Signings, mea culpas that may go too far, a plea for much-needed aid, some intriguing real estate, a stupid murderer, Ron DeSantis is about to get run over, career tropes, and "Slow Horses"
I’m an eccentric movie/TV tinkerer who happens across a way to send myself back in time so that I can do stuff like having a beer with Beethoven, seeing if Babe Ruth really did call his shot, and arranging the purchase of dozens of copies of Spider-Man #1.
Mets also signed Tomas Nido to an extension into 2024, thus finishing out his arbitration years. As the team is grooming Alvarez to possibly be the day to day catcher, I would guess this signing is mainly insurance that the team has, if nothing else, a decent backstop in case things don't go right. He's not much of a hitter but the pitchers seem to like him, which I hear matters. As for Pham, I think this is a placeholder move until the Mets see what their prospects can do, and who among those prospects might be tradeable for a better bat.
My current job is "board coordinator" and I am not sure that would even be a thing in a movie. My old job was publicist at a museum, and in the movies I would be far more glamorous than I ever was, hobnobbing with world famous artists, telling off critics in public and getting applauded, and supervising a cadre of Pretty People of all genders in order to get the museum's name in the paper.
I would say that the murdered in question here is Jason Mendoza levels of stupid, but Jason would never murder someone.
Ha! My sister helped me get rid of a persistent Jehovah's Witness like that--after she opened the door wearing a negligee and a smile he never returned.
Had the JWs stop by when I first bought my house. When I opened the door and they saw a 75 pound pit bull barking, suddenly making sure I got a copy of the watchtower wasn’t so important.
Really, she was barking because she wanted her new friends on the front porch to come pet her. But they didn’t know that.
The interesting thing is that more people are bitten by small dogs, but those.dont get the attention because no matter how badly a papillon wants to rip your arm off and beat you with it there's only so much a dog the size of a rabbit can do. While a larger dog such as one of the pittie group, Rottweiler, or German Shepherd had larger jaws and bigger teeth and even an accidental bite can send someone to the emergency room.
Also the owners of small dogs sometimes aren't as diligent about teaching them manners. If you have a Labrador puppy you know it will get to 80-ish pounds and can't be allowed to body-slam guests, but if at full extension a tiny dog will get halfway to the knee of even a short adult, there isn't the same desire to teach no jumping when they are little.
That’s why there are front door peepholes. I’ve stopped answering the doorbell when I see anybody out there holding a clipboard or wearing Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes.
I take the opposite route. I tell then I am a nudist and if they want to come in and talk they must remove their clothes as well. No one has ever opted in to this.
Rest of the story--he would show up like clockwork on Saturday or Sunday morning with his 10-year-old son (I suspect that kept people from being outright rude to him). I told my sister about this, and she said "I'll fix that." Now, my sister often wore a t-shirt that said "Don't stare, grow your own." So you get the idea.
She answered the door in a negligee, and the JW guy started his spiel with his eyes firmly fixed on hers. His son? not so much. Sis responded "I'm a sex maniac, would you like to come in and talk about it?" He left, never to return . . . and I could finally break out laughing (I'd been hiding off to one side while this was going on).
I was watching a UFC's Best Knockouts! DVD with Slayer playing loudly in the background while I was cleaning my living room when JWs knocked on my door. They've never been back.
I have a fail proof tactic of getting rid of them. So much so, I'm fairly certain I'm on a "do not return list" as they haven't been back to the house since this happened several years ago (they used to show up quarterly).
~ Answer the door and greet them warmly.
~ Allow them to talk for about 3 - 5 minutes while being fully engaged.
~ Interrupt them with a puzzled look and the greatest sincerity.
~ Excuse my ignorance but I have been confused about something for the longest time.
~ JW: Sure, I'm happy to answer your question(s)
~ Unless I'm mistaken, don't Jehovah's Witnesses believe a very select amount of Christians get to Heaven? Isn't it something like 4,000, 40,000 or 400,000?
~ JW: Yes...based upon Revelation 14:1-4 (or something along the lines of you are somewhat correct)
~ Well, if you recruit me...doesn't that hurt your chances?
