Not to at all downplay the bad experience of losing a job, even one you may not like much, but I will say, I got laid off from my day job during a round of pandemic cutbacks in summer 2020, and while I was angry and frustrated at the time, I think it was absolutely for the best in the long run.
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Yeah, well, I was hoping Defector would get in touch with me when I applied for a staff writer job there a year or so ago, beyond a form-letter rejection, but no such luck!
That tweet kind of looks like cocaine.
Once I realized what happened to Phil, I started to wonder the same.
Why is there no Steve Martin on this list? As both a performer and a writer, he has taken some serious dramatic projects. He has basically 3 modes: (1) Thoughtfully stupid comedy; (2) Cash Projects to fund his art collection; and (3) serious dramatic work. Ignore the middle part (Cheaper by the Dozen, Pink Panther,…
Egger Suit.
He was also fantastic in Night Shift, that movie turned Michael Keaton into a star, but Henry was so good in it too, playing against type. One of my favorite comedy movies from the 80's!
The fact is that America has criminalized being poor. And with America having a for-profit justice/prison system and the fact that the country is steadily sliding into being a 3rd world county, this is obviously a bad thing. Welcome to American Late Stage Capitalism.
I feel this in my bones. The worst exposure I’ve had so far was from a patient who is a nurse and fellow hospital employee. She spent nearly an hour with me in a small exam room, knowing she had symptoms. We don’t have enough N95s for routine use so I was only wearing a level 3. When she tested positive 2 days later,…
In the medical field in the Midwest US, medic is used exclusively to refer to paramedics, the ambulance workers. They are important, no doubt, but they aren’t medical doctors. Physician is the alternate term for a medical doctor (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathy (DO).
It took me 25 minutes and I could have gone longer.
As is de rigour with just about every Spielberg film, if he were to excise the last ten minutes, it’d be perfect. But no... He has to get the schmaltz in.
That scene... Matt Bomer could sing me just about any song - the ABCs, “Itsy Bitsy Spider,” “The Ballad of the Green Berets” - as long as he sang it like he does in that scene, I’d fucking melt.
All of the suggestions are bad and the people who made them should feel bad for suggesting them.
Chris Evans has been really open about his struggles with anxiety and I just honestly felt bad for him. It was a fuck-up anyone could have made, and I found it genuinely sweet that so many people started flooding Twitter with pictures of him and his dog to drown out the earlier tweets.
To this day, when I find someone exasperating, I sigh to myself “And I don’t know why his bow ties are always crooked.” Lady Holiday forever!
I feel like Being There did that concept a bit better though. Mainly because the there isn’t really a Jenny analog.