Benjamin Ragheb lives in New York City.
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I have been applying for jobs constantly for the last four months and have literally not gotten so much as a call back. I haven’t gotten an interview for ANYTHING, barista, produce stocker, data entry, nothing. At what point do you just give up and just become a homeless loser?
PS my laptop harddrive just died AGAIN and my warranty is expired so thats cool its not like I needed that anyway
It’s funny that you should ask because I just read that America’s job participation rate for people aged 25-55 is the lowest it’s been since 1984 (ie it’s just gotten worse since the recession started). Any time the “unemployment rate” “drops” it’s just because people give up looking. It’s depressing.
It’s even worse than that.
This is Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ favorite “Veep” line.
Do you have an absolute favorite line from the show?
Oh, Season 1 … I like the croissant/dildo line. It’s one of my favorites. I think it’s really just — [Laughs] — one hell of a classy line. I think this season — well, there are many coming that you haven’t heard, of course — “Jolly Green Jizzface.” That was pretty fabulous.Perfection.
definitely my favorite quote from Veep. I would give anything to see the outtakes of this scene.
That’s a weird analogy. Is this a callback to an earlier scene/episode where she is frustrated by how ineffective and messy a croissant is when used as a dildo?
Did I make my coworker take this laughably awkward photo of me in my office so I could post it on Tumblr? Why yes, yes I did.
F everyone’s I: I took this. Isn’t it framed well?
Subject is backlit, lots of clutter on the right side with nothing to balance it on the left, where did her left arm go?
1. Why was the triceratops sick?
2. Jeff Goldblum is the best.
3. John Hammond should have died at the hands (or jaws) of the beasts, Dr. Frankenstein style.
4. I really wish we could go back in time and re-do Jurassic Park 2. There was a lot of potential for this as a…I loved “Lost World” when it came out. I was in middle school and not a discerning viewer. It had dinosaurs and was a sequel (this was well before sequels were assumed; only a few films got sequels!). By the time JP3 came out, I was older (senior in high school maybe?) and I started to see sequels as more of a cash-in than stories that needed to be told. I hated JP3 as a senior in high school, have not seen it since.
The thing is, I don’t think that “Juarssic Park” was set up to become a franchise! Or even a trilogy! The first movie is the definition of a complete story. Unlike Star Wars and all of the Marvel movies, which are set in universes where danger and bad guys and weird things can literally happen every where, the action and plot of “Jurassic Park” is entirely hinged on this one island. The only way to keep the action going is to have people continually keep going to this one island over and over again.
Plus “JP1” totally says pretty much everything that needs to be said about the dangers of the dinosaurs and the philosophies behind playing god and what not. So not only do the sequels, by nature, have to tell more stories about more people going back to a random island in the middle of nowhere, they have to do so with much less intelligence and grace than “JP1” because “JP1 kind of used up all the smarts gas. The debates in the first half of “JP1” are so well written and acted, and by the end, every single person leaves the island with a “Yep, that was a dumb idea” attitude.
Then there’s the fact that sequels demand actors to return which, after “JP1”, it’s nearly impossible to get any of those survivors back. You immediately think those people are stupid for going back to dino island! They seemed to have learned something! I guess they didn’t? I read the summary of “JP3” last night, and seriously, Alan Grant goes back to the island because they promise to fund ANOTHER dig of his? Seriously?! That’s just the same reason as in “JP1”! I can’t remember why Malcolm goes back in “JP2.”
“Jurassic Park” is not a world or a universe, it’s one weird corner of “our planet” that is so separate from the rest of the world that return visits and sequels have so many logical leaps to make, they don’t really have a right to exist.
I’ll see “JP4,” but like, it should be called “Jurassic Park IV: We Keep Going Back To This One Island That Has Dinosaurs On It.” Also, I know there were two islands. Having two islands filled with dinosaurs was such a ridiculous justification for “JP2.”
what about a jurassic park sequel where it is just about the shareholder lawsuit against john hammond and the whole cast returns to testify
or hey what about that other company that paid dennis nedry for the dinosaur embryos? they would have a motive for going back to the island that isn’t 100% stupid
(via shortbreadsh)
TINY TURTLE INVESTIGATORS: THE CASE OF THE LARGE STRAWBERRY
GOOD MORNING EVERYONE
“HAVE YOU TRIED BALANCING ON IT”
“YES OF COURSE I TRIED BALANCING ON IT JENKINS THIS IS NOT MY FIRST DAY AS A TINY TURTLE INVESTIGATOR”
(via joshuajabbour)
Seriously, right?
Yep.
Gary would have wanted us to enjoy ourselves at Sarah’s party.