Tim Carvell

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Executive Producer, Last Week Tonight. Friend to nearly all the animals.

David foster Wallace talking.
“Adam did not kill a mouse”: Despite the rumor running rampant on Tuesday evening (I received no less than a dozen messages from across the industry), I’m told there is no truth to the scuttlebutt that The WaPo’s opinion editor, Adam O’Neal, recently drowned a mouse to death at the company’s offices. How the rumor got started? I have no idea.
A deleted tweet from Pabst Blue Ribbon reading “not drinking this January? Try eating ass!”
Spidey getting crucified by a train in Spider-Man 2
The cast of Mamma Mia!
The guy on "The Newsroom"'s infamous episode where he breaks the news of bin laden's death to an airline pilot.
Eight Wiggles, children’s entertainers in bright jumpers, each with their name on them.
Adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tony Kushner ’78CC, ’10HON, Angels in America premiered as a six-part series on HBO in 2003. The show, set during the AIDS epidemic and starring Al Pacino as real-life attorney Roy Cohn ’46CC, ’47LAW, received the 2004 Emmy for outstanding miniseries (a category later changed to outstanding limited series) as well as a screenwriting win for Kushner and awards for directing, art direction, acting, casting, sound, and makeup.
A post from Philip Bump: someone wake up the dude who does the scoreboard A reply below it: Meanwhile, we lost another military member serving in Northern Iraq from an Iranian missile. While Trump is at the World Cup. Think about that for a moment.
“The Great Wall” starring Matt Damon
Describe your favorite movie as boring as possible
These requirements could be problematic if both spouses were at fault or if neither spouse had committed a legally culpable act but both spouses desired a divorce by mutual consent. Lawyers began to advise their clients on how to manufacture "legal fictions" to bypass the statutory requirements, with the result that by the 1920s, the actual operation of the legal system was "completely at odds with statute and case law". One method popular in New York was referred to as "collusive adultery", In which the husband would check into a hotel with a "mistress" obtained for the occasion. A photographer, also obtained for the occasion, would suddenly appear out of nowhere to take snapshots of the husband and his "mistress" in flagrante delicto. Upon presentation of the photos in court, the judge would convict the husband of adultery, and the couple could be divorced.
Morris the Cat
A jar of “Old Williamsburg” salsa
The Onion Bill DeBlasio headline, changed to "Fetterman: 'Well, Well, Well, Not So Easy To Find An Oaf That Doesn't Suck Shit, Huh?'"
Bert Cooper’s final “Mad Men” song and dance scene
Strobel used Partiful, a Gen Z-led event hosting and invitation platform, to invite friends to a June 20 get-together to celebrate her 10-year anniversary of living in New York. She invited 50 people and received 10 nos, three maybes, and 24 yeses. She spent $1,000 on food, alcohol and decorations, and spent the morning of the event preparing a speech, transporting pizza and setting up a table on the West Side Highway. But when the afternoon came, only eight friends showed up.
An ad for something called “Sean Hannity’s Wanted Dead or Alive”
The same guy posting: “On my mind today: The Democratic Party's big tent strength - why diversity of thought is welcome, where the line gets drawn, and why the big picture matters more than ideological purity.”
3 minutes ago Christine Zhang Nearly all of the vote that has been reported in New York City so far has been the early vote, which represents about one-third of the total vote. Early vote tends to come from more highly engaged voters. The votes that are now arriving were cast on Election Day. As more of those are reported, candidate leads and vote shares will shift.
Bob from Bobs Burgers
NYT headline: "The One Surprising Mistake Everyone Makes With Pancakes"
An episode of "Make It Make Sense" with 70 views. It was posted 19 hours ago.
Eric Adams in his Mets/Yankees hat
The Silkwood poster with a tagline spelling out that she dies at the end.
Jim Downey asking “Lestat? The vampire?”
A bottle of something called “Mike’s Amazing Real Mayonnaise”
Lin-Manuel Miranda as Hamilton
Apple is taking us into the future, into a new era of computing. Some of us are running as fast as we can to get there, and others are being dragged, kicking and screaming. But we’re all going. We’re going to the moon, and we’re going to look around at the ghostly luminescence of ancient dust under a black, star-studded sky, and we’ll just know that this is the future of computing and entertainment and apps and memories, and that this apparatus wrapped around our head will change everything.
“He has been consistently prescient about the ways that the technological revolution that we’re living through is upending the way that we consume storytelling and information,” Ms. Weiss said. “He has been the one to see the tsunami before the wave hits the rest of us.”
Bari Weiss: Think For Yourself, Not By Yourself The next chapter of The Free Press begins today.
Giant poster for a VR Titanic experience
NYT push alert: Breaking News President Trump said the U.S. and Iran are close to a deal toward ending the war. Tehran did not immediately confirm.
Minnie Driver, excited that she’s located a beekeeper
TNG title card “hey, where’s dr. Pulaski?”
