kevin costner said no THANK you!
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was not sure about the desired response to this so i landed on the ever-reliable "okay, thank you for telling me"
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[5yo home sick update]: mama?
me: yes
5yo: um. so.
um.
so, uh.
[i grow concerned because 5yo rarely has a hard time articulating her thoughts]
me: yes honey? it's okay
5yo: um.
humans are a hybrid with an extinct species called neanderthals
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huge update on the holland michigan front
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EXCLUSIVE: ‘Succession’s Matthew Macfadyen is the newest addition to the cast of the Hitchcockian thriller ‘Holland, Michigan.’ The Prime Video picture from director Mimi Cave will have him star opposite Nicole Kidman and Gael García Bernal deadline.com/2023/02/matthe
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[5yo, home sick, despairing]: i have been trying to put this puzzle together since THE 1970s AND THE 1980s
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as a note to all these women: public school! what a concept!
also "beth" it is maybe time for you to make a change
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[5yo wanders into my office]: this is a ladybug I drew
me: it's a great ladybug! also there's a sticker in your hair
5yo: there is? huh [5yo swiftly exits room]
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5yo is home sick with a probable fever, i say probable only because somehow the kids switched the thermometer to celsius and i am too tired to keep looking up the conversion
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at least this time around I have a kid old enough to know more about pokemon than I do
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somewhere a handful of people sense a small disturbance in the force, as a period of emotional tumult nudges me into once again playing pokemon go
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This week in 'The Critics' newsletter, talks with , , and about the state of the documentary industry.
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put henry louis gates jr on the traitors you cowards
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have just written a blurb suggesting someone for S2 of the traitors that many of you will find TOO RIDICULOUS and what I'd like to tell you, in advance, is to open your mind to the possibilities
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"will it catch on? probably not."
not with that attitude alan!!
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twitter once again has that death knell feel, and when it goes I will miss the promoted ad I’ve been seeing a lot lately where someone brushes huge gobs of makeup onto a strawberry to demonstrate that it can eliminate pores
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I am very fond of a lot of lingo in publicist emails but “we access to [client] tomorrow - TIMELY” is one of my favorites because it sounds like a kidnapping plan
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realized this morning that kidman could be a betsy devos style villain in which case I am on board
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as a person who's spent some time in holland, michigan, allow me to say: lmao
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you don’t even have to credit me! pass it off as yours! whatever it takes!
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“can you make it, like, snarky but fun but clearly laying out why these people are wrong”
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unfortunately I have learned there is bottle episode discourse on tiktok
I guess I have to walk over to the local high school tomorrow and beg a junior to help me make video content
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you don't even KNOW how many people with a van in their last name i want to send this to
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is it gonna be about the tall blonde evangelical dutch basketballers of hope college? i hope so
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as a person who's spent some time in holland, michigan, allow me to say: lmao
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in the intro graf Mr Banana Dude is seen “ouncing down” a cool bananaccino and when I asked what that means 8yo witheringly told me it means to drink something
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new icon just dropped
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tomorrow I will stop yelling about this quite so much, and I will delete my twitter search for the phrase “bottle episode,” I promise
but until then let me just be clear: yes, I am gatekeeping the definition of bottle episode. yes.
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does it even count as a minor meltdown if your spouse doesn’t gently pat your shoulder and quote the newsroom at you
“yes I know, dear, you’re on a mission to civilize”
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it's a departure episode! (i'm so sorry but i am trying to make fetch happen)
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I think I’m guilty of using the term “bottle episode” incorrectly. What should the Marnie episode (s5 e6) of GIRLS be called?
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all bottle episodes are a type of departure episode.
only a few departure episodes are also bottle episodes.
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I think the episode works (although I am less rapturous about it than some of the response I've seen). but by calling it a departure episode you can have a much more cogent conversation about the strengths and drawbacks of the form.
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my hope is that this is a sturdy but flexible term that feels relatively intuitive.
it also has the benefit of speaking to one of the points of discussion I've seen about "Long, Long Time" - is it effective to do a departure ep from a show without a well-established norm yet?
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