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After having pot roast for breakfast earlier this week, I am evening things out by having pancakes for dinner tonight. I believe that is what they mean when they say a "balanced diet."

I guess @purplekow will be rooting for Baltimore for the next 3 years.

ENOUGH WITH THE POLITICAL TALK! That's because for much of Canada the population is one person and 370 moose per square mile. No family doctors can survive. Vets might clean up, though.

He knows where his bread is buttered, so to speak. The new version of the song includes a line about hoping Santa leaves him an Applebee's gift card. I like the shots of him and the family in matching jammies.

We need a BITCH! emoji.

I guess the only choice is to do what I have done... stay eternally youthful, healthy, and beautiful so others will pay my way through life. I highly recommend this option, btw.

The Cubs announced that shortstop Dansby Swanson underwent surgery in early October to address an injury to his core. I volunteer to nurse him back to health... and change his dressings... and...

I will stream this eventually. Blogger/former baseball exec Keith Law's take: Jesse Eisenberg has come into plenty of acclaim as an actor, but A Real Pain, his second turn as a director and writer might herald an even brighter future on that side of the camera. He co-stars in this taut, funny, thoughtful film with Kieran Culkin, who gets the better character here and plays the absolute hell out of it, relegating Eisenberg to straight-man status for large stretches of the story, as Culkin seizes the film by the throat and refuses to let go. The two men play cousins, David (Eisenberg) and Benji (Culkin), who meet up at an airport at the start of the film as they embark on a weeklong tour of Poland that is focused on the history of Polish Jews, including a visit to a concentration camp, after which the two will peel off on their own and visit the house where their recently deceased grandmother grew up. Both were close to her, but Benji was especially so, and he has struggled to cope with her death. The two form a classic odd couple, as David is successful, straitlaced, anxious, and extremely worried about Benjy; while Benjy is outspoken, charming, unbounded, and seems to lack a purpose in life. The two are joined on a tour by the recently divorced Marsha (Jennifer Grey), a man who fled the Rwandan genocide as a boy and later converted to Judaism (Kurt Egyiawan), and a somewhat older Jewish couple with an ancestor from Poland who came to the U.S. well before World War II (Daniel Oreskes & Liza Sadovy). The tour guide, James (Will Sharpe), isn’t Jewish, for which he seems to apologize in every other sentence, and he takes his job as guide extremely seriously. Benjy is the smoke bomb thrown in the middle of the group, as he swears constantly, asks uncomfortable questions, and generally speaks his mind even in situations where decorum might call for him to say less. He’s the conscience of the story, though, saying what needs to be said, even if his delivery could use some work. David, of course, is appalled by much of his cousin’s behavior – including Benjy smuggling cannabis into Poland – but also envies Benjy’s apparently carefree attitude and the way that other people gravitate so much more strongly to his cousin, something that’s especially apparent as the two men say goodbye to the tour group to go to their grandmother’s hometown. The visit to the Majdanek concentration camp, which fleeing Nazi forces failed to destroy as Soviet troops approached, also provides Eisenberg with one of his strongest scenes as director. The imagery is so potent that it requires very little dialogue, and you would expect these people to be nearly silent in their discomfort, horror, grief, and so on. The shots of the tourists walking by the gas chamber are brief, but so strong, and when it’s followed by James’s explanation that the blue stains on the walls are the residues of the hydrogen cyanide gas used to murder Jews and other inmates at the camp, it ties back somberly to something Benjy said earlier to the group that at the time might have seemed histrionic. The script ends up validating Benjy many times over, without exactly excusing some of his more boorish actions. Culkin is on another level here, way beyond the solid performances he gave on Succession; Benjy is far more interesting and nuanced than Roman, who was an entitled and often gross little prat, and didn’t have a lot of redeeming qualities or even a good reason for why he was the way he was. Benjy is such a rich, intelligently written character, and Culkin plays him perfectly, making it clear why he is the life of the party while also showing that that’s something of a façade. He’s much better than Eisenberg, who plays that character he nearly always plays, the nebbish, fast-talking guy who doesn’t seem to have feelings; there is one scene, at a restaurant, where Eisenberg gets the floor, and we finally see inside David, and the film could probably have used a little more of that. Sharpe, who was so good in Giri/Haji and very good in The White Lotus, is excellent in a smaller role, nailing his interactions with Benjy so that you feel his discomfort and understand the evolution of his reactions over the course of the tour. The only film I’ve seen in this cycle that was better than this is Anora, and that’s largely because that film is more ambitious; A Real Pain is tight and trim at 90 minutes and wastes none of it, doing what it set out to do and dropping you back at the airport before you know what hit you. Culkin seems like a lock to get a nomination for Best Supporting Actor, and I really hope this ends up with a Best Picture nod or, at worst, a Best Original Screenplay nomination for Eisenberg. It’s better than Conclave and so much better than Emilia Pérez, just to name two movies that have better current odds for a Best Picture nod. I can not imagine I’ll see ten better films from 2024 than this.

