arises as a result of an emotional trigger like sadness, stress, loneliness, boredom, or anxiety, rather than a physical need. in this process, a person uses food as a coping mechanism to soothe their emotional emptiness or the difficulties they're going through. someone whose life plays out in a narrow space, who doesn't have many pursuits and doesn't have the strength either, when there are problems they need to solve and those problems "peak," turns to food for relief. putting off problems can lead to this too.

the situation the public, unaccustomed to rules being enforced, is reacting to. a rule is a rule. it should apply to everyone. what needed to be done was done.

it happened the moment i laid eyes on her.. on my very first day at work, no less.. then for a while it didn't seem all that possible, but maybe in keeping with the saying that when you want something badly enough it happens, events and circumstances suddenly fell into place. however it happened, it happened, and she fell for me too. next thing we knew, the impossible had become possible. from that day on i never got her out of my head, i never put anyone ahead of her, i never looked at another woman the way i looked at her, couldn't look at one that way. and to be fair, she feels the same things for me too. we're not two people working at the same place anymore, but in the same home, with our little girl, sometimes cheerful, sometimes wistful, sometimes hugging, sometimes arguing, but never being disrespectful, and even when we get hurt with each other now and then, we go on living, knowing how to make it up to one another.

the match where i'm hoping norway, who fielded a rotated squad against france and served up a totally one-sided game, gets thrashed and knocked out.

the photos taken with this are okay. but watching the videos taken with it is pure torture. the idea of filming the surroundings from inside the car is, yes, fantastic, but it shakes and moves around so much that it seriously causes nausea.

cristiano ronaldo and lionel messi are both physically spent. an outside observer looking at the two of them would see that portugal is the better team and would predict ronaldo being carried up to a point. but the exact opposite is at work. even though messi is physically spent, because he's a tremendous passing station in attack, argentina plays far more compact and like a favorite, whereas portugal is left with 10 men because of ronaldo and, since it can't press high up, is constantly left short on turnovers. they don't need haaland; if they had a forward even half as good as him and had the guts to not put ronaldo in the 11, i'd say they could see a semifinal, but it's going to be a short journey for them, mark my words. they're ruining a midfield and defense generation like this because of ronaldo.

the last real maybach. image

hosted both clark gable's and marilyn monroe's last completed film.

(see: the misfits)

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