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alright so what colour are kieran’s eyes? i swore they were green, but i see so many people drawing them blue/grey

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The Top 20 Things of 2019

1. “Shallow” at The Oscars How can something be so anticipated, so hyped, so seemingly bigger than the freaking Oscars themselves, and yet still somehow exceed all expectations? We now know the answer: by completely subverting them. That’s why it makes perfect sense that the greatest moment of Lady Gaga’s career would be the simplest one. Her and Bradley Cooper simply standing up from their seats still gives me chills every time I watch it (and I’ve watched it A LOT). And the close up on their faces needs to be shown in sex ed classes.

If I could travel back in time, sure going back to kill baby Hitler would be great, but mostly I’d just want to go back to the exact second the curtain starts to raise on this performance, before I knew where it was headed next.

2. Olivia Colman winning Best Actress at The Oscars If you think it’s weird that there are two separate things from the same awards show on my list of the top things from the entire year, then, well, you’ve come to the wrong place.

This is the absolute platonic ideal of someone winning an Oscar. Our genuine shock at hearing their name, THEIR genuine shock at hearing their name, the genuine emotion from everyone involved, a speech that is heartfelt, human, funny, and charming in a way that only a true star could ever dream of being, all in equal measure. And it’s all part of a YouTube clip you can watch endlessly and find new things every time. (Glenn Close’s reaction when she loses is like an entire drama in and of itself.) Sure awards shows may be dumb, but then also, this is why they’re not.

3. Sharon Van Etten - “Seventeen” in advance of this year’s Oscars I just want to be on record that my favorite movie from 2019 about aging, feeling that life is passing you by, grappling with mortality, the passage of time, and the generation coming up behind you is Closing My Eyes And Listening To “Seventeen” By Sharon Van Etten. It has it all: the creeping melancholy and regret, the sense of doom that you try to dance away, the feeling that the past was maybe just a dream, the urge to yell into an increasingly uncaring void.

Part of the curse of aging is everyone becoming their own Casandra. Now you know, but no one will listen. And part of the joy of aging is realizing it doesn’t really matter if they do.

4. The writing on Succession

“Proof that, as long as the writing is there, TV doesn’t need to be anything more than people having conversations in rooms.” - theringer.com

I have a rule with these year end lists that I can’t feature something I’ve listed in a previous year. But it’s actually illegal to write about the best of 2019 without mentioning Succession. So I’m going to get around my self-imposed rule by this year specifically highlighting the writing on the show.

The amazing thing about Succession is how watchable it is not despite, but almost BECAUSE of the fact that not much actually happens. People talk a lot about things they are GOING to do, or MIGHT do, but there’s not a ton of actual DOING. And that’s actually great, because what we’re really here for is the talking. Every character talks with the biting wit of an Armando Iannucci character, the deep intelligence of an Aaron Sorkin character, and the realism of an actual human being. I find myself constantly rewinding just to make sure I took in the brilliance of each dialogue exchange. And literally every line Kieran Culkin is given to say would be the best line of the entire season on 90% of the shows on TV.

Everyone talks about how great the acting on Succession is, and rightly so, but actors are nothing without good words to say. And on Succession, to paraphrase a president of the United States that I’m sure ACN would love, they have the best words.

5. The chemistry of Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein in Booksmart My favorite movie of 2017 was Lady Bird. My favorite movie of 2018 was Eighth Grade. So suffice it to say I was well prepared for how much I loved Booksmart. But what I was not prepared for at all was the incredible chemistry of two actors I had previously never even heard of before: Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein. It feels impossible that the two of them aren’t real-life best friends. Life-long friendship is such a specific bond it feels impossible to fake, and yet somehow Kaitlyn and Beanie pulled the magic trick off. Experiencing the giddy contact high of their chemistry felt like being in the presence of a miracle. And anyone who says the romantic comedy is dead clearly didn’t see Booksmart, because maybe the best romantic comedy of the decade was the story of two people realizing the deepest, purest, most unique love of all can sometimes be the love you have for your best friend.

6. Fleabag Season 2 What on earth is there left to say about Fleabag that hasn’t already been said? And yet somehow even with all the discourse about this show it has still maintained its status as the rare cultural phenomenon with a 100% approval rating. To be as massive and as beloved as Fleabag and yet inspire zero backlash, not even a stray contrarian take from an online troll, feels impossible, and yet also, in the case of Fleabag, totally right. If (the now VERY problematic) Louie was the beginning of giving people money to make their idiosyncratic, personal, not-quite a drama not-quite a comedy TV shows, then Fleabag is the end. The apex of the art form. There’s nowhere to go from here but down. 2019 was the year television finally peaked. It was the year we all witnessed perfection. And it was the year that we fittingly all had a priest to guide us there.