Lol! A former office manager of mine is married to a JW and I have a vendor who is a JW. Snark is very much allowed based upon these two individuals. The look on their faces when I asked about the competition thing almost makes me wish for their return.
When I delivered pizzas for a year after my second kid was born and money was really, really tight, I had a few deliveries, usually around around midnight, to young women in various states of intoxication and undress. For the record I never accepted any offer they made in lieu of a tip.
I work in election administration. They don’t make movies about us.
I’m also a widower, though… I wear flannel shirts and jeans and a slightly graying stubble - attractive in a sort of lived-in way. I have a beautiful single neighbor my own age who’s always coming by with meals or cookies and obviously has the hots for me but I’m totally oblivious. I’m a wise but affable and gentle presence in my kids’ lives - though occasionally at family gatherings I will stare thoughtfully into the distance until someone says “what’s the matter, Dad?” at which point I’ll smile tearfully and say “your Mom would have loved this.”
Or, "Bulldog", the story of a patriotic former Marine commander and bear of a man, Brett Hawthorne, who went undercover in the Georgia elections commission and found 11,780 votes for President Trump. However, a blue-haired, AOC shirt-wearing election worker with hipster glasses (played by Rob Schneider) walked in just at the moment Hawthorne made the discovery. The election worker smashed the giant red alarm button conveniently next to him on the wall before Hawthorne whipped out his AR-15 and heroically mowed him down.
Hawthorne then made a daring escape from the Georgia elections offices in which he used his gun to blast through waves of dark-skinned, terrorist election workers who were trying to silence him so the Deep State wouldn't be exposed.
He reached the roof of the building where his partner, Mary Tamper-Greeley (played by Gina Carano), was waiting in a running helicopter. But suddenly he felt a gun on the back of his head. He turned around - it was the devil herself, Stacey Abrams (played by Ineitha Lynnette Hardaway) - with Anthony Fauci (played by Kid Rock) by her side with an evil grin on his face.
"Hand them over," she demanded. Hawthorne slowly handed her the envelope and she snatched it from his hand. "You'll never stop us from destroying America."
It was then that Hawthorne saw his chance, and punched her in the throat. He sprinted for the chopper, grabbed hold of the dangling rope ladder, and he and Tamper-Greeley started to fly away. He climbed on board, and Tamper-Greeley looked at him as if he had failed the mission. Then, with a slow smirk forming on his face, he pulled out the REAL envelope with the 11,780 Trump votes. What he gave Abrams was a fake!
They flew the votes straight down to Mar-a-Lago and personally delivered them to Trump, saving America and exposing the Deep State in the process.
I read the first 2 paragraphs and was composing a reply about Gina Carano as the love interest in my head. Brilliant. Just brilliant. Pretty sure you could sell the script to Ben Shapiro.
I'd like to sign up to write the sequel where we find out that the Obamas are in charge of the Illuminati, and Hawthrone and Tamper-Greeley team up with Q, played by Jon Voight, to defeat the dastardly libs once and for all.
Edit to add. Still amazed that Carano threw away Star Wars money because she wanted to be an asshole on twitter. Just a spectacular case of when keepin' it real goes wrong.
Haha, just in case anyone reading this isn't aware - "Brett Hawthorne" is the patriotic, macho main character in Ben Shapiro's hilariously terrible book "True Allegiance". Just Google it for some entertaining dunking on Shapiro for how absurdly bad that book and Shapiro's writing is.
My version is "Vox Populi"- where D (John Cusack) a bookish, middle-aged, quippy but otherwise unassuming electiongeek/adjunct professor, is brought in by the FBI to assist with an investigation into the gruesome (Se7en-esque) murders of several prominent election deniers.
Eventually, D and the young female agent assigned to the case (thanks to some amazing insights from D but without any romantic attraction, which would be creepy) identify a suspect and slowly close the vise. They confront the suspect, who shoots and kills the FBI agent but is suddenly disarmed and held at gunpoint by D, who elicits a confession about his other crimes and forces him to name his co-conspirators around the country.
