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Robert Dallas Grue 🦇 @robertdallasgray.com · 10h

well well well :) https://errolshotwax.bandcamp.com/album/love-trinity

Love Trinity, by Life Without Buildings

1 track album

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Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 4h

Sometimes we as a society get so disgusted and offended by a TV commercial that the ad quickly gets pulled from the air, and friends, we need to apply that takedown energy towards the Verizon commercial where the guy at the plastic surgeon has his mouth in his chest. This is an emergency.

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Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 8h

Responding to a joke with a *different* joke can also be annoying, but there's no hard-and-fast rule for that one because: 1. Sometimes the other versions are funny. 2. I do this myself sometimes.

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Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 9h

"Assuming the piece says something it doesn't" ranks up there on the Annoying Reply Scale with "bringing up a point or reference already covered in the piece," "responding to a joke by making essentially the same joke," and "responding to any post with an unrelated gripe about The World Today."

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Robert King @robertking.bsky.social · 10h

For what it’s worth:

Speaking as a showrunner with two writers rooms going on now, this article from Ankler is insane. I don’t know who the insider is, but the reporter should call bullshit. This is a GPT press release.

The Ankler @theankler.com · 1d

The “GPT-5 pass” has gone from curiosity to mandate. Scripts, trailers, pitch decks are all being filtered through an AI model that remembers every draft and forgets what originality looks like. @erikbarmack.bsky.social on Hollywood’s uneasy reset:
theankler.com/p/run-it-thr...

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Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 11h

A few sample notes from this week's review, including a nod of appreciation for a local restaurant chain.

*There are seven Coney I-Lander locations in the Tulsa area, including one right across from my youngest’s college’s campus. I popped in there once to get something to go, but I quickly realized that it would be impossible to eat one of their chili dogs while driving home without making an ungodly mess. My kid swears by it though. So while Donald may be a shitass, when he picks the Coney I-Lander as his meetup spot with Marty, it shows he has good taste.

*Abel (Josh Fadem), the A Touch Of Vinyl proprietor, asks Lee to name his favorite movie directed by Michael Curtiz, assuming he’ll say The Boy From Oklahoma. But nah. Lee, the wannabe swashbuckler, prefers Captain Blood.

*Dale, defining himself via Jim Thompson: “A weed is a plant out of place.”

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Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 11h

For Episodic Medium subscribers, my review of this week's The Lowdown, in which Lee literally sleeps with the enemy and gets a different perspective on his investigation. www.episodicmedium.tv/review-the-l...

Review: The Lowdown, “Short On Cowboys” | Season 1, Episode 4

Lee and Betty Jo go on a sort of date, where she explains nothing is quite as it seems

www.episodicmedium.tv

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Keith Phipps @kphipps3000.bsky.social · 1d

For @theringer.com.web.brid.gy I attempted to use Apple’s new AirPods and translation app to watch foreign language films. Could they make subtitles obsolete? Well…

Could the AirPods Pro 3 Mean the End of Subtitles?

Apple’s newest headphones boast an instantaneous translation app. Let’s put them to the test in a movie theater.

www.theringer.com

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Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 1d

yup

Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 1d

It's definitely one for the Crimson Peak enjoyers (🙋) who want to hang out for a while in enormous, ornate, crumbling castles.

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Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 1d

No, you're right. They're breaking training. "Breaking Training" is the title, like "Wabbit Twouble" is the name of the Bugs Bunny cartoon. But they're not "in breaking training" the way you might say someone is "in spring training" or something similar.

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Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 1d

Did I workshop this with Donna and ask if it would be funnier if I spelled it "Pherrb"? Maybe.

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Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 1d

Watching the Finneas episode of Austin City Limits. The music is great but it is strange to see him on TV without his famous relative: Ferb.

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Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure I've told this story before on social media but when I was a kid I didn't understand that the "in" in the BNB sequel was meant to be like "Bugs Bunny in... Wabbit Twouble." I thought "Breaking Training" was the kind of training that the Bad News Bears were doing.

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Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 1d

Reading about the game this morning, it turns out that the play was Betts' idea, and that they hadn't really practiced it since spring training. www.nytimes.com/athletic/669...

Dodgers’ trust in Mookie Betts provides defining moment: Where there’s a wheel, there’s a way

The Dodgers used a rarely seen defensive scheme to thwart the Phillies' comeback hopes and take a 2-0 series lead.

www.nytimes.com

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 1d

My profile of the delightful Keri Russell, the darkly funny, surprisingly introverted former New Mickey Mouse Club member who—even after Felicity, The Americans and The Diplomat!—has never fully embraced the idea of herself as an actress: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Keri Russell’s Emotional Transparency Has Anchored Three Decades of TV

But, offscreen, she’s not even sure that she wants to be an actress.

www.newyorker.com

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Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about the successful Wheel Play the Dodgers pulled off last night and remembering how Skip Caray used to make fun of that play on Braves broadcasts, saying something like, “And for 4500th time in Major League history, a team attempts the Wheel Play, and for the 4500th time, it fails.”

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Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 1d

Born, not chosen

Comics Covers @comicscovers.bsky.social · 1d

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Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 1d

I envy you!

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Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 1d

Step One: Seal off the offices on the top floor.
Step Two: Begin targeted excursions to eliminate the walkers.
Step Three: Block the entrance with large trucks.
Step Four: Live out the rest of their days in a consumer utopia that can never be invaded or destroyed. Probably.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

In 2005, when Walmart wanted to open a store in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, residents rallied to keep it out. But Walmart found its way back to Monroeville 20 years later. Instead of building a new store, though, the retailer bought an operating mall with 120 tenants for $34 million.

Why Did Walmart Just Buy a Shopping Mall?

Walmart hasn’t said much about its plans for Monroeville Mall in Pennsylvania. But its partner has told some store owners that the mall will be demolished for a mixed-use development.

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Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 1d

a man with a beard is wearing a lanyard around his neck with the letter j on it

ALT: a man with a beard is wearing a lanyard around his neck with the letter j on it

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Chris Berube @chrisberube.bsky.social · 2d

We’ve been working very hard with @wbur.org Endless Thread on this series. It’s built for both gamers, and folks who know literally nothing about video games. The fascinating way gaming changes our world. Hope you like it!

99% Invisible @99pi.org · 2d

Hidden Levels launches tomorrow! First, we have the story of an iconic arcade sound catchphrase ⛹️‍♂️

Then on Friday, one of the most wide spread video game tools: The joystick 🕹️

Listen to Hidden Levels on the 99% Invisible or Endless Thread feeds 🎧

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Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 2d

I can't remember who it was who (accurately) described SUITS as one of those legal dramas where lawyers win arguments by barging into offices and dropping Very Important Documents on their opponents' desks.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 2d

Broken Eggs, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1756

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 2d

this is so sweet

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