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henrygandorf

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  1. eventually they'll just slim it down to one 2-hour episode but instead of it being available at home, they'll schedule it to play somewhere public where you can purchase tickets and concessions.
  2. they wait until the oscar nominees come out. i liked anora but man, a few scenes were really drawn out and hard to watch. mostly because of the screaming on top of screaming, it was like s3 of the bear. i've become really grouchy about sound in my old age. i need to carve out a theater day and go see the brutalist. i love a good intermission.
  3. so by “the old system”, we’re talking about pohler, fey, and hader? the old days were all about actors leaving to do movies. sitcoms were mostly given to stand-ups, not sketch comedy players.
  4. how deep into crypto must one be to think trump gives a shit about the emoluments clause?
  5. christ on a cracker. we’re way past fact-checking and gotcha charts. they’re going to do everything they can to point fingers because california is evil and liberal and terrible despite the ~6m trumpers that live here. and none of it is based on facts. fox news hasn’t changed their playbook in decades.
  6. you think he ate it? no, it wouldn’t come out perfect like that.
  7. are you able to control him? yes, sir, he'll be fine, i promise.
  8. aaaaand, i'll be right back.
  9. hmm, because twitter seems to imply that everybody knew this was coming and we deliberately ignored the signs and also deliberately sabotaged any infrastructure needed to fight these fires which were obviously coming at the time that everybody had marked on their calendar. it's also weird because since i've lived here (~25 years), everybody always talks about earthquakes and what's going to happen when the "big one" comes. there are real, live, functioning humans that won't live out here "because of the earthquakes". can't they just let us know when all the historic natural disasters are coming so we know who to vote for and make sure there are no minority groups involved? it's not that complicated. i blame the weathermen. sorry, "meteorologists".
  10. no, it’s near the auto center or something. overheard it on local news. wind is supposed to kick up in the next few hours. should be fun.
  11. lol, he is a chug (chihuahua+pug). i think sadat is a full pug. chuggy looks similar in the face but has regular (shorter) legs so i think he's more handsome. he also has the forehead wrinkles which make him look like he's always concerned about...something. his siblings don't have that. vet says he should stay around the 5-6 lb range which would be amazing. my wife thinks his eyebrows and resting concerned face make him look like shemar moore, but that might be a different thing happening. chuggy is a whole vibe.
  12. another option is the la belle foundation - https://www.labellefoundation.org/ https://www.instagram.com/thelabellefoundation/ they are great, but i'm biased on this. we fostered chuggy ^ and his siblings last july and kept chuggy (#fosterfail). one of our best friends adopted his brother so they get to hang out all the time. we were dogsitting the brother (snarls) last week when we evacuated, but timed it perfectly to get to his place in marina del rey right when he got back in town. they've got a huge following and have already gotten a bunch of help. several celebrities have fostered/adopted from there so they have a big presence on ig. glen powell's dog brisket is from la belle. the problem is that other shelters who get dozens of dogs (and other animals) rely on them pretty heavily and they're a small operation. we get occasional texts like "are you interested in a new lab puppy for 2-3 weeks?" last week we got an email that said something like "we have 225+ new dogs and cats, send help." we dropped a bunch of beds, toys, pee pads, and other assorted stuff we either purchased or had leftover from the chaos of fostering 3 puppies at once. long story short, they're local, they do a good job, and they take in animals from about 12-15 different shelters (and that was before the fires). our pups were dumped at some shithole shelter in kern county at 3 days old and somehow made their way to la belle (west la). i can't imagine the shit going on over there, but on their instagram they were like "we have bunnies now!" so who knows. bottom line, you can go on amazon and order them pet supplies and it will get used asap. sometimes that can be better than sending $, especially if you're worried about a % disappearing, which unfortunately is a real issue.
  13. to properly explain what it was like yesterday when the evacuation notice was legit - while we were packing, my phone and my wife's phone got simultaneous alerts (like an amber alert). at the same time, both our phones were ringing and our landline was ringing. yes, we have a landline. if you're familiar with west wing, there's a scene where will bailey is still living in a hotel, and they need him to get back to the white house at like 2am. toby decides he should get the full white house treatment. while he slept, his cell phone rang, his hotel phone rang, his pager went off, and a guy from the front desk was pounding on his door saying he had white house operator on the line. it was pretty much like that.
  14. la alert system just sent errant message to millions of people that they were in an evacuation zone. then had to issue an alert that it was a mistake. it was only meant for kenneth fire area. i'm sure twitter is having fun with it.
  15. not voting for newsom. from what i understand, he single-handedly caused this. all of the bonkers candidates who ran against him in the recall would’ve had this handled with a few rakes.
  16. signing off from marina del rey. i grabbed 3 bottles of bourbon, my wife packed for a month, and we had 2 puppies with us. fun field trip but hoping to return in the am. sunset fire somehow went nw which was lucky.
  17. for july 4th, 2024, we went to a restaurant on the beach, ubered to my cousin's in the palisades, then walked with half of the party to the high school up the street to watch fireworks. 6 months later all 3 are gone. this is also one of those frustrating situations where everyone "wants to help" but the best thing for everybody to do (assuming you're not evacuating), is to stay home to let others get where they need to go. pretty helpless feeling. we're donating to a couple of animal shelters because they're about to get inundated by animals running out of the woods. apologies if that's political.
  18. “seems pretty foolish for a state to be unprepared for a worst-case scenario weather event.” -texas people as temps drop
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