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Welcome to TRANSlating Everything, a newsletter covering pop culture, news, politics, and the science of storytelling through the lens of a cool trans mom. You can support my work by leaving a tip or choosing a paid subscription to Translating Everything on Medium or Substack. Y’all remember Arnold Schwarzenegger? Just three years after he stunned audiences with the blockbuster Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Arnold returned to subvert just about every idea about gender we had.

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Hollywood sequels that fail to live up to the original movie weave a tired old tale, but there is something particularly wretched about the follow-ups to the galactic brilliance of The Bad News Bears. Every few years, I rewatch the original. Everything in that movie works, except for how badly — how very badly — Tanner Boyle’s presumably inherited racism has aged. Otherwise, each time I return to the film, I expect to be betrayed by my memories, only to come away even more impressed.

Well there are two truisms (I'll let you be the judge on whether or not they're trite) that are rolling around a lot in my mind lately. One is an internet that says - "there's two ways to look at "no one gives a shit!" - one is a yellow, smiley happy guy jumping for joy, the other is a glum blue guy with a dejected look on his face.

“Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? and even if one of them pressed me against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies Opalescent slick.

[Students often have to study rainforests, and all A Level students in the UK have to study the water cycle. This is the first of two Substacks that link these two topics together.] Tropical rainforests are located in low latitudinal areas (up to 10 degrees N and S). The Amazon Basin has the largest area of rainforest in the world. The Amazonian climate is hot and wet; for example, at Uaupes in Brazil on the equator, mean monthly temperatures range between 25 and 27°C and rainfall averages 2677mm per annum.

The format for this review - True Detective: Night Country (Season 4) - is a discussion with fellow pop culture and Prestige TV (HBO) fan of . We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed writing it.Beth: Patrick, it’s so nice to be talking with you about True Detective: Night Country. Thanks for suggesting we watch it! What made you want to talk about this limited series?