Re: whatever Aaron : entity :: Byron : nonentity debate one might find necessary … I mean, the concrete tell that I’m correct here👇 is that Aaron’s name still gets mentioned in *every episode* 🤣 (quite literally, nearly!) #Neighbours

Lana Parrilla is very, very, VERY good in #TheRainmaker, a television program that I firmly believe more of y’all should be watching!!

28 minutes yesterday for Hard Pips … TWO minutes today. 💪 every day a new surprise!! (My typical is 6-8 minutes, fwiw)

> #AutumnOfAaron > #Neighbours ep 7266 > hey, just three more Aaron episodes — numbers 62, 63, and 64 in Matty Wilson’s run — then we’re done with 2015 entirely. Let’s bring chapter one of this journey to a rapturous close, yeah?

Katherine LaNasa in #ThePitt (ep 5 now) … like, she’s great but she’s strictly directing traffic so far. She won an Emmy for this show so I’m assuming that … something dramatic … happens for and/or to her at some point … ? 👀

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Felix’s return does solve👇 this problem pretty niftily, at least. He’s got shady leanings, yes, but he’s essentially a rootable good guy on a program that is currently in desperate need for one of those! #Neighbours

Meanwhile, here’s ALL you need to know about how Team #Neighbours *really* felt about Matty Wilson’s exit: they felt the need to bring in THREE different cute guys (Colton, Zac, now Felix) to replace ONE departing supernova (Aaron). 🤣🤣🤣 (tl;dr radio edit: whoooo, them m****rf****rs KNEW.)

The use of Counting Crows’ incredible ‘Recovering the Satellites’ to score the scene of Justin going off to war in the first season finale of #BrothersAndSisters got me 18 years ago and got my ass again last night when we (re)watched the episode. One of the great teevee music cues of all TIME.

> #SantaBarbara > ep 139 > Kelly manages to break out of her clinch with Peter and makes a break for the exit, but Peter gets to the door before she does and throws her to the ground, knocking her unconscious.

"The President of Peace Who Lost Portland to War" is a thing that exists in their heads.

The entire record — Liza Minnelli’s 1989 masterwork ‘Results’ … iykyk — is a stem-to-stern wallop, but the showstopper is a shockingly propulsive sonic mindfuck of a cover of Tanita Tikaram’s gem ‘Twist in My Sobriety’ featuring the album’s producers Pet Shop Boys >>

Since I started following a passel of Aussies earlier this year, insta naturally now feeds me a ton of Australian content as though I understand a stitch of it. Not quite sure why — I have zero context — but this genuinely has me SHOUTING. 🤣

> #ThePitt: Wyle, interestingly, takes a small step back in episode 3, letting the rest of the ensemble have a moment, then comes *roaring* back in 4.

Erika Slezak has lost perhaps half a beat — *perhaps* — in her decade-plus of semi-retirement. But an Erika Slezak working at 9/10, as opposed to her customary 11/10, is STILL the baddest bitch in existence, and let’s not get confused about that. Your fave could LITERALLY never!! #GH

With most of a century of afternoon teevee history and most of TEN Daytime Emmys shared between them, watching Slezak and Benard go at it on the same soap set is like watching the funhouse mirror version of when Godzilla met Mothra. (I ABSOLUTELY mean that as the highest compliment!!) #GH

Figured out in the first 90 seconds where all the 1s, 5s and 6s HAD to be situated to make it work, and it STILL took my ass 28 minutes to get Hard Pips done today 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ 😭

> #SantaBarbara > #SoapSky

in the Bible it says to help people only if they have papers and a Cigna plan

The reason I am okay with what Dolly’s sister did here is: I had a kidney stone experience in July — my second, lifetime — and my ass needed PRAYER too.

Walking past my favorite local tater tot purveyor when I skimped on lunch and dinner’s still minimum two hours away … I’ve certainly had better ideas, hear! 🫠

LMAO look at the algo being an ally! I literally have watched one of my favorite Aaron #Neighbours scenes so many times on YouTube that the site just offers it up to me first now. 🤣 Like, *we know you’re going to dig for this anyway, so just … here, why don’t we just save you some time!* 😅🥴

> #AutumnOfAaron > #Neighbours ep 7260 > all righty, Paul’s still gaslighting Steph Scully; poor Matt Wilson still looks *visibly* grossed out by Aaron’s forced participation in said plot; let’s just grind through the last bit of this arc so that we never have to think about it again, yeah?

A thousand-years classic from an album LOADED with bangers. If *any* ‘90s band deserved more than one hit, this was the one. (Do yourself a favor, mystery person reading this skeet, and go stream ‘Tomorrow, Wendy’ on your music application of choice!!)

