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My sourdough baking comes in waves I either bake everyday for a month straight or not once for an entire month…. Actually maybe that rule applies to a lot of things in my life. Whoops.

I feel like the culture of quoting media has kind of died out with the proliferation of media echo chambers, but boy, if there was any media worth quoting, this is certainly up there. I don't quite love this as much as the Tim Robinson fans out there, naturally, but I have to give it up to this series for redefining what narrative humor can be. It's also just so packed with jokes that it give Arrested Development a run for its money for densely-layered humor.

Happy MLK Day & your yearly reminder that Martin Luther King Jr. was not the pacifist voice so many out of context quotes will try to portray him as.

Been curious to see this since it released, and yeah, it's the kind of thing I wanna like more than I actually do. Granted, if it actually managed to pull off everything it's trying to do, it would be a miracle. Still a welcome voice in the world of U.S. immigration films and urban workforce stories. Plus, it's got Tilda Swinton, continuing to prove that she can find nuance in even the basest of caricatures.

What was up with this movie? Can someone explain the music choices? The camera work? The absolute refusal to give us a character arc until, debatably, the last 5 minutes of a 2.5-hour film? All of the excitement I felt in the directorial choices of this thing crumbled over that runtime as I realized that none of this was going to pay off. A memorable movie, to be sure, full of top notch filmmaking and fresh choices, but it was all in service of...what exactly? Unless I find some enlightenment eventually, I would only ever put this on again to hate-watch it.