Then - in a twist! - D confesses that *he's* been the killer all along: "election people are my family - and nobody hurts my family" ... and thanks to this new list of names, there's now more work to be done. He then kills Suspect (making it look like he and the agent shot each other) and tells the FBI that Suspect confessed to the previous murders.
In the denouement, the supervising agent thanks him for his help in closing the case and walks away ... as D takes the list of names out his pocket and smiles ever so slightly.
Roll credits as a remake of The Police's "Murder by Numbers" by Frank Turner plays.
Hey! I last saw the Stones in 2021 on a formula one race track, not a football stadium. You take that back (shakes fist in the air in mock indignation)...
Frank Lloyd Wright’s history aligns with your interests, Craig. When I toured Taliesin, his home and studio in rural Wisconsin, I learned his first wife and family were axe murdered by a disgruntled employee.
There is a fascinating if rambly book about Wright, the murders, the connection between that event and the Tulsa riots against the Black community, and other things.
i was really hoping that the TV/Film doc person would finally debunk the whole "AED Restarts the heart" thing we often see on TV when in fact it does the complete opposite, it corrects an existing errant heartbeat. CLEAR! :) lol Makes for good TV tho
I'm an accountant. No one makes a movie starring an accountant (The Producers almost counts, but the accountant isn't the main character).
If I'm portrayed in a movie, I'm in the background with a green eyeshade and only appear just in time to hand the key character a paper showing that (1) his business partner is cheating him or (2) that the business he is about to buy has been cooking the books.
Umm, I've actually done that. Seriously, after 40 years of practice, I could sometimes spot the discrepancy in seconds. I remember one quality assurance review where I looked at a list of clients, chose one, said "bring me this file," and the response was "how did you know to pick that one?!" Yep, there were problems.
Now, could I have done that as a 20-or 30-year-old? Nope. And movies don't star 55-year-old accountants.
I was so hoping that I'd be able to use my experience on DJT's returns, but I've retired now. That would have been fun, although I'd probably would have had to delete my social media accounts once my name was associated with the analysis.
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Hahaha, I was going to mention green eyeshades and arm garters. (also Ben Affleck - I agree, another accountant friend and I watched it and did enjoy it)
OH! Also, if you have not watched Welcome to Chippendales on Hulu, there is a scene in, I think, the second episode, where the woman who ends up being his wife/accountant does some cost savings monologue and I literally pounded my fists on the couch over how awesome it was.
I feel like in movie world, accountant is shorthand for boring middle class suburban ennui. You almost certainly wear Dockers and bore people to death talking about annuities in a bad date montage.
Generally true, but I was a tax accountant specializing in estate planning and philanthropy. Usually I'd get asked for advice on loopholes and/or tax shelters.
That's why the law firm scenes in "Better Call Saul" -- NOT Saul's scenes, but Chuck/Howard's firm -- are so great. It's all about document review and difficult partner/associate dynamics. The most realistic depiction of law firm life I've ever seen on TV.
Obvs not a lawyer, but I found the courtroom scenes in "The Night Of" to be refreshing in that the lawyers didn't seem overly rehearsed and prone to dramatic monologs.
The Stupid Murder reminds me of the first trial I covered as a reporter in 1985. A Galesburg, IL jury sentenced Dr. Antonio SantaMaria to life in prison for murdering his wife. After killing her, the Butcher of Galesburg sliced her body in a bathtub and stored parts of her body in a freezer and the rest in the backyard. He tried to pulverize her skull in a food processor and then returned the appliance at a nearby Sears. When the clerk asked for a reason, the doctor said, "My wife didn't like it."
There are a dozen Hallmark/Lifetime Christmas movies in which the main character writes for some lifestyle website or whatever and spends weeks -- with a travel budget! -- to do a "top ten cute B&Bs" post or whatever the hell.
I worked with somebody years ago that quit when she got a writing gig at a magazine called Caribbean Life, or something like that. For about the first year after she left she always emailed us with hew newest article that she wrote after spending a week at the Sandals resort on Jamaica, or whatever.
