Kathryn VanArendonk

had a good time!*

*not enough footnotes, though

the thing he says in this interview about how the show is not really about preaching to the choir .............. do you know what show you're making

oh i'm so glad you enjoyed!!

lmao

Bridgerton Needed Her Yerin Ha brought the hit Regency romance series the perspective it’s been missing.

spent an afternoon with bridgerton's yerin ha

www.vulture.com/article/brid...

This is a terrific read on one of the most original voices in comedy right now. If we mourn WBD getting swallowed up into a sweaty conglomerate for freaks, we may as well celebrate that Fleming has an HBO special

it’s already 5k words long!!!

‘He Is Basically the Goop That’s Inside a Lava Lamp’ Chris Fleming is every comedian’s favorite alt oddball. Is the rest of the world ready for him?

i profiled comedian chris fleming whose new special is out tomorrow and who is a real delight to attempt to describe
www.vulture.com/article/chri...

am catching up on Outlander

bad news, claire invented ether and now she's addicted to ether

OBVIOUSLY

the fact that it's not even in focus, it makes me laugh so hard

nahhhh it's not me! i made conan do all the heavy lifting

i did not include the detail that he loves it in part because it's where all the UPS drivers gather to hang out at the end of the day so then the parking lot is just full of UPS trucks

my family gets dad gifts for christmas

examples of dad gifts:
everyone gets a tape dispenser
everyone gets an LED light for their car keys
everyone gets a thing that cleans windows
everyone gets a selfie stick

omedian Chris Fleming arrives at my hotel in an absurdly tiny seafoam-green car, an object that looks more like a gag gift than a street-legal vehicle. The car is a Nissan Figaro, an obscure 1950s-styled convertible with chrome detailing, tiny round headlights, and a right-side steering wheel. Fleming is six-foot-two, and when he sits in the driver’s seat, his knees fold up nearly to his chest. The top of his voluminous curly hair sticks over the top of the Figaro’s roof frame. He looks like he’s driven straight off the pages of Richard Scarry’s Busytown and onto the streets of Pasadena; he is Lowly Worm bopping around town in an apple.

“This is just like Seinfeld doing Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,” I point out to Fleming as we set off for a drive around his favorite spots in Pasadena. “Fuck!” Fleming yells, laughing but also sincerely horrified. “That’s a huge problem if that’s what it’s giving off. Damnit!” That’s the price of a car that’s screaming to be noticed. People notice it then want to understand it. They want to get in it at the gas station. They want to meet the owner and see how he fits inside. I ask Fleming if he cares about cars generally. Is this a hobby? “Oh God, no. No, this is pure aesthetic,” he says. He loves his Figaro for its strangeness, for the surprise of turning a corner and seeing an impractical footnote in the history of car manufacturing driven by a flamingo-like person in enormous, bug-eyed sunglasses. But he’s less comfortable with the invitation of it — the way it prompts the question, What kind of a person would be driving around in that car? He would prefer to remain alien. “It’s easier to be seen as an entity,” he says.

i'm a car expert now

one way of thinking about a profile is, who are the secondaries? who loves to yell about this person?

in this case i had too many to even fit in the piece; see if you can tell which one i personally am most proud of

‘He Is Basically the Goop That’s Inside a Lava Lamp’ Chris Fleming is every comedian’s favorite alt oddball. Is the rest of the world ready for him?

i profiled comedian chris fleming whose new special is out tomorrow and who is a real delight to attempt to describe
www.vulture.com/article/chri...

but yes lickilicky

wow had considered many but had overlooked koffing

arrived at the office today locked and loaded to derail everyone else's work day (discussion of which pokemon would be on the epstein list)

imagining several weeks of detailed focus groups on consumer sentiment but instead of politics or the economy it’s just asking people from Dec until now how they feel about hockey

concerned that I have looked inside myself to look for despair about the new snow, but instead have found yawning void

sure, we live in the forever winter now, that tracks

my people

THANK you

and yet there are so many detractors!

really??? Two is like, it’s CLEARLY two!!

even looking at the score for option one makes me feel like wriggling into a damp bathing suit

How do you hear the rhythm of the iPhone “Opening” Ringtone? [SKIPPY VERSION] #music #rhythm #controversy TikTok video by Reuben Levine

I understand that the most inane form of conversation is “oh that reminds me of a tiktok” but I saw a TikTok yesterday and I can’t stop thinking about it

IS THE DOWNBEAT AT THE BEGINNING OR NOT (surely it’s a pickup!?!?)

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8xraqr6/

OMG omg!!

I HAVE COORDINATED THE ENTIRE SUMMER'S WORTH OF VARIOUS INTERLOCKING CAMP SCHEDULES

KNEEL BEFORE ME