Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Episode 478: Morbidly Obese Clemenza
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Episode 478: Morbidly Obese Clemenza
DISCUSSED: discussion of The Freshman and thoughts on what makes a movie "hold up"; has anyone ever craved a three-star movie?; what Merlin really wants is a smart friend; Dan is enjoying On Becoming a God in Central Florida; the difficulty of making weird good; I didn't buy it a beer; your mask is not a case for your beard; Dan has follow-up on bikes; Merlin has follow-up on companies and WFH help; thoughts on what we know and don't know about the difficulties of ““reopening””; the benefits and challenges of being a chain-worrying project manager; praise for the Austin Grackles.
Links for this episode:
- The Freshman (1990) - IMDb
- Bruno Kirby - Biography - IMDb
- Carmine Said One Boy - YouTube
- Freeway movie review & film summary (1997) | Roger Ebert
"Occasionally an unsuspecting innocent will stumble into a movie like this and send me an anguished postcard, asking how I could possibly give a favorable review to such trash. My stock response is Ebert's Law, which reads: A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it."
'So I’ve always worried about things. I also always knew that most of the time there was nothing to worry about. For me it wasn’t even just worrying about something. I understand that everyone worries. The best way I can describe it is "Chain worrying."'
'In literary criticism, an idiot plot is "a plot which is kept in motion solely by virtue of the fact that everybody involved is an idiot," and where the story would otherwise be over if this were not the case.'
Brought to you by:
View all episodes
By 5by5
4.7
20132,013 ratings
DISCUSSED: discussion of The Freshman and thoughts on what makes a movie "hold up"; has anyone ever craved a three-star movie?; what Merlin really wants is a smart friend; Dan is enjoying On Becoming a God in Central Florida; the difficulty of making weird good; I didn't buy it a beer; your mask is not a case for your beard; Dan has follow-up on bikes; Merlin has follow-up on companies and WFH help; thoughts on what we know and don't know about the difficulties of ““reopening””; the benefits and challenges of being a chain-worrying project manager; praise for the Austin Grackles.
Links for this episode:
- The Freshman (1990) - IMDb
- Bruno Kirby - Biography - IMDb
- Carmine Said One Boy - YouTube
- Freeway movie review & film summary (1997) | Roger Ebert
"Occasionally an unsuspecting innocent will stumble into a movie like this and send me an anguished postcard, asking how I could possibly give a favorable review to such trash. My stock response is Ebert's Law, which reads: A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it."
'So I’ve always worried about things. I also always knew that most of the time there was nothing to worry about. For me it wasn’t even just worrying about something. I understand that everyone worries. The best way I can describe it is "Chain worrying."'
'In literary criticism, an idiot plot is "a plot which is kept in motion solely by virtue of the fact that everybody involved is an idiot," and where the story would otherwise be over if this were not the case.'
Brought to you by:
More shows like Back to Work
View all
Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
829 Listeners
MacBreak Weekly (Audio)
2,013 Listeners
No Agenda Show
5,976 Listeners
The Big Web Show
48 Listeners
Hypercritical
1,942 Listeners
Mac Power Users
1,287 Listeners
5by5 at the Movies
168 Listeners
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
837 Listeners
QUIT! with Dan Benjamin
237 Listeners
Accidental Tech Podcast
2,092 Listeners
DLC
1,104 Listeners
The Ruby on Rails Podcast
53 Listeners
Connected
568 Listeners
Upgrade
1,199 Listeners
Reconcilable Differences
423 Listeners
HabloGeek
24 Listeners
Road Work
285 Listeners
Pivot
9,257 Listeners
Omnibus
2,579 Listeners
Ride AI
57 Listeners
The Rest Is History
13,109 Listeners
Huberman Lab
28,507 Listeners
The Ezra Klein Show
15,335 Listeners
The Rest Is Politics
3,289 Listeners