Counterpoint counterpoint: it’s a dumb plot, but the set pieces and numbers are amazing. It’s a show that benefits from FFing through any non-music moment.

FWIW, a shocking number of liberal friends of mine refuse to believe that their Trump-cult parents/co-workers/etc. are anything but financially aggrieved.

Putin plant a little tired of all the puffy sad losers, and hits on the reporter.

That’s one POV.

Yeah, my take too. Cool girl hangs out with dudes, because cool.

We’re fully remote, and my kids are older (12 and almost 10), so things are going OK. Some hiccups around how to submit homework, but our dress rehearsal in the spring helped iron out most of the tech and organization issues.

I’m so sorry. We might be lucky, because our district ended up going remote-only; no judgement about who’s going to school because nobody’s going to school. And I hear you about the exclusion thing. My older son is ADHD with social issues and we’re def. pretty left out of things.

Is this really happening? I feel like, of all the parenting decisions, this is the one that most people are pretty accepting about, at least in my community. Everybody seems to get that everything is shitty and we’re all trying to survive. The only people really being put down where I live are the people who are…

YES. I was wondering how this would go, what with the entire story being something you’d find in c-dramas going back decades, right down to the cross-dressing soldier (I just rewatched Oh My General, which was AMAZING AND FUN, no talking dragon needed).

You’re welcome:

I might consider this if it said PICK FLICK.

I just started watching I May Destroy You, and in one of the early episodes, the lead is at a club of today and “Flowers” by Sweet Female Attitude comes on. IDK if that’s year 2000, but I immediately jumped up and was like MY JAM and then everyone in the 2020 club (or I guess pre-pandemic) was like BOOOOOOOO! I miss…

NP, and thank you for sharing as well!

I’m really sorry for what you’ve gone through. Sincerely.

The version of this that drives me bonkers is the whole “Live in the now” business.

Punchline is a lovely little movie. Def. the best Hanks vehicle, easily. I never would have figured he’d be able to knock out a Robert Downey Jr. role. 

Yeah, same. Divorce nearly always ends badly, financially, for the person in her position. She’s not wrong about that. And in the US, by badly, I mean like REALLY badly.

Frankly, I’m too lazy for all of this. I won’t drink pod coffee because it’s disgusting and I know too much about IP and the environment, and I won’t drink drip because it’s disgusting, but my Aeropress is the perfect do-everything, no-mess, 1 minute coffee solution, when used with my water boiler.

I might have missed something, but this is fairly common, no? I attended a bunch of Handel & Haydn Society concerts in the 90s and I think they’ve been doing that sort of thing since the midcentury. There are hundreds or perhaps thousands of such ensembles.

NP. It’s refreshing that you were open to reading more about the catch-22. Internet win. :)