I like Springfield. Other than Springfield, that part of the country reminds me of this:
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This one is closer to how my family talks. If you look at the speakers, there seems to be some Native American features - weâve had the discussion that in that area, pretty much everyone probably has some Indian blood in them somewhere.
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- If itâs outside California itâs not really real
What makes me laugh is when characters go to Vancouver/Montreal/Toronto and theyâre portrayed as very small cities â maybe 50,000 people. Meanwhile theyâre using one of those cities as their regular location shoot and itâs supposed to be LA, DC, NYC, or Chicago.
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The way the roads are laid out in Boston, if you donât know them really well (GPS canât even figure them out), you might drive 30 miles and still be just a block over from where you started.
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All of those Canadian cities are bigger than DC except Vancouver is slightly smaller. Toronto is bigger than Chicago and I think LA. Anything outside NYC and LA is apparently small and quaint to them. They see Canada as a cheap shooting location and nothing else.
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It doesnât help matters any that each town has like three names, and like five unique street names that change every time you cross town borders.
That reminds me: back in the early days of the internet (before it was opened up for business use), I came across a rather snotty magazine article which pointed out some USENET forums were populated entirely with people from smaller, non-Ivy League universities, even gasp people from overseas.
The conclusion was that this international network thing wasnât really that big a deal â it was a way for second- and third-tier institutions to feel special, when of course everyone knew all the really important stuff was happening in New York, Boston, LA, and San Francisco (+ any Ivy League schools not in those locations).
IMHO while all those places are still very popular (as witnessed by housing prices), they donât have the cachet they once did. TV has been slow to catch on to this. So have films.
Now I want to see a film about an amazing visual artist who does everything on-line and lives modestly in a mid-sized town in Iowa.
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Coming soon: hell yeah!
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They probably foresaw that the webâs instant porn was going make USENET irrelevant and wanted to talk it down.
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Looks like I need to read that sooner rather than later!
I went to see this with my family today:
If I had to express my feelings about this movie in one character, it would be 
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If you want to watch a movie about a character who feels constrained by the role that society has chosen for them, starts an incident that threatens that societyâs existence in a short period of time, and then resolves the conflict by being true to theirself, just watch this instead:
Also, my wife and I went to see this:
I didnât know much about it going in. I didnât, for example, know that it was based on a comic book. Itâs clever, brutal, covers an under-served time period, and has a (mostly) fantastic soundtrack. Apparently some people are calling it gun-fu, but I think that is both reductive and underselling it.
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Catching up hereâŚ
I loved GLOW as well and was surprised at how sophisticated it was.
I always have a hard time watching things set in places Iâve lived â itâs too easy to find the geographical flaws. I was annoyed when the Avengers movie labeled the Pentagon as being in Washington, D.C. when itâs actually in Arlington, Virginia. Mostly because just labeling it the Pentagon would have been enough to establish location â they didnât need to add misinformation into it. Also, the Avengers HQ is sitting right in the middle of the Potomac River. AnywayâŚ
I just finished binging Jane the Virgin. I didnât think the third season was as strong as the first two, but it was still quite good. The character development is really fantastic. And despite the premise and telenovella-ness, I still found it more realistic than any sitcom.
(Iâm still bristling from having to watch numerous hours of Big Bang Theory and the New Girl last weekend. Who makes a 20-something teacher with no administrative experience a school principal! Gah!)
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As it happens, I know a man who was a school principal for his entire career, save a few months of the first year. The old principal at his school passed away suddenly, it was a rural area, and he got picked to be the replacement.
He didnât think he was qualified, but the board kind of made him an offer he couldnât refuse. In the end he did very well, but it was totally learning on the job.
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Iâve been binge-watching King of the Hill.
A very funny show and way too underrated among the pile of âadultâ cartoons that followed in The Simpsons wake.
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That one and Catâs Eye are my two favorite books of hers. I am a Margaret Atwood junkie.
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King of the Hill is (ironically, for a cartoon) possibly the most realistic and honest show made about average Americans that I know of. And very funny.
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Yep
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Mm-hmmâŚ
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Friends of mine whoâd lived in the suburbs of Dallas couldnât watch it; it reminded them too much of people theyâd known there.
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