My favorite is the "undercover" blogger whose relationship hits a bump when the other party discovers the truth: that they are secretly reviewing their (usually widowed) parent's business, which could be ruined if it's a bad one. Later on, a friend shares the blogger's glowing article with the (sad) adult child ... who turns to pick up their phone to call the blogger - AND THEY'RE STANDING RIGHT THERE.
All the time. Writer is one of the most popular tv occupations. Except no one is writing boring stuff for an obscure trade magazine or link farms because they need to pay the bills. It’s all giant open plan offices and your blog changes the world.
Slow Horaes is incredibly entertaining. Then again, I'll watch anything featuring Gary Oldman and Kirstin Scott Thomas.
As for DeSantis,he might have done the dumbest thing imaginable, as he just dropped ties with Susan Wiles, the best political operative in Florida. She delivered victories there for Trump, Scott, and DeSantis and now she's gone back to work for Trump, which could explain why the combed-over caudillo is still up by 17 points in the state.
Whenever people talk about how the GQP has moved on and they want a "smart" Trumper like DeSantis or Hawley or (gag) Cruz all I ever think is none of those people have "it". Not even the most fox news addicted boomer would storm the capitol because Ron DeSantis told them to.
I've been taking bets with anyone who thinks Trump is done. Already won the layup by betting with someone who said he wouldn't even run again. He's going to wipe the floor with the rest of the GOP candidates. Here's hoping Biden's eye doesn't explode again.
I mean, they're the same people who donate to right wing candidates because they think it's easier for them to beat the most far right people. These are the same people who cleared the decks for Hillary because they swore she was the best candidate and wanted to run against Trump because they thought there was no way he'd win.
The Democrats! Making sound political decisions since they abandoned the working class in the nineties.
I share Craig's love for Slow Horses. Minor quibble that Jackson Lamb is fat in the books. He's a pig and both dismissive of his charges and protective of them. Oldman is perfect on those scores. This is fun TV.
I once worked in a used bookstore. Famous actresses would regularly come in and swoon over my nebbish charm and ability to find any book ever published.
Does your face occasionally go blank when you think as numbers, Greek letters, random graphs and images float around your head?
Well, they got the impossibly good looking part right at least. I'm assuming. As far as we know at least, so if I were you I'd go with it.
Forgot the part where you lecture about bullshit for 5 minutes and then say see y'all next week.
I’m an eccentric movie/TV tinkerer who happens across a way to send myself back in time so that I can do stuff like having a beer with Beethoven, seeing if Babe Ruth really did call his shot, and arranging the purchase of dozens of copies of Spider-Man #1.
I like your priorities. May as well have a beer (or three) with The Babe while you're at it.
Mets also signed Tomas Nido to an extension into 2024, thus finishing out his arbitration years. As the team is grooming Alvarez to possibly be the day to day catcher, I would guess this signing is mainly insurance that the team has, if nothing else, a decent backstop in case things don't go right. He's not much of a hitter but the pitchers seem to like him, which I hear matters. As for Pham, I think this is a placeholder move until the Mets see what their prospects can do, and who among those prospects might be tradeable for a better bat.
My current job is "board coordinator" and I am not sure that would even be a thing in a movie. My old job was publicist at a museum, and in the movies I would be far more glamorous than I ever was, hobnobbing with world famous artists, telling off critics in public and getting applauded, and supervising a cadre of Pretty People of all genders in order to get the museum's name in the paper.
I would say that the murdered in question here is Jason Mendoza levels of stupid, but Jason would never murder someone.
I'm a cable repairman. When I show up for a call, there is a young woman pointing at a TV with static. I fix cable, because I am the best.
For a minute I thought you were going to say she opened the door and was wearing a negligee - different genre I guess…..
Ha! My sister helped me get rid of a persistent Jehovah's Witness like that--after she opened the door wearing a negligee and a smile he never returned.
Had the JWs stop by when I first bought my house. When I opened the door and they saw a 75 pound pit bull barking, suddenly making sure I got a copy of the watchtower wasn’t so important.
Really, she was barking because she wanted her new friends on the front porch to come pet her. But they didn’t know that.