Just got back from the eye doctor… No sign of diabetes in my eyes.

right nostril, or left? tomato/tomahto, potato/potahto

What about hot crime victims? Almost 20 years ago a very cute young cop was killed at the White Castle on Webster Ave in the Bronx. I'm embarrassed to admit I became fixated on the story because of his looks. An off-duty cop, chasing a half-dozen thugs who beat him up inside a Bronx White Castle, was gunned down by a fellow officer early yesterday morning in a catastrophic case of mistaken identity, police said. Officer Eric Hernandez, 24... Then they wouldn't advance to become healthcare CEOs.

World’s oldest-known wild bird lays an egg in Hawaii at age 74

He's a Christian, sober since 2015, and married since 2004. He'll be 45 two days after Christmas, and he and his wife had seven kids, although the youngest died shortly after birth.

Thinking of you, @mike carey... CHART YOUR FART We all fart! Some more than others! Some louder than others? Some smellier than others! And some funnier than others! Project launched 15th November 2024 In 2021, 60% of Australians reported to us that they experienced excessive flatulence. This got us thinking, what is a ‘normal’ amount of farts per day? Dietary change is frequently a catalyst for gut changes such as increased gas production as our gut adapts. The Chart Your Fart app is designed to better understand the flatulence patterns and concerns of Australians as part of our public-led research in the area of health and wellbeing. So essentially, we want to know about your farting habits. We are looking for Australians aged 14 years and over to provide 3 days of flatulence data (inclusive of 1 weekend day). For more information check out the participant information sheet. You can download the “Chart Your Fart” app from the App Store on your iPhone or Google Play for Android. Follow the instructions and get ready to chart your farts! If this sounds like fun? Then REGISTER to be a member of our citizen science community and we will notify you when we launch more exciting science for you to be involved with or send us some of your own ideas at [email protected]. Otherwise, stay tuned to this website and we will update you. Source: https://research.csiro.au/cshw/projects/chart-your-fart/ oh shit.wav cow crap.wav What's happening hot stuff.wav what the hell r u doing.wav what is it that you do do.wav toilet flush.wav Fat Bottom Girls.wav

So of course, all this shit happens right before the deadline for switching Medicare plans on Saturday, although another three month period Opens up January 1. I have actually never had any major problems with them and my plan had just been to stay with them, but I'm thinking I should at least look at other companies once the deadline has passed and if I decide it's worth changing to another one, I can always do that in January and the coverage with the new company would start in February.

in case anyone's been jonesing for the full version of the theme...

Let's just say there are alternate theories.

Jackie's hubby is going to play Alexander Hamilton in an episode of GHOSTS.

Or perhaps he's a diabolical mastermind (as Steed & Mrs. Peel would've said) who didn't do those things so he'd look like an amateur and throw the cops off the scent.

I saw Paper Moon and A Touch of Class as a double feature there with my aunt.*** Housing lottery launches for 60 units at Trylon Tower in Rego Park, rent starts at $828 – QNS QNS.COM New York City has launched a housing lottery for 60 units at Trylon Tower, a 16-story residential... ***Paper Moon was a preview. Another memorable double feature I saw in Queens in that era was Same Time, Next Year with a preview of The Champ at a nearly-empty Continental Theater during a snowstorm. Also, when I was a young'n, the theater across the street from me showed The Groove Tube with Kentucky Fried Movie. But my mother saw the best double feature at the second-run Drake Theater... Ordinary People and American Gigolo! She said she was glad Ordinary People was shown first because she wasn't sure she'd have waited if she'd had to sit through American Gigolo first.

So of course I have a normal person's reaction... How does this affect my insurance? UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot in midtown Manhattan APPLE.NEWS The CEO of UnitedHealthcare was shot and killed in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday morning, a law...

He's gone blond.

I assume you meant allergic to absolutely nothing... AND you still take walks regularly. Long live @marylander1940!

I don't like mayo or ketchup (although I like ketchup baked onto the top of a meatloaf) so I eat french fries plain, unlike the freaks in Europe, who like them with mayo and the freaks in this country who like them with ketchup.