If Entertonement were still around (RIP, Entertonement), I'd already have a button that would blurt out the great utterances from the English Dub of this morning's "Culinary Class Wars" episode drop. (I read the captions for minority reports, but that just adds discrepancy joy when it gets weird.)

Anthony Edwards : Die Hard with a Vengeance :: Carlo Rota : Relay. (My belief that, despite being uncredited, both of these men are wildly in the background on train scenes is unwavering.)

Public Service Message: It remains the greatest gift wrapping hack to use aluminum foil. (Apropos of a nephew's birthday today but I suppose potentially seasonally useful.) Leave a sharpie in the aluminum foil box in the car and you can even make it a little fancy as you are ready for whatever!

Fully half of my reveries are induced by misreading things BUT sometimes it is also is the result of seizing on a typo. It's been too long since I have been in an owl cafe but how I wish there were at least as many mass hootings(*) as their terrible alternative. *The sound of owlcafe snacktime.

Much as we talk a lot about the fact that "Closing Time" is about childbirth and beyond, maybe it is time for the discourse to address the fact that "When You Were Young" is definitely about Santa Claus.

About a week ago I had made a casual reference to Irrational Exuberance and the person next to me understood it and this has been gently threaded through the score of my life since. (May it be a little revolutionary gift to you as well.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUOw...

Look, there is no rule that says you can't use the scrubber to start "The Two Popes" 1 hr & 59.5 minutes in to formally see the two popes and then watch Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce as 2 popes watching soccer together. www.dailymotion.com/video/x9dt7u8

If you liked "Lie To Me", you may also like "Tell Me Lies". --The Hulu Recommendation Engine, potentially doing the televisual equivalent of judging books by their covers.

We have hit the part of the evening where the chemist parents are looking up drugs and discussing the synthesis. "I bet this starts with acetonitrile, believe it or not." "I believe it!" "MARIAM, there is nothing like creation. But I will give you $10 if the synthesis is more than 5 steps."

I am glad that I splurged for some vision coverage next year because I just got a little starstruck frisson about peripherally seeing the Philly Phanatic in this Panera and it took me a half second to realize it was just an elderly fella with a greenish bag, greyish puffy jacket and a teal ball cap.

Look, a true "Black Friday Week" would be 43 days long: just over 6.14 normal weeks if you don't mind starting and ending on progressively more Black Fridays, like F₁ssmtwr|F₂ssmtwr|F₃ssmtwr|F₄ssmtwr|F₅ssmtwr|F₆ssmtwr|F₇. Consequently, I feel like we gotta note: Epiphany's gotten really commercial.

I know you wanna put a dash in "Co-op" because it helps people pronounce it more like "coöp" without keyboard fanciness: but as it is from "cooperative", that is an extraneous hyphen. The chickens are united to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs aspirations. Don't overthink it.

While just shy of 7 years old, "Godzilla Carols" are kinda timeless. (scribd did some gross things with it over the years [ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ : *I* did not tag it "Christian Music" but it doesn't let me fix its garbage "AI" errors], but one must kinda... deal.) www.scribd.com/document/396... #godzilladay

Every Spirit Halloween store listing begins with what it formerly was and each time I think about that I am tickled anew. stores.spirithalloween.com/search.m.html (I had never been in one before this morning when I was looking for a specific bit of discount matériel and it may have worked out.)

Pal @terry-border.bsky.social had recommended to me "Portrait Artist of the Year" (which he may have recommended in our unreleased podcast about competitive arts programs but having not listened again to that recording I forgot) and it is delightful. S2E4: Greg Davies as subject!

The Impromptu Marmathon is Back! Quindecennial success!

BBCAmerica playing "The Running Man" feels gently pointed in terms of scheduling programming as a kind of "That's you guys" messaging. But also I'm not mad about it.

Kuina & Chishiya : Rosencrantz & Guildenstern :: Alice in Borderland : Hamlet. (Even as AiB seems to be leaning the same direction as Squid Games in terms of future plans, I wouldn't be mad about a Stoppardesque side-universe for compelling characters.)

IT: Any other questions? M: Was there such a big problem of people trying to fraudulently pay other's rent that you needed to amp up login security on an otherwise transactionless portal such that it's impossible to log in? What are we doing here?!? IT: ... M: I rescind my questions. Have a g'day.

"Bon Appétit, Your Majesty" was charming and definitely the best time-traveling Korean cooking show I have ever watched. (The final episode was gently heartbreaking and I feel like they did moderately well in addressing the ever thorny nuts and bolts of time travel.)

I appreciate that on one hand maybe it means my projected vibe is something along the lines of "likely to be competent and helpful" but also am super amused by the fact that (while dressed up nice!) it was still assumed by two different ladies that I worked at this Korean grocery store.

Though I imagine it would make him feel even more intentional in his orthographic, syntactic, and stylistic choices, I bet e.e.cummings in contemporary times would be in a constant state of agitation with autocorrect constantly nudging his name to 'eel'.

THE HEELS ARE THE TELOMERES OF THE LOAF! -me, 20250907, so mad.

