I’d love to know the details of your time in Georgia. What region, what kind of work, do you still maintain connections there? The politics have been tragic but the food and scenery are just spectacular and there’s a lot to love in the people, especially if they consider you their guest.

The Gorilla Glue sketch is better if you imagine all of Regina’s lines being said by Riley Freeman.

Sideways, who did the excellent video essay on why the music in Hooper’s Les Miserables didn’t work, has a similar one (but for different reasons!) about why Cats doesn’t satisfy musically. It’s not a hateful polemic, he goes into considerable detail about what makes the live show work, not as a fan of the show but as…

A friend shared this after that first Sean Spicer press meeting. We’ve been in an abusive marriage AND a propaganda police state AND a cult and we’re not going to forget it.

One of the trilogy’s many winning ingredients was having three veteran actors (Hill, Lee, and McKellen) who could deliver Tolkein’s original prose with that Shakespearean balance of poetry and naturalism. Saruman is simply tragic (Christopher Lee conveys centuries without even speaking), Gandalf goes from warm but…

It’s not over for Meena.

If I see one second of the charge of the Rohirrim, I have to watch the whole thing. Partly because I remember sitting in that dark theater experiencing the payoff from two and a half movies to earn that moment. The solemn quiet of exhausted riders cresting the hill and rallying to do what they came for. Beleaguered…

Here’s a full view of Natalie Biden (the LA Times article is alas paywalled.)

From the National Review (“Witless Ape Rides Helicopter”) of all places:

You can still visit the town of Dildo in Newfoundland. Or head to South Dildo if you find those northern Dildo types too stuck up.

Maybe it depends on the variety? I usually get Garnets and the skins taste good. Also sweet potato fries are usually fine with skin.

She came perilously close to confronting a bunny.

And he’s gonna age magnificently, like a thundering herd of Chryslers.

It’s a pity this series hasn’t been more widely seen or covered. Not that I even saw it until I cat-sat for a neighbor with Apple TV, which I’m still not motivated to subscribe to. The personal tragedies at home drag on a bit, but so much of the rest is well done, innovative, and thought provoking, especially the…

These are hilarious and seem macabre, but they also have a wholesome Dia de los Muertos vibe. Year round let’s share our homes with the giant bones of our ancestors.

It’s hard to do much of a screen grab with this episode’s palette, but right before Mando finds Ahsoka, he passes an owl in a tree. This was probably a callback to owls (“convors”) as a motif for the Force and Ahsoka in the animated series, and may have been her guardian spirit Morai who guided her after she battled…

Add Katie Porter winning re-election in California. It keeps another Democrat in the House and it’s huge that she’s won twice in Orange Country.

So, true story, not from the Bible Belt or Deep South, but from a very public school in 80's San Diego with university kids.

The pilot episode shows that inspired casting can’t overcome bad writing and direction. It’s contrived and joyless and WW comes across as a self centered corporate player.

Absolutely no one who blasts “Born in the USA” or “Glory Days” has any clue what’s in the lyrics.