What a week! Twitter found new main characters, Spencer Pratt continued to run for office, and Mandy Moore recommended a Canadian podcast. |
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The Week We Converted to Catholicism Da Pope vs. AI, roommate discourse, and a cautionary tale about meme deployment.
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Welcome back once again to Becca Schuh’s timeline, where someone’s always up to something. While I remain Jewish, I have always loved Catholicism’s camp-maximalist aesthetic, which has never been expressed better than in this short film. Also, someone moved out and took all the spoons, and you should maybe send a screenshot of the “killing myself in front of you” meme next time.
One day, I will read the Pope’s 42,000-word manifesto against AI (maybe), but today I will simply be reading tweets celebrating it.
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We have a FABULOUS new interpersonal dispute on our hands this week: Someone is angry that their roommate moved out with their silverware, and the ratio-ers have descended. |
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The discourses have collided! |
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It just feels really unfair to me that this show exists and I was not contacted? |
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I find the concept of biking to the airport so obscene, like a novel ending with 9/11. Encouraging people to take public transit to the airport (which I will also not be doing) is one thing, but biking to a flight is a bridge too far! |
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People are very split on whether this person is insane or a documentarian for making this reference in an early dating conversation. For me, this reference is a trump card, so I have to hand it to the poster, although I do acknowledge the POV of “you’re too online, you’ve lost context.”
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Okay, I need us to get real: What are the odds we all know this guy and he is our friend? |
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I’ve had a hard time getting Katharine McPhee’s bastardized rendition of “The Best” out of my head since the Smash star turned trophy wife sang it at a fundraiser for a star of The Hills turned opportunistic Republican mayoral candidate. Which means I’ve already spent too much time thinking about how annoying it would be if a Trump-endorsed reality TV person won political office. It’s reassuring to hear, from Ed Kilgore, that this is very unlikely to transpire:
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Spencer Pratt’s candidacy may be the best thing that could have happened to Karen Bass. If he edges out Nithya Raman for a general-election spot, and even if he thrills conservatives everywhere by running first, he’s almost certainly toast against a Democrat in a general election (much like Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton). A Bass-versus-Raman general-election contest would, for obvious reasons, be quite different in tone and the outcome far less clear. |
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Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images (Edward Wing/Daily Express/Hulton Archive, Michael Ochs Archives, Gary Gershoff), PBS, Everett Collection, Courtesy of retailers, Courtesy of distributors |
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Imagine being Mandy Moore and showing your kids Tangled (she voiced Rapunzel) and having them just not be that into it! Being a parent is ego death, part infinity. But one thing her kids do love is Gardenkeeper Gus, a Canadian podcast that sounds very soothing and which I will try to get my kids into the next time we’re all trapped together on some interminable road trip:
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Anyway, the show is literally just about Gus, this 8-year-old kid who sounds like a 6-year-old kid, and he’s doing stuff like picking a pumpkin or making soup, or picking vegetables in the garden to help his mom. There’s always some sort of task that he has to do, or he’s going on a picnic with his friends. All the episodes are very sweet and very calming, and all three of my kids like them. They zone out and they get to use their imaginations. I don’t understand what happens with these podcasts that don’t get a second season, though. It feels like such a no-brainer and a low lift to do more. They’re just seven or eight minutes. I can think of ten adventures off the top of my head that Gus could go on, and it would all be wish fulfillment for me because all we’ve got now is just those 12 episodes.
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If I were Mandy Moore, I would flex my star power and executive-produce more Gardenkeeper Gus episodes; she clearly has the vision! |
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Photo: Courtesy of HBO Max |
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I’m jealous of everyone who isn’t attempting to pull off a successful 11th-birthday party this weekend. |
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A weekly dispatch on the cultural discourse. |
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https://link.nymag.com/oc/60bf85689b7a136e4b473b24rcmy3.m51/d668505d
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