Saturday, November 02, 2024
Rizzo + Okay, A Little Hyperbole On My Part but I'm Not Wrong
Xmastime So Sayeth, So Sayeth Xmastime
Life and How (Not) to Live It
Solutions. I Have Them.
If What We Do in the Shadows is looking for the perfect person to play Guillermo's father then I am happy to be the one to tell them the search is over.
Jackie!
I've posted this before sometime when I first saw it but I can't resist doing it again now that it's popped up; it's just yet another of the thousands of moments that should confirm Laurie Metcalf's JackieHarrie as one of the greatest sitcom characters of all time, end of sentence.
BONUS: every time I've seen it I've sent it to my nephew Paddy Mac, the Alex P. Keaton of the Gen Zers! 🤗 🤣
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The goddam New Yorker cartoon contest can be infuriating; you can't ell me you wouldn't be too embarrassed to submit one of the finalist entries for the contest on the left, and yet the winner on the right is fucking lights-out. Dafuck, The New Yorker?
Friday, November 01, 2024
Oh Gee Let Me Guess the Next 48 Hours
2. MAGA is OUTRAGED!! by any suggestion that Trump's words sparked this
3. CNN headline: "HOW WILL KAMALA DIAL DOWN THE RHETORIC?"
Rinse lather repeat.
Am I a Jinx?
Just days before the World Series started, I mentioned the quirkiness of the 1960 World Series and that we'll probably never seen anything like that again in a World Series.
Despite losing the series, the Yankees scored 55 runs, the most runs scored by any one team in World Series history, and more than twice as many as the Pirates, who scored 27. The Yankees won three blowouts (16–3, 10–0, and 12–0), while the Pirates won four close games (6–4, 3–2, 5–2, and 10–9) to win the series.
This isn't quite as weird as that one but I don't fucking hafta like it either. 😡😡😡😡
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Now This REALLY Feels Like Halloween
All title sequences from the PBS/WGBH show "Mystery!" Based upon the work of Edward Gorey, animated by Derek Lamb, Eugene Federenko and Janet Perlman. Music by Normand Roger.
It is Now 11:36pm on Halloween night
UPDATE: did not make it to 666K
A Note on Halloween
Lovely Jubbly!
This is Only Fools and Horses creator/writer John Sullivan sitting down for his first interview ever for the premiere of his first sitcom, Citizen Smith (also an Xmastime super-slice!!!). Besides the fascinating story of how he even got the chance to write a script and have it read at the BBC, I lit up like a Christmas tree (and I'M XMASTIME!!!!) when he said the ONLY comedy writer who's an influence on him is...Neil Simon!! As in, longtime Xmastime Hall of Fame member Neil Simon!!!
As Del Boy would say you know it makes sense, bruv! 🤗🤗🤗🤗
More World Series
Friday the 14th
I try to watch the usual Halloween movie classics like everybody else, but more than anything else I make sure I watch one of my favorite Only Fools and Horses episodes, Friday the 14th. As I posted a few years ago from an article that seems to have been deleted from the Internet:
‘Friday the 14th’ is interesting because it works to highlight the inherent venality of the Trotter family. While Del, Rodney & even their crafty Grandad, are at heart good people (and Only Fools would not shine away from outright sentimentality at points), they are crooked, opportunistic, and will happily run away from a situation if they feel the long arm of the law bearing down on them. In this case, what appears to be the offer of a nice country cottage, rent-free, in Cornwall that the trio can escape to comes with a caveat – Del has made a deal with his old friend Boycie, who owns the cottage, to illegally salmon poach in order to make money from and exploit the local area. This makes the episode, to some extent, a cautionary tale. The Trotters are threatened by a dangerous external force for their hubris, for emerging from the moral vacuum of the crime-ridden, urban London landscape in order to remove natural resources from Mother Nature. Del placing a tub of writhing maggots on the dinner table as Rodney eats a curry with rice foreshadows this juxtaposition, suggesting horror before they even leave the homestead.
WATCH THE WHOLE EPISODE ON BRITBOX, PEOPLE!!!
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I guess at least one of the airlines has just about had it with people trying to board earlier than their own boarding group, which doesn't really make sense since unlike Amtrak at least on the plane you already have an assigned seat so it really doesn't matter, and yes the reason I'm name-checking Amtrak here is because years have been shaved off my life by my screaming into the wind as the rather curiously long line of "business passengers" strolls past the suckers like me standing in the general boarding line (oh don't worry after about 5 years I finally broke down and now I just skip along too cuz fuck them if they're not gonna bother checking tickets (tho when they finally do I'm *guessing* I'll be the dumbass who gets in trouble, don't worry about that jack-o!).
As Uncle Arthur would say to Amtrak if he could, "take a lesson!"
Here's a small gallery of my feelings on the subject in the past:
I'll Say This.
Abbott Elementary! 🤗
Great question! I happen to have a few thoughts of my own that could improve this show I already love!
1. More Tariq!
2. More of the Jacob vs. that other teacher war
3. Is Mr. Johnson only allowed one line a show now?? 😡
4. Why not an entire side mock doc but from the kids perspective?
5. More of the Melissa/her sister school wars
6. More Tariq!!
7. What the hell - how have Melissa & Jacob been roommates all season & yet they've barely even MENTIONED it much less used it for any comedy!!!!! 😡😡
And while we're at it, let's give Mr. Johnson props for his Halloween costume. 🤣🤣🤣🤣