OKAY, CAMPERS, RISE AND SHINE, AND DON'T FORGET YOUR BOOTIES 'CAUSE IT'S COOOOOOLD OUT THERE TODAY: It's February 2, so it's time to talk about the movie again. Do you buy the whole Buddhist thing, or should we just quote lines for a while and generally discuss its awesomeness?

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OKAY, CAMPERS, RISE AND SHINE, AND DON'T FORGET YOUR BOOTIES 'CAUSE IT'S COOOOOOLD OUT THERE TODAY: It's February 2, so it's time to talk about the movie again. Do you buy the whole Buddhist thing, or should we just quote lines for a while and generally discuss its awesomeness?

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"EVAN O'DEARNY, MY PERSONAL FAVORITE IS UP, HE'S AN ADORABLE PINT-SIZE SPELLING GENIUS AND I KNOW IN MY HEART THAT ONE DAY HE'LL CREATE SOME KIND OF AMAZING BOX-TYPE OBJECT THAT WILL CHANGE THE WORLD SOMEHOW": The by-line to our Bee coverage was "The Writers," -- was this Shonda? -- but we collectively loved Evan O'Dearny.  Well, he didn't build a "box-type object" but he's sure done okay for himself.  The SF Chronicle follows up with him seventeen years after winning the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

OKAY, CAMPERS, RISE AND SHINE, AND DON'T FORGET YOUR BOOTIES 'CAUSE IT'S COOOOOOLD OUT THERE TODAY: It's February 2, so it's time to talk about the movie again. Do you buy the whole Buddhist thing, or should we just quote lines for a while and generally discuss its awesomeness?

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TALK ABOUT THE PASSION: In an overload of 1990s nostaglia, earlier this month Frances Bean Cobain married Riley Hawk, son of skateboarding legends Tony Hawk, in a ceremony officiated by Michael Stipe.

OKAY, CAMPERS, RISE AND SHINE, AND DON'T FORGET YOUR BOOTIES 'CAUSE IT'S COOOOOOLD OUT THERE TODAY: It's February 2, so it's time to talk about the movie again. Do you buy the whole Buddhist thing, or should we just quote lines for a while and generally discuss its awesomeness?

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PLAY THAT FUNKY MUSIC, WHITE BOY:  One of my favorite discoveries during COVID was funk ensemble Scary Pockets.  If you didn't know you needed a funk cover of Radiohead's Creep, Hanson's Mmmm Bop, or Guns n' Roses Sweet Child o' Mine,  I am here to disabuse you of that ignorance. 

YOU SHAKE MY NERVES AND YOU RATTLE MY PREMORSE:  Okay, there is no way Jerry Lee Lewis was alive yesterday to have died only now.

ALOTT5MA ALUMNI UPDATE:  Yeah, Maddy!

OKAY, CAMPERS, RISE AND SHINE, AND DON'T FORGET YOUR BOOTIES 'CAUSE IT'S COOOOOOLD OUT THERE TODAY: It's February 2, so it's time to talk about the movie again. Do you buy the whole Buddhist thing, or should we just quote lines for a while and generally discuss its awesomeness?

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WE WENT FISHING:  Does this look like a man who has had all he could eat?

USUL, WE HAVE PREMORSE THE LIKES OF WHICH EVEN GOD HIMSELF HAS NEVER SEEN:  I remain proud of my neologism "Premorse," but never has it been quite so pronounced as with the death of Jackie Mason.  It boggles the mind this fellow hasn't been dead since 2004.

#3 - THE PLANTS WIN: Vulture's Rebecca Alter says there's "only two acceptable ways for any musical to end", providing plenty of footage to support her claims.

OKAY, CAMPERS, RISE AND SHINE, AND DON'T FORGET YOUR BOOTIES 'CAUSE IT'S COOOOOOLD OUT THERE TODAY: It's February 2, so it's time to talk about the movie again. Do you buy the whole Buddhist thing, or should we just quote lines for a while and generally discuss its awesomeness?

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YOU PICKED A FINE TIME TO LEAVE ME:  Kenny Rogers has died.  Given that I was born in 1970, many musical acts for me are wedded to their associations with the Muppet Show.  John Denver, Harry Belafonte, Crystal Gayle.  But none, for me, quite so strongly as Kenny Rogers performing The Gambler.

BINGING TIME:At a time when many of us are looking for entertainment they can readily binge, and feel they've exhausted what's on Netflix, wanted to offer a suggestion--the CW's Katy Keene.  All episodes of the season are available on the CW app (with commercials).  The show is a spinoff of Riverdale, set 5 years later, and Josie (of "and the Pussycats") has moved to New York to follow her dream, where she shares an apartment with aspiring fashion designer Katy Keene, aspiring Broadway performer Jorge Lopez (who also performs in drag shows at night), and mysterious socialite Pepper Smith (who it turns out is actually a broke con artist).

The show replaces Riverdale's murder and sex with musical numbers, ranging from Christina Aguilera to "My Strongest Suit" from the Elton John/Tim Rice Aida, and uses New York well both as a shooting location and by enabling it to draw from Broadway's talent banks for recurring guest stars (Andre de Shields as a friendly record store owner, Bernadette Peters as Pepper's con artist mentor, Daphne Rubin-Vega as Jorge's mother).

Is it GOOD?  Not really.  Is it incredibly WATCHABLE?  Absolutely, and that's what you probably need right now.

AWAKENING FROM HIBERNATION:We've been quiet around here for quite a while, though remaining connected to many of y'all via social media.  In these times of social distancing and self-isolation, communities like this one are more important than ever.  For that reason, we're having our first ever virtual happy hour via Zoom on Thursday night--9 Eastern/8 Central/6 Pacific.  If you want more details, find me or one of the other Throwers of Things on social media, and we'll share the info you need to get in.  (There's also a Slack many of us have been using.)  And we promise we won't spoil Grey's for those of you on the West Coast.

OKAY, CAMPERS, RISE AND SHINE, AND DON'T FORGET YOUR BOOTIES 'CAUSE IT'S COOOOOOLD OUT THERE TODAY: It's February 2, so it's time to talk about the movie again. Do you buy the whole Buddhist thing, or should we just quote lines for a while and generally discuss its awesomeness?

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THE LEGO MOVIE 3 - THE ANTITRUST PARADOX:

If I only had time enough.

OKAY, CAMPERS, RISE AND SHINE, AND DON'T FORGET YOUR BOOTIES 'CAUSE IT'S COOOOOOLD OUT THERE TODAY: It's February 2, so it's time to talk about the movie again. Do you buy the whole Buddhist thing, or should we just quote lines for a while and generally discuss its awesomeness?

Participate in this thread, or it's gonna be cold, it's gonna be grey, and it's gonna last you for the rest of your life.