@davidjroth.bsky.social Holy crap, I finally saw one out in the wild. Dying at the exterior lighting setup. It looks like someone taped a string of dorm room rope lights to the front of it.
I have no memory of the actual movie, but I vividly remember the scathing (and now poignant) Siskel & Ebert review:
Gene says if Roger comes to his funeral, he wants Roger to know his last thoughts would have been he wished his life had two more hours of happiness by not watching Return to Oz.
@davidjroth.bsky.social Duke Ellis is such a great name for a Guy that I can overlook that the Mets just collected the detritus of the worst team in baseball.
@davidjroth.bsky.social Is it nominative determinism if Chuck Hand looks like a guy who would pull his hand out of a bowl of raw meat and hold it right out to shake yours?
Hurston Waldrep is the law firm Grant Holmes' family has on retainer to handle their various misdemeanors and misadventures on local roads, highways, waterways, and, of course, strip mall parking lots.
@davidjroth.bsky.social Telling the kids to hold off on Father's Day breakfast so I can finish coming up with my own Kenny Powers-esque backstory for Grant Holmes. A mullet like that deserves no less.
(jason bourne voice) that string cheese is kraft, these cheez-its are extra cheddar, and the crossing guard is 180, left handed, but has a bad right knee
Affirming the district court's preliminary injunction finding that removal of library books because of disagreement with their content violates the First Amendment, 5th Cir. Judge Wiener absolutely TORCHES Kyle Duncan for his dissent.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Hacks is a great comedy series that is going to lose Best Comedy to a drama (The Bear) that evades classification as a drama because it would lose Best Drama to Shōgun, a limited series that won't compete for Best Limited Series so that Fargo, a comedy series, has a chance there. Enjoy the Emmys!
direct sale of cars from manufacturers would, in a single blow, hollow out one of the most consistently reactionary classes of local gentry, these small-money middlemen with their middling bribes that nevertheless halt years of work to maintain a rotten status quo.
The guy who used "Anal?" as an opener in a Tinder message is a weird fit for a team that @davidjroth.bsky.social once called "An overly muscular Christian Men's Group". Excited to watch this space for developments.
MIKE: Now this story with, uh, Tuckerbee Mariano
MAD DOG: Oh Mike here we go
MIKE: This kid, I can’t believe it, banned … for LIFE … for betting on Pirates games?
MAD DOG: Can’t happen Mike! It just CAN’T HAPPEN, and I don’t care if you’re Derek Jeter or Tookapeter
MIKE: Can’t happen, Dog
If you liked my Mike Nichols book and want to read more, Carrie Courogen's Elaine May bio, Miss May Does Not Exist, is out today. Carrie took a different approach than I did, but one that I think is suited to her elusive subject, who more than merits a book of this zeal, passion, and wit.
This is from CBS' 50th anniversary celebration. Assuming there was a dinner, I'm trying to come up with the 7 other people I'd want at my table. I'm going with:
Alfred Hitchcock
Telly Savalas
Lucille Ball
Betty White
Charles Kuralt
John Amos
George Burns
[Jerry Seinfeld working on new material]
Don't you hate it when you finally dock the yacht at the private island, and the first person you run into is the Crown Prince of Denmark, who will not shut up about his new helicopter. "Enough, your Royal Highness! I'm just here to relax and hunt rhinos."
Love the Opus Dei Alpha Magus immediately blaming the insurrectionary cosplay on his wife, but it's also funny how just thinking "what an asshole" when confronted with a lawn sign he didn't like was categorically NOT an option. A whole political movement of people constantly in feuds with neighbors.
“I had no involvement whatsoever in the flying of the flag,” Justice Alito said in an emailed statement to The Times. “It was briefly placed by Mrs. Alito in response to a neighbor’s use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard signs.”
Every article about Red Lobster filing for bankruptcy is "ha ha endless shrimp, what did they think would happen" and then buried ten paragraphs down is the usual:
Our banker ("Todd") donated a round of golf at his club for a charity auction that one of our folks is running this weekend. He wanted them to have something physical to wave.
The AAC pro shop just gave him a certificate on club letterhead that entitled the bearer to "One Threesome With Todd"
d’Arnaud and Shea Langeliers become the second catcher duo to hit 3 HR in a game in the same month, joining Ivan Rodriguez and Bobby Estalella in September 1997
I MAKE IT SO THE T-SHIRT DESIGNERS DON'T HAVE TO TALK TO THE GODDAMN COMMISSIONER! I'M A PEOPLE PERSON! I HAVE PEOPLE SKILLS! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?
