Kathryn VanArendonk

regret to inform that NYMag will now attempt to fix this 😂

This question brought to you by the slow-rolling mental breakdown John and Michaela’s lack of Scottish accents have induced in me (okay so if the Scottish aristocracy is culturally and by education English, as their accents suggest, then… )

omg

"You’ll likely be performing some of these navigational techniques just about every day for as long as you drive."

likely ... but not necessarily, i guess?

the first Bridgerton season starts in 1813!! so…….

i regret to admit that this is the third time i have typed "DID CULLODEN HAPPEN IN BRIDGERTON?" today

obviously the bridgerton writers have thought a great deal about this and have a very careful answer, i know

a very reasonable question i have about bridgerton is, what about ireland? did the england of bridgerton decline to do an imperialism in india or the caribbean but then still try to conquer ireland? and if it's a non-imperial england then ... how is there a united states

there's a trumpet player who's clearly pretty good in that clip ... trumpet player, pls get in touch if you're still annoyed about this

omg i wonder if he does know

‘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?

one thing about this Chris Fleming profile I forgot to mention: it contains an embedded out-of-focus video of an iPod playing a recording of his high school jazz band drum solo, which he convinced a band teacher to let him do despite never before playing drums

www.vulture.com/article/chri...

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