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jaime@jaimel.bsky.social |
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chicken and bee wrangler. sailboat capsizer. too many dogs haver. motion graphics for money doer. brooklyn born country living chore enthusiast.
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I might be misremembering but I feel like the Munro story has been public for some time hasn't it? Or at least credibly rumored? I feel like I read a whole thread discussing this once. Idk could be conflating it with some other awfulness.
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Maybe you remember these-kind of a grail object when I was little. The year I got one my mom washed it one day and set it in the oven with the pilot light on to dry. Later, she preheated the oven for supper and the paint blistered. Thermos? Oof. Having heard the story, my 18yo thrifted this for me.
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Love to long for the halcyon days of... uh... 1994.
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I'm not persuaded this isn't tied to the times because I've never been persuaded anyone there thinks Brother Jimmy Bennett did anything wrong.
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Love when the company I'm booked at-profitable but I guess not enough so-closes a takeover deal with deep-pocketed suitors but still insists layoffs are urgently necessary. As a freelancer my heart aches for staffers. I'm used to nobody loving me much-this crew is in for it. Ugh, this timeline.
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I usually just search "retro lawn chairs" three or four times and for a week or so algorithms are all cookouts, beach days, etc. it's a nice reset esp when I've already bought the thing I'm flooded with ads for.
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I think science and industry need to focus on whatever energy it is that dad-drives me through the house turning off light switches all day because it's apparently naturally occurring free and limitless.
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I haven't seen it since then but I was an evangelist for The Dark Backward when I was in film school. I can't remember if it was an act of sincerity or perversity or if the movie actually deserved whatever it was I thought I was doing. But I'm still friends with the guy who introduced me to it.
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My sister was talking about the guy who does tree work for her on some of the properties she manages and by way of explaining he's got a lazy eye said, well one eye goes hunting while the other is fishing.
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I think we had a whole months-long process where we basically gave everyone the chance to prevent his candidacy if we wanted to, right? I'm pretty sure I was part of that. Otherwise I'm not sure why I was in the firehouse that day.
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I really really don't care for him as a director generally but the few specific things of his I love outweigh the stuff I don't care for by a lot. He's maddening.
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I used to stand in the outfield at baseball practice on the shore by the Narrows in Brooklyn and think about if they bombed manhattan, would I even see the flash. (Eventually I learned it'd probably be a fifth of a second before I died.) Weird, harmful stuff to carry in my skull, but it felt normal.
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I saw one out in Los Angeles on Normandie last month but I almost feel like that shouldn't count.
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There are very few top dogs in any of the three branches who are in the better neighborhoods on the actuarial tables and I guess that's your problem right there, huh?
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I was lucky enough to be in Cannes one time and I was walking by a dusty square past four old men playing petanque in the sun with a bottle of rosé waiting on a bench in the shade and the piece of my soul that ditched the work people I was there with and stayed right there lived happily ever after.
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Worked a job where they'd roll tape the whole setup even when film wasn't rolling. Like 15 years later somebody from back then will text the tape op's between takes, annoyed "tape conTINUes to roll..." and I never don't laugh.
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It's how tapas came to be!
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would have been met by layoffs and spinoffs/sales of assets. Ellison's team brings, among other things, deep pockets to help avoid destructive cuts. The company's actual current strength is its productions and deep archive. They're not nuking any part of that. They're monetizing it.
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That decision was made under the previous 3 ceo team at a point when they were preparing for a future where Paramount had to go it alone. Putting it behind what's in essence a paywall was meant to drive subs to paramount+. The numbers they needed to cut (half a billion a year!)...
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I'm sorely tempted to reactivate my account to throw the responder a like.
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I'd guess for certain values of "easy" and "successful" it's easier to successfully plot a story when canonically the universe and timeline direct narrative towards a predetermined set of outcomes. Building further on canon has uh risks (angry fandoms) & leaping into the unknown is a bigger lift.
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But also-and I say this every time I hear this story- staying awake for a colonoscopy is INSANE. like it should just be written into the 25th amendment that that's an automatic trigger.
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I've had way more than my fair share in the last two and a half years and if they're just looking low like at the rectum and just above sometimes an enema is enough. And while they all require fasting and pooping the miralax prep is much faster and easier than the old-school two-dose salt prep.
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"So.... you come here often, sweetie?"
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Yes I do.
