OMG of course. I live in LA so I’ve visited all her restaurants. Reflections:
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I always thought it was odd he lived in that dream house, with a beautiful wife, a son who owns a factory and lobster for dinner.. Meanwhile I live in a single room over a bowling alley and under another bowling alley.
Well, after 32 years, their mortgage has probably been paid off, he’s had the same car since the 80s, his kids go to public school, he’s never going to have to pay for college tuition, and his only family vacations come in the form of road trips and contest prizes. The real lede here is that Homer is the kind of…
a great example of this is Green Day. when they started out, they were terrible musicians making fantastic music that directly connected with their experiences as angry disaffected youth.
then they spent 10 years making money hand over fist, practicing their craft and becoming (from a technical stantpoint) much better…
You’re not wrong, although that wasn’t really my point. I’m not bothered by something not being “authentic”, whatever that means. Unless you’re specifically throwing a bunch of hollow signifiers of “authenticity” onto your garbage music to mask an utter lack of compelling substance.
Did anyone else expect to see Kiryu or Icihban to be in the background feeding him lines to help win people over, because this is just a side story from Yakuza.
Eh. Authenticity is over-rated. Very few musicians are truly “authentic” and the few who are or ever were part of whatever socio-economic class is “supposed” to make music like that will quickly stop being part of that class as soon as the become successful. Unless you’re main music consumption comes from listening to…
It’s the MCU, so you can always cheat.
I enjoyed the show overall but the ending was tonally jarring. The Westview residents are literally begging Wanda for the release of death instead of keeping them hostage and she never really has to reckon with it. She just puts her hood up and flies off.
Man... if this story was useful to you, I’m genuinely glad. But I thought the ending totally flubbed what was a great little show by not dealing with its implications.
Okay that bacon mousse baby made me legitimately yell “NO” and recoil from the screen. Truly one of the most horrifying things I’ve ever seen.
I saw one where contestant #4 overbid #3 by a dollar and #3 ended up getting the price exactly right, and Bob actually rubbed it in, basically saying "you pulled a dick move and karma bit you in the ass"
Destroying lives? The man was hired to a job, worked there for a while, then left because he didn’t fit in with office culture... It happens to people all the time.
‘Congrats you are worse than him.’
Yikes. Go back to breitbart.
Yeah, there was definitely some infantilizing going on in S5. Which is why I generally liked the interactions (brief as they were) between Fred and Spike. They always seemed to have a refreshing undercurrent of ‘I’ll pretend to be frail, you pretend to be a sociopath, but we both know we’re actually not.’ (...Plus, it…
Seriously, I never would have expected that Angel or Wesley could possibly become characters that I care about and then Wesley’s arc went into full force and he turned into one of the best Buffyverse characters. Re: Cordelia, I always loved her on Buffy but she was absolutely underutilized over there and she got much…
It’s amazing Angel worked as well as it did. It took two (and then three) underutilized and/or marginally disliked characters and created a funny, dark, thematic show that, to me, has aged better than Buffy and is my favorite of the two. So weird.
Meanwhile, I never would have thought I would want a Buffy spinoff centering on Angel who, at least in his role as a good guy/love interest, was the least interesting part of early Buffy. But then it happened anyway and the spinoff turned out to be amazing to the point that some days I would say I like it more than…