👀 #Neighbours

A thousand-years classic from an album LOADED with bangers. If *any* ‘90s band deserved more than one hit, this was the one. (Do yourself a favor, mystery person reading this skeet, and go stream ‘Tomorrow, Wendy’ on your music application of choice!!)

LMAO he’s STILL dragging this dude by his toenails across the Australian outback, I’m HOLLERING

> #AutumnOfAaron > #Neighbours ep 7256 > Paul decides what he really needs is a Popemobile, so Aaron volunteers to test drive a few armored cars for him.

> #SantaBarbara > ep 138 > a rather shockingly low-key hour, actually, especially given the climax that we are clearly building toward. 🥴 We open with Peter hiding outside of the honeymoon house, waiting patiently for his opportunity to strike.

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My first point is what, followed by the, and in conclusion, fuck

> #AutumnOfAaron > #Neighbours ep 7254 > still wearing *t absolute living f* outta that black suit, Aaron (hilariously) shifts into full Kevin Costner mode, mobilizing to Matlock the mystery of who sent Paul a dead rat. 🤣

Cannot tell you how infuriated my 9-year-old self was by the frequency of the Sunday evening Punky Brewster/Silver Spoons doubleshot getting blown apart by football overruns.

> #AutumnOfAaron > forgot to pull this into the conversation from #Neighbours ep 7250 yesterday, and it’s only Aaron-adjacent at best besides, but Susan and Karl’s grandson Ben finally confesses to her that HE accidentally started the school fire that nearly killed her.

I caught this in the cinema a few weeks back and was blown FULLY away by it. It is part of @billsimmons.bsky.social’s sensational Music Box series of docs, so I’m guessing it’ll run on HBO and/or Max at some point this fall. Seek this one out however you can: it’s a stunner.

Someone please convince me not to order this pretty hooded denim jacket from the Swiss Colony catalog that I had *zero* business thumbing through this morning while waiting for football to start

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(guy about to invent the wedge salad) i ain't taking all those leaves apart

Considering how smothered they were for the entire game, it’s sorta a miracle that Texas only lost that by 8 points 🥴🥴

Oh, duh, of course! It was #Friends. 👇

> #AutumnOfAaron > #Neighbours ep 7250 > oh, joy! Nate’s in full Grumpy Gus mode again when he finds out his former boyfriend Chris is a new dad. (As I understand it, they broke up because Chris wanted kids and Nate didn’t?)

> #AutumnOfAaron sidebar > covered #Neighbours ep 7247👇 yesterday. Matty Wilson debuted in episode 7147, so of the one hundred episodes of the show between then and where we are currently, Aaron physically appeared in 53 of them. Dude has quickly done made himself right at home hihhh!

#ThePitt: halfway through episode 2 and I feel like I’m gripped now. The ensemble is terrific straight across, but Noah Wyle is THE reason to dive into this tough world. You ^cannot* take your eyes off of him when he’s onscreen. I’ve barely scratched it, and it’s already a towering performance.

> #SantaBarbara > ep 137 > it’s the first Friday of February sweeps 1985, so I’m fully expecting a wild one! Let’s roll the thrills and chills! First up: the morning after the latest murder, the po-po find Peter passed out at a local bar.

Man, there ain’t a ‘Cruel Summer’ on this WHOLE thing, huh

> #AutumnOfAaron > #Neighbours All righty, let’s start of a thread of every moment that Matty Wilson’s elegantly elephantine triceps try to make whatever shirt he happens to be wearing fight for its LIFE 💪💪

> #AutumnOfAaron > #Neighbours ep 7247 > Tyler is pissed at what he views as Mark’s stunning hypocrisy: when he himself was in legal trouble, Mark threw him out the house. When Aaron’s in a jam now thanks to accelerating the school fire with his fertilizer purchase, Mark’s trying to shield him. 👀

Taking #ThePitt for a test drive this afternoon, nine months after the rest of y’all did. One of the characters is named Jack Abbott and they’ve said it three times already in the first few minutes of episode 1, and the soap fan in me chuckles every damn time I hear it. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Rando dude’s “5 Forgotten ‘90s Songs I Love” video on TikTok —> Song 2: Toad the Wet Sprocket, ‘All I Want’ Song 3: En Vogue, ‘Free Your Mind’ Song 5: Wallflowers, ‘One Headlight’ Bro, if you don’t go find yourself a SEAT 🫠

[October 2nd, 1985] BREAKING: Rock Hudson, a Hollywood leading man, died at 9 AM in Beverly Hills, California, 10 weeks after announcing AIDS. He was 59. His most dramatic role highlighted the disease's impact. He starred in over 60 films.