People are gonna need to learn the second verse of Country Roads.

Just got served David Koechner’s BlueChew ad for the first time on YT. I gotta… I gotta sit with that for a while.

There’s a slight drawl that Gene had that Willy Wonky doesn’t. That’s called a _performance_. Gene doesn’t sound the same in WILLY WONKA as he does in BLAZING SADDLES or YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN or THE WOMAN IN RED. And that’s what’s lost in this process.

This does not sound like Wonka at all. They have clearly trained this AI on *not just* Wilder’s Willy Wonka, but on all of Wilder’s work they could get their hands on, including talk show appearances. Because this sounds like conversational Gene Wilder.

Hey, happy Saturday night everybody. Remember you don’t have to leave the house to have a blast.

‘The Bear’ Ends With Continuous 45-Minute Shot Of Carmy Screaming While Stirring Tomato Sauce https://theonion.com/the-bear-ends-with-continuous-45-minute-shot-of-carmy-screaming-while-stirring-tomato-sauce/

perhaps giving all the money to like six guys was a mistake

HOLY SHIT

Too many sarcastic thumbs up from the neighbors while I’m finally trimming the hedges. I’ll wait twice as long next time.

The horse (Musk) got the cake (trillion dollars backstopped by our economy).

Do you think he still would have slept through it? Would’ve been pretty funny, honestly.

This, to me, is low carb.

My safety net.

“Thucydides Trap”? 👎 “The Cutie’s Trap”? 👍

Hmm. People that I discovered on one new favorite British quiz/chat/game show popping up on a new show I’ve never heard of again, as usual.

The point of the war in Iran was to distract from the regime's illegal refusal to release the Epstein Files. The regime illegally refused to release the Epstein Files because they contain further evidence Donald Trump sexually abused children. Trump sent people to die for his sins.

It’s car show at the mall szn! Saw a white Lambo on the way out with the vanity plate KITNLVR but couldn’t get the camera up in time. :(

Has anyone tried karaoke for sketch comedy? “Next up Tyler with The Parrot Sketch! Put ‘em together for Tyler!”

🤌

If I were darth I’d hit the snooze button a few times this year, too. Fully warranted.

“We fired half the people who know how to make a game and made sure RAM costs as much as a month of rent but YOU STILL DON’T LIKE AI?!?”

Is a milkshake a paste?

Honestly I’m surprised it’s still up.

Sneezed while leaning over to feed the cat, threw my back out.

“Well anyway I love America. And I make no apology.“

How are everybody else’s holidays going?

Either you can name a single character name from the Avatar franchise or you can’t. That seems to be the dividing line.

Relatable.

BRAZIL (1985) dir. Terry Gilliam

In the craziest celebrity interview this year, Underworld star Kate Beckinsale says her daughter's boyfriend has laid two eggs. https://bit.ly/3K5LLdb

This is a classic Trump brain fart. They wrote him a joke about the “MAHA” turkeys being raised on a diet of “grass and beef tallow smoothies” but his brain saw the word “tallow” and could not compute it. Figured it was a typo so he improvised. The POTUS is a fuckin’ moron who knows about 20 words.

When you put the internet down for 30 mins on a Saturday afternoon and come back to Epstein’s magician.

It's cool how we keep proving over and over and over again that there's a significant market for narrative-heavy, character-driven, single-player experiences in video games and publishers just categorically refuse to believe us

I am certainly no seasoned strategist but I am a little skeptical of the political wisdom behind building a giant golden ballroom and sharing a dozen photos of a renovated marble bathroom at the very moment that millions of people are losing access to healthcare and food.

"kids"!!

The month before the election:

Circle K has what can only be described as “Saints Row Food”

Every time I come across this photo it completely stops me in my tracks. Crude oil supertanker Esso Hibernia under construction at Swan Hunter shipyard, Wallsend, during 1970. The scale and spectacle of this thing is incomprehensible. (📸 Harriet Berney)

What a burden to be old enough to know who Dean Cain is

The Seattle Mariners put a "reserved" sign on a seat wayyy up in the 300 level on the right field side for the Hall of Fame voter who didn't vote for Ichiro🤣 #TridentsUp #SeattleMariners

Drunk History (2013-2019)

Oh so when you work at a standing desk you’re a hero but when I eat lunch over the kitchen sink I’m “sad” and “need to be checked on” ?? C’mon.

Fred Rogers testifying before congress in 1969 in support of federal funding for public broadcasting. The GOP grew to hate PBS precisely because it taught their children to be kind and inclusive. Today they sneer at kindness and empathy as toxic weaknesses. They think a great nation must be cruel.

Folks, he’s done it again. 🧵

“[our tech overlords have] aligned with politicians bent on the destruction of the social safety net and the privatization of public services for the direct benefit of the ultra-wealthy.”

$1.1B in funding. Musk raised $44B to purchase Twitter. If we were like them, this is where a lefty billionaire would swoop in and replace that funding and encourage PBS to be as left as they want. Sadly, becoming a billionaire self-selects for a lot of psychotic traits opposed to PBS’s mission.

If you listen real close you can hear the tech bro billionaire group chat lighting up Bezos for dragging his feet on purchasing Wired.