My baby is 60 pounds and doesn't bark much but very much wants to meet the new friends for pets and to sit on their feet while they scritch her ears.
But of course she's a pittie so they don't know that either. Works for me, I can take a walk at any hour and don't ever worry about creeps.
Pits get such a bad rap. I had friends who raised a pit from a puppy and she was sweet as pie to me.
The interesting thing is that more people are bitten by small dogs, but those.dont get the attention because no matter how badly a papillon wants to rip your arm off and beat you with it there's only so much a dog the size of a rabbit can do. While a larger dog such as one of the pittie group, Rottweiler, or German Shepherd had larger jaws and bigger teeth and even an accidental bite can send someone to the emergency room.
Also the owners of small dogs sometimes aren't as diligent about teaching them manners. If you have a Labrador puppy you know it will get to 80-ish pounds and can't be allowed to body-slam guests, but if at full extension a tiny dog will get halfway to the knee of even a short adult, there isn't the same desire to teach no jumping when they are little.
That’s why there are front door peepholes. I’ve stopped answering the doorbell when I see anybody out there holding a clipboard or wearing Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes.
Phenomenal stuff !
I take the opposite route. I tell then I am a nudist and if they want to come in and talk they must remove their clothes as well. No one has ever opted in to this.
I just tell them I’m an evolutionary biologist , but I’m pretty sure that seeing me semi-naked would do the trick as well
That was somewhat a dangerous game on your sister's part. He could have begun ringing her doorbell more often, not less.
Rest of the story--he would show up like clockwork on Saturday or Sunday morning with his 10-year-old son (I suspect that kept people from being outright rude to him). I told my sister about this, and she said "I'll fix that." Now, my sister often wore a t-shirt that said "Don't stare, grow your own." So you get the idea.
She answered the door in a negligee, and the JW guy started his spiel with his eyes firmly fixed on hers. His son? not so much. Sis responded "I'm a sex maniac, would you like to come in and talk about it?" He left, never to return . . . and I could finally break out laughing (I'd been hiding off to one side while this was going on).
I was watching a UFC's Best Knockouts! DVD with Slayer playing loudly in the background while I was cleaning my living room when JWs knocked on my door. They've never been back.
I suppose that could go one of two ways.
I have a fail proof tactic of getting rid of them. So much so, I'm fairly certain I'm on a "do not return list" as they haven't been back to the house since this happened several years ago (they used to show up quarterly).
~ Answer the door and greet them warmly.
~ Allow them to talk for about 3 - 5 minutes while being fully engaged.
~ Interrupt them with a puzzled look and the greatest sincerity.
~ Excuse my ignorance but I have been confused about something for the longest time.
~ JW: Sure, I'm happy to answer your question(s)
~ Unless I'm mistaken, don't Jehovah's Witnesses believe a very select amount of Christians get to Heaven? Isn't it something like 4,000, 40,000 or 400,000?
~ JW: Yes...based upon Revelation 14:1-4 (or something along the lines of you are somewhat correct)
~ Well, if you recruit me...doesn't that hurt your chances?
WORKS! LIKE! A! CHAMP!
Lol! A former office manager of mine is married to a JW and I have a vendor who is a JW. Snark is very much allowed based upon these two individuals. The look on their faces when I asked about the competition thing almost makes me wish for their return.
When I delivered pizzas for a year after my second kid was born and money was really, really tight, I had a few deliveries, usually around around midnight, to young women in various states of intoxication and undress. For the record I never accepted any offer they made in lieu of a tip.
Almost a ‘Loverboy’ type situation
Extra anchovies FTW!
Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey
I was looking for this comment and the group didn't disappoint.
I work in election administration. They don’t make movies about us.
I’m also a widower, though… I wear flannel shirts and jeans and a slightly graying stubble - attractive in a sort of lived-in way. I have a beautiful single neighbor my own age who’s always coming by with meals or cookies and obviously has the hots for me but I’m totally oblivious. I’m a wise but affable and gentle presence in my kids’ lives - though occasionally at family gatherings I will stare thoughtfully into the distance until someone says “what’s the matter, Dad?” at which point I’ll smile tearfully and say “your Mom would have loved this.”
