Does anyone know the animator for Apple’s yellow iPhone commercial?

(I ask because I get big Bojack Horseman/Tuca & Bertie vibes and I’m wondering if it’s the same)

The real buzzer beater is if Kentucky can pull this out before Encanto is over

At this point it would be more efficient for everyone to just send a percentage of my paycheck directly to ChiKo

The Last of Us, Season 1: it’s always nice when shows that give you something to think about are also entertaining. Doubly so when they become popular enough to ensure it’ll last at least as long as it needs to

Vale, on the field trip to the National Portrait Gallery this morning:

I want to go see the portraits of the lady presidents!

same, girl

Time to reset the counter on the number of days since a Time Machine backup really saved me

Oh to grace how great a debtor
Daily I’m constrained to be
Let Thy goodness like a fetter
Bind my wandering heart to Thee

Prone to wander, Lord I feel it
Prone to leave the God I love
Here’s my heart, O take and seal it
Seal it for Thy courts above

Your periodic reminder that Come Thou Fount slaps

I think I could have held onto basketball if Kentucky was better, but alas

I need to do some further thinking as to why, but the pandemic destroyed my affinity for sports outside of baseball.

This first four thing is dumb. Just expand the field to 128 and let’s see some real chaos

Thoughts and prayers with Lydia Tár tonight

As for what will win tonight: I’m not sure anything can stop Everything Everywhere All At Once.

But don’t sleep on the Fabelmans or TÁR. The Fabelmans because it’s so good at showing exactly what every Academy voter thinks they’re doing and TÁR because the consensus “best” movie always has a shot

Best picture nominees RANKED:

  1. TÁR
  2. The Banshees of Inisherin
  3. The Fabelmans
  4. Avatar
  5. Everything Everywhere All At Once
  6. Women Talking
  7. Top Gun
  8. Triangle of Sadness
  9. All Quiet on the Western Front
  10. Elvis

Good choices by the Academy this year. All the movies range from pretty good to masterpiece.

The Fabelmans: there’s an artifice of movies that allows for more truth than real life

The Fabelmans, 2022

there's an artifice of movies that allows for more truth than real life

Cocaine Bear: not sure anyone will buy that this took place in Georgia when we all know it actually took place in Kentucky

Cocaine Bear, 2023

not sure anyone will buy that this took place in Georgia when we all know it actually took place in Kentucky

🐻 Still need to see one more 2022 movie before Sunday, but have tickets for tonight to see the probable 2023 winner

“Conversational snow” is equally the best and worst thing

Re: Women Talking

I would like to apologize for wrongly attempting to nudge the proceedings, but Sarah Polley is very good at establishing truth in the hardest places

Women Talking, 2022

here to take the minutes

Triangle of Sadness, 2022

wealth is a disease that none of us can escape

Programming note: due to its recent availability on Hulu, Triangle of Sadness will be tonight’s featured picture. The Fablemens will screen next Saturday.

Management regrets the inconvenience

The Banshees of Inisherin: being human is awesome, but hard

(but being a donkey is harder)

(also, the world is a hard place to live in, but good news: we’ve got each other)

The Banshees of Inisherin, 2022

being human is awesome, but hard

 (but being a donkey is harder)

(also, the world is a hard place to live in, but good news: we've got each other)