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And that kind of confidence, you know, like I was finally - I was good at something, that was so new, and that was so exciting and I just wanted him to know that and, fuck, I just wanted him to be like, “Good job!” And the more he wouldn’t respond, and the more our relationship kinda strained, the deeper into this I went and the better I got. And the more people I cut out, the quieter my life got. And the routine of the kitchen was so consistent and exacting and busy and hard and alive, and I lost track of time and he died. And he left me his restaurant. And over the last couple months I-I’ve been trying to fix it ‘cause it was in rough shape, and I think it’s very clear that me trying to fix the restaurant was me trying to fix whatever was happening with my brother. And I don’t know, maybe fix the whole family because that restaurant, it has and it, it does mean a lot to people. It means a lot to me. I just don’t know if it ever meant anything to him.

THE BEAR (2022-)

·  03:23PM 10,167 notes

minipliny:

This just seems the right time to share that my grandmother once told the family her second cousin had “erotic autism” instead of an aortic aneurysm

·  11:30AM 46,411 notes

brookheimer:

brookheimer:

anne carson: simple moving poem about awkward dinners with not-quite-friends and the ennui that comes with realizing this mundane unhappiness is all adult life is sometimes

insane people on twitter: has she ever tried being happy? i like going to dinner with friends, what’s wrong with her? she can afford to go out to dinner, she shouldn’t complain. just be a cooler hang, skill issue. this isn’t my exact experience (i like my friends) therefore this poem is bad and unrelatable and pretentious. she can’t debone a fish? loser.

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going through the quote tweets with my jaw hanging

·  02:43PM 13,239 notes
  Anonymous

season 2 of the bear has me wondering if they brought in people to write for them who come from more of a sitcom background. cause the dialogue and jokes were not landing for me at all. that scene where the ceiling collapsed on jerimoich and stuff kept falling had me cringing so hard it felt like something straight out of Friends. i also thought the music was really weird at certain points and they had the most bland, normal conversations going on with intense music playing over it. so strange

  killbilled

Idk, I know what you mean but the writing staff was probably the same. I think the problem was they just didn’t bother putting many jokes in there. Much of the humor from S1 came from the bickering and insults and they got rid of that almost completely because everyone had to be healthier and well-adjusted.

The editing makes a huge difference a well. That was my biggest issue with it. Like, you know that one clip that’s popular on here, when they’re arguing about richie’s driver’s license and the caulk with the caption like “so much good dialogue in this 30 second clip?” It was one funny line after another with quick cuts giving it this chaoitic feel. In S2, the jokes were few and far between and they would just let the camera sit there after a punchline before finally cutting away. So, like, even when they had some of the same stuff from S1 like Fak and Richie fighting, it didn’t work as well. it was all just so damn slow.

the-other-jugs:

charlesoberonn:

charlesoberonn:

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Americans will measure in anything except the metric system

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So apparently this is just this guy’s thing

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Average american unwilling to measure using metric system factoid actually a statistical error. Measurements Georg who refuses to use metric system on 10,000 posts a month is an outlier and should not have been counted.

·  11:30AM 36,532 notes
  Anonymous

thank you for putting into words how i feel about the bear season 2. i was too araid to say it but it feels so bland and self aware and honestly the acting isn't that great and the characters just feel weird and the jokes felt so scripted and sitcom-like. so sad, season 1 was fantastic.

  killbilled

Yeah, I’m glad to know there’s others who feel the same! It sucks when something you were looking forward to disappoints you, especially if everyone else seems to like it. It definitley felt very off to me, like the season was stretched ou - the pace would be like if you watched s1 in slow motion, which really hurt the comedic timing. The acting was good, though, I can’t fault them there, though I got real tired of the cameos. Like, here’s Olivia Colman for thirty seconds for no apparent reason, look John Mulaney! I wish they had stuck with more uknown actors - I felt very aware I was watching Jaime Lee Curtis capital A Acting as their mother, if you know what I mean, despite her performance being good.