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@drewcompton.bsky.social

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Boy, I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals. One-Time Comics Curmudgeon COTW Runner-Up Fan of Grover, the most hard-working Muppet

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Drew @drewcompton.bsky.social · 8h

White pants? After Labor Day?!

Drew @drewcompton.bsky.social · 2d

Lol I can’t stop happily laughing at your dog’s (genuinely) distinguished face! “Hello, sir, I am an innocent and surely have pulled no recent heists of which you may have heard. Am I posing? I would never.”

The ruff is to hide the DIAMONDS.

Drew @drewcompton.bsky.social · 2d

Boo to actually showing the demon (not Tourneurs’s fault!) though. Boooooo.

Yay to Dana Andrews being in this movie. He and my mom are from the same place in Mississippi! Yay to my mom! (Her birthday is November 1 so I’m apparently just yaying her different places, as a good child should.)

Drew @drewcompton.bsky.social · 2d

@noelmu.bsky.social Since we are in the glorious TCM horror season, I must ask if you have thoughts about Night of the Demon (otherwise Curse of the Demon) (dir. Jacques Tourneur)! Thanks to TCM, it and The Devil Rides Out are currently my favorite spooOOooky movies.

Drew @drewcompton.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t believe the Brits were going to try to trick the Americans into thinking this was an American sandwich while still leaving the U in “savory”!

Noah Webster and his shibboleths to the rescue!

Hmmm…

Merriam-Webster's definition of "sandwich" www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/s...

Definition of SANDWICH

two or more slices of bread or a split roll having a filling in between; one slice of bread covered with food… See the full definition

www.merriam-webster.com

Drew @drewcompton.bsky.social · 2d

Come to think of it, he was hard to find the past few days…

Mark my words, our dogs have been up to something!

Drew @drewcompton.bsky.social · 2d

An (alleged) abettor lives at my house!!

Hamlet with ruff

Drew @drewcompton.bsky.social · 2d

It’s so good! I still wonder why the awesome title was changed to The Devil’s Bride (which isn’t a bad title, just not nearly as evocative) for the U.S.

Drew @drewcompton.bsky.social · 3d

Darn right

Drew @drewcompton.bsky.social · 3d

@taraariano.com Tara! Up in my readings and whatnot, but let me take this opportunity to thank you for the idea that it’s okay to quit something you’re not enjoying!

This is very important to me!

Drew @drewcompton.bsky.social · 3d

Claude Rains played all the bad people at a certain angle (The Adventures of Robin Hood, Notorious, Mr. Smith) that when he goes gray (Casablanca) (this is not chronological) it just is really great.

Drew @drewcompton.bsky.social · 3d

ALSO: I don’t really care what anyone says about it, it’s a great musical. Opinions are opinions! 😎

Drew @drewcompton.bsky.social · 3d

Which is all to say I am all in with the spirit of ‘76! 😎

(Also, I looooved seeing Schoolhouse Rock’s “No More Kings” getting passed around a bunch yesterday and I suddenly realized that not enough people “in charge” watched Schoolhouse Rock.)

Drew @drewcompton.bsky.social · 3d

I read a couple pieces these past few days that mentioned Hamilton (the musical), and while I understand relative backlash against it (it being a popular work of art, of its time, imperfect (what isn’t?), etc.), I think it’s gonna hold up.

See, e.g., “this not a moment, it’s the movement.”

Drew @drewcompton.bsky.social · 3d

Nice! I always wanted to do Seabase and somehow managed to do Philmont twice? Ha, the second time my trip was paid for by the troop because I’d finished high school (and earned my Eagle by a hair) and could officially be considered an assistant scoutmaster.

(I packed pearl onions the second time.)

Drew @drewcompton.bsky.social · 3d

One of the adults who’d been there before has secretly stashed some pearl onions for this very reason and slips them into the peas toward the end of our journey. Real food! I have loved onions ever since. 2/2

Drew @drewcompton.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s a perfectly pleasant food story! I did not like onions when I was growing up (or, rather, thought I didn’t; we didn’t eat them because my dad was allergic).

Fast forward to my Boy Scout days and we’re out at Philmont for two weeks eating dehydrated everything, enough to keep you going. 1/2

Drew @drewcompton.bsky.social · 5d

But I tend to the latter because something about it seems more passive-aggressive. And I like that too! Could be contextual!

Drew @drewcompton.bsky.social · 5d

Oh, I don’t know. I like the way it looks!

Drew @drewcompton.bsky.social · 5d

I am indeed one of those dudes. It’s sorta like how I have to brush up on sports talk before I visit the barber. Thankfully he and I support the same college team! We can’t all be Charlie Brown’s dad!

Drew @drewcompton.bsky.social · 5d

@goldwagnathan.bsky.social Apropos of absolutely nothing, do you prefer “OK” or “okay” when written out?

Drew @drewcompton.bsky.social · 5d

@jfruh.bsky.social I have probably brought this up before or you may have said it, but do you ever think about how the TNG (could be redundant) ep “Darmok” is the perfect explanation of how memes or dudes talking only with movie quotes work?

I think about it sometimes.

Drew @drewcompton.bsky.social · 5d

I am obviously calling Ms. Bates “KB” to save text space, not out of some sort of familiarity! I think she is just great and this show is much better than I ever thought it would be when first announced.

Drew @drewcompton.bsky.social · 5d

I mean, heck, I couldn’t do it. Back when I worked retail, I always got asked where I was from, was I Irish? My weird Mississippi-born accent is because I’m from here and I watched a lot of TV and movies!

ANYWAY, just noting that I love KB’s performance (again) for many reasons. The accent is one!

Drew @drewcompton.bsky.social · 5d

“Matlock” is clearly more put-on for reasons (I think of it as a sort of stereotypical accent, which is pretty much that Looney Tunes old white man who owns Belvedere), but she’s also been established as actually from the South.

It’s a sort of code-switching that (to me) speaks to KB’s acting.