AJW
@andreawest.bsky.social
Cat mom. Music, film, television fan. Jeopardy! champ. Research interests: information literacy, linguistics, Canadiana, menus.
Loved his restaurant in Louisville! I was so excited to see him on Culinary Class Wars.
How does a chef born in Brooklyn, who built a decades-long career by wooing food lovers in Kentucky and D.C., become a first-class sensation half a world away?
Chef Edward Lee is able to serve up a bit of himself in every bite of food he cooks.
Chef Edward Lee is able to serve up a bit of himself in every bite of food he cooks.
How a hit show vaulted chef Edward Lee into a ‘new life’ as a Korean star
Fresh off a run to the finale in Netflix’s “Culinary Class Wars,” the celebrity chef is refining his Korean American outlook.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Loved his restaurant in Louisville! I was so excited to see him on Culinary Class Wars.
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Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol want to jump into Toronto's SkyDome, and nothing can stop them in 'Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie' teaser.
‘Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie’ Teaser: Canada’s Merry Pranksters Plan a Truly Bad Stunt
Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol want to jump into Toronto's SkyDome, and nothing can stop them in 'Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie' teaser.
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December 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol want to jump into Toronto's SkyDome, and nothing can stop them in 'Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie' teaser.
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NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE THE TEASER www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKlf...
NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE - Official Teaser - In Select Theaters February 13
YouTube video by NEON
www.youtube.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE THE TEASER www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKlf...
My predictions:
The Secret Agent
It Was Just an Accident
Sentimental Value
No Other Choice
Sirât
Alt: Left-Handed Girl / Sound of Falling
The Secret Agent
It Was Just an Accident
Sentimental Value
No Other Choice
Sirât
Alt: Left-Handed Girl / Sound of Falling
December 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
My predictions:
The Secret Agent
It Was Just an Accident
Sentimental Value
No Other Choice
Sirât
Alt: Left-Handed Girl / Sound of Falling
The Secret Agent
It Was Just an Accident
Sentimental Value
No Other Choice
Sirât
Alt: Left-Handed Girl / Sound of Falling
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And it is a truth universally acknowledged that sometimes you should use passive voice.
Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.
December 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
And it is a truth universally acknowledged that sometimes you should use passive voice.
Ditto. I looked forward to seeing him with Ebra again in S5. That’s the one subplot from S4 I found most promising.
It's a small thing, barely a footnote in an incredible career, but I just remember the feeling I got when seeing him pop up in The Bear this year. It's Rob Reiner! Just that little flutter of delight at seeing this brilliant man in this show I love. And he's great in it.
December 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Ditto. I looked forward to seeing him with Ebra again in S5. That’s the one subplot from S4 I found most promising.
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Former South Carolina QB Steve Taneyhill dies at 52 #scnews
Former South Carolina QB Steve Taneyhill dies at 52
Former South Carolina quarterback Steve Taneyhill has died at the age of 52, according to the Spartanburg County Coroner’s Office.
www.wistv.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Former South Carolina QB Steve Taneyhill dies at 52 #scnews
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It’s good to see papers start to address LLMs as structural plagiarism — provenance, more hidden than the original words or training data. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem
Nature Machine Intelligence - LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem
www.nature.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM
It’s good to see papers start to address LLMs as structural plagiarism — provenance, more hidden than the original words or training data. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Imagine how good the Buffalo Bills would be if they learned that you're allowed to play football in the first half of games?
December 14, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Imagine how good the Buffalo Bills would be if they learned that you're allowed to play football in the first half of games?
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I'm quoted in here about Word of the Year selections.
www.cbc.ca/radio/67-wor...
www.cbc.ca/radio/67-wor...
'6-7' doesn't mean anything. Linguists say that's the point | CBC Radio
Dictionary.com named '6-7' as its word of the year for 2025, describing the term as 'meaningless, ubiquitous, and nonsensical.' But its perceived lack of meaning is perhaps the point, linguists say.
www.cbc.ca
December 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I'm quoted in here about Word of the Year selections.
www.cbc.ca/radio/67-wor...
www.cbc.ca/radio/67-wor...
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Ahmed al Ahmed, a Lebanese Muslim who owns a Sydney fruit shop, risked his life to disarm one of the Bondi Beach shooters.
His courage gives me hope amidst the horror and darkness. Muslims and Jews are not enemies. Our futures, in the Middle East and beyond, are intrinsically bound.
A true hero.
His courage gives me hope amidst the horror and darkness. Muslims and Jews are not enemies. Our futures, in the Middle East and beyond, are intrinsically bound.
A true hero.
December 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Ahmed al Ahmed, a Lebanese Muslim who owns a Sydney fruit shop, risked his life to disarm one of the Bondi Beach shooters.
His courage gives me hope amidst the horror and darkness. Muslims and Jews are not enemies. Our futures, in the Middle East and beyond, are intrinsically bound.
A true hero.
His courage gives me hope amidst the horror and darkness. Muslims and Jews are not enemies. Our futures, in the Middle East and beyond, are intrinsically bound.
A true hero.
I’m going to listen to the John Cena prank call in honor of his last match.
