I heard an interview with him on NPR and part of the discomfort was cultural. He was raised Muslim and modesty is an important component of that religion. To be the subject of the public gaze in a way contradicted his basic programming.

oh damn, what has John Cleese done?

come on. Matt Rife is too young and too basic to know REM. He’s a “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” Billy Joel kind of bro. /s

Hair and air. When you whip it, you add air ;)

“Any man who has to say, ‘I am the King,’ is no true King.”

There’s nothing wrong with short men. There’s nothing wrong with short men who need a little lift. There’s nothing wrong with bald men. There’s nothing wrong with bald men who feel more comfortable wearing a baseball cap. What’s wrong is these MF’s who deny that they’ve built an whole image around cosplay masculinity…

Like a little boy who knows a LOT about dinosaurs, I was a teenage girl who knew EVERYTHING about Moonlighting. I aspired to work in film and I came to the show with a fairly decent knowledge of early Hollywood romantic comedies—not a lot of 80s teenagers knew who Carole Lombard was—and film noir. I also collected…

Perhaps, but I’m thinking it’s the catcher. A good catcher can improve the total defensive strategy of a team exponentially, they’re aware of both teams in a way that the rest of the on field players can’t possibly be—especially the pitcher.

How many times are you going to reply with the exact same comment to a different post? Talk about the shtick getting old.

Time to invoke Anti-Trust law and break up the studios and the means of distribution, i.e., the 1948 Supreme Court decision against Paramount. The California Attorney General should sue the studios for the economic harm caused by their anti-competitive practices.

Strikes work so long as there is solidarity. If labor doesn’t cooperate in their own exploitation the management have nothing to sell. It’s that simple. Add to this the court decision that AI created content is not copyrightable and the unions have already won. It’s just taking the studios an exceedingly long time to…

I wonder if using a Matchbox 20 song was also a minor Mattel easter egg to get an additional brand mention in there? (haven’t seen the movie, yet, have tix for this weekend.)

Sir, this is a Wendy’s.

This feels very 20,000 Leagues Beneath the Fyre Festival

So, is this car an electric vehicle? The EV in Chevrolet is isolated in a different color suggesting that it may be a conversion.

I’m thinking of every card and letter I’ve ever written to my kid and not one, not one of them used their full name. Most just had a first initial, some might have their first name. If I put their middle and last name on a letter they would think I had terminal cancer or something.

Just off the top of my head: Dead Presidents. Reservoir Dogs. Josie and the Pussycats. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou. Spider-Man: Into The Spider Verse.

That has got to be someone’s full time job to listen on the bug mic and make those notes and feed them back to him when appropriate. Bet the pay and bennies are awesome!

Peacock’s customer service is completely nonexistent and subscribing has been really problematic. I’ve tried subscribing through Apple and I get charged but cannot log in or stream on any device—judging from Apple’s support knowledgebase I am not alone. Then I subscribed directly and keep getting messages that I have…

Randall Einhorn is one of the regular directors of AE episodes and he cut his teeth as cameraman and eventually director on The Office (was cameraman on the Christmas episode with The Teapot, for example.) He’s definitely channeling what he learned from Pam and Jim into Janine and Gregory.