The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse? You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.

This is the most inane take on the planet and every booing is right!

Big Chungus has lasted almost 20 times longer than the Confederacy

I would say they’re already here but more is more, baby! We love to see it!

Make me a romcom about the feather duster and the candlestick! An erotic thriller about Mrs. Potts and a corkscrew. Anything else! Chamber pot the musical, I do not care!

And what’s he gonna do, have a podcast?? The man said himself he can’t read! This is Kevin Samuels necromancy. Alchemy for cornballs.

Mind you, I produce multi platform pods for other people. But build one from scratch? Myself? This visage? This bone bag? Seppuku.

I burnt out on podcasting before it hit video and my god was I good at yapping. The thought of having to learn a full Adobe Suite FOR MY PHONE dries me out like a Sun Maid raisin, I hate it!

without Rob Reiner’s Castle Rock production company we wouldn’t have: City Slickers, Honeymoon in Vegas, In the Line of Fire, The Shawshank Redemption, Before Sunrise, Dolores Claiborne, Lone Star, Waiting for Guffman, and more - in a six-year period alone

The children yearn for a time when the movies were earnest and the talent had teeth made of bones.

Always sucks that my dad is dead but he would be my first call about news like this. Hell, we would almost definitely have a select Reiner movie marathon (incl. Sleepless In Seattle, he’s in it so it counts) while I was home for Christmas. ANYWAY now you’re all stuck with my hot takes.

Reiner as both a political and cultural figure is a grand lesson in how art matters. It’s not just the “art films” that matter, it’s the fun stuff too, the silly stuff, the seemingly inconsequential. It all matters because we matter, it’s all that deep because so are we.

Wrote about how the late, great Rob Reiner had the most impossible 7-movie beginning to any director's career, and yet that's not even what he was most famous for:

This entire weekend

I strive to have an impact on the daily lexicon of my own little ecosystem and that is squarely influenced by Rob Reiner. A massive cultural loss.

being normal online and off, classic me

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I know her house smells like microwaved Fritos

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If you’re offering a signature drink, making it ready to drink zero proof or having an alternative mocktail (w/o faux spirits) goes a long way & they’re easy to add booze to for those that would like it.

Yes! I don’t want video but if there is I don’t want some dumbass Joe Rogan radio set or a rejected Oprah interview set but for guys wearing sneakers. I want it to be a zoom call with a notification pop up saying they’re using the free version and it’s about to quit putting a hard cap on the ep time

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We come to this place…for mediation

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Dolly Parton is postponing her upcoming Las Vegas concerts over recent "health challenges," she announced Sunday.

Begging someone to set this to Unwritten. I wish him the best.

It would seem Nutbush city does in fact have limits.

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sorry but everything about this is incredible woody allen??? endorsing cuomo??? on the free press????????? s.dfnkasd;flkajsdf who is writing this season lmao

If you have something you’re shopping for I would recommend the champagne in the meantime. It’s more expensive yes but if you’re already having to sub with La Marca it’s considerably tastier for the $6 up charge.

Somehow this has the same energy as the mini-horse that plays a keyboard in the hospital

Starting later this month, companies like X, Discord and Netflix will be legally required to use a face scan or other method to verify Ohioans age and/or identity before allowing them to go online They passed it by claiming it was just about porn.

This sounds wacky but it is backed up by science.

It has been over a year since I was laid off and I have given career doomsday prep advice by request to at least a dozen still employed people.

It was born out of a legitimate thought but I cannot let go of the phrase “CLIF Bars at the orgy” a la Panic at the Disco.

Hostages????

I personally think Sean Duffy should be sent to the international space station via Volkswagen Golf. Next week.

This is in reference to me taking applications for whose wife I’m going to be, for the record. To the surprise of nobody. 😅

Really hitting the group chat with absolute fire tonight: “it’s all fun and games until I’m doing Werner Herzog bits with a guy who looks like he founded Geek Squad.”

My publisher let me know and you know what? Hell yeah.

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Me when I go to my actual champagne class every week 😔

False Fall Proof Of Life where I look like an exhausted witch because I am exactly that

I am three muppets in a trench coat