Phil Dyess-Nugent

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Artist, dog-lover, and avid reader

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You seen this Target commercial where a weirdly overexcited Kristen Wiig says “circle” and everyone she talks to acts as if they can’t understand what she’s saying, even though you totally can? There are postmodernist French novels that aren’t as far over my head as that thing.

Now Playing: THE BEAR. Why is the camera half an inch from Jamie Lee Curtis’s face whenever she has a line? What’s it gonna look like if she sneezes?

Now Playing: BABYLON BERLIN. Maybe it took so long for Season 4 to arrive in the U.S. because they were nervous about I’d react to Nyssan’s hair.

The search for Trump’s ideal running mate is over, unless Elise Stefanik shoots up a women’s health clinic or something.

Rep. Neil Friske released from jail amid investigation into sexual assault, gun chargeswww.freep.com State Rep. Neil Friske, R-Charlevoix, was arrested in Lansing Thursday. He was released while police do additional investigation on possible charges.

Stupid as I know it sounds, some part of me did assume that Donald Sutherland was going to live forever.

Little Murders: Wedding Ceremonyyoutu.be Donald Sutherland performs a wedding ceremony in Alan Arkin's and Jules Feiffer's "Little Murders" (1971).

Now Playing: a trailer for THE INFILTRATORS, a forthcoming Doug Liman movie in which, it appears, Matt Damon and Casey Affleck rip off the scene from THE WIRE where Stringer Bell catches one of his minions dutifully “taking notes on a criminal conspiracy.”

Happy birthday, Brian Wilson. WILD HONEY is the best album of “rock” music made in the 1960s by pale-skinned Americans, no, we will not be discussing this like grown-ups, sit down, Lou Reed.

EVIL is approaching the conclusion of its final season. One sign of just how little money they intend to leave on the table: Mike Colter, who plays the cool, sexy priest, has been authorized to start making “Father, forgive me, for I just shit myself faces” when things get nuts.

Are Philip Guston’s Teenage Cartoons the Key to His Klan Images?www.nytimes.com A fresh crop of apprentice cartoons — now public property — from his pen at The Junior Times may add to our understanding of Guston and his art.

The hour I spend watching EVIL is the only part of my week when it feels as if the world makes sense.

For a second there I thought Depardieu had lost weight.

The bad Netflix miniseries ERIC features repeated glimpses of a rundown movie theater whose marquee promises screenings of "Werewolf of the Wasteland" and "The Siren of the Swamp".Are these copyrighted titles for forthcoming Netflix projects?Because if they don't want them,I'd like to run with them.

As China’s Internet Disappears, ‘We Lose Parts of Our Collective Memory’www.nytimes.com The number of Chinese websites is shrinking and posts are being removed and censored, stoking fears about what happens when history is erased.

Around the time of the 2008 financial collapse, Matt Taibbi made himself a culture hero by screaming that the media and the justice system needed to stop protecting powerful rich people and prosecute white collar financial crimes as if they were real crimes, which they were. But he’s over that now.

R.I.P. Al Ruddy

Albert S. Ruddy, 94, Dies; Producer Won an Oscar for ‘The Godfather’www.nytimes.com A creator of the sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes,” he went on to win a second Academy Award for “Million Dollar Baby,” the boxing film starring Hilary Swank and Clint Eastwood.

How has this not been a sitcom already?

If Trump’s Conviction Lands Him in Prison, the Secret Service Goes Toowww.nytimes.com The former president could face probation or prison time. Either option would be without precedent.

One of my favorite things about closed captioning is that they apply quotation marks to the dialogue if the characters start quoting people, so if you’re illiterate, you’ll still know why they’re talking funny.

I just typed “Steve Guttenberg” when I meant “Steve Landesberg”, help.

I love it that this headline makes Giuliani’s birthday party sound like New Year’s Eve on the S.S. Poseidon.

Rudy Giuliani's birthday bash ends in chaos as guests scream and cry...nypost.com Giuliani was the last of the 18 defendants in the case to be served, Arizona officials said.

It is a sad comment on ‘80s Hollywood’s inability to make the most of what it had that nobody ever wrote a movie for Dabney Coleman in which Richard Nixon and G. Gordon Liddy went through a teleporter together.

R.I.P. Roger Corman

The iPad Pro "Crush" ad is the "I shoot puppies, and I want your vote!" of tech marketing.

Happy birthday to the King of the Phils

Book Bans Are Surging in Florida. So Lauren Groff Opened a Bookstore.www.nytimes.com It’s called The Lynx, after the wildcat native to the state. “We wanted something a little fierce,” she said.

Happy National Nurses Week to all who celebrate!

Now Playing: DARK MATTER. If I could find that fucking box, I’d kill Schrödinger's cat myself.

Happy birthday, Thomas Pynchon

Steve Albini, Influential Producer of ’90s Rock and Beyond, Dies at 61www.nytimes.com A musician and audio engineer, he helped define the sound of alternative rock while becoming an outspoken critic of the music industry.

The current version of me would like a word with the 26-years-younger version of me who held up a copy of “A Man in Full” in the bookstore and thought, “The hero of this fucking thing is 60 years old? I don’t get it. Why would you write a 740-page book about someone who’s practically already dead?”

Opinion | Read the Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘Annals of Autocracy’ editorial serieswww.washingtonpost.com Post editorial writer David E. Hoffman delved into the many facets of life under dictatorship.