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Seamus Petrie
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Growing up we had a sign that said “the cats are…” and you flipped the sign from “not lying” to “lying” when you fed them in the morning.
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Working father. I make good trouble and bad puns.
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Seamus Petrie
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Growing up we had a sign that said “the cats are…” and you flipped the sign from “not lying” to “lying” when you fed them in the morning.
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Seamus Petrie
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#TheAcolyte has really picked up speed, and I respect the enthusiasm for end-of-episode cliffhangers.
I don’t even mind if the “central mystery” ends up being “disappointing”, because the journey has been fun.
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Seamus Petrie
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Now I’m 40, and whenever I cry these days some part of me thinks “Ha! I still got it.”
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“Sometimes I’d give my soul to cry like that.” “I hate it!” “You wouldn’t hate it if you couldn’t do it anymore.” That exchange shook my world as a tween: the idea that someone could a) want to cry, but b) be unable to.
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Seamus Petrie
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I’ve been reading the Oz books to the kids, and Baum’s take on gender (and identity/bodies in general) is fascinating. I specifically have been wondering “Has Emily St. James read these? Are the Oz books egg literature?”
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Seamus Petrie
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Ok but I’ve never met an Irish person who could go that long without talking.
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Seamus Petrie
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I’d include Young Guns and that ‘90s Three Musketeers movie before I’d think of half of the movies on this list - to say nothing of The Breakfast Club or Pretty in Pink.
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Seamus Petrie
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My boomer mom has told me all her good drug stories since well before I had done any fun drugs myself. Her stories are why I have never been able to stomach tequila.
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Seamus Petrie
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I don’t know if this is the Most Dad thing I did this year, but… As I type this the kids and I are building the big Lego Millennium Falcon. We’re on bag 8 of 10.
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It's really weird (it's not really weird) how states that ban abortions are also states where women can't get leave to take care of their children.
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Seamus Petrie
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All rules get sillier the closer you look at them.
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Love that one. McGoohan does smug disdain so well. I just saw the McGoohan-as-spy ep for the first time! He says “be seeing you” and in one scene wears a navy jacket w/ white piping. It’s a silly episode but real fun.
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Seamus Petrie
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I humbly submit one possible exception… Gouveneur Morris: ✔️ abolitionist ✔️advocate for religious freedom & tolerance ✔️died while attempting to use whale baleen as a catheter on his own urethra
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Seamus Petrie
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I’ve tried to explain JNCOs to my children and they never believe me.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
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The movie Alien but it’s a college campus and the college president has let a consulting firm out of quarantine
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Seamus Petrie
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There’s carnage everywhere. Whole departments disappear. Janitorial & security services get outsourced. The only evidence our heroes find is a trail of six-figure invoices.
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Seamus Petrie
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I‘ve assumed it’s a part of the Austrian culture like sausage and dirndls.
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The shift is fascinating. I don’t know all the causes, but in ‘72, Nixon (and later other GOP candidates) used opposition to abortion to siphon Catholic voters away from Dems. (Of course, Nixon himself thought that the possibility of a mixed-race baby was ample justification for abortion)
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Seamus Petrie
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Pre-Roe, the anti-choice movement was largely Catholic & left-wing. There were plenty of “the government is sending out kids to kill & die in Vietnam, now they want the right to kill unborn babies‽” takes. By the ‘80s, it had become a mostly Protestant, right-wing movement.
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Seamus Petrie
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Each cantus firmus is the seed of an infinitely varied series of musical sudoku puzzles, where each complete sudoku puzzle is also a tiny work of genuine art.
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Seamus Petrie
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I wish someone would pay me to just write species counterpoint all day.
