Should’ve bought stock in the “Booo-urns” meme yesterday morning.
I play the online box office game where you have to name the top 5 movies for a random past weekend, and it’s striking how the ‘80s and ‘90s lists are about remembering fun movies, and from the ‘00s on it’s about remembering which installments of 10 studio franchises were released when.
“He was on a show you didn’t watch and just finished third in a mayoral primary in a city we don’t live in” is a real “one of us is living our life wrong and I don’t think it’s him” moment.
My favorite little vignette about gatekeeping “who gets to say they’re from here” is the “Detroiters” where Sam judges Tim for growing up in the suburbs, they both judge the guys in their building who arrived 3 months ago, and then join them in rolling their eyes at the guys who arrived 3 weeks ago.
boxofficega.me cheat sheet:
After ~ 2005:
Disney is Pixar, Marvel, remakes of animated movies and Star Wars
Fox is Avatar, Deadpool and X-men
Universal is Fast & Furious, Minions and Jurassic
Warners is DC Comics
Paramount is Paranormal Activity, Star Trek and Mission Impossible
Tim Carvell
Tim Carvell
Tim Carvell
Tim Carvell
Tim Carvell
I laughed at a post about Spencer Pratt and my husband asked what was so funny and that’s when I learned he didn’t know who Spencer Pratt is and let’s just say the effort of explaining him wasn’t worth it.
A while back I saw a journalist I once admired huffily say that Sharyn Alfonsi was wrong to defend her CECOT piece, because “what Bari was doing is called editing,” and I feel like the more stories that come out about “60 Minutes” the worse that take will hold up.
Old enough to remember when Bill Clinton shutting down an airport tarmac for a haircut was a national multi-day scandal.
Trying to figure out why Trump’s petulant walk-out felt so familiar and I finally realized: It’s the same energy as Gallagher walking out on Marc Maron, an all-time Hall of Fame clip, especially, “aw, cmon, Gallagher”.
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