PS They 100% bought Coppolella’s silence.
"Vote," the story of one man who stood up to the antidemocratic right and saved the election single handed, starting Chris Evans.
I am America’s ass - though not in the way you think ;)
Or, "Bulldog", the story of a patriotic former Marine commander and bear of a man, Brett Hawthorne, who went undercover in the Georgia elections commission and found 11,780 votes for President Trump. However, a blue-haired, AOC shirt-wearing election worker with hipster glasses (played by Rob Schneider) walked in just at the moment Hawthorne made the discovery. The election worker smashed the giant red alarm button conveniently next to him on the wall before Hawthorne whipped out his AR-15 and heroically mowed him down.
Hawthorne then made a daring escape from the Georgia elections offices in which he used his gun to blast through waves of dark-skinned, terrorist election workers who were trying to silence him so the Deep State wouldn't be exposed.
He reached the roof of the building where his partner, Mary Tamper-Greeley (played by Gina Carano), was waiting in a running helicopter. But suddenly he felt a gun on the back of his head. He turned around - it was the devil herself, Stacey Abrams (played by Ineitha Lynnette Hardaway) - with Anthony Fauci (played by Kid Rock) by her side with an evil grin on his face.
"Hand them over," she demanded. Hawthorne slowly handed her the envelope and she snatched it from his hand. "You'll never stop us from destroying America."
It was then that Hawthorne saw his chance, and punched her in the throat. He sprinted for the chopper, grabbed hold of the dangling rope ladder, and he and Tamper-Greeley started to fly away. He climbed on board, and Tamper-Greeley looked at him as if he had failed the mission. Then, with a slow smirk forming on his face, he pulled out the REAL envelope with the 11,780 Trump votes. What he gave Abrams was a fake!
They flew the votes straight down to Mar-a-Lago and personally delivered them to Trump, saving America and exposing the Deep State in the process.
Starring Kevin Sorbo as Brett Hawthorne.
I read the first 2 paragraphs and was composing a reply about Gina Carano as the love interest in my head. Brilliant. Just brilliant. Pretty sure you could sell the script to Ben Shapiro.
I'd like to sign up to write the sequel where we find out that the Obamas are in charge of the Illuminati, and Hawthrone and Tamper-Greeley team up with Q, played by Jon Voight, to defeat the dastardly libs once and for all.
Edit to add. Still amazed that Carano threw away Star Wars money because she wanted to be an asshole on twitter. Just a spectacular case of when keepin' it real goes wrong.
Haha, just in case anyone reading this isn't aware - "Brett Hawthorne" is the patriotic, macho main character in Ben Shapiro's hilariously terrible book "True Allegiance". Just Google it for some entertaining dunking on Shapiro for how absurdly bad that book and Shapiro's writing is.
My version is "Vox Populi"- where D (John Cusack) a bookish, middle-aged, quippy but otherwise unassuming electiongeek/adjunct professor, is brought in by the FBI to assist with an investigation into the gruesome (Se7en-esque) murders of several prominent election deniers.
Eventually, D and the young female agent assigned to the case (thanks to some amazing insights from D but without any romantic attraction, which would be creepy) identify a suspect and slowly close the vise. They confront the suspect, who shoots and kills the FBI agent but is suddenly disarmed and held at gunpoint by D, who elicits a confession about his other crimes and forces him to name his co-conspirators around the country.
Then - in a twist! - D confesses that *he's* been the killer all along: "election people are my family - and nobody hurts my family" ... and thanks to this new list of names, there's now more work to be done. He then kills Suspect (making it look like he and the agent shot each other) and tells the FBI that Suspect confessed to the previous murders.
In the denouement, the supervising agent thanks him for his help in closing the case and walks away ... as D takes the list of names out his pocket and smiles ever so slightly.
Roll credits as a remake of The Police's "Murder by Numbers" by Frank Turner plays.
The only furniture that looks comfortable in that house is around the pool.