7. Chelsea Peretti’s monologue at the WGA Awards Ironic that the year that proved that awards shows don’t need hosts is also the same year that gave maybe the best example ever of what a great awards show host can do. Chelsea goes so far inside baseball it gives new meaning to the phrase “corker”, and it’s all the better for it.

8. Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride If you don’t think Father of the Bride is the best album of 2019 then congrats on not being a late-30s straight white man. But as a late-30s straight white man myself I’ve got two big things going for me:

1.) A life that has benefited from a history of privilege and near-total control over society stretching from the beginnings of civilization up until today 2.) An understanding that Father of the Bride is the best album of 2019

But what about Bon Iver and Wilco and The National and Sturgill Simpson and Big Thief, didn’t they all put out albums for late-30s straight white men this year you ask? To which I say: did any of those albums have a song on them called “Unbearably White”? No they did not! And that sort of ironic self-awareness is the kind of shit that has fueled a million straight white male sketch comedy scenes. It is the air we breathe. Also, have you heard “Harmony Hall” lately? Or “This Life”? Or “Stranger”? I mean, come on, leaving Brooklyn to make your “settled down in LA” album is the sort of late-30s straight white guy catnip James Murphy could only DREAM ABOUT. I may not have much these days, other than unlimited power and privilege, but at least I will always have Vampire Weekend, and they will always have me.

9. Lizzo Every year there is one thing that defines the year. One thing that 50 years in the future when someone mentions that year, it will be the first thing that pops into everyone’s head. And in America for 2019 that thing will be the impeachment of Donald Trump. But if there is a second thing, then it’s Lizzo. She was there when the year started, only got bigger as the year progressed and was arguably still getting more popular as the year ended. And she was everywhere. She was on massive stages and behind tiny desks. She was at the movies, she was on TV, she was coming out of every open car window. And she was definitely at every wedding you went to this year. Lizzo WAS 2019.

With the impeachment of Donald Trump I don’t know how far down the presidential line of succession we have to go before we get to Lizzo, but I know we would all be better off if we would hurry up and get there. Lizzo is the best of us.

10. This picture of Baby Yoda 

Ok I was wrong. Take everything I said about Lizzo and double it for This Picture Of Baby Yoda (you know the one, or if you don’t, click the link above). On the wikipedia entry for the year 2019 that definitely needs to be the picture. 

11. Kodi Lee on America’s Got Talent I realize you probably weren’t sitting around watching America’s Got Talent this summer. I certainly wouldn’t have been if I hadn’t happened to be working the live show tapings. But lemme tell you, if you didn’t see the show, you missed out on something truly magical this year. Something that makes you rethink what human beings are capable of. Something that goes so far beyond inspirational that I don’t think our language has a word to fully express it. Kodi Lee is a real life superhero, and provoking emotion is his superpower. Making it thru a full Kodi Lee performance without crying should be the new Turning Test. Forget America; Humans Have Talent indeed.

12. Taylor Swift - “Cruel Summer” Look I didn’t expect to ever find another “Teenage Dream”, but, well, here we are. I mean, a Taylor Swift single produced by Jack Antonoff and co-written by Annie Clark is pretty much genetically engineered to be one of my favorite things ever, but still: wow. Do the kids still use the term “banger”? Because if so, this is why the term was invented. I would have more to say about how great the rest of Lover is as well, but sorry, I gotta go now. I have to listen to “Cruel Summer” for the eight millionth time.

13. Michelle Williams in Fosse/Verdon If there was an award for best acting performance in any medium this would be the clear winner for 2019. In fact, can you win an EGOT for one single performance? What about a Nobel Prize? I can’t come up with an award or a title big enough to truly honor Michelle Williams’ work in Fosse/Verdon.

As a fellow actor very rarely a performance will come along that will make me think: ok we’re done here. Let’s all the rest of us pack it up and go home, because someone just won acting. This is one of those performances. So congrats to Dame Michelle Williams, you’re the new Pope.

