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📢📢📢 It's happ3ning! 📢📢📢
Westwords III
Sunday, June 14
Berkeley, CA
Individual *and pairs* solvers welcome
If you haven't competed previously, you can sign up for email updates at our website. See you in June!
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Presenting THE 2025 DRAFT, a year-end list unlike any other, as selected by @MrMillerRussell, @adamriffs, @drewlazor, @Yinyangfooey, @itsstanpark, et al.
adamriff.com/2025/12/30/the-…
i once drove past this with a German co-worker and, thinking of this scene, asked him if it reminded him of anything and he said, "heh, yes. nuclear power."
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Kogonada's first feature, Columbus, from 2017, a surprise from the start with its very title, has stayed with me more vividly than many more heralded films; now it's on @Tubi so no excuses:
newyorker.com/culture/the-fr…
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Here are the isolated vocals to the end of God Only Knows. Brian Wilson wrote and produced this at 23 years old
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Wife: How's Steph?
Me: Not good. Hurt his knee, could be out a while
Wife: Blank stare
Me: What?
Wife: I was talking about our daughter
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📢 Registration for Westwords 2025 is now OPEN! Visit our website to check out the details and secure your spot. We can't wait to solve with you! ✏️
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just went down to the hotel bar to get a drink and the music that was playing in the lobby AT THAT MOMENT was a track that i played cello on TWENTY YEARS AGO. i'm completely shook.
"Come on, Sammy. You remember when we were kids? You remember how we always used to say You Can Count On Me (2000) to each other?"
Netflix execs tell screenwriters to have characters “announce what they’re doing so that viewers who have a program on in the background can follow along”
They also have thousands of micro-genres including “casual viewing” which is used for movies/TV that go down best when you’re not paying attention.
(Source: nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess…)
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Presenting THE 2024 DRAFT:
adamriff.com/2024/12/24/the-…
A year-end list unlike any other, as selected by: @jeffbaum @airlinem @itsstanpark @decayingdv @drewlazor @typewrighter @mrmillerrussell @mollyeichel @adamriffs @zombiologist
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It's such a weak year for Supporting Actress that it really kinda blows my mind that not even critics groups are pushing at all for Joan Chen in Didi. Remarkable work by someone who's been doing this a long time and has yet to fully be celebrated
had the great joy of competing on Pop Culture Jeopardy! with two of my dearest buds, @BringDaNoyz and ol' twitterless Simon. You can watch us on Amazon Prime, one week from today (Dec. 18)!