Can we talk about that sad bar? $9 million house and you’ve got Cuervo and Canadian club on the shelf? Come on
Hey! I last saw the Stones in 2021 on a formula one race track, not a football stadium. You take that back (shakes fist in the air in mock indignation)...
Frank Lloyd Wright’s history aligns with your interests, Craig. When I toured Taliesin, his home and studio in rural Wisconsin, I learned his first wife and family were axe murdered by a disgruntled employee.
There is a fascinating if rambly book about Wright, the murders, the connection between that event and the Tulsa riots against the Black community, and other things.
https://www.amazon.com/Plagued-Fire-Dreams-Furies-Wright/dp/0385353650
What is the state of California doing for the farmers ?
“What are the Republicans in the House doing for the farmers?”
Great question as well. It seems California has money to burn so I brought the state up first.
Actually I put the question in quotes, because it is such a minor issue compared to Hunter Biden’s laptop or the Deep State infiltration of the FBI
Or making sure the US defaults on its loans so you can kill the most popular social safety nets in American history.
eh turns out a projected surplus is now a ~20b deficit whoops
i was really hoping that the TV/Film doc person would finally debunk the whole "AED Restarts the heart" thing we often see on TV when in fact it does the complete opposite, it corrects an existing errant heartbeat. CLEAR! :) lol Makes for good TV tho
*Repeatedly slams closed fist on chest* "LIVE, DAMN YOU!"
Slow Horses/Gary Oldman is sublime.
I read the books first and they’re great, but Oldman is so brilliant. Playing against his George Smiley persona, he leaves no scenery unchewed!
I’m on the third book right now and it is great. Loving Oldman as well.
I'm an accountant. No one makes a movie starring an accountant (The Producers almost counts, but the accountant isn't the main character).
If I'm portrayed in a movie, I'm in the background with a green eyeshade and only appear just in time to hand the key character a paper showing that (1) his business partner is cheating him or (2) that the business he is about to buy has been cooking the books.
You must not have seen the Ben Affleck/Anna Kendrick movie called “The Accountant”. Not a bad little action movie.
Hmm, I should check that out--even if I end up laughing at times. Thanks for the idea.
Seconded. That's a great little movie, and not really what you think it will be going into it.
Don't forget that you can scan a 10-page list of transactions and, within seconds, spot the one that "doesn't look right."
Umm, I've actually done that. Seriously, after 40 years of practice, I could sometimes spot the discrepancy in seconds. I remember one quality assurance review where I looked at a list of clients, chose one, said "bring me this file," and the response was "how did you know to pick that one?!" Yep, there were problems.
Now, could I have done that as a 20-or 30-year-old? Nope. And movies don't star 55-year-old accountants.
This is my genuinely impressed face.
I was so hoping that I'd be able to use my experience on DJT's returns, but I've retired now. That would have been fun, although I'd probably would have had to delete my social media accounts once my name was associated with the analysis.
Midnight Run with Deniro , and Charles Grodin playing a mob accountant. Hilarious, but don’t watch if you’re put off by nonstop swearing 🤬
How did I forget about that? Only one of my favourite movies.
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Does Ozark count?
Hahaha, I was going to mention green eyeshades and arm garters. (also Ben Affleck - I agree, another accountant friend and I watched it and did enjoy it)
OH! Also, if you have not watched Welcome to Chippendales on Hulu, there is a scene in, I think, the second episode, where the woman who ends up being his wife/accountant does some cost savings monologue and I literally pounded my fists on the couch over how awesome it was.
I feel like in movie world, accountant is shorthand for boring middle class suburban ennui. You almost certainly wear Dockers and bore people to death talking about annuities in a bad date montage.
Generally true, but I was a tax accountant specializing in estate planning and philanthropy. Usually I'd get asked for advice on loopholes and/or tax shelters.
I refuse to watch lawyer shows because they make being a lawyer look fun and exciting and sexy. And I just cannot abide something that unrealistic.
That's why the law firm scenes in "Better Call Saul" -- NOT Saul's scenes, but Chuck/Howard's firm -- are so great. It's all about document review and difficult partner/associate dynamics. The most realistic depiction of law firm life I've ever seen on TV.
