Top Three Syd Straw song!

I wish I thought it might make a difference. But good on Rep. Magaziner for confronting Noem directly with her inhumanity.

How on earth do you give anyone Chissy points besides Rizo and Savannah? This ridiculous cast! I guess I’d give my one point to Steven, whose bad outcomes so often derive from being allied with horrible strategists.

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But a truly awful Survivor player. 😭

Love him or hate him, he’s playing circles around everyone else. (With Savannah a close second.)

I’m looking forward to it! 🤞

My big question (and surely someone here knows—Josh or Jeff?) is: When does Knowledge is Power expire? After final 6 or, like a hidden immunity idol idol, at 5? I hope it expires tonight, so she’s forced to use it.

Tremendous! This specific site in Kyoto is somewhere I long to visit.

Fun fact: George R.R. Martin attended Northwestern University in Evanston (the first lakeside suburb north of Chicago), where he experienced the notorious blizzard of 1967. I’ve heard stories about that winter from older relatives. It inspired Martin’s giant Wall and harsh winters of Winterfell.

Maybe Kevin Kline is underrated (or more accurately, forgotten) today, but that’s an Oscar-winning pit sniff.

Every film directed by Stephen Frears is worth watching! If you loved this, then you must see his Dangerous Liaisons.

For certain types of media, there is nothing wrong with being, in the words of George Costanza, "right there in the meaty part of the bell curve." Not everything has to be a genre-defining masterpiece to be very watchable and enjoyable!

"Surely it doesn't need to be said that Paul Dano is one of our greatest actors. Anyone who doesn't get that doesn't know what acting is. He's also a brilliant director and writer, a very snappy dresser, and a gigantic mensch." --Tony Kushner

But it’s great TV.

You know who wouldn’t praise Donald Trump? Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Now that Schmigadoon is heading to Broadway, which will surely lead to new and increased buzz about the show, I have permitted myself to once again hope that AppleTV will green-light the third season. The world needs your take on ’80s and ’90s musicals!

OOF, it IS early! Won’t even be light for another hour-and-a-half. When I get up for real, we’ll see how much snow we got in Chicago. Meanwhile, I’m in the Up Early to Pee and Then Back to Bed Club.