(…I watch/listen to a lot of Korean programming w/ subs AND, whenever possible, dubs.) I wonder what it is that makes it barely notable that Jake the Dog and Bender the Robot have the same voice BUT the same voice coming out of 2 different non-animated humans leads to so intense a record scratch.

...Maybe the real Torment Nexus was the hardships we ignored along the way.

Minor Correction: Though the editors here will admit to having a jinn-like inclination toward wanting to find a lil' contrapasso in every resolution, e.e.cummings's end was not actually due to ᴄᴀᴘɪᴛᴀʟ ᴘᴜɴɪsʜᴍᴇɴᴛ. (It was actually a / ...aesthetically not unsatisfactory, but that feels not great.)

The "where is the Denzel in American public life", moment in the episode of Friendly Fire on "The Siege" is something I think about a lot. overcast.fm/+AAjZ4qPyZ7M You can also watch "The Siege" and get into the "aw man, who found my nightmare journal '98" headspace. m.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ehb...

Library Overheards: "What's a pope?" Delighfully, demogrphically none of the kids in the group were likely exposed to this in their homes, but apparanly the passage they are reading aloud would get to an explanation.

I am curious if we will easily detect what season it is when the there is a switchemup in reporting and suddenly all the discourse is about 'Larrymandering'. (Or Terrymandering?)

As someone who thinks about demonyms a fair bit, whenever I see "USians" I wince a little. But I just realized that maybe it could've been "United Statesmen" if the population at large was just capable of being a little more diplomatic. ᴊᴜsᴛ ᴀ ʟɪᴛᴛʟᴇ ʙɪᴛ!

There's no rule that a dog can't be a sole beneficiary. Heir Bud (2026)

Someone (not me) farted hilariously audibly in the library and looking over in that direction and seeing a sea of impassivity--no signs of ownership nor faces of horror--it basically has thrown open the gates on what could be a hilarious but low stakes version of Clue for kids and the kids at heart.

Safari (on iOS) apparently balks if you try to open a 501st tab, which feels a little limiting. C'mon!

"She said 'No expectators!'" said my mom over the phone, relaying my willingness to do some plumbing and electronics assembly, though perhaps oversimplifying my noted "over the shoulder rates".

This may be the pareidolia talking but the festivities for the 50th anniversary of the movie "Jaws" have gone TOO far, man. (We're gonna need a bigger cloud boat.)

BREAKING NEWS: I just learned that my dad uses the word "mojo" for emoji and if anyone corrects him there may be a throwing of hands. ('What is that mojo', indeed.)

Sitting in the living room and defused a little fight (because of a misspeaking use of the word "alveoli" for "cilia") by pulling up videos on biochemical metabolism of ascorbic acid and now we are 3 vitamins into the rabbit hole. #NerdsBegetNerds

I don't know if I have ever been quite so chuffed about about a stranger's subtle assessment of my vibe as when an uber driver with whom I was briefly siting in silence with pulled up "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill".

6 hours before my flight leaves is like peak itchiness to leave for the airport ...in cases where I have yet to leave for the airport. (I love airports, tho!)

Mare of Easttown : Mayor of Kingstown :: Winslet : Renner. (The Mare/Mayor homophonics are somewhat accent dependent, but given the complications of mushmouth in recommendations, actor notes are useful for follow ups.)

"Stop living in the past! On this night, you AREwolves!" —Motivational Talks for Mythological Malaise. (Ch. 28: Useful Commentary for Full Moons.)

Before we all had to disembark due to cargo hold shenanigans I was gonna say that despite an over warm airport, French Canadians at least know the proper temperature for a plane. Is this all because of lingering "Die Hard 3" bad guy representation resentments? ⛄️🔥 🌊 🆘♨️(🆗)

I know that there was a basket on the side opposite the camera, but I sometimes think of young, dull-witted Vito Andolini, getting dropped into that still living donkey as if it were some kinda vivisected Tauntaun.

Given some degree of "Netflix Algorithmic Promotion in Response-to-Events Media", [i.e. after the passing of Gene Hackman they suddenly prime positioned "Runaway Jury" (a great going to sleep movie, start after the first 5 minutes--too loud/violent)] it's depressing that "The Mauritanian" popped up.

“…I guess that post-dinner tea maybe WAS caffeinated; my bad.” –PastME is a real wench in the gears of the sleep hygiene machine.

I had to sit w/ my Kilmer related sadness a little: my go to association is always gonna be “Real Genius” which presented the archetypes that made me arguably the funnest, lingeringest, most slippers/in-lab/at-all-hours grad student in all my groups. RIP that guy. m.youtube.com/watch?v=aCQ2...

“His face profile is similar to Muammar Gaddafi.” —Dr. Dad, on Martin Short.

Local Jiggles! (As I have 8 shelving units on casters in here, I think that's the first quaking of the earth I have noted WHILE facing a shelf and seeing them respond.)

A few years back, I realized that I would often find surrogate communities to have breakfast with during this month and I started hard tonight, but no regrets! (If you missed it years ago, don't sleep on "We Are Lady Parts".) www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzAG...

Disambiguations for Future Self: Juror #2: Hoult The Juror: Marsden The Great: Episodic Hoult Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road: Marsden Professor Marston and the Wonder Women: Neither Rural Juror: Kevin Grisham Novel