14. American Factory My favorite line in all of Shakespeare is “there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so”. And nothing is evidence of that more than the piece of art I have thought about most this year: the documentary American Factory (available on Netflix right now!). So many of the things we in western societies believe are universal bedrock virtues and value are in fact simply products of the society in which we were raised. Individualism, personal expression, autotomy, the importance of leisure time, and so many other things, are not absolute human values, only relative ones. What is important to someone in America, can be ridiculous and incomprehensible to someone in China. And vice versa. And neither side is right or wrong, only thinking makes it so.

American Factory is documentary that doesn’t say WHAT IF EVERYTHING YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW WAS WRONG, but instead shows something that is perhaps even more powerful: what if everything you know is simply just that, a thing you know.

15. White Claw Life is an endless parade of infinite options, possibilities, and choices. So I have no idea how you personally chose to spend your 2019. With one exception: I Know What You Did Last Summer. You drank an alcoholic seltzer water. Probably many of them, but at least one. At a park, at a beach, in a backyard, definitely at a party. If at some point this summer your paws weren’t wrapped around a White Claw (or a similar product) then you didn’t actually experience 2019. Because this is the year we all collectively got obsessed with combining America’s two hottest drink trends: flavored sparkling water and…hold on, lemme look up the name of this stuff…alcohol?

History may record summer 2019 as Hot Girl Summer, but those us who actually lived it know the truth: it was Hard Seltzer Summer

16. Marriage Story A movie that fundamentally misunderstands things I care about deeply - theater, Los Angeles, how the entertainment industry works - is my favorite movie of the year because of how deeply it gets right the thing I care about most: human beings. The way we talk, the way we behave, the way we love, the way we hurt, the way we create bonds that never fully go away. It’s been said a lot, but part of the beauty and magic of this movie is that it doesn’t take sides. Both people are right and both of them are wrong. And that’s how human relationships often work in real life, but rarely in art. There are no heroes, there are no villains; there’s only being alive.


(Also, Adam Driver, Imma let you finish, but Raul Esparza doing “Being Alive” is one of my favorite YouTube clips of ALL TIME. If you ever need to weep uncontrollably and you don’t have time to watch Marriage Story, then Raul Esparza’s “Being Alive” will do the trick)

17. Lil Nas X - “Old Town Road” “What kind of music do you like” used to be a very important question. Your sense of identity used to be defined by the type of music you listened to and what that choice said about you. But now music-as-cultural-signifier is as dead as the concept of owning music itself. Rap music is for elementary school kids. Country music is made by queer black Americans collaborating with Dutch teenagers. Billy Ray Cyrus and Korean pop stars appear on remixes of the same song. A song about an old road and an antiquated mode of travel becomes a massive hit thru the brand new music app TikTok. What kind of music do we like in 2019? All of the “kinds” of music at once, in one marvelously inescapable two minute burst of joy. Music is dead; long live music.

18. Chernobyl If you thought it was crazy that the year’s biggest song was a novelty country/hip-hop track by an unsigned artist rapping about trying to find parking for his horse, then wait until you find out what the summer’s biggest hit TV show was about! I mean, nothing screams “summer fun” like nuclear radiation and shooting dogs. But as always, no one ever truly knows what people will want until you give it to them. And clearly what we really wanted in our LOL Nothing Matters age was a captivating reminder that life on earth truly could end at any moment. Some things very much DO matter. And that something as dramatic, devastating, and consequential as Chernobyl could have happened in the fairly recent past and already have been largely forgotten about is incredible. But if you can take such a compelling story and tell it as well as the makers of Chernobyl did, then people will watch and learn and better understand an issue of vital importance, no matter how seemingly uncommercial it might be. So in a very 2019 sentence: thank you creator of the the Hangover franchise for your miniseries about a 1980 Russian power plant explosion. It was our collective summer obsession. (2019 was a weird year.)

19. Raphael Bob-Waksberg - Someone Who Will Love You In All You Damaged Glory

“I think about how loving someone is kind of like being president, in that it doesn’t change you, not really. But it brings out more of the you that you already are.”

Back in the day, Raphael Bob-Waksberg had a tumblr that was so good it both single-handedly inspired me get much better and writing my thoughts and putting them on the internet (thus what you are reading right now) and intimidated me out of doing it more often (why I now do this only once a year). In fact, I’m almost positive I had his tumblr listed as one of my top things of a year in the past, which is really the highest honor a tumblr account can receive. It was one of the single most impactful forces in the direction of my creative life. And now Raphael has taken the voice that created that tumblr and created my favorite TV show (BoJack Horseman) and wrote my favorite ever Craigslist post, and used it to create a book about love and loss and being human. And it feels like a wonderful treasure that was written just for me. It IS my worldview, expressed better than I ever possibly could. When I meet people now rather than doing the usual introductory small talk I am just going to hand them a copy of this book.

