I've Never Been Great At Titles
This video isn’t very recent at all, about 4 1/2 years from the YouTube description, but the premise is very dumb and simple, yet the execution is brilliant. It substitutes the name ‘Jeff’ into just about every corner of a Jeopardy episode until the thing just kind of loops back in on itself like some strange nightmare. Imagine the scene from BEING JOHN MALKOVICH where the titular Malkovich crawls through the door into his own brain, only to find a different kind of titular Malkovich.
I don’t think that’s a use of the word you’ll get from Scripps but let’s imagine. Anyways, chalk it up to cabin fever but I cried laughing at it and maybe it’ll tickle you too.
Watch This: PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE - now available on Hulu
Last year saw the release of an extremely diverse crop of great films, with at least six stone-cold masterpieces by my count, and those are just ones I was able to catch, with so many more to catch up on in the coming…who knows. PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE saw an extremely limited release for awards season, only to have its wider theatrical release cut abruptly short by current events. Making the best of a lousy situation, distributor Neon has released it early to digital by way of Hulu, and it’s a great film to watch if you want to get absolutely wrecked, and, rather than write more on it, I’ll defer to David Ehrlich’s rave from IndieWire:
It’s a magnificent love story about how our formative romances can shape us and sweep us forward, whether we have to move along because life presents us an opportunity or if we have to move on because life denies us a million more.
Right after I mentioned the work of Jon Bois the other night, he released the first in a 6-part, three-hour series(!) on the history of the Seattle Mariners, presented as “the most interesting team in American sports”. As someone who grew up loving baseball and considered the Mariners a team that always flirted with being my favorite because, come on, Ken Griffey, Jr’s swing what are you even doing, I’m all the way in for this whole thing right now.
Including this here despite it getting my hopes up that the McRib was actually back.
I’m not usually one for nostalgia, but about 60% of my fondness for the McRib is because it reminds me of an elementary school lunch sandwich that is nearly identical in that it was, at best, a plurality of actual pork meat in there. The other 40% is that it’s pressed into the shape of a rack of ribs which, if you think about it, would be so tough to eat as a sandwich.
It’d probably make Bob Dylan feel some kind of way to know that new music from him (Apple Music) is below a thing about the McRib, especially when it’s a near-17-minute song about the JFK assassination, but these are The Times in Which We Live. Lest you think this is an odd topic for Dylan to tackle, know that an older album of his had a 14-minute song about the Titanic, and the mere news of its existence caused comedian Tim Heidecker to record his take on Dylan’s take on the subject, before Dylan’s song was even confirmed on the record.
I’ve written enough words without mentioning Animal Crossing, so here’s an article about how people are making high-fashion streetwear using its designer tools. Admittedly this is where my mind went to when fiddling around with it, mostly because the extent of my art skills is stick figures and crude beards, but the lengths to which these folks go is very impressive. Also here’s a link to some adorable AC wallpaper for your device of choice. It’s very strange that Animal Crossing and Assassin’s Creed share the same abbreviation is a random thought for you.
The most recent season of Curb Your Enthusiasm just concluded this past weekend and the folks at The Ringer used the opportunity to rank every episode in the series. For my money, the most recent season was great, with a compelling arc pushing through the entire run and some very clever callbacks, complete with Larry just being the absolute worst and, yet, sometimes incredibly correct.
Finally, enjoy this goose nuzzling a dog. I didn’t care to translate the text of the original tweet, at the risk of it being something awful, don’t do it either just enjoy the video.
So mischievous.