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"Where are my children? I am a father in Hawaii--"

C+! And a packed house with a C+ audience! I love you guys, and so does MAH WIFE!!!!!

I'm trying to find the people from DC who gave my wife their extra ticket tonight so she could come watch the show with me. Please let me know if you're here! I wanted to connect and thank you personally! You are the greatest!!!!!

I just saw this on the Sketchfest website: SOLD OUT -- Tickets may be available at the door night-of. See http://sfsketchfest.com/x/how-to-purchase/ for info. It sounds semi-promising for those who live in the area...

My 5 year old niece pulled a "Hollywood Facts" in the car the other day when we picked her up for Christmas at our house. She got caught in a 20 minute loop of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town." By the end, there were tears streaming down my face from trying to suppress my laughter. I kept thinking, she can't go another round, no here she goes!

I had really hoped someone (and imagined it would be June) would talk about how May Day is the actual hero of this film. Sure, Bond grappled (sloooooowly) with Zorin and shoved him to his death, but he wasn't up to the level of May Day's sacrifice which saved the lives of millions of people. Which made me all the more irritated that we had to spend the rest of the movie with Stacey and her impractical heels and her James!ing and her helplessness. The movie was over for me when May Day (in her practical and stylish thigh-high boots) made the ultimate sacrifice. Please remake Rosencrantz-and-Guildenstern-style with May Day as the main character!!!

May Day = Jesus

/watching A View to a Kill/ Why did they make that one Muppet out of leather?

I do know Mo, and I know that he has worked his ass off for years to get where he is today. Feel free to criticize where he is in his career, but don't be unfair about it. The man works hard!

This completely made my week!!! I have never been more excited for a new podcast in my life! SO GOOOOOD

Just finished watching Tyler Perry's Temptation. June is going to find this UPSETTING... /watches Last Temptation of Christ as palate-cleanser/

The actor who played the sister on Growing Pains, Tracey Gold, also had an eating disorder, though, obviously, she was not Kirk Cameron's real sister...

Netflix suggested Last Temptation of Christ when I did a search (in addition to Tyler Perry's Temptation). Would that work as a substitute? [Also just trying to play it cool that Paul read my post about Glitter and my drunken memory thereof. But I assure you, I fuh-reaked out and sent an all-caps message to my wife about it...]

Okay, so the movie ended. (And if you look at the timestamps, it looks like I spent three full days watching this trash, which isn't true. It only felt like three days.) A few thoughts about the movie: 1. It seems like thinly-veiled autobiography, which accounts for the one-dimensional characters (wanting to protect the characters' feelings as though they were real people) and the lack of tension (an unexamined life leading to a lack of clarity about the central drama of the story). I looked into her life, and there are some definite parallels: Mariah Carey's parents got divorced and she stayed with her mother, and her father (a successful musician) left her and another sibling (and he took another sibling with him, which I'm sure made matters worse). She also married Tommy Mottola, her producer/label exec/impresario, as they said. They had split up by the time Glitter came out. (Which is maybe why the Producer/Love Interest in Glitter was the only one in the whole movie with a real conflict. And why it was okay for him to die?) 2. I wanted to see more Eric Benet. There must be more footage of him on the cutting room floor. I know that people are clamoring for alternate versions of this movie! Let's see one that is Eric Benet doing his job and being humble and unobtrusive and just making music, in a drama-free way, which is technically what the characters are all supposed to be doing for a living. 3. Speaking of alternate versions, I would like to see a Louise and Roxanne cut. (Maybe some more of those classic improvised scenes???) I don't know if it was intentional or if it was created by Da Brat's butch vibe, but those two were a couple, right? 4. In re: Billie, Louise, and Roxanne in an orphanage(?). While CPS has its problems, there is no way they would have left Billie in an orphanage (?) if her dad were still alive. He would have to terminate parental rights, which it seems like they were setting up that he would do, with him rejecting her early. BUT: then what CPS does is go and look for other relatives: grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, older siblings/half-siblings. Family members are often willing to raise a child if the parents are unwilling/unable to. And finally, in New York in the 1970s, these kids would've been in foster care. Maybe they would've gotten to live together in the same foster home, though that's unlikely since they weren't related to one another, but there is no way that they would have stayed together in a group home during that time. (Sorry to get on a tangent on this one point; this is my particular pet peeve about the "convenience" of storylines that separate kids from their families for narrative purposes.) (Also, you don't get to bring your cat to foster care/group homes/orphanages...) Great ep! And props to July for bringing it out so quickly and for the remaster!

Okay, so, I am stopping this podcast right now and I am going to re-watch Glitter first. I got clean and sober in early 2003, and I vaguely remembered the night I watched this movie, but apparently I missed EVERYTHING. (Thanks, drugs and alcohol!) They started talking about the mom wanting to be a singer and leaving her kid, and I started to have this really hazy flashback to me drunkenly yelling at my friends "IT'S MY STORY IT'S MY STORY" before blacking out. (Obviously, I turned out okay, as I'm now sober, and I'm also not writing one of those 5-star reviews from Amazon on Christmas day, talking about how you will relate to this movie if your mom also aspired to be a singer and left your family to pursue her dreams.) ETA: WILL THIS MOVIE NEVER END?

Huge shout-out: MOAKLAND MPRIDE!

Beth: I love you, Scott. Scott: I love you. Joe (sotto voce): I used to love you.

I was just coming here to correct myself, having learned this elsewhere. Your explanation is pithier than what I read. Also, I hereby rescind my hashtag suggestion.

Good people of Tusk, may I suggest a clearer hashtag: #tuskyeah

Scott is usually so good at math!

I like how the letter tells us their names, but I think Bono may have gotten some of them wrong???

I really took Jason's admonishment to heart, and I truly did stand up and dance during the dance break. I'll keep you guys posted on my weight loss/mood improvement as I take the reviewer's advice...

I literally laughed out loud when Scott suggested Stan Freberg. I used to listen to his records as a kid. (My mom was nostalgic for her childhood...)

I LOVED Mantzoukas's Snubs/Flubs shout-out! My favorite part of the awards season!

I didn't read the whole guest list, because I'm at work, ostensibly working. When Don DeMello showed up, I was like, OH WHAT! Happy Wompler's Birthday to us all!!!!