Pop Culture
- Kottke: Best not to know anything going into it… just watch all the way to the end.
- Daring Fireball: The less you know about this talk, the more you’ll enjoy watching it unfold. Just remarkably good. Trust me, watch it now, before anything about it is spoiled for you.
- Pixel Envy: Seriously – watch first, then click.
- The showrunner, Bill Lawrence, who was also behind Ted Lasso and Shrinking delivered again. The Ringer has a piece about him;
- Eve Stripling is easily one of the most compelling villains I’ve seen in a while;
- The soundtrack is spot-on and adds so much to the vibe;
- The “good guys” are all super charming and relatable;
- It’s based on a novel by Carl Hiaasen, and it feels like it shares the same DNA as the works of Laurent Chalumeau — both clearly influenced by the legendary Elmore Leonard.
- Home Alone
- Daddy’s Home
- Daddy’s Home 2
- Spirited
- Elf
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
Apprendre à ranger une sale vide
Alors évidemment, le “consulting”, c’est comme tout, ça dépend comment c’est fait. Mais comment ne pas sourire et se rappeler des souvenirs de début de carrière quand on entend :
De temps en temps, il y avait des consultants qui venaient et qui expliquaient pourquoi il fallait virer untel, faire des économies là. Un mec qui était à son poste depuis 25 ans, ils lui disaient “non, c’est pas comme ça qu’il faut travailler monsieur”. C’était quand même à la fois violent et universel comme phénomène, ils étaient partout. Et puis après j’ai travaillé dans des organismes publics, ils étaient toujours là. Et ils faisaient la même chose, il faut faire des économies, il faut faire des gains d’efficacité, la performance. Et puis alors ce langage, ce langage avec plein d’anglicismes et puis ce langage expert qui exerce un pouvoir. Et comme des millions de français, je l’ai subi. Et ça s’exerce comme une science, comme les économistes un peu, ils pensent que c’est une science. Et donc c’est un discours qui est sans réplique quand on y est, sauf qu’après on peut écrire des livres. Et là on peut se venger. Alors vous dites avec un certain amusement, mais aussi avec pas mal d’ironie et la volonté de ridiculiser ces pouvoirs faussement savants. La littérature, voilà, elle a toujours à faire avec la bêtise de son temps. Le consulting, il y en a de mille manières. Donc il y a des choses plus ou moins vertueuses, des choses plus ou moins bidons. Alors j’en ai quand même rencontré des consultants. J’ai lu des livres, des consultants repentis, certains qui travaillaient encore, etc. Et il y a des phrases… “Être consultant, c’est prendre sa montre à quelqu’un pour lui donner l’heure et partir avec la montre”. Voilà. Enfin voilà, il faut raconter tout ça quand même. C’est apprendre à ranger une sale vide aussi ? Ah oui, alors ça oui, un consultant qui m’a dit ça, bah oui c’était apprendre à ranger une sale vide.
— Nicolas Mathieu, lors d’une interview dans la librairie Dialogues, à Brest
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Arthur Christmas, 2011 - ★★★
The idea of treating Christmas as a challenging logistical operation is quite amusing. The subsequent adventures, although a bit lengthy, are heartwarming and funny. I recommend it for young children. 🍿
Arthur Christmas, 2011 - ★★★
The idea of treating Christmas as a challenging logistical operation is quite amusing. The subsequent adventures, although a bit lengthy, are heartwarming and funny. I recommend it for young children. 🍿
The Strava-art drawings showcased on strav.art are incredible. Some of the drawings are so intricate that I wonder if some artists are cheating, and if so, how? 🍿
YouTube tends to transcribe “ChatGPT” as “Chachi BT”. Funny.
When you search for “Chachi BT” on Google, there are so many results and pretty much all of them are indeed about ChatGPT. Meaning that no human edited the posts before publication to fix this typo even in titles, meta tags, etc. Scary.
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I just finished watching Modern Family.
For about five years, it’s been a constant part of our routine when my wife and I have lunch together at home. The last time we watched the show, Season 11—the final season—wasn’t available in France, so we rewatched the entire series. Now, we’ve finally completed Season 11. It was an emotional moment, both on screen and in our living room.
I’m not sure why it’s not more popular among our friends, but for me, it’s definitely in my hall of fame. 🍿
Many people of my RSS feeds recommended Panic’s Cabel Sasser talk at XOXO 2024:
Watching it did not disappoint. 💻 × 🍿
I just finished watching Bad Monkey on Apple TV+. It was really good and I highly recommend it.
Some notes:
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Big thanks to Manton Reece for pointing me to this hilarious bit by John Mulaney about captchas.
It’s now up there with Michael McIntyre’s sketch on passwords in the hall of fame of tech-related comedy. 💻 × 🍿
I am a little late to start watching Malcom in the Middle in 2024, but I have spent the last couple of days by how good this show is. The last occurrence was the scenes where we see the world through Dewey’s eyes. 🍿
Reading about how Matthew Perry was addicted to ketamine before he died. Really sad. 🍿
Pierre Niney est assez épatant dans son passage à Hot Ones. 🍿
I love rewatching movies and TV shows. Some pass the re-watchability bar, many others fail. On the agenda lately, Barbie painfully failed. I had enjoyed the movie when I first saw it though. Ted Lasso passed with flying colors. I am in the middle of season 2, and it might even be better than the first time since you can see that narrative arcs are all instilled very early on. 🍿
This evening, i was forced to watch The Idea of You. At the beginning of the movie, before Solène enters Hayes’ trailer, I wrote this:
She’s gonna date a Moon. Then the age difference is going to be a problem. So they split up. But then they’re getting back together because love is the most important.
Bingo.
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L’étape, l’étape, oui mais c’est Pantani.
Vincent Delerm raconte que son père, Philippe, avait appelé L’Équipe pour proposer ce titre lors d’une victoire d’étape de Marco Pantani au Tour de France. 🍿
I had insomnia last night and I killed time imagining a new movie adaptation of The Bonfire of the Vanities. My cast would be Matthew Macfadyen for Sherman McCoy (because of the obvious similarities between the characters of Sherman McCoy and Tom Wambsgans, from Succession), Margot Robbie for Maria Ruskin, and Daniel Craig for Peter Fallow. 🍿
Excellente interview de Nicolas Mathieu par Mouloud Achour, coutumier du fait : l’évocation du son de cloche de Top Gun, les Goonies, son non-verbal, tout fait mouche. Hâte de lire Le ciel ouvert. 🍿
Mon opinion sur le débat Édith vs Aya ? Aucune ! Mais j’ai une opinion sur le fait de pas avoir d’opinion 🍿
In spite of my efforts, I could not figure out the ties in the McCallister family tree, but Internet had the response: Uncle Frank is Pete McCallister’s older brother. And yes, there are part of the top 1%. Problem solved. 🍿
Let’s consider holiday movie season started.
And we might reconsider 2 new items for this list:
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