20. The New One - Mike Birbiglia Speaking of art that felt deeply personal to me…just hearing even a rough outline of the story Mike Birbiglia tells in The New One was enough to start me on a path of perhaps reconsidering one of my most deeply held beliefs. By talking about parenthood in a refreshingly honest and shockingly open way, he is able to possibly change lives. I know finally actually seeing the show in person (and it’s now available on Netflix) felt like a possible turning point in mine. Is it theater? Is it standup? Does it matter? Here’s what there are no questions about: it’s hilarious and deeply felt and perfectly constructed. It’s an absolute master class in story telling. And it’s my favorite thing I saw this year.

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Best health ‘Succession’ star Nicholas Braun writes a virus dating song

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LOS ANGELES — Actor Nicholas Braun, who plays fan favourite Cousin Greg on HBO’s “Succession,” has captured the fraught nature of relationship at some level of the pandemic in a catchy recent punk music that started as a shaggy dog story.

“Ought to you come within 6 feet, it’s conceal on, conceal on, conceal on, conceal on. But in case you regain antibodies, it’s pants off, pants off, pants off, pants off,” Braun sings. “Attain you regain the antibodies, attain it is advisable to must be with me? Attain you regain the antibodies, cuz in case you don’t, then care for away!”

“Antibodies” rapid caught the ear of Atlantic Records, which launched the single and a song video closing week.

The video — shot on Braun’s iPhone — went (precisely) viral and drew praise from recording artist Sia, who said she became once “in esteem.” “Range” dubbed the jam “an earworm” that “makes you smile.” And rock band Bastille noticed: “Cousin Greg got here to save a lot of song.”

“I’ve gotten hundreds factual texts from folks and musicians that I in actual fact revere who’re like, ‘Antibodies’ is factual, man,’” Braun said lately from his home in Contemporary York. “It’s been an sizable inventive experience for me.”

Though the music is silly, it became once born of stress from the pandemic.

Braun’s 81-one year-mature father bought COVID-19 in March. One amongst his “Succession” co-stars, Model Blum, died of the coronavirus that identical month, and a hair stylist with whom Braun had worked died of the virus in April.

Braun’s father has since recovered.

“I know some folks haven’t had somebody of their life pass from it,” Braun said. “But for me, I’ve now had a couple of moments the save this thing is exact in actual fact real.”

Braun, who became once caught in Los Angeles while his father battled the virus, also became once impressed by loneliness.

“I became once exact feeling like, ‘God, it’d be sizable to shuffle on a date with somebody and exact regain a diminutive human contact,’” he said. “And I became once talking to a girl and we weren’t obvious if we need to. And it exact felt like, at the time, it became once like, antibodies. Antibodies skill you bought thru it. And, you know, my dad had his antibodies and it’s like, we’re acquire! Appropriate?”

That girl, an artist named Camilla Engstrom, no longer fully dated Braun while he became once in Los Angeles however appears to be like in the “Antibodies” video, immortalizing the pair’s transient however particular quarantine romance.

“Our first three dates, I don’t bid we hugged and didn’t even take our masks down,” Braun said. “So the third date, at the stop of it, at the stop of our stroll, I became once like, ‘Attain you’re thinking that we need to hug?’ She’s like, ‘Yeah, we need to hug.’ And I became once like, ‘All exact!’”

That one hug intended so noteworthy, Braun said.

“I in actual fact feel like most folk that are being to blame with this need to no longer hugging plenty,” he said. “I bid we’re deprived from that contact. So, yeah, we had a extremely factual time, and it became once a factual quarantine thing that took place.”

“Antibodies” raises money to relieve Partners in Health, which brings successfully being care to the vulnerable populations around the arena, and Team Outreach and Affected person Empowerment, which helps folks living with continual diseases on the poverty- Navajo Nation.

On top of “Antibodies,” Braun’s other gigantic files has been his shock Emmy nomination for fully supporting actor in a drama for “Succession.”

