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Season 12 Taskmaster contestant Guz Khan would totes be invited to come to breakfast, and he wouldn't even have to bring in a chair as a prize!
Bonus, I would even know what to make because of his episode of Off Menu!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMFT...
Hah, *I* was just delighted to suddenly see a name I haven't thought of for a wildly long time, so thank *you*!
Having taught since, I recognize submitting extra work to be graded AND causing a potential test/student number discrepancy was regrettable.
Amusingly, a few years later I saw that he was talking at a bookstore in Berkeley and walked in and was met with a sudden flushed face "YOU!" and I ran away!
But, as I was not actually enrolled in the class, I didn't get end of year grades!
Very much of a type, in showing up to make a query, Nick immediately seemed to know both who I was and what I had done and was LIVID. Like he kicked me right out of ILR!
(As a biochemist I was not in it, though.)
...and grabbed a blue book and found a spot and sat down and also wrote the essays, which afterwards I thought I probably did pretty well on because the boy and I had nailed down the likeliest question to come up and, BAM! there was the 5th and freshest question on our list, asking to be answered.
Suddenly tossed into a sea of reverie: 27-some years ago (all my math/science finals were early so I was just hanging around) I had helped a boy I was desperately in love with study for a Freshman year ILR blue book essay final and because I didn't want the time to end I went along to the final...
...There's a little bit of an age difference but François Chau and Tim Curry could totally play brothers.
(If Lost was soundtracked like Clue I would have less of a visceral unease with the crescendos of discord and more inherent and ebullient referred joy.)
Brother Mouzone might not be inclined to hang but I'd extend the invitation and: who knows? We could chat about the important danger of libraries and pick up some crab cakes to go.
(I watched the entirety of "The Wire" while sick in a hotel before field work in BWI.)
m.youtube.com/watch?v=T0fC...
(On this particular evening I was on the phone with my folks, eating my breakfast and being lettuce shamed from the rabbit on the other end of the line.
...I regularly add kimchi to my soups but keeping lettuce in MY fridge feels like a recipe for generating less controlled wilted greenish waste.)
En route back to IND I once had a 1.5h layover in SFO & left the airport w/ an empty duffel to go to the market out here that sold Karam's (garlicsauce.com) and had the cabbie wait as I did a supermarket sweep sprint, picked up 6 bottles, & zipped back, just in time to check it.
Sometimes you gotta.
Would Sayyid from lost be invited to breakfast? Sure. Would he be encouraged to bring Desmond? Obviously.
Would we talk orientation videos? Indubitably.
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I am always ready for a Big Think of an episode.
A box of Great Value Freedom Pops which are three-color cherry, lime(!) and blue raspberry popsicles which really induce some tension in the consideration that lime should be the flavor profile for white, but who am I to argue with big ice treat.
When I saw these last night, I thought, "woof: have we hit the point where frozen treats on sticks are insufficiently patriot coded that they had to get rid of even the hint of a sickle?"
(I bought bananas instead…which feels oddly like a statement in that context, but I just like frozen bananas.)
A pangram in the typeface alhambra, wherein a quick glance might suggest to a viewer that it was text in arabic, but read from the left it is jibberish which leads the viewer to the sense that one should try starting on the lefthand side and try to parse it as stylized english, which reveals that it says, "the five boxing wizards jump quickly". It is kind of simultaneously an infuriating and delightful tease.
The invitee of "Mooz-lum"(2010) was...the credits typeface (not quite Alhambra but similarly amusingly confusing.)
I could see the desired "varieties of religious experience" message the movie wanted to convey but it was also WILDLY overwrought and literally shrieky and i'unno. Needed a consultant.
My reflex response somehow led to a moment of realizing that I knew it was not yet Friday, but ...is it Wednesday and maybe I shouldn't have to do so many calculations to ascertain what day it actually is here.
I was thinking about the oil wrestler last night and was reminded that Sallah from the Indianas Jones definitely led to some imprinting on robust and charming bearded rogues, always invited to breakfast, regal & secretly Welsh or not.
(Maybe the Elizondo of the year.)
m.youtube.com/watch?v=GMMC...
It's my whole vibe!
(My phone has a shortcut to link to a place on a message board where I have posted this image because THAT is how often this energy needs to be conveyed.)
As a fan of "Physical 100 (🇰🇷)" and "Final Draft" (🇯🇵), "Physical: Asia" was on my immediate watch list* and the Turkish team wrestlers (the captain/oil wrestler) and the lady freestyle wrestler [I think I read that she's now a teacher] would totes be breakfast invitees.
*I love ESPN8 style programs!
...I'm not the international joke police, but I don't know how I feel about crude humor.
Hasan Minhaj was invited last year, BUT *also* invite to Tan France! QE was fine, but I kinda wish that "Dressing Funny" persisted longer because: what a delight, exponentially amplified! They generally had versions of the energy of the below:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFhR...
youtu.be/QtPTh4eKkes?...
Two Panel Excerpt of The Good Place. Eleanor and Tahani watch Deirdre and Margaret while bonding, leading to Eleanor to ask "What's this show called again?" and Tahani answering "It's 'Deirdre and Margaret.' It ran for 16 years on the BBC. They did nearly 30 episodes."
Hassan "Hass" Rahim from "Trigger Point" totes could come for breakfast. (A delightful surprise about a lot of these curious Peacock shows that I think were produced in the UK--making sense based on what I know of the BBC*--is these 6 episode series situations. Low stakes quick watches!)
*cf. D&M
The EH&S and Radiation Safety Officer trainings of both me & my parents became obvious to anyone listening when on our call we joked about my aiming for ALARA* in reference to both the level of mess in my apartment and the amount of work I wanted to do to get there.
*As Low as Reasonably Achievable
I guess relatedly, even if it was only really discussed after the fact, Dr. Bashir from the Star Treks would totally also be invited to breakfast. His being low-key about most aspects of identity actually is maybe most familiar in terms of how I am, which is to say often/usually it doesn't come up.
Proper patreon support opens up access to several other categories of content on all the podcasts and music and thought technology and so and so forth where people are a little more candid. It's a nice lil' walled garden of a community, we have monthly zoom catchups, etc.
johnroderick.discourse.group/invites/iReZ...
(invite)
johnroderick.discourse.group/t/subjectivi...
(colors thread)
Discourse! Discourse! The discourse is through the patreon. I can give you guest access if you want, though there are limits depending on patreon status.
I forget if you're on John's discourse, but amusingly I am at the root of the subjectivity in color thread having dropped both links to ismy.blue and dialed.gg
plays.org/i-love-hue/
(This used to be my phone meditation on a plane and I feel like it's part of why my ability to recall colors correctly remains pretty on point.)
The coffee is settling in, I am almost ready to lock in on being productive, I promise.
It's in the same vein as hue sorting (in this case, technically "Hugh sorting") but I often find myself making ordered lists of actors who look similar enough to at least play siblings (a list I cross-reference with previous fictional sibs, like Turturro-Shalhoub-Tucci.)
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Breakfast Company: Another Peacock surprise: "Transplant", a Medical Drama centered on the breakfast invitee doctor, who bears a moderate resemblance to Alexander Siddig, who is called Dr. Bashir, though it's his first name.
ALSO in cast is John Hannah who looks and acts ~like Hugh Laurie on House!