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Jorge Luis Borges and Nancy Meyers Pitch a Movie (Because, Admit It, You’ve Watched Everything Else) - Nina Sharma at The New Yorker (archived link)
They interrupt the unnamed spin teacher—the only woman of color in the entire movie—with their shocking, cross-timeline revelations. For the teacher, spin class is the only thing that happens in her world, and for her this world will go on forever.
I'd pay to see a movie stitched together from a series of New Yorker cartoons. Maybe she could break out of hers.
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 4:21 PM on May 11, 2021 [2 favorites]
I'd pay to see a movie stitched together from a series of New Yorker cartoons. Maybe she could break out of hers.
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 4:21 PM on May 11, 2021 [2 favorites]
More Nina Sharma; Op-Ed: My Friends Are On Season 1 of Racism, Can't Wait For Them To Catch Up To Us On Season 446 (Flexx Mag, August 2020)
posted by Iris Gambol at 5:26 PM on May 11, 2021 [2 favorites]
posted by Iris Gambol at 5:26 PM on May 11, 2021 [2 favorites]
That was surprisingly plausible!
posted by Joe in Australia at 6:16 PM on May 11, 2021
posted by Joe in Australia at 6:16 PM on May 11, 2021
a baking playwright
A blaywright
A bakewrite
posted by Callisto Prime at 6:56 PM on May 11, 2021 [1 favorite]
A blaywright
A bakewrite
posted by Callisto Prime at 6:56 PM on May 11, 2021 [1 favorite]
As an architect, this hits close to home.
But, my lamp is Wayfair.
posted by meinvt at 7:20 PM on May 11, 2021 [2 favorites]
But, my lamp is Wayfair.
posted by meinvt at 7:20 PM on May 11, 2021 [2 favorites]
My god, I so badly want to see a version of this realized in a filmic medium of pretty much any kind.
posted by treepour at 8:17 PM on May 11, 2021
posted by treepour at 8:17 PM on May 11, 2021
I recently watched It's Complicated (2009) and so, it would seem, has the author of this pleasant spoof.
posted by hypnogogue at 7:04 AM on May 12, 2021
posted by hypnogogue at 7:04 AM on May 12, 2021
More Nina Sharma; Op-Ed: My Friends Are On Season 1 of Racism, Can't Wait For Them To Catch Up To Us On Season 446 (Flexx Mag, August 2020)
Oh my god. This is so depressing and so funny.
posted by medusa at 8:57 AM on May 12, 2021 [1 favorite]
Oh my god. This is so depressing and so funny.
posted by medusa at 8:57 AM on May 12, 2021 [1 favorite]
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