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Comedy movies don’t really make me laugh anymore. This is because comedy movies aren’t funny anymore. This is just a fact. It’s unfortunate that a solid studio comedy like Game Night is an oddity, and smaller comedy films — like the fantastic Bad Trip, or the less-than-fantastic (in my opinion) Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar — offer mixed returns. So, finding a movie that really makes me laugh out loud for over half the runtime is a precious commodity these days, and I find that many of the comedies I’m drawn to are far more rejected by the general and critical audience at large than with other genres.

If you live in Brooklyn, you probably know Carmelo’s, the cash-only Bushwick dive that hosts NYU freshman, white guys with grillz, and, presumably, malaria. Despite living in Carmelo’s neighborhood, I’ve never really been there. I tried to go just once before, but the tables smelled like pee, and I didn’t have cash so we had to leave. I never went back... until this weekend. Carmelo’s ancient swirl of white Converse and teens that spit called to me between 2:23 a.

Weltwitschia mirabilis is one of the most amazing plants in the world. Found only in the Namib Desert, it can live 1500 to 2000 years. The plant grows two leaves and two leaves only in its life, but they keep growing and piling up near the central crown like old fax machine paper around an unattended machine. It is not only alone in its genus, but also its family. Even scientists publishing papers about the plant say that its genetics and ancient relatives “allow us to regard the extant Welwitschia as a living fossil.

Welcome, friends, to the very first entry in The Fast and the Curious. It’s a column where I will watch and write about all eleven entries in the Fast and Furious franchise: the ten films in the series as well as the 2019 spin-off The Fast and the Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw. It’s a decidedly pragmatic endeavor inspired by my desire to get twelve articles out of my eleven-movie The Fast and the Furious binge instead of just one.

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Why did Democrats get smashed in the 2010 Midterms? If you believe the narrative that most people believe, it was a stunning rebuke of an unpopular President, but in reality, it wasn't about that. House Democrats lost a whole lot of seats that John McCain had handily carried in 2008, the most instructive seat being the three Tennessee seats Democrats lost that year, and lost another set of seats because their voters didn't show up.

Another year has gone by and it’s once again time for my annual cost of production post. However, when I sat down to do these numbers, a problem quickly became apparent. 2023 was a very different year for our flock. We made some massive changes which I will expand on the details of later this year. We completely cut out one lambing for personal reasons that overlapped with the changes. Subsequently, when I went to calculate the cost of production per lamb, the number was significantly higher than in the previous years.

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There was always going to be a lot of chatter about the Heat “limiting” Jokic to only 4 assists, but he scored 41 points and it wasn’t really much about the Heat defense doing anything spectacular compared to game 1. Sure adding Love allowed Butler to slide over onto Murray and that helped, but really the Heat’s offense was unlocked when they went to more 5-Out actions around Bam handling. For the 2023 NBA Playoffs I will be doing game & series breakdowns throughout - the best way to support is to become a paid subscriber with the NBA Playoffs Sale!