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I'm a chunky rodent

The spam calls that know enough to have my phone number, but not enough that I don't own a car.

I'm queering nerd masculinity by being a queer, arguably masculine, nerd

Like, oddly, it's less the nerdy neuroticism, as much as the vocal cadences and Alvie's more surreal punchlines. Like, Griffin would not make a joke about polymorphic perversity, not least because it's 2019. But he would totally make a joke with his wife about feeling up her teeth and kneecaps.

Listening to clips is making me think Griffin McElroy's comic persona some sort of Appalachian Woody Allen, which both tracks and is something I'm not sure what to do with.

The way Woody hits, "We never have any laughs anymore, is the problem," is both a very Yiddish-influenced sentence construction, and very Griffin.

It fucks me up that a lot of the media that I consumed as a young adult and shaped me was made by creeps like Woody Allen. Not because it makes me feel impure, but because it makes me feel manipulated. It's upsetting to think about how I was able to look past things that are clearly wrong, due to identifying with pieces of work that were designed to hook me.

I'm listening to an episode of Unspooled about "Annie Hall" and realizing how similar "Eternal Sunshine" is, except somehow Jim Carrey's character, whose name I can't even remember, is somehow less charismatic than Alvie.

A haunting Victorian print of a duck with human hands instead of webbed feet

Fuck gamers

[has over 100 hours logged for multiple games on my Switch]

The Screaming Females cover of "Shake It Off" is beautiful, a modern classic