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From today's Variety: Where to Watch Every 2021 Oscar-Nominated Film

They walk out of Bud's leap year birthday party at the end of the season two finale, after doing their “We’re making things for people like us, because we are sick and tired of being dismissed by people like you" mic drop. I don't remember what song played under that, but maybe something by Thug Life. Is that what you're referencing?

Very few TS, and no surprises among them - well, maybe Grambling a little, or at least that no one even picked a southern HBU to guess - and only one or two wrong answers from each contestant, so that was a great game. I did just okay in the first round; I ran financial terms, airlines, and 8-letter words, but missed two each in lit and squads, and one in cartoons (the $200 clue, no less, because I called Finding Dory "Finding Nemo Part 2" [I never saw either one]). In FJ, I was about the same - I ran TOC, colleges, and space, but missed three TV finales, two artists, and one historic place (I joined the contestants in being stumped by Peterhof). I could have sat here until I died and not come up with FJ; I know nothing about The Hunger Games other than there's someone named Katniss - not that I knew that was the book at issue to begin with. I had no guess at all, and just sat here sipping my drink as the music played.

Sadly, she wrote and sang a twist on the working woman's anthem to use as the soundtrack to a gig economy propaganda commercial. She's still my queen, mind you. But yuck. Thankfully, I haven't come across it since the Super Bowl premiere.

I thought this show was new when it turned up last week in place of more Beat Bobby Flay reruns (which irritated me), so apparently I completely missed coming across/hearing about its entire first season. I saw bits and pieces of that episode, and watched tonight's. I like Tiffani (and the more people hate her, the more I like her), but laughed at her tri-tip aversion; I have one roasting right now. If she lived here in CA, she'd have plenty of ideas for it (especially when tasked with making a hot lunch with it). It was an "Oh, yeah - East round" moment. I was glad she and Elizabeth won their first rounds, as I did not like the guy Elizabeth was up against and Cliff is always going to be the guy who assaulted Marcel on Top Chef. (And I couldn't stand Marcel, either, and Cliff wasn't alone [I'm with Tom Colicchio in wanting to boot them all], but - damn. To get physical like that?) It was good to see Tiffani get the win again in round two; I'd have happily devoured both sandwiches, but her combination of ingredients sounded just a bit better. (And that meat didn't look any under-cooked to me.) I love watching the chefs' reactions to watching the judges critique their food - some really funny, honest stuff that so far I like almost as much as the food. I also love that judging is blind - they don't even know who's competing, let alone whose dish is which. I looked up the full bracket, and I "know" most of the chefs and, of those, like more than I dislike, so I'm in. Guy's son seems as pointless as his dad so far, but if I can ignore the father to enjoy the cooking (I can't watch DD&D unless it's a place I've been, but he's not as prominent here so far), I can ignore the son who appears far less. (But, seriously, someone at FN gave him a job? Based on what?!)

No, the first thing he says is that he didn't order any pizza. I just figure he's a customer she's delivered to before, he handled setting up her insurance policy, she thinks he gave her a special deal, and to thank him she brought him a whole bunch of the stuff he usually orders.

It's only me; I have to pace myself. I just got some more water, and counted out of curiosity - 13 different cheeses. That's probably excessive for one person, but ... cheese! That, of course, made me hungry, so now I'm munching on some black truffle manchego. Anyway, I got sidetracked by cheese, but, yes -- count me in on being annoyed by reducing the quantity instead of just increasing the price.

Same here. I don't even like NYPD Blue, but I have it on my home page since I nonetheless watched it for several years because the people I was living with at the time liked it, and I did like several of the characters. So I glance at discussion in that thread when it occurs, even though I usually don't have anything to add. Yeah, I'd have to go count the wedges, but I'm sure there are at least 10 different kinds of cheese in my refrigerator right now.

I don't enjoy mornings the first week of DST while I adjust (I am not a morning person), but it's well worth it for getting another hour of daylight in the evenings.