“Is Champ there?” 🤣😂
“Is Champ there?” 🤣😂
IT'S ACTUALLY ALMOST TIME 😢
John Cena's FINAL WWE MATCH is next
John Cena's FINAL WWE MATCH is next
December 14, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I’m going to listen to the John Cena prank call in honor of his last match.
“Is Champ there?” 🤣😂
“Is Champ there?” 🤣😂
For those of you discovering Josh O’Connor, I can’t recommend God’s Own Country enough. One of my favorite movies of the last decade.
Content warning: it’s very graphic.
Content warning: it’s very graphic.
December 13, 2025 at 10:43 PM
For those of you discovering Josh O’Connor, I can’t recommend God’s Own Country enough. One of my favorite movies of the last decade.
Content warning: it’s very graphic.
Content warning: it’s very graphic.
The cannibals took “eat the rich” to a whole new level.
(Truth is that we’ll never know definitively what happened to Rockefeller…)
(Truth is that we’ll never know definitively what happened to Rockefeller…)
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The cannibals took “eat the rich” to a whole new level.
(Truth is that we’ll never know definitively what happened to Rockefeller…)
(Truth is that we’ll never know definitively what happened to Rockefeller…)
A dear friend asked me if my husband and I had any DVDs to donate.
I asked, “Blu-ray or DVD?”
She asked, “What’s the difference?”
I asked, “Blu-ray or DVD?”
She asked, “What’s the difference?”
A (quite) young movie lover said to me recently, "Not everybody can afford a DVD player," and I said "How much do you think a DVD player costs?"
He said, "I don't know, like $500?"
Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.
He said, "I don't know, like $500?"
Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.
December 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM
A dear friend asked me if my husband and I had any DVDs to donate.
I asked, “Blu-ray or DVD?”
She asked, “What’s the difference?”
I asked, “Blu-ray or DVD?”
She asked, “What’s the difference?”
You had me at Orville Peck and Eric Andre.
Three yes THREE pro wrestlers, 50 Cent, Orville Peck and Eric Andre in a kung fu movie. This movie's gonna be so fucking stupid. Can't wait.
Cast of Street Fighter on stage
December 13, 2025 at 2:34 AM
You had me at Orville Peck and Eric Andre.
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googled something and clicked a link to a website I'd never heard of that looked like a forum, read the discussion and realized the person asking a question and all of the answers were all LLM generated, the entire website was a fake forum pretending to be people asking/answering questions
December 12, 2025 at 5:06 AM
googled something and clicked a link to a website I'd never heard of that looked like a forum, read the discussion and realized the person asking a question and all of the answers were all LLM generated, the entire website was a fake forum pretending to be people asking/answering questions
Muppets improve everything, even our favorite Disney World coaster!
Disney has revealed the closing date for Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith. The coaster's last day of operation will be March 1, 2026. The ride will be rethemed and reopen as Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets in summer 2026.
December 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Muppets improve everything, even our favorite Disney World coaster!
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Every time someone tries to make an infographic based on stats by Canadian provinces/territory
December 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Every time someone tries to make an infographic based on stats by Canadian provinces/territory
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Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie: my favorite tv show gets a film adaptation and it's the funniest thing i've seen this decade. really cannot say much more short of "go in blind, even if you haven't seen the tv show". has at least ten gags that have been swirling in my head for six months
December 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie: my favorite tv show gets a film adaptation and it's the funniest thing i've seen this decade. really cannot say much more short of "go in blind, even if you haven't seen the tv show". has at least ten gags that have been swirling in my head for six months
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Former Gamecocks star A’ja Wilson named TIME’s 2025 athlete of the year #scnews
Former Gamecocks star A’ja Wilson named TIME’s 2025 athlete of the year
A former South Carolina Gamecock is TIME’s 2025 Athlete of the Year.
www.wistv.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Former Gamecocks star A’ja Wilson named TIME’s 2025 athlete of the year #scnews
😂🤣😂🤣
The Pop-Tarts Bowl features the sacrifice of a beloved figure, who is reborn anew as someone who is ceremonially consumed in celebration.
This is literally the central narrative of the crucifixion, resurrection, and communion. How could ND say no?!!
This is literally the central narrative of the crucifixion, resurrection, and communion. How could ND say no?!!
December 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM
😂🤣😂🤣
An accurate recap of the past few days in freezing cold Chicago. Bars were warm places where I could slowly nurse a beer.
December 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
An accurate recap of the past few days in freezing cold Chicago. Bars were warm places where I could slowly nurse a beer.
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Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, 2025 - ★★★★★
📽️ #FilmSky #Movies #Letterboxd
https://letterboxd.com/benjessup/film/nirvanna-the-band-the-show-the-movie/
📽️ #FilmSky #Movies #Letterboxd
https://letterboxd.com/benjessup/film/nirvanna-the-band-the-show-the-movie/
A ★★★★★ review of Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025)
You can just tell how much care went into crafting this incredibly dumb piece of art. What a fun ride. Seen at The Texas Theatre with Q&A from Matt & Jay
letterboxd.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, 2025 - ★★★★★
📽️ #FilmSky #Movies #Letterboxd
https://letterboxd.com/benjessup/film/nirvanna-the-band-the-show-the-movie/
📽️ #FilmSky #Movies #Letterboxd
https://letterboxd.com/benjessup/film/nirvanna-the-band-the-show-the-movie/