“I anticipated other actors in my present to acquire nominations,” he said. “So I became once like, ‘OK. Love, I’m rooting for my team.’ But I wasn’t in actual fact rooting for myself per se. It’s laborious to factor in in that thing till it happens.”

He became once if fact be told in the course of congratulating co-vital person Jeremy Fetch on his nomination when Braun’s team called to describe him about his.

“I’ve been acting since I became once 6, so something I’ve regarded as my total life is how frigid it will possibly presumably be to be nominated in any acting thing,” Braun said. “It became once one amongst these benchmark moments the prevent’re like, ‘Oh my God. This if fact be told took place.’”

“Succession” bought a whopping 18 Emmy nominations total, at the side of fully series, fully actor for Brian Cox and Fetch, and fully supporting actress for Sarah Snook. Braun will be competing for fully supporting actor with co-stars Kieran Culkin and Michael Macfadyen. The awards will be held honest about on Sept. 20.

Fans of the present were hoping for any files concerning the third season however it hasn’t yet started taking pictures given the pandemic.

Braun said he is conscious of the present’s producers are “attempting to establish out easy methods to shoot us safely and to supply whatever the recent quandary is of 2020.”

“I’m in actual fact hoping it’s soon and we can birth reading scripts and seeing the save things shuffle,” he said. “We all are sharp to achieve what it takes to acquire encourage to work and care for the story going.”

Meanwhile Braun is basking in the glow of “Antibodies.”

“It’s this form of crazy time on this planet,” he said. “I fully need to achieve stuff that’s fun and inventive and that persons are enjoying. And so as that’s what this has been.”

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 There is a limited series coming to Showtime ,Blackbird: Lena Horne and America.

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Barack Obama joined a zoom call to Crip camp for the 30th anniversary of Americans with Disabilities act.** Hearing Obama, Clinton and even Bush speak as they remembered John Lewis reminds us how calming it can be to hear inspiring words.** Feel bad that Jimmy Carter could not attend since it was in Georgia. We miss ya.**John Lewis put his own words out there in the NY Times on the day of his funeral. He also wrote letters over the last couple of months to many activists to continue the fight.

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Racism is so American that when you protest it, people think you’re protesting America. – Romy Reiner

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Check our Smartless, the new podcast from Sean Hayes, Jason Bateman and Will Arnett. Each episode one of the hosts brings a surprise guest that answers questions.

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Opening some states is like opening a ‘peeing’ section of the pool. –Neil de Grasse Tyson

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Rumor is that Dave Chappelle will be on Letterman’s next batch of Netflix shows, My next guest needs no introduction.

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Check out the album Grandpa Metal from Brian Posehn, Brendon Small, Scott Ian, Al Yankovic, Corey Taylor and Jill janus.

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Reports have come thru that Brett Kavanaugh wanted the Supreme Court to avoid decisions about abortion and Trump’s financials.

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The Redskins have become the Washington Football team.

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Hulu will bring us Nine Perfect Strangers with Nicole Kidman, Melissa McCarthy and Michael Shannon.

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Days alert: I wish Bonnie would turn out to be Adrienne. If the switch was made when she chose Justin over Lucas,that would explain a lot. Eve is back for revenge but Ciara and Hope will find Ben. Will it be too late? I hope this brings Shane  and Teresa back to town.  Allie will have a boy but who is the Father? Rumor is that it could be Theo Carver or Parker Jonas or Tripp Dalton. Will Eli and Lani have twins? Sarah and Xander will reunite??

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Spencer Grammer was stabbed while trying to break up an altercation in NY. She is on the mend.

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The Green Banana is a sort of 425 foot bright blue sink hole that has been found off the coast of Florida. Divers say it is about 155 feet below the surface.

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The Department of Homeland Security has more law enforcement capability than all other branches combined.** Why aren’t the storm troopers working on real crime?? Fingers crossed for no more Trump troops for “Operation Legend.”

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Jim Jordan says that, “Big tech’s out to get conservatives.” The top performing FB posts that day: Ben Shapiro 2. Fox news 3. Dan Bongino 4. CNS news 5. Ben Shapiro 6. Ben Shapiro 7. Fox news 8. CNN  9. Blue lives matter

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2 million Americans do not have running water.

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Actor Bryan Callen has been accused of sexual assault.

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Breonna Taylor is on the cover of O.** The WNBA has dedicated their season to Breonna and the Black Lives Matter movement.

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Epix has brought us a sort of new look at Manson with Helter Skelter: An American Myth.