Has anyone else watched Moxie? It's a feel-good coming of age film that is ultimately frustrating because it not only centers the white character (seriously, imagine this film told from Lucy's or Claudia's perspective instead of Vivian's), but explicitly acknowledges the fact RiotGrrrl feminism largely failed to address intersectionality issues and includes BIPOC, LGBT, and disabled girls in this Gen Z tale ... while never once having Vivian examine the privileges her white, able-bodied, straight, cisgender self has when compared to those peers. Their experiences are woefully underdeveloped; they serve only to wake Vivian up to the fact the sexism her mom has been talking about her whole life is no less pervasive now, never to expose her to the way racism, ableism, heteronormativity, and transphobia make life even harder for many of the other Moxie girls. Even when Claudia straight-up explains - to the girl who's been her best friend since elementary school - that her rebellion options (as a first-generation Asian girl raised by a mom who has sacrificed and struggled to provide her with an education) are different than Vivian's (a financially comfortable white girl whose mom encourages protest) because of race. Vivian always shares the stage in Moxie meetings and at the big reveal in the end, and she doesn't talk over the other girls, but the film focusing on her (Claudia is the only other character we ever see at home; everyone else we see when Vivian is watching them) and how she finds her voice (she wasn't an outcast, but not really on anyone's radar, either; she'd been voted "most obedient" and was of the "just put your head down and carry on" persuasion) leads to myopic storytelling. It's telling that for the time Vivian opted to stay anonymous (she publishes and distributes a 'zine around her high school's campus, spotlighting various sexist activities that are shrugged off or condoned by teachers and administrators and calling for various solidarity actions to let girls know they're not alone), it was Lucy (Afro-Dominican) who was accused and Claudia (Chinese) who stepped up to take the fall on behalf of Moxie as a whole. But Vivian never reckons with that, nor does any other character point it out. That's a problem in general, but especially with a film aimed at young teens. I know nothing about the book on which this was based and had never heard of the film, so I went into it with zero expectations when my sleepless self clicked on a Netflix recommendation in the middle of the night. It's nice to see girls working together, especially for this worthy a goal, and not one of them ever even thinks of fighting over a guy. (There is a budding romance for Vivian, but it's not remotely the primary focus in her life, and one of the main reasons she's attracted to him - and her friends are happy about her dating him - is that he's a feminist ally.) But I came out of it thinking more about the stories it chose not to tell than the one it did.

Blake is so cute! (So is Cosmo, but I'm a cat person, and those white markings are just perfectly placed - good job, Mother Nature.) @Scarlett45 I'm sorry to hear about the loss of your godmother. Knowing Cosmo will be well loved and cared for by you must have brought her a great relief as she faced the end, and I love that you and Cosmo will continue the dancing tradition as a way of furthering your bond and honoring both of your bonds with her at the same time.

That's why many U.S. tourist attractions and other public locations with lots of international visitors put those signs above the toilets now.

Holy crap, that fantastic! I still haven't watched the other few reunions I downloaded, but methinks I will make time for this one much sooner. Poor Marika; she lost her entire family at a far younger age than that should happen. First her dad, then her sister, then her mom, all in less than ten years. I hope she's doing well, and I hope she enjoys reminiscing with some of the people who loved her dad. I'm glad Maureen Garrett is doing this. I mean, I figured, but back in the day she didn't like talking in depth about losing him as it hurt so much and she's very private. And, of course, Sherry Stringfield - what respect it shows for this to be the reason she revisits GL. This is causing me feelings just by existing. It has been so long, I don't remember where I came across this, but I love this picture of Maureen and Zas way back when:

I don't eat corned beef and cabbage, either. I like cabbage, but not corned beef. I went a little crazy at the seafood market yesterday (which matches the fact I went, well, nuts at the nut bins a couple of weeks ago, bringing home almonds, walnuts, peanuts, and pistachios, but at least nuts last a long time), so I'll be eating a lot of seafood. Last night I made fish tacos with Alaskan halibut, today's lunch was a mixed greens salad with shrimp, avocado, feta, walnuts, and balsamic dressing, and tonight I'm going to do something with scallops. Maybe au gratin. Tomorrow night I'm going to take a seafood break and roast tri-tip I've been marinating. After that, I'll have jumbo shrimp, Dungeness crab, and jumbo squid to use. Yum. Right now, I'm thinking shrimp scampi, crab cakes, and some sort of stuffed squid, but we'll see as the week goes on.

I love Parker because she gives him a gallon jug as a side of ranch. I also like the line delivery on "You're the man, man".

I've tried a couple of new things that tempted me in the Costco deal book lately, and liked both of them. Amylu chicken breakfast sausage. Very flavorful, and not dry (like chicken sausage can be). And a wonderfully simple ingredient list: organic chicken, sea salt, organic spices, vinegar, organic parsley, water, organic extract of rosemary. Pretty healthy other than the sodium content (but still on the low end for sausage). Beyond what's at Costco, the brand has a bunch of others that sound good, so the next time I can motivate myself to go to Whole Foods (the only listed retailer I have near me) I'll have to see which ones they carry. I mostly get raw sausage that's made in-house at a local butcher shop or Sprouts, but it's nice to have a good pre-cooked option sometimes, and I liked Amylu even better than Papa Cantella's. Thumb's up! Sonoma Gourmet kale pesto with white cheddar pasta sauce. It's jarred pasta sauce, and a jarred creamy pasta sauce at that, so it's only going to be so good. But, while most aren't even edible to me, this was. It has a tang to it that's a bit odd in that I can't figure out what ingredient it's coming from, but I liked it well enough. Not as good as Rao's - the only other jarred pasta sauce I've liked - but I'm glad I tried it.