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He’s ok last I talked to him. Still in chronic pain, but avoiding opiates as much as he can out of fear of getting addicted. Anyway, this is all to say that the war on drugs is bullshit, as is the law under which Hunter Biden was just convicted. 4/fin
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After an hour talking with him and another researching the law (and the government’s arbitrary & abusive history of enforcing it), I nearly became a libertarian on the spot. There’s no world where this dude was better off taking opiates than cannabis. But that was the avenue available to him. 3/
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Seamus Petrie
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Anyway, he had chronic pain, and wanted to grow and smoke his own (low-THC, high-CBD!) weed, in line w/ WA state law. But federal gun law prohibits anyone who uses cannabis from owning a gun. So he couldn’t keep his guns and use cannabis w/o committing a federal crime. 2/
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Seamus Petrie
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I once worked w/ a union member, libertarian in his politics but also a super responsible rule-follower. He had chronic pain & wanted to grow his own medical cannabis (legal in WA). He also owned guns - licensed, permitted, secured. The very image of a responsible gun owner. 1/
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Seamus Petrie
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Killing Nazis is always ok.
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Seamus Petrie
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Tacoma is the city with the greatest gap between reputation and reality.
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Seamus Petrie
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You might be happy to know that thanks in part to the capital gains tax, we’re now the *2nd* most regressive (thank you Florida)! Which is, of course, why a millionaire is running the initiative this year to repeal the cap gains tax. (vote no on I-2109, btw)
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Seamus Petrie
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There’s no inconvenience rich folks won’t pay to get out of, is there. Incidentally, this is why Andy Warhol liked Coca Cola - because a rich person simply cannot pay more to get a better can of coke than anyone can get at their corner store.
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Seamus Petrie
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Airport security used to be this too, before that paid pre-check thing started.
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Seamus Petrie
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Right - only 2 people get to be Senator from a given state. It’s a very exclusive job. It’s ok to have extremely high standards for who does the job.
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Seamus Petrie
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All the stuff about New Yorkers is great - the busker, the vox populi montage, the hecklers. I remembered JK Simmons being in much more of the film than he is, which just goes to show how impactful his performance is. And that upside-down kiss is maybe the best kiss in the history of movies.
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Seamus Petrie
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Friday movie night w/ the kids was Raimi’s Spider-Man. 7yo liked the score and the scene w/ New Yorkers throwing garbage at Green Goblin.
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Seamus Petrie
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This tweet is bananas
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Seamus Petrie
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Only if you’re admitted to the baaaaaaar.
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It stands out for me as the season most like a Dickens novel: you can tell from Two Tonys how the season *must* end up, and the weight of that inevitability makes all the moving parts & digressions that much more compelling.
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Seamus Petrie
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A Tale of Two Sautés
#MakeABookGreasy
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Seamus Petrie
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The Great Fatsby
#MakeABookGreasy
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I’d say they’re worth a dedicated trip, like cherry blossoms or an eclipse. The first time I saw fireflies I was walking by myself. For a moment I thought I was hallucinating. I’d say they didn’t look like I expected, but… I don’t know what else I could have expected.
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Seamus Petrie
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When we got married, the spouse and I agreed that I she can ask me to do any gross task, I can ask her to do any socially awkward task.
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“I don’t care what you think. You can say whatever you want… I’ll do anything, if you’ll just allow me to save your lives.” 😨
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…because, of course, no other actor who has played the Doctor could have known what that moment feels like.
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… when it started I thought “ah yes, dark comedy and light social satire. Another solid, if not transcendent, premise.” Holy smokes. Ncuti Gatwa’s laugh/scream at the end is perfect. It’s both completely in line with the history of the character, and entirely unique to Gatwa’s Doctor…
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Doctor Who is firing on all cylinders. I wasn’t wild about the first 2 eps, but the last 3 have been quite a run. - Boom was great, but straightforward. A meat & potatoes DW premise & execution. - 73 yards is a delightfully twisty, ambitious experiment. - Then Dot and Bubble…
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Seamus Petrie
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This is how Greek tragedies start…
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I was also rewatching this today, and it was startling how much Ariadne looked like a boy in drag.
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Seamus Petrie
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If I can’t have margaritas and Tex-Mex I don’t want to be part of your revolution.
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This is why they spend a half billion a year on union busting
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