Sectional Healing: 11/10
Is Leonardo DiCaprio Ok?
WRITE SECTION
QUESTION: Is Leonardo DiCaprio good? Not like, is he good at acting; I mean is he good like in the “doing okay” sense? I ask because news broke recently that he was close to agreeing to play Jim Jones in a movie about the Jonestown massacre.
By no means am I a DiCapriBro1 but even a cursory glance at his IMDB profile reveals a tendency towards playing the slime puppies of society.
FOR EXAMPLE:
Dr. H.H. Holmes
From The Devil In The White City, Dr. Holmes is just a literal serial killer. I could qualify this more, but I think you get it. Serial killers are BAD is an OFFICIAL stance of Sectional Healing.
(SIDEBAR: Dexter is back!)
(DOUBLE SIDEBAR: According to Mental Floss, Meghan Markle is related to Dr. H.H. Holmes. I wonder if this was revealed Hitch style by Prince Ginger during their courtship?)
Ernest Burkhart
This guy systematically murdered Native Americans entitled to oil money so that he and his family/friends could inherit their wealth. The audacity of this plot led to the invention of the FBI and to Burkhart being sentenced to life in prison.
HOWEVER.
Burkhart only served 11 years before getting out on parole and receiving a full pardon. Oklahoma, everyone! Like Alabama, they too have a rich history of being elite at football AND racism.
Rick Dalton
A fictional actor who was probably like the Armie Hammer of his day (minus the sex cannibal stuff ALLEGEDLY)
Sometimes, after we’ve recorded an episode of The Popcast and I’ve screwed up the ad reads fifteen different ways, I watch this scene and gain some kind of catharsis from it. (language warning OBVI)
Jordan Belfort
Predatory, problematic, and the scummy, greasy residue left by capitalism.
Jay Gatsby
Leo’s Jay Gatsby single-handedly made everyone start calling each other Old Sport for eighteen entire months. It also forced us to watch a movie and be sympathetic to Tobey Maguire, something no human being should ever have to endure.
Not only that though, Jay Gatsby is a romantic without doing any romance. He holds a candle for Daisy, a person that isn’t worth a Glade plugin and in doing so reveals both of their vapidities and in turn, the hollowness of the entire construct of American high society.
He is nothing but a glorified contestant on The Bachelorette and the green light across the way he fixates on isn’t anything noble; it’s a kind of gilded significance in a vacuum of nothingness.
The nicest thing I can say about Jay Gatsby is that if he were alive today, he’d be Rachel or Dave Hollis.
PICTURE SECTION
READS
LINKS
America’s Youth Are Religious and Spiritual But They Don’t Trust Institutions. I read this and even though I’m not an American Youth, i was basically like, “Same.”
A 500-Year Old Shipwreck Is Rewriting The Age of Discovery. Yaboi loves 1) shipwrecks 2) the Age of Discovery 3) Reconsidering History. THESE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGSSSS
Why We Keep Rediscovering Stephen King. My son is starting to voice some interest in Stephen King so it made me read this piece with a new lens. It’s a great read in part because of banger paragraphs like this one…
Without Humans, What Would Dogs Become? I tell myself that I am PIVOTAL to the happiness of my one-eyed basset hound, but reads like this remind me of the fraught social contract between animals and man.
What Becoming A Parent Does To Your Happiness. My favorite read of the week. Just Do It.
GOOD DOG SECTION
GOOD TWEETS
GOOD WATCH
Looks like an Arthouse, more domestically-centric version of A Marriage Story…
MUSIC SECTION
Trademarked and patent pending etc
Also Leo’s character in Django Unchained 😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬
The Bred photo is worse than you may realize- the guy is wearing gloves that can go up to his armpit because that's what they are emulating- preg-checking a heifer, in which the farmer puts a glove on (hopefully) and shoves his hand/arm up into the ladyparts to see if he can feel the calf? the placenta? I dunno, I married a farmer but I am not one. Anyway, yikes to all of this!