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Chico McDirk
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Also a bit Spacey-esque, unfortunately.

Old Man Whacks Cloud”

... as she shines her Employee of the Month badge

Huh, all these years I thought that damn British puppet show was responsible for everyone misusing the saying, but it turns out it was actually called Spitting Image.

Now I’m picturing The Mulaney Shtupp.” Underrated technique.

I still go into the fetal position if I hear BUN BUN BUN. Luckily it doesn’t come up too often irl.

Ahem, “profanitYe”

“He was in the presence of greatness.”

One other thing the final scene does is justify Midge’s treatment of Benjamin, to both their detriments. A few scenes earlier, he calls her out for not believing that he’d be able to deal with having their lives be comedy fodder. It’s a great scene for Benjamin, but Shy’s dismissal will just convince Midge she was

Four chicken wings with shrimp fried rice - that’s good!

Had no idea she was Mok’s daughter!

Yeah, but your character on The Sopranos was pretty weak. Magic ravioli my ass.

With a capital T and that rhymes with P and that stands for physical and psychological workplace harassment

Quick headline scan, brain decided to give me “Tig Notaro Dead, recovering from heart palpitations, thanks brain.

Build a tiny house, sell it in Toronto for 1.3 million

They’ve nominated 7, though. But I’m including that category with other winners that don’t necessarily depend on the merit of the performance, point being that it’s at least common enough that people can be surprised when it doesn’t happen.

I wonder if the Oscars should take a page from Cannes’ ‘special jury prizes’ and start giving out the occasional award to individuals who stand out in a given year, but don’t fit squarely into the main awards. No idea how that would work logistically - maybe voters could propose them and try to drum up support - but

I thought Boseman’s performance was solid. But I think enough people have straight up accepted that these awards can be cumulative, or a make-up Oscar, or a death tribute, as opposed to the single best performance, so the academy voters can start to seem petty when they suddenly, seemingly arbitrarily, decide to do

Maybe because Walter had more weeks under his belt than Shreier, so his system was more used to the drug and would have handled an overdose better than Shreier would have handled the early withdrawal? Also, even though they both had PTSD, Walter always seemed more mentally stable than Shreier.

Didn’t your mom get those screenshots I sent her of your HomecomingSuperfan tweets?