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This isn't normally my kind of thing but it snuck up on me and it's fucking fantastic. Gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/m...
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And Reagan says "hold my beer" and shows her Clinton's signature on the welfare reform law. Goddamned third way.
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You HAVE to SAY the NUMBER!
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As a Knicks fan god help me I am always backstopped by my anti-Dolan sentiment so when they lise I get to be happy that he's suffering.
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Ty. I, too, was hotter, denser and smaller in the past so I'm looking forward to seeing how that goes.
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Honestly my 2015 iMac hasn't been good enough for after effects in a while but my 18 year old uses it now for logic/general music production stuff and it's a workhorse. When he was trying to do this stuff on his newer pc there were all kinds of issues with peripherals but the iMac is smooth sailing.
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Also not for nothing but rawdogging a colonoscopy is actually insane.
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Neither of them, honestly , has anything I saw in the progress of dementia with anyone I know who's had it.
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Vs bad grandpa stuff. They both are old. They both slip. But one of them has an ugly malignant heart and the other is basically decent. Neither is likely to be ready to move quickly in a crisis without advisers and staff. Which is kind of ok, because the government is an aircraft carrier. But
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Role in a youth dominated industry. I'm not voting for a marathoner or a triathlete or a dude to be the captain of a debate team. I do think there are political problems with our top officials being so old, but they're not medical or mental problems. And I honestly thing this is just good grandpa
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and he's lost a step. Not really noticeably, but I can't think of the last time he and I jawed back and forth for hours without a break. He's a normal 83 year old. If he had a stutter and you put him under lights after 8pm, he wouldn't be at his best, even tho he made his living in a forward facing
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Wordplay, he's now likely to listen, laugh and chime in. He's still running a food pantry which involves a lot of physical and mental work and he's having to lean on volunteers more. He's liable to nap when he sits down and he goes up early and sleeps til 830 most days after a life of 6am mornings
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For years. Like seven or eight where he was largely unresponsive. Again I'm not an expert but none of these people who have actually had dementia were like Biden was last week. My dad's 83. He's a lifelong athlete, still does 20+ mile rides on his bike, solo. Sharp-witted but where he used to lead
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Loops. She's good a step at a time but extended conversations require a lot of questions and answers to build enough memory to go through a full story. She forgets where she is if she isn't at home. I have a neighbor who's dad died of Alzheimer's- he declined to where he needed round the clock care
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Go to Karl Ehmer for liverwurst when no one was looking. The last thing he said to me, straight-faced, was that he'd had four hotdogs and wasn't hungry at all when he had been refusing food on and off for weeks. He described the cookout and its attendees in detail. My mom falls into conversational
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geriatric organ breakdown. Occasional hallucinations, disordering of deep memory, loss of conversation and eventual a few extremely sleepy years. My grandfather was anesthesia injured and spiraled downwards over a decade into mental isolation and weird bouts of lucidity where he'd dress himself and
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I'm not an expert or a doctor but my maternal and paternal grandmothers and my paternal grandfather died with some degree of dementia and my mom is kind of early-mid progression with dementia or Alzheimer's. My grandmothers were incredibly old- 103 and 107- and I think theirs was akin to any kind of
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Trolley problem? More like trolley opportunity.
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Portnoy's the biggest goddamned tryhard in the world.
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Ty!
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The only place in America it's important at all so far as I've seen is Waldorf schools. I'm afraid the importance, like the larger empire, has trouble sustaining itself, transatlantically speaking. I do like the idea of the Dark Morris for sure tho.
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Oh agree. My folks- the son of union teachers married to a union teacher-were the loneliest democrats in Bay Ridge Brooklyn. But we grew up in an enclave of cops, firemen and finance guys with predictable politics and odious children.
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My wife had an elderly aunt in Newark DE who served us an aspic-based lunch one afternoon that was uh unforgettable. But Newark also has the Delaware Art Museum which has maybe the second-best collection of preraphaelite paintings in the world.
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Athens is directly west of Hudson, my closest access to the river, and there's a good brewer and a summer ferry over so it's on my mind occasionally. This part of the valley is a carnival for unusual names and offbeat pronunciations (like my favorite, Valatie, which somehow becomes vuh-LAY-shuh).
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I had an ancient patched together legacy undersink that I finally took pictures of, detached and carried bodily into the plumbing supply and begged them to help me rationalize it. It took three of us to lay out the parts but we did it.
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