Absolutely bowled over that Lisa Kudrow has had a DEAD-ON Parker Posey impression this WHOLE time.

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Volume up please

But of course I wrote at length about the new Mitski.

I second this recommendation! It's one of Kidman's best performances.

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Happy St. Patrick's Day!

And so I wrote about the Oscars.

Happy Academy Awards Day to who all who celebrate. And here we go! Entry #1 on our Oscars Day Best Picture menu: for HAMNET, we have Agnes Is Here hard-boiled eggs. For a little something extra, we made tea eggs.

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“The only thing prohibiting swimming on Amity beach is the deadly shark. But it is completely open for swimming should the shark stop sharking.”

WE’LL BE LESS ACTIVIST IF YOU BE LESS SHIT

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Can this be a solution?

My top ten list of 2025 includes six of the Best Picture nominees, the most overlap in years. (Last year, I only had one in common.) I guess I can do a ranking of the Best Picture nominees this way. 1-6. coffee-for-two.com/tag/top-ten-... 7. The Secret Agent 8. Bugonia 9. F1 10. Frankenstein

I've got one more pre-Oscars tradition to uphold.

"Time doesn't exist yet it controls us anyway."

"This world is intricately stitched together, boys. Every thread we pull, we know not how it affects the design of things. We're but children on this earth, pulling bolts out of the Ferris wheel, thinking ourselves to be gods."

This show was formative for me. Every Sunday night of my freshman year in college included me and a handful of likeminded dormmates trudging down to basement TV room to watch 120 MINUTES. I always discovered an exciting new artist or track that I eagerly played on the radio the next night.

Here comes...

Add it to the Friday playlist. And play it loud!

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"How did it happen? You turned out fine and I became fucked up."

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"So this is our script? Could you maybe write down some of your lofty sentiments?"

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

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Add it to the Friday playlist.

Now this is a record.

In case I wasn’t clear, this is a major escalation in terms of impoundments from Trump and Vought

"I've been watching this for an hour and I still don't understand baseball."

Since this will likely come up in the SOTU: Yes, US stock markets are up since Trump took office (14%). But in the rest of the world, markets are up WAY more. Cumulative market gains are more than triple ours (43%)

Masterful Troll, TCM.

chefs kiss

17 times deadlier than the Pinto 😮

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In addition to being absolutely brilliant, amazing & charming in her own right, we all know she was raised by a single dad w/4 siblings and that he came to the US bc of persecution bc of his participation in the ‘89 Tiananmen democracy uprising, right?

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As always, let's end the week with a fine new tune.