Things I am planning to nominate for a Hugo at the moment

"Mirror Workout" from Saturday Night Live for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form. It's a sketch in which a couple of bro-y guys do a peloton-style workout video that the audience slowly realizes is actually being broadcast from a demonic prison. But the bro-y guys don't realize, they seem ( Read more... )

Mystery Hunt Go-Live is in (less than) Three Days! Most of my team is oscillating between panic and excitement, it's kind of adorable. More excitement than panic, I would say.


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My Vids for 2021

Full length vids
We Are Golden (Bruno and Boots)
Jenny (Bruno and Boots)
Still Beating (Jumanji)
Istanbul (Charlie's Angels reboot)
Fantasy (Carmen Sandiego Netflix)
Carmen Sandiego Does the But If You Close Your Eyes Meme (Carmen Sandiego Netflix)
Hapiyut shel Harley Quinn / הפיוט של הארלי קווין (Birds of Prey)
Við spilum endalaust ( ( Read more... )

The Covid life:

A few days after Worldcon, I found out that
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Spider-Man: No Way Home

So what, did everyone just forget that the Sokovia Accords were a thing? This entry was originally posted at https://seekingferret.dreamwidth.org/388171.html. Please comment there using OpenID. There are
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DisCon 3 was great fun, but I also heard a few people use the word bittersweet. Many of us had a deep, aching sense of what the Con could have been, of all the people who weren't there, of all the ideas that hadn't been executed. And we were aware that the world is not right at the moment, and that coming to the convention constituted a risk that ( Read more... )

This was the movie people requested I write an absurd amount of silly economics meta about after I reviewed You've Got Mail, but the truth is a rewatch turns up not very much I found interesting in terms of economics. Everyone in Sleepless in Seattle is a middle class white professional, there's not a lot of contrast, and contrast is what reveals ( Read more... )

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There were two new versions of Adam Sandler's Hanukkah Song this year, one by pop band Haim and one by Israeli rappers Nissim Black and Kosha Dillz.

Sandler we love you pic.twitter.com/QGBAwqOZld
- HAIM (@HAIMtheband) December 3, 2021

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As a reminder, my critique of Sandler's song from a couple years ago:

Certainly, it's not melodically very good, but ( Read more... )

CW: covid

I got word on Thursday evening that someone I saw at Sunday morning davening (masked, everyone vaccinated) had just tested positive for COVID. I passed word immediately to work, and in the morning got a test. As I waited for results, more information trickled in- the guy who'd tested positive had been exposed on Saturday, so it was ( Read more... )