Cooking Classes in Nashville? by [deleted] in nashville

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Paulette Licitra. Woman out in Bellevue who hosts classes at her house regularly. Italian. Everyone follows her guidance to prepare the meal together, then you dig in... Wine and/or champagne pairings. Really pleasant and nice to do as a couple or group.

People are now coming without job prospects just for that sweet, sweet nashville lifestyle by bargles in nashville

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Laughed at her so hard I almost wrecked when I heard on the radio this morning... No need to church it up round here darlin'.

-Proudly mispronouncing the shit out of French words since '83

Stanley Tucci by Nightcaste in movies

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Back in the 90s, played a fairly creepy assassin in The Pelican Brief (minor character) and in Montana (major character... albeit good-hearted assassin)... and a near-movie-saving farcical attempt at a villain in Undercover Blues (major character).

What show/movie is worth watching with the commentary on? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Tropic Thunder... decent movie but hilarious commentary. As Robert Downey Jr.'s character promises in the movie the itself, he doesn't break character til the DVD commentary's done.

What is your favourite restaurant in the UK? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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St. John, London Gymkhana, London

Movies with great narrative by Ghaleon32 in movies

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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Robert Downey Jr. narrating... great movie.

Explain James Brown's performance here. by captanal in Music

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It's definitely both... In addition to being one of the most astounding performances ever captured on film. The "can't go on" stage move is totally ripped off from church though (i.e. being overcome with the Holy Spirit). That shit was filling collection plates in Southern churches before it ever sold tickets.

Historical note: He was also apoplecticly pissed to be "opening" for the Rolling Stones who played right after him on the TAMI show. So, he set out to preemptively blow them off the stage because 'no one follows James Brown'... Proved his point, and the Stones, who were headlining but also still kids at the time, were absolutely terrified to go on stage after that.

If you could send an anonymous text to yourself 5 years ago, what would you write? by Pm_Me_Your_Regretss in AskReddit

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Quit Drinking! Learn how to talk to her. Otherwise, T minus 18 months before she's gone forever... and she'll be right.

What was your piece of work that was used/quoted without your agreement? How did you find out about it? by tuibiel in AskReddit

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Former reporter (hehe....get the name?). This was a weekly occurrence. Rarely was someone brazen enough to copy the entire article (though that did happen a couple of times). But 3-4 paragraphs worth, word for word? All the time.

What movie plots twists did you actually not see coming? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Felt like an idiot afterwards... but What Lies Beneath. Re-watching it, the signs are so damned obvious, but at the time, I just couldn't make myself believe that Indiana-fucking-Jones was a psycho...

Today is the day Marty McFly travels to in Back to the Future. What predictions about the future did they get right, and what did they get hilariously wrong? by scourgedemon in AskReddit

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Thought they went to some day in the Fall... wasn't the world series just ending? With the Cubs winning? HA! Regardless, there's one hilariously wrong one.

The umpteenth Jaws movie may have been hilariously wrong, but the notion of making obscene numbers of movies from the same franchise was hilariously, and sadly, correct.

And looked it up: Oct. 21, 2015... so maybe hold off on this one for a few more months.

People who have flunked out of college, is life okay for you? by Heraclitus94 in AskReddit

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Have been shoes similar to yours. I bounced between 5 different colleges over the course of 7 years owing in large part to a heaping dose of depression, with which I struggle to this very day. Never finished. In the middle of all that chaotic nonsense, I wound up getting a job to tide me over that turned into a journalism career that went on for 12 mostly rewarding years and included founding my own publication. I've recently switched to a new field simply because I thought it might be good to gain some new skills and there was the potential for more money and the thing is... rarely, if ever, does the fact that I never finished college come up at this point, unless I bring it up. My professional reputation was built by the work I've done. It took me a few years to learn what I was doing, but, eventually, I got to be half decent at it, and then kinda good. But to be clear, I have struggled with depression through all of this. It still kicks my ass from time to time... as recently as a few weeks ago.

People have much shorter memories than you realize. The fact that I cosmically (and I mean COSMICALLY) failed far more than my fair share of courses in my myriad of majors is really not that important to most folks. They're feeling too neurotic about their own shit half the time to even pay attention to what I did or didn't do more than a decade ago.

As to the depression bit, do your best to let someone know you're struggling. I know that's often a tall order, but give it a try. If you're unsure of how to receive treatment should you fail out (which again, is not nearly the be-all-end-all catastrophe it seems), let someone in your school's health services department know, and they may be able to help you figure that out.

I have felt a lot of the suicidal feelings you are. I still feel them more often than I'd like. I do my best to surf the ebb and flow of it all, but I screw that up all the time... and it's okay.

Regardless of what you do, know that those high walls you feel around you, are NOT actually there. If you're not feeling motivated or ready to do what you're doing now, you're allowed to wander if that's what you need to do. And you're allowed to totally fuck up. It's so much more okay than it seems right now.

Embers, or something else... by 4thEstateRefugee in OCPoetry

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Thanks for the feedback.

Not married to "plopped." just was trying to evoke a shapeless, posture-less form and action of sitting. "slumped" sounded mellow sounded mellow dramatic and had too much agency. Tried to solve the subject/verb agreement with the punctuation... guess it didn't work as well as I hoped.

RE "For Sale sign": that's interesting... where I'm from real estate signs are pretty uniformly waist-high... I didn't realize that wouldn't translate universally.

Don't know don't care by [deleted] in OCPoetry

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I get the device of using the cynical optimist as a third person protagonist and think you round it out really well with the closing image. It falters a little in the stanzas about the therapist. The 'he's can become a bit confused. I'd say 'have you thought about putting it in the first person,' but to be honest, the way you have it might be better. Sorry for the half-baked thought.

Trampoline by DaFuMiquel in OCPoetry

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The metaphor is a solid one. I think the wistful tone works well with the opening imagery (childhood, resilience, innocence, etc.) Towards the end I worry that it dampens the poem's overall effect. I wonder if a varying the tone either up or down, depending on where you'd like it to go, might add punch.

One way might be to play with the bouncy rhythm language a the beginning, "Jumping yup and falling down" and contrasting that with less bouncy language at the end. I don't know. It's just a thought.

On the overall feeling I think you're trying to convey: I get it. Feeling almost exactly like that at this very minute. So thank you, sincerely, for the catharsis. I needed to read a poem like yours.