Right. They have offensive content that parents may not want their kids to see or, most likely, want to discuss the context and meaning of rather than just having kids blindly click on. So there's an alert to that fact. The horror?

I would normally say the owner of a 20-pound cat who eats anything and everything it can get its paws on needs to have poor kitty's blood sugar checked, but it sounds like this is a longstanding thing and he's just a big 'ol Maine Coon who likes food. The Captain Morgan TS surprised me a bit because of the rum hint (the only reason I got it). Stomping ground beef initially surprised me, but I think those Before & After clues are probably pretty hard under game conditions. Wasn't John Wayne known as The Duke, rather than Duke? I am not a fan, but even I know that. Maybe he was also known as Duke, but I've never heard that. I missed two each in abbreviations and pop culture and was as stumped as the contestants by rankle, but got everything else in the first round. In DJ, I only missed two each in lit and Grant Wood plus one lab. But I hate war history, so I'm pretty bad at it, and joined the contestants in being stumped by FJ.

The A&E promo confirms it's a mixture of old and new as far as who's featured. Holly, Keeley, and Titus are shown in clips. I hope Dan and Nick are included, too.

Once I heard Mary McDonnell has a recurring role in this, I planned to watch (at least her episodes). Now that I've seen the trailer, I'm in just on general principle - looks promising! I watch at least part of Erin Brockovich every time I come across it on TV. I'm a civil rights lawyer, and I love the rare times projects focus on the legal work, advocacy, and client interaction performed by non-lawyers. They're warriors, too!

I don't think so. We see Sophia tell Rose (right after she and Blanche had agreed never to tell anyone), but when Dorothy comes home the conversation is all about Glen. Cut to that night, when Dorothy can't sleep thinking about his proposal, and that's when Sophia references Dorothy's response to Sophia's confession. The conversation itself was not shown.

Thankfully, both diapers and tampons/pads/sponges/cups are exempt from sales tax here in CA. Because, yeah, they are necessities. And a hell of a lot more so than, say, Pop Tarts and marshmallows. Or magazines. And those are just some grocery store examples of what is exempt from sales tax in some states. Then there are things like BINGO supplies. (An attorney advocating for adding menstrual supplies to necessities lists nationwide studied the tax codes of all 50 states, uncovering all manner of things states have deemed necessities for sales tax purposes that aren't remotely as necessary as menstrual products.) It's not just groceries and medicine on the exemption list to begin with, and even in states that don't tax medical and health supplies, most of them exclude menstrual supplies from that category. How are they different from other medical and health supplies? Gee, let me ponder that. Right now the CA exemption only last for two years (it's part of the budget bill), but hopefully it will be made part of sales tax law. Along with toilet paper. That's a necessity, too! (Gee, I guess states are swimming in all that extra income generated by TP hoarding last year.)

I was rooting for Emily not just because she's @UYI's friend and UYI is good peeps, but because her last name - even though pronounced with a long O rather than like a pig - made me think of Charlene's "My mother was a Hogg" story at the disastrous dinner with Bill's family on Designing Women. Good game, even though Dave ran away with it in the second half. But several TS surprised me to some degree tonight, with the biggest one being underpass. Others I didn't expect to go unanswered: stratosphere, 10 days, bulb, and Maui (I'd have figured at least one of the three had heard of a Maui onion, and seeing Hawaii in the clue would make them think of it; no one getting it just based on good for onion rings and coming into season in spring, that I wouldn't think twice about). The overwrought DD did seem to go on longer than normal. I thought perhaps it just seemed to because I'd already answered it before Katie stopped reading, but I see others have commented as well, so it's not just me who perceived it that way. I ran the first round. In DJ, I ran over/under, veto, and films, and only missed one each in the other categories (yes, including religious observances!), so I had a great game. I know very little about opera, but a fair bit about journalism, so I approached FJ by thinking of longstanding European (because I figured that's the part of the world J! would go to without specifying anything beyond "foreign") newspapers and as I rattled them off in my head checked to see if any sounded like something related to opera. I ran out of ones I like, switched to ones I don't, and, boom - Le Figaro. Knowing there's a "Figaro, Figaro, Figaro" opera song, I figured that had to be right. Kind of a Bugs Bunny way of getting there, but get there I did. Good for me.

Jennifer Garner and Jennifer Aniston both seem so very ordinary to me (which I don't mean as a criticism, but that they come off as just sort of there like anyone else, living a harmless life) I barely even notice their commercials, never mind find anything annoying about them.

In another thread, @WinnieWinkle asked about non-tiramisu recipes that use mascarpone. Food and Wine has an article called "23 Mascarpone Recipes That Have Nothing to Do With Tiramisu" (as one who likes mascarpone but not tiramisu, this amuses me). Lots of sweets, of course, but some entrees, too. The shrimp fettucine sounds good. And the pasta with mushrooms and mascarpone sounds wonderfully indulgent.