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Southern Crossroads has a slogan: Rednecks for Black lives!!

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Louis De Joy, the new Postmaster General has apparently shut down sorting machines and cut overtime so that mail carriers must leave mail behind.

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David Duke is permanently banned from Twitter.

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The Emmy noms are here: Netflix broke all previos records for number of noms. Leading the pack was Watchmen, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Ozark, Succession, The Mandolorian, SNL and Schitt’s Creek. The best drama category is the toughest with The Mandolorian, Ozark, Succession, Better Call Saul, The Crown, The Handmaids tale, Killing Eve and Stranger Things. Best supporting actor in drama and comedy is tough including Kieran Culkin, Giancarlo Esposito, Matthew Macfayden, Andre Braugher, Tony Shalhoub, Kenan Thompsonand Daniel Levy. The limited series or movie supporting actress is loaded with goodies too like Holland Taylor, Uzo Aduba, Margo Martindale, Tracey Ullman, Toni Collette and Jean Smart. How can you pick?? The 72nd Emmy’s will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.

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A new low: College Covid parties in Alabama to see who can get it. I think we need to crack down on education because we have some pretty stupid people in this country. Why do we want to work the medical professionals within an inch of their lives??** 155 thousand dead. The total cases have dipped slightly but fatalities are up. ** Pelosi has issued mandatory mask order for the house.** In the new covid bill they want 1.75 bill for a new FBI building that will stay in the same place that it now stands?? This surely couldn’t be because it is across the street from the Trump hotel and he does not want competition and likes his special locale. **The Senate decided to take a long weekend and not deal with it until August. How do so many not care about their fellow man??** The longer it takes to get the virus under control, the more business’s we lose forever.

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The Catherine’s clothing chain is closing.

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We need more detective shows with real stories about cops that don’t do things by the book. We have all heard of the fucked up crime scenes like Jon Benet Ramsey or Jeff Macdonald and we know that is just the tip of the iceberg.

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There have been shootings all over the country at various gatherings which should not even have been held.

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There is a long history with these vipers, Bill Barr’s Father hired a 20 year old Jeff Epstein to teach at Dalton. He was a high school drop out with no degree.** The usual suspects, Nugent and Baio et al.will speak virtually for Trump at the Republican convention.** Contrary to what the administration said, Paw Patrol was not cancelled.** You knew he would get around to wanting to postpone the election. Too bad for him congress has to agree and if they can’t work it out  then the speaker may have to take over.

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Shep Smith has joined CNBC.

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Colin Kaepernick’s life will come to Netflix from Ava Duvernay. **

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The world hates us so much right now. We’ve been ruined in more ways than we know.** What kind of shithole President wishes a child sex trafficker well?

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Billy Eichner will play Paul Lynde in Man in the Box.

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The U.S. has told the Chinese consulate in Houston to shut down. Is this because of intellectual theft?? Now China has moved us out of our consulate there.

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Fairfax County will rename Robert E. Lee high after John Lewis.

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The Reagan foundation has asked the Trump campaign to stop raising money off of his name.

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I’ve been begging everyone for years; please wear a mask! –Emo Phillips** CVS and Wal Mart no longer require masks!!

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The company, Tele Tracking that took over control of the covid info is owned by Chris Johnson. The 10 mil contract went to the NY real estate dude.

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Funny how everything is a handout besides generational wealth.

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Hooray to the Yankees and the Nationals for taking a knee before the game.** Trump claims he was busy with Covid and could not throw out the first pitch. Come to find out, he was not asked. He made it  up.

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Favre and Trump golfing, yea, that sounds about right.

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A company can keep women from birth control if there are religious or moral objections. About 126 thousand women will lose coverage.

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Lt. Col Vindman had been approved for promotion but the President would make the final decision. The brave hero decided to retire.

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The Supreme Court ruled that Trump can’t block his records being released. It is in the public interest but Trump can try again to block with different tactics.** They also ruled that most of Eastern Oklahoma will remain Native American land.** The Esselen tribe of Monterey county have reclaimed land on  the Big Sur coast that was theirs 250 years ago. This was a cooperative effort between them, the California natural resources agency and a conservancy group.

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Trump calls the Black lives matter in front of Trump tower, “a symbol of hate.”** Cops shot, Cops killing civilians, mask confrontations: The mental illness in this country is officially off the charts.

