Everyone make sure you are subscribed to Mari's Substack. It's delightful and free. Here is my favorite post which calls for abolishing thank you notes:
I was confused by the picture caption until I realized that the word for “to take the skin off of something” and “to put skin on something” are the same word
I liked the movie Pelican Brief better than the book. The book is very absurd.
I recently rewatched The Firm and thought it was absurd, but enjoyable. After being an attorney for 25 years, it is clear that the Mob does not need to blackmail attorneys to do its legal work. Attorneys care most if they get paid.
The firm from The Firm may be one of the more respectable law firms. At least I don't recall them representing Wall Street or pharmaceutical companies.
Right. Much cleaner clients. Most multinational corporations are so sociopathic that they make the Mob look clean. Big Pharma would kill thousands without a concern. I have seen it on cases.
I have represented murders. I have represented members of organized crime, both Cartel and Mob. The most horrible person I ever represented was a billionaire.
I wrote an 8th grade book report on the Pelican Brief in 1993 and was really proud of myself for using an "adult" book. I may have to give it a read again to see just how absurd it is. I also read Rain Man that year and thought I was the coolest.
Somehow I suspect Freddie was writing book reports on The Brothers Karamazov or Lolita in the 8th grade.
Yo Freddie, I was considering submitting a thingamabob for your subscriber writing project.
The problem is, I already know the subject on which I would want to submit, and I already wrote it last year and posted it elsewhere.
Does this DQ it from consideration?
not at all
Sure grand, ty
I am absurdly proud to be Comment of the Week!
Well deserved you beautiful bastard!!!! <3
Everyone make sure you are subscribed to Mari's Substack. It's delightful and free. Here is my favorite post which calls for abolishing thank you notes:
https://marischindele.substack.com/p/on-thank-you-notes-as-an-occasion
Oh, thank you so much for this!
Thanks, Freddie's link is broken ...
It was a really good comment. Congratulations! (I was comment of the week a few months ago and I felt proud too.)
For some reason, I thought you were a Mac guy.
I was once a fierce PC partisan but then, thank god, that culture war kind of died off.
I was confused by the picture caption until I realized that the word for “to take the skin off of something” and “to put skin on something” are the same word
I dunno, "laptop leather" sounds like a totally plausible thing in <current_year>. The question is, would it be vegan?
It's called an "auto-antonym".
I liked the movie Pelican Brief better than the book. The book is very absurd.
I recently rewatched The Firm and thought it was absurd, but enjoyable. After being an attorney for 25 years, it is clear that the Mob does not need to blackmail attorneys to do its legal work. Attorneys care most if they get paid.
The firm from The Firm may be one of the more respectable law firms. At least I don't recall them representing Wall Street or pharmaceutical companies.
Right. Much cleaner clients. Most multinational corporations are so sociopathic that they make the Mob look clean. Big Pharma would kill thousands without a concern. I have seen it on cases.
I have represented murders. I have represented members of organized crime, both Cartel and Mob. The most horrible person I ever represented was a billionaire.
I wrote an 8th grade book report on the Pelican Brief in 1993 and was really proud of myself for using an "adult" book. I may have to give it a read again to see just how absurd it is. I also read Rain Man that year and thought I was the coolest.
Somehow I suspect Freddie was writing book reports on The Brothers Karamazov or Lolita in the 8th grade.
At 52:20, I think you could call that a Chesterton Screen.