Junior associates buried amidst full bankers boxes and empty pizza boxes at 2 am. That was the life.
That’s a good idea for twitter. What’s the most realistic depiction of your profession on tv. I’ve heard doctors say it’s Scrubs.
Obvs not a lawyer, but I found the courtroom scenes in "The Night Of" to be refreshing in that the lawyers didn't seem overly rehearsed and prone to dramatic monologs.
The Stupid Murder reminds me of the first trial I covered as a reporter in 1985. A Galesburg, IL jury sentenced Dr. Antonio SantaMaria to life in prison for murdering his wife. After killing her, the Butcher of Galesburg sliced her body in a bathtub and stored parts of her body in a freezer and the rest in the backyard. He tried to pulverize her skull in a food processor and then returned the appliance at a nearby Sears. When the clerk asked for a reason, the doctor said, "My wife didn't like it."
Are bloggers actually portrayed in movies and on TV?
There are a dozen Hallmark/Lifetime Christmas movies in which the main character writes for some lifestyle website or whatever and spends weeks -- with a travel budget! -- to do a "top ten cute B&Bs" post or whatever the hell.
Sounds like the writers are fantasizing about the job they'd really like to have!
I worked with somebody years ago that quit when she got a writing gig at a magazine called Caribbean Life, or something like that. For about the first year after she left she always emailed us with hew newest article that she wrote after spending a week at the Sandals resort on Jamaica, or whatever.
My favorite is the "undercover" blogger whose relationship hits a bump when the other party discovers the truth: that they are secretly reviewing their (usually widowed) parent's business, which could be ruined if it's a bad one. Later on, a friend shares the blogger's glowing article with the (sad) adult child ... who turns to pick up their phone to call the blogger - AND THEY'RE STANDING RIGHT THERE.
Um, I mean, so I've heard.
And you've actually seen these dozen Hallmark movies, Craig??
I've seen the opening scenes to them when Allison was watching them at which point I excuse myself.
Okay, I will accept that answer. I thought we might have lost you there, son.
All the time. Writer is one of the most popular tv occupations. Except no one is writing boring stuff for an obscure trade magazine or link farms because they need to pay the bills. It’s all giant open plan offices and your blog changes the world.
Slow Horaes is incredibly entertaining. Then again, I'll watch anything featuring Gary Oldman and Kirstin Scott Thomas.
As for DeSantis,he might have done the dumbest thing imaginable, as he just dropped ties with Susan Wiles, the best political operative in Florida. She delivered victories there for Trump, Scott, and DeSantis and now she's gone back to work for Trump, which could explain why the combed-over caudillo is still up by 17 points in the state.
Whenever people talk about how the GQP has moved on and they want a "smart" Trumper like DeSantis or Hawley or (gag) Cruz all I ever think is none of those people have "it". Not even the most fox news addicted boomer would storm the capitol because Ron DeSantis told them to.
Plus we've seen that all Hawley can do is run away.
I've been taking bets with anyone who thinks Trump is done. Already won the layup by betting with someone who said he wouldn't even run again. He's going to wipe the floor with the rest of the GOP candidates. Here's hoping Biden's eye doesn't explode again.
It’s so sad that Democrats want Trump to run because they don’t think they’re beatable against DeSantis.
I mean, they're the same people who donate to right wing candidates because they think it's easier for them to beat the most far right people. These are the same people who cleared the decks for Hillary because they swore she was the best candidate and wanted to run against Trump because they thought there was no way he'd win.
The Democrats! Making sound political decisions since they abandoned the working class in the nineties.
DeSantis isn't built for a long campaign. He will self-destruct. He is too thin-skinned.
I share Craig's love for Slow Horses. Minor quibble that Jackson Lamb is fat in the books. He's a pig and both dismissive of his charges and protective of them. Oldman is perfect on those scores. This is fun TV.
I once worked in a used bookstore. Famous actresses would regularly come in and swoon over my nebbish charm and ability to find any book ever published.
If you wandered down the road as "Ain't No Sunshine" plays in the background, well, you've lived a charmed life, friend.