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Biden claims he will use the Trump tax cuts to pay for 5 million new jobs in products and technology. The Dems released their agenda that touts free child care.** 100 days before the election, Brad Parscale was demoted.  Jared puts his friends in high places and it goes on.** They say John Kasich will speak for the Dem convention. **

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Hey Seth Meyers: I LOVE the sea Captain!!

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Muddy Water’s former Chicago home at 4339 S. Lake Park Ave. will be a museum.

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Sen. Tom Cotton called slavery, “a necessary evil.”

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Still advertising on Fox news: Verizon, Noom, Allstate, Pfizer, Ancestry, Honey, Poshmark, Purple and Sanofi. ** And we know never to eat Goya again.

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Jean Smart will star in Miss Macy.

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Oprah mag will stop print.

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It is so Scary Clown: The only thing the enemy can’t stand is being laughed at. –Mark Twain

R.I.P. all the Covid victims, Nick Cordero, Hugh Downs, Ennio Morricone, Bill Field, the elephants of Botswana, Ronald Schwary, Charlie Daniels,  Mary Kay Letourneau,  Max B. Bryer, Kelly Preston, Naya Rivera, Ben Keough,  Phyllis Somerville, Grant Imahara, Emitt Rhodes, Regis Philbin, John Lewis, John Saxon, Peter Green, Malik B., Herman Cain, Alan Parker and Olivia de Havilland.

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England 2-0 Lithuania: five talking points from the World Cup 2018 qualifier

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England 2-0 Lithuania: five talking points from the World Cup 2018 qualifier

1) Guidelines of progress below Southgate

Given how low the bar become whilst Gareth Southgate got herein, the first thing he had to acquire so one can factor to progress become keep away from turning into embroiled in a countrywide scandal or humiliation. It is thumbs up on that front for now and there’s circumstantial proof of development, past that. After an honorable defeat by using an improvised Germany group,

England showed towards Lithuania simply enough pace and clever motion to unhinge combatants who aspired to do nothing extra than erect human barricades around their field from the primary minute. Each desire were beauties but there were additionally bouts of familiar stodginess. At the least Southgate has made some bold picks, fetishised the captaincy and cautioned he’s a man with a plan and the power and clarity of thought to put in force it. The proper exams lie ahead, however, Southgate has made a truthful begin. Jermain Defoe and Jamie Vardy provide England victory over Lithuania Examine extra

2) Large crowd contributes to harmless amusing

The bar for measuring the performance of England’s lovers additionally starts of evolved low. At Wembley there had been, At the least, no struggle chants or loutish nonsense and silence prevailed all through the Lithuanian national anthem, which changed into followed by means of respectful applause from the hosts. The minute’s silence in memory of the sufferers of the Westminster assaults became also located with decorum, as was the tribute to the overdue Graham Taylor.

As soon as the game got going the temper within the floor was fun. The visit of the crew ranked 107 inside the world for an apparently foregone conclusion of an in shape did not quite draw a complete residence, however, an attendance of seventy-seven,690 seemingly properly-humoured people became still a pleasant turnout. The sight of Jermain Defoe main out the crew with five-year-vintage Bradley Lowery become also lovable. Hope springs everlasting.

3) Arsenal representative makes little affect

With Theo Walcott, Kieran Gibbs and Jack Wilshere all failing to increase as hoped and Danny Welbeck nonetheless working his way returned from damage, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain become the best Arsenal participant with a hazard to decorate his international credentials at Wembley. however, he did now not capture the initiative. His passing turned into now not as wayward as it has been in his final look for his membership – that miserable defeat at West Bromwich Albion – but nor become it specifically sharp or imaginative.

If he became covered because he became expected to provide extra thrust than Jake Livermore, he generally did no longer fulfill his project, although he did pressure a shop from Ernestas Setkus with a great shot inside the 53rd minute. Nor did Oxlade-Chamberlain make a contribution as plenty dynamism as Jordan Henderson or Ross Barkley likely could have. He turned into now not bad but, all in all, this became a possibility missed for him.

Best Travel Destinations in England

Royalty! That is the first issue that might pop into your mind while you consider England. Sure, it does house the arena’s richest and maximum famous royal own family, however, that’s not all there’s to England. From small thatched villages to museums and royal castles,

England can offer you nearly something that you would possibly want. Don’t believe me? Well, why Do not you take an experience to England and discover for yourself? (And here is a pro travel tip: Save your money and simply Buy British Airlines Miles while you tour). So if you plan to return to England, here’s a list of places you have to honestly go to:

1. The London Eye, London:

Big fan of panoramic perspectives? Then This is the area that allows you to go to. This exaggeration of a Ferris wheel literally takes you for the ride of your existence. Taking you to a top of 440 ft, the London Eye offers you a study the entire of London metropolis alongside its regular hustle and bustle. The passenger capsules which convey you up are made of glass accordingly offering you with the opportunity to have a first-rate 360-degree view of the whole thing. What more do you want?