TNG title card: “The Whole Crew Enjoys a Public-Domain Work of Art”
Pierce Brosnan cooking
TNG title card: “Ah Shit Holodeck’s Busted Againl
Ad for the tv show “the night shift” where the lead doctor appears to be mid-pirouette
In their letter, the students expressed shock that N.Y.U. could not find a speaker “whose scholarship and global contributions more accurately reflect the values and diversity of its graduates.” In past years, they noted, speakers included Taylor Swift, Justice Sonia Sotomayor and the lawyer David Boies.
On the Chicago set of Prelude to a Kiss, much nicer words come up when crew members are asked about their film's leading man. "Alec is only thinking about what is good for the movie," director Norman Rene says. Echoes costar Meg Ryan, "He's a real actor. He's extremely involved in what he does, yes, but he just wants what's good for the film." In the movie based on the Obie-winning play now on Broadway, Ryan portrays a woman whose body becomes inhabited by the soul of an old geezer, to the great dismay of her husband (Baldwin).
Sorkin expressed his disappointment with the film in 2017, saying, "Early on in my career, I wrote a movie that I'm not very proud of at all, it just turned into a mess." He recounted how Harold Becker asked Sorkin to write a "steamy" sex scene between Baldwin and Kidman's characters, which he refused: "I said, 'Are you out of your mind?' First of all, I just did a movie with her husband [Tom Cruise]. And second of all, no, I'm not going to write down what I'd like to see Nicole do and then hand the pages out to the crew and Nicole." The scene was eventually created and filmed without the help of Sorkin.
Deepfake Mel Gibson explains the diabetes-fighting secrets he discovered in Israel
A Burger King ad with “Temple Grandin tricked me” in the BK font and the tagline “I thought the chute kept going”
Whiskey Friday with Tony Dokoupil in the BK font
The Nurse Told Me THad Gout. Then I Sent Feet Pics to Chat GPT. Studies show large language models can outperform doctors in diagnosing patients. When my telehealth visit went sideways, I saw why.
Dana Perino on a magazine cover, the name of which is partially obscured by her head, but you can make out “En Times”
Marxist Caesar Papist Fusion in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles font
July 2, 2012 Hi Melanie Griffith, It appears that whoever was in charge of maintaining the registration of this domain name messed up, as the domain expired recently and then "dropped" several weeks later. It was consequently put up for auction at NameJet.com, where I purchased it for $669 on your behalf, assuming that you would want it back as quickly and inexpensively as possible. If I was a cybersquatter and intended to keep the domain or sell it to you at a profit then it would cost you several thousand dollars to file an ICANN "UDRP" action - a process which would take several months, I believe - so I hope you are pleased with what I did. In any event, an authorized agent of yours can contact me using the WHOIS information for the domain. I will immediately change the nameservers so that your website goes right back up, and an ownership transfer will be arranged. I know people say this to you every day, but you are one of my very favorite actresses and are obviously a very sweet person. I hope you run for President! Warm regards, Jon Schultz Washougal, WA
Dana BASH: You and your fellow Democrats have used some heated rhetoric against the president. Do you think twice about that when something like that happens? RASKIN: What rhetoric do you have in mind? BASH: That he's terrible for this country and so on and so forth
A box of “Liquid IV” electrolyte powdered drink mix
The Ed Balls tweet
Don Draper making his carousel pitch
He writes of a dismaying experience with his managers: "I asked why we keep using that word that many Hispanics hate—Latinx." Why indeed? It's true that many Latinos don't like this ungendered term, including some who work at NPR. That may be why NPR does not generally use the term. I did a search at npr.org for the previous 90 days. I found: 197 uses of Latino 201 uses of Latina And just nine uses of "Latinx," usually by a guest on NPR who certainly has the right to say it. Like Uri, I often have opinions about NPR's coverage. Sometimes I am right; and sometimes I check the easily searchable archives and discover I am wrong. I wish he'd done the same.
Elgin, a former correctional staff member at Kentucky State Reformatory, said she saw firsthand how corrections officers often fail to follow their own trainings and protocols. She witnessed a few unexpected deaths at the reformatory during her year working there. It was because of how the prison staff and department handled the deaths that she decided to quit, she said. "They lighten it up," Elgin said of death reporting. "They change the wording and make what happened a little less bad."
The muppets in the great muppet caper captioned “there it is. The fabulous baseball diamond.”
Jude Law as the Young Pope, not caring
TREK CENTRAL NEW - Sets for StarTrek: Starfleet academy Being Taken Down! A Crew member from the show reports that teams are already derigging the studios used for the latest Star Trek series. Additionally, a local online auction will take place on Friday for pieces from the set.
As The Verge reports, there are efforts to keep the idea from becoming the disaster that it sounds like. The chatbot can only renew prescriptions for a specific set of medications, including fluoxetine (Prozac), sertraline (Zoloft), and other substances used to treat anxiety and depression. It can only prescribe drugs that were previously prescribed by a human psychiatrist, and patients will also need to be stable and not have been hospitalized for a psychiatric condition in the last year.