The research fairy 🧚‍♂️ 🌈 @bgcarlisle@scholar.social

Dear hiring committee members,

Your insistence that you are "not hiring for any tenure track positions in bioethics at the moment," is an interesting opening gambit in our negotiations, and I applaud your persistence on this point after so many emails

My counter-offer, that you are indeed hiring a tenure track professor and compensating very generously, remains firm, however I am willing to haggle over the following minor points ...

~ In fabulous Holllywood ~

Me: Basically, the premise is, What if they just never stopped committing crimes against straight people, ever

Movie executives: Prepare the standard Rich and Famous Contract

It's a little homophobic that I haven't been offered a multi-million dollar deal to write the 5 remaining screenplays in the 6-part Thelma and Louise movie franchise ngl

Dentist appointment 🤝 PhD defence
Being called an oral exam

✅ Pulp Fiction
❌ Gone with the Wind
✅ The Silence of the Lambs
✅ Singin' in the Rain
✅ The Breakfast Club
✅ Fargo
❌ A Clockwork Orange
✅ Dr Strangelove
Psycho
✅ Some Like It Hot
✅ The Usual Suspects
✅ Rear Window
✅ The Big Lebowski
✅ Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
✅ Vertigo
✅ Close Encounters of the Third Kind
❌ Doctor Zhivago
✅ Bonnie and Clyde
✅ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
✅ Thelma and Louise

You could go a million directions with "what if you could erase people from your memory"

And they did manic pixie dream girl + boring straight boys

The good news is that it ended

They're lamp shading the manic pixie dream girl-ness now, even

This movie is still going huh

Lol she's stealing files

Aww audio cassettes

That was horrible technology

Oh jeez

This is a straight rich dude fantasy inside a boring straight dude fantasy

They said it!!

They said the name of the film!!!

Oh that's where this movie is going

Too much sideburns though