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Yeah, I like her. Only listened to that album from last year in full once but "Good Luck, Babe!" pops up in my streaming mixes a lot. Also very into what Clairo's doing, feels of a kind with the kind of '70s AM radio revival stuff that, say, Weyes Blood has been doing but maybe a little more mainstream-friendly?

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I mean, my general feeling on the album when I listened to it was that it definitely qualified as country music but I thought it was brutally long and split in two different directions. I'm sure there's industry gatekeeping involved and I have absolutely zero interest in, say, evaluating how I feel about the Morgan Wallen or Jelly Roll stuff that's nominated but it doesn't actually feel like that hard an album to dismiss.

Three months ago this thing was the leadoff game in Sony's State of Play video. It didn't make it two weeks after release before they straight-up pulled it and started offering refunds. Good lord.

Played the upcoming Zelda game at PAX today. I really liked it. Cool that there's a lot of potential solutions to obstacles using the staff to create items to traverse them.

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Cool to see that The New Saints got through. I've idly checked in on those first-round Champions League qualifiers where it's almost always the exact same teams from Wales, Iceland, Gibraltar, and so on playing each other and then gradually just getting dumped out by whoever they play next for years. Hope they get a fun set of opponents.

People seem to be enjoying the shows, too! I wish I'd gone to see them but the nearest they were was hours away on a weekend where I really couldn't handle making that trip and coming back.

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longest PK shootout in UEFA history, I think?

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Yeah. I think the way they handle the Fox movies really works impressionistically, stuff like the anchor being idea really capture how it feels to have watched much of those movies for two decades and I think that's broadly enough. But it's basically just Animaniacs/reference-gag cartoon logic and I hope next-to-none of it seeps its way into anything that isn't a Deadpool movie because that's basically the only thing that can really accommodate it.

I feel like the logistics of the "Fox Marvel Universe" stuff ended up being like "if we put too much thought into this we'll have to spend forever explaining things and 75% of our audience doesn't give a shit" and being fair, they were probably right.

He knew he had it, as did the US Olympic Committee.

put me in, coach I'm ready to play, today put me in, coach I'm ready to play, today look at me I can be worst in the league