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AHP on the spectacular public downfall of Tom Cruise:

The image of Cruise as Maverick and Jerry Maguire faded into that of a dark, bizarre doppelganger. The face was the same — preserved by some anti-aging magic — but it felt increasingly uncanny. When it was revealed that Christian Bale took his inspiration for the look of American Psycho’s Christian Bateman from watching Tom Cruise’s hollow, perfect laugh in a Letterman interview, it didn’t seem like a jab. It made perfect, terrifying tense.


Bim LOVES Tig Notaro, and so do I (and Mallory!) and the documentary is on Netflix now, so hit it uppp:

Last week I was doing the dishes while watching Tig, a new Netflix documentary about comedian Tig Notaro. I found myself laughing and then crying, at first softly and then suddenly very hard.


Oh, wow, this look at the history of the first black character in Peanuts is super-fascinating and also mad depressing (there is a very racist Dennis the Menace strip in here, if you’re not feeling like you need that in your day, btw):

Glickman must have been elated at Schulz’s willingness to at least consider including black characters in his strip. She had also contacted another nationally syndicated cartoonist, Allen Saunders, who wrote the Mary Worth strip. Saunders believed that “it is still impossible to put a Negro in a role of high professional importance and have the reader accept it as valid. And the militant Negro will not accept any member of his race now in any of the more humble roles in which we now regularly show whites. He too would be hostile and try to eliminate our product.” Against that background, Schulz’s openness to at least thinking about inserting a black character into his strip must have been refreshing.


Yeah, I’m having a good time with the Wet Hot American Summer prequel, which I was resolved to enjoy NO MATTER WHAT, so fuck the haters (this review is not by a hater):

Netflix’s nefarious metrics aside, Wain and Showalter should be credited for not treating First Day of Camp as an opportunity for a cheap nostalgia cash-in. Much like the ambitious, plot-heavy fourth season of Arrested Development (which Netflix revived in 2013, seven years after Fox cancelled it), they’re aiming high rather than just bouncing around the same jokes fans remember. Remember the talking can of vegetables from the movie? First Day of Camp shows you exactly how that came about. Why was the astrophysicist Henry Newman (David Hyde Pierce) living nearby Camp Firewood? All will be explained. Did you think Elizabeth Banks’s character had a mysterious secret identity? Well, she does, and it’s one of the prequel’s best and most bizarre running threads.


In related news, our Decider boys decided to devote a Who Would You Rather to the question of Andy v Coop:

Joel: Yes, but the movie made it clear that Katie made the wrong choice. The juvenile choice. The superficial choice. She chose Andy because he was hotter, which as I’ve said time and time again in this column doesn’t last! Except in Paul Rudd cases, which — goddammit. But it doesn’t really matter, because the movie had no way of predicting that Paul Rudd would sleep nightly in a man-sized tupperware container, sealing in and preserving all his hot-man juices for decades to come.


This man is terrible and does horrible, destructive work:

Many policing experts are for hire, but Dr. Lewinski is unique in that he conducts his own research, trains officers and internal investigators, and testifies at trial. In the protests that have followed police shootings, demonstrators have often asked why officers are so rarely punished for shootings that seem unwarranted. Dr. Lewinski is part of the answer.


Carrie Frye just got a puppy, here is a picture of her puppy:

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This super-dope 98 y/o lady is a Toastie’s co-worker’s mom (basically we’re sisters, is what that means):

Do you have a morning routine?

First, I set my hair in curls with pins every night. The minute I wake up, I get dressed in a complete look including jewelry, hair and makeup. I even lay out my clothes the night before. No walking around in my pajamas, I’ve never done that. I like to be ready to enjoy my day. It starts me off on the right foot.


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