2. The city Of Bath:

You understand how they are saying that suitable things are available in small packages? Nicely, the metropolis of Bathtub is the right example of this example. Although small, this city nonetheless has a lot of things to offer to its tourists. The Romanian baths, and then this town is named, are the precise location to loosen up if you’re looking into getting far away from everything. That blended with the Georgian Townhouses all round metropolis will come up with the lightheaded revel in that you’re searching out.

3 .The Buckingham Palace, London:

One of the few places that are in working circumstance till nowadays, The Buckingham Palace will come up with the risk to take a look at the Queen’s guard all dickered out in their best red and black livery. Do they surely now not move irrespective of what occurs? Nicely why Do not you cross yourself and find out?

4.The Tower Of London:

The Tower of London is essentially a historical castle that is located on the north financial institution of the river Thames. This tower of London houses the largest diamond within the international, so even in the case, you’re no longer a Huge fan of heights or castles I would nonetheless advocate you cross there to get a very good observe that beauty.

The Traditions of Cultivation of Flax and Linen Weaving in Lithuania

Linen is a material used for all kinds of functions, commonly clothing and decoration, this is favored for its sturdiness, naturalness, and freshness. Linen is made of the fibers of the flax plant which is grown during the whole world – from Canada to Ethiopia. Flax has been cultivated for the reason that instances of historic Egypt and historical Ethiopia, at the same time as the cutting-edge findings of dyed flax fibers dated to 30000 BC.

In Lithuania, a small country in Northern Europe with completely wealthy records, linen has a special area inside the country’s traditions, arts, and crafts. Flax has been grown right here for the reason that instances of the Baltic tribes that have been living in the cutting-edge united states of America’s territory from around 2000 BC. inside the Medieval times, while the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was considered one of the most important countries in Europe, linen changed into in all likelihood the simplest fabric used for clothing via the peasants and the soldiers (except for the armor, of course)

Even in the early twentieth century, when the supply of other fabric was a lot extra, flax and linen had a major component in Lithuania’s exports. The importance of linen in Lithuania has dwindled ever on the grounds that, yet there are nonetheless a few folk artists inside the united states of American who weave linen and preserve the traditions alive.

Travel the World of Freelancing

Are you a mother looking for methods to earn at the consolation of your own home? Or a father who would really like to apply his abilities, pastimes, and hobbies to make money on the same time? Or an educator who would really like to percentage his expertise and understanding? Or a mere student who would like to be impartial to aid his studies? Or a crew of experts with the intention to benefit from fee and income?

Or someone who wanted to installation a domestic enterprise, a micro-entrepreneur and who would like to be his own boss? Or are you the only who would love to exchange his profession course or would like to have a few form of profession spoil? Or without a doubt a person who would really like to have additional work and bonus income?

In this eon of excessive technology and social media proliferation, earning thru freelancing is one of the ways to increase family or character profits.

learning with the aid of freelancing can be your threat to acquire your vision, your dream and a first-rate way to gain greater income. This could even end up a supply of your complete time earnings.

Why not study on and let us traverse the sector of freelancing…

What are freelancing and freelancer?

Before, freelancing paintings isn’t always so popular and not given any well worth in any respect. Others understand freelancer as man or woman and not using a solid job and who do activity hopping and looking from one vicinity to every other. In quick, no fee.

These days, in electronic media and eCommerce improvement, freelancing is already a “word of mouth”. There may be a higher connotation nowadays when a freelancer says he belongs to this class. Freelancing is in stratum to compete with company giants incomes competitively in a blink of a watch.

Others term it as outsourcing professional and gifted people in the undertaking wished by means of client or purchaser. The people In this type of paintings are classified as the freelancer, freelance, freelance employee, impartial contractor and so on.

The freelancer, the individual that is doing freelancing activity, is a self-employed repute and has no employee-agency dating. That is primarily based on mutually agreed arrangement and may be finished either verbal or written shape declaring the requirement of the customer including: