Harvey Weinstein, Smooth Talker: Today in Tweets

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Goddammit, stop guessing my password.

In honor of the kitties & dogs I’d like to share a LOLCAT thing I made recently. It’s silly, but I like it a lot and don’t have enough opportunities to share it.

No matter what my cat says, believe me, he has been fed.

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Hope you’re starting to feel a bit better, David! Glad to hear from you.

Anyone who brags about their IQ doesn’t understand what IQ is.

@dreemr

Some cats are masters at appearing food-deprived, when it’s the last thing they are.

My cat Roscoe was indoor/outdoor, and I wonder how many people fed him, and how many names he had.

There have been rumblings about HW for years.

@WWTH

Nothing lowers my opinion of someone’s intelligence more than when they brag about their high IQ.

Who would want to dress as Rick for Halloween anyway?

As a non-watcher of that show, I was trying to figure out what the szechuan sauce bullshit was all about. One of the Twitter folks I follow distilled the issue quite well.

https://twitter.com/CaseyExplosion/status/915662035869949952

One show I did watch all episodes of was House. Being a huge Hugh Laurie fan, I had to give it a peek and House’s attitude and banter was entertaining enough, but I felt that as the series went on, they seemed to forget the germ of the character much in the same way Sherlock did. It’s almost as if Sherlock Holmes was the template of the “misunderstood asshole genius” trope despite the fact that Holmes cared about his clients. The Pilot episode had House revealing himself to the patient only when she lost the will to fight her illness. Early in House, the first few episodes of Season 1 had House risking his medical license to acquire a heart for a bulimic patient and chastising Foreman for not taking necessary risks for his patient:

You took a chance, you did something great. You were wrong, but it was still great. You should feel great that it was great. You should feel like crap that it was wrong. That’s the difference between him and me. He thinks you do your job, and what will be, will be. I think that what I do and what you do matters. He sleeps better at night. He shouldn’t.

Fast forward to Season 7 House crashing his car through Cuddy’s home, either attempting to kill his ex or at best recklessly endangering her life and that of her family. Between those two points, it was like the writing staff fell so in love with abrasive genius House that the critical part of him that actually cared enough for his patients to risk his medical license just evaporated, particularly as the cases seemed to retreat into subplots in lieu of “Huddy”. Especially in those last two seasons, it felt like I was watching character assassination by the show’s own creators.

Then seeing dudebros throwing tantrums at McDonald’s over a condiment… if that’s not what end-stage capitalism looks like, I don’t know what does.

@Gussie Jives

Thanks for that link, it is a pretty good explanation of the Rick character.

I enjoy the show, although I think the animation is only so-so. I do not get some peoples’ (dudebros mostly) insistence that one must be some kind of genius to “get” the humor. No, what you need is just a decent pop-culture familiarity and maaaaybe some idea of philosophy/general literature, etc. It’s honestly not any more complicated than “Family Guy” just with better writing and voice acting. Rick isn’t real, and non-geniuses are writing his character, people.

The humor is dark, and Rick is NOT supposed to be a hero. He’s as anti-hero as an anti-hero can BE. These are the same guys who lauded Walter White as a hero, too, when he was specifically written to be an anti-hero.

Hey, I enjoy anti-heroes! I like watching self-absorbed characters that DGAF like Daffy Duck or the cast of “Arrested Development”. I absolutely do not require any redeeming qualities in some of the characters I enjoy watching.

But the fandom of R&M is just…sigh.

ETA: Also, your friend is right – “Adventure Bros” and “Bojack Horesman” ARE both “better” shows than R&M. But they’re all pretty good.

Some all cats are masters at appearing food-deprived, when it’s the last thing they are.

Ftfy.

Gussie Jives,

I was actually referring to those Rick from the Walking Dead and “sassy” female Rick from the Walking Dead costumes. He’s not a good enough to be a hero, not interesting enough to be a charismatic antihero and not bad enough to be a villain. I’m sure the character has his fans somewhere out there but most people who watch TWD don’t seem to love him too much. Darryl, Michonne and Glenn are way more popular. I’m just wondering where the market even is for a season 1 Rick costume.

On the Rick & Morty Szechuan sauce thing, it seems to me to be people acting like sheep. I’ve never seen any nostalgia for this sauce online and I’ve never heard it in person. As far as I know it was only briefly available as a promotional tie in with Mulan. It gets mentioned in the show and suddenly everyone has to have it? It sets my eyeballs rolling. I’m supposed to have long since grown out of my college aged phase where have contempt for people I perceive to be jumping on a pop culture band wagon, but this one is really testing my limits.

I’ve only seen a couple episodes of the show. It was okay, but not my cup of tea I guess. With cartoons for adults, I find they’re often good for a time but wear thin quickly. There’s usually little to no character development in cartoons. At least the ones I’ve seen. One exception to that is Daria.

Shartheheretic,

They’re so goddamn stupid. And so blatantly transparent.

Some all cats are masters at appearing food-deprived, when it’s the last thing they are.

I’ve been trying to find the Fat Freddy’s Cat cartoon where he manages to elicit food out of various sympathetic people until he gives the game away by burping.

@ Alan – pretty sure that one was in “A Year Passes Like Nothing”

Edit: No, it was in Grass Roots. My bad.

@wwth -d’oh! Rick Grimes I didn’t even connect. I’m a fan of the show (although Neegan’s one-note characterization has diminished my enjoyment a lot) but Rick is just, eh. He’s Rick. He’s ok? I don’t hate him.

I might be just too tired of the show. I certainly can’t see dressing up as him for Halloween, and indeed I doubt anyone would realize it’s anything but a standard Sheriff costume (or “sassy Sheriff” I guess).

Re: Weinstein, after reading the accusations it sounds like his go-to move was asking women for massages (?!!?!?). When is this ever considered okay? Good grief. It’s just so gross and seedy.

Just heard the H.W. recording on Newsnight. Wish I hadn’t (shudder!).

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@David Futrelle,
My favourite foods are lobster and globe artichoke. Which Instagram cat am I?

@dreemr, I love the meme! Glad you warned me, otherwise a bag of the good stuff would be on its way to that poor, hungry kitty.