Aryn Kyle

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Things I Have Watched (so far) During the Pandemic: A Work in Progress

The Julia parts of Julie and Julia

Howl’s Moving Castle

Tootsie

Transparent (including the musical finale)

Falsettos sing-along

Titanic

Working Girl

Outrageous Fortune

30 Rock

Sophie’s Choice

Transparent (including the musical finale)*

Jumpin’ Jack Flash

30 Rock*

Search Party

Search Party*

Ghost

Spirited Away

Veep

Outrageous Fortune

30 Rock*

Veep*

Parks and Recreation

Veep*

Olive Kitteridge

Sherlock

Princess Bride Reunion table read (Go Wisconsin Democrats!)

Beaches

First Wives Club

Veep Reunion (Go Wisconsin Democrats! Seriously! You better fucking win!)

A League of Their Own

Max Dugan Returns

*Titles appearing more than once on this list have not been repeated in error (Yes. I watched the musical finale of Transparent all the way through. Twice. By choice.)

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MacDowell, 2019

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Feline co-sleeping

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Once, during a high school production of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, in which I was cast as Ruth (but only after the girl originally cast as Ruth quit the play to have more time with her boyfriend), Katie Martinez--who was cast as Alice, a character I saw as equal to Ruth in general importance to the overall show in that they were both brides of brothers (Caleb and Gabriel, respectively) without being the main bride of the main brother (Milly; Adam), but who nevertheless insisted that, unlike the other not-main brides, Alice was actually a major character and therefore refused to wear dresses that looked like the rest of ours or do the same choreography as the rest of us and so spent the entire play off to one side, spinning circles by herself in a dress from a different time period--told me that I was “chorus material,” and I stayed upset about this for kind of a long time until it dawned on me recently that she was actually right, I really was chorus material, and I just wanted to acknowledge this and to declare that, having accepted it, I am ready to move on.  

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I don’t want to give us too much credit here, but we’re basically like Gandhi.  We’re Gandhi-esque.  

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Discussing Dunkirk with Friend Who Recently Saw Dunkirk

Me: I haven't seen it.

Her: There is not a single woman in the entire movie.

Me: Not even a whore or a nurse?

Her: There might have been one nurse. Way off in the distance. On a boat about to sink.

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Plan-making, 2017.

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So much tragedy.

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“For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness.”

--James Baldwin

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Friday night.

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Actual Conversation I Just Had with Myself, Silently, in My Head

Is it too late to make pesto?

Yes.

It’s only 10:00.

By the time you get all the shit together it will be 10:30. 

But it’s a Friday night.

It’s actually Thursday night.

The basil won’t be good another day.

The food processor is so loud though.

Do it in the blender.

The blender’s even louder.  

Am I actually having this conversation with myself, silently, in my head?

This is ridiculous.  I should tweet this.

It’s way too long to tweet.  

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Watching Game of Thrones "together."

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Date-night with myself. I really know how to treat a girl.

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A Short List of Elements from the Original Pete's Dragon I Suspect Will Not Be Included in the Remake:

1)  Lampy, the lighthouse keeper and lovable fall-down-drunk who sees Pete's dragon but is disbelieved by everyone on account of how he's such a raging alcoholic.

2)  The big opening number, performed by a family of inbred hill-people, about the various ways they intend to torture the young orphan Pete when they find him, including, but not limited to, beating him, tying him to the railroad tracks, and setting him on fire.

3)  The three-plus-minute closeup of a woman’s face while she stands on top of a lighthouse and sings a song about how she's like a lighthouse.

4)  The scene in which the woman (see #3) goes to the bar to collect her lovable fall-down-drunk dad (see #1) and is pawed, manhandled, and passed around by a bunch of drunk dudes while she kicks and screams until she, eventually, ends up doing a big dance number with them.

5)  The corporal punishment scene in the schoolhouse.

6)  This song, which, at the age of 38, I can still sing from start to finish without missing a word, and which I believe continues to impart an important message from which we all can learn: