62. The Week in Me
Shalom!!
I had a great weekend:
Starting this *week in me* off with an interview I did for
’s Substack :
I also released my first paid post, which you can read here:
61. What I Watched: January
It’s A Wonderful Life (1946, dir. Frank Capra) streaming on Roku, Plex re-watch, re-sob Watching It’s A Wonderful Life on New Year’s Day is Matt and I’s tradition. We both cry, several times each. I cry the hardest, the hardest in this movie and perhaps the hardest in my life, at Harry Bailey’s “A toast to my big brother George, the richest man in town."
I am entirely open to you, like, giving me a dollar on Venmo (@taragiancaspro) and I will make you a paid subscriber forever. This is an exercise in my self-worth more than a lucrative cashgrab.
I lost so many subscribers for writing about Sharon Stone’s husband’s Komodo dragon attack. Like 15 people just saw that headline and bounced. But I had fun, damnit!!
I am going to assume they are all foot fetishists and that is their problem to take up with God. He already had to take it up with his son over insisting on carrying people barefoot in the sand and all that.
We have an exclusive gift this week, a playlist from my wonderful pal Mike Diaz-Suarez. “The theme is to be intentional with yourself. About your feelings and about doing the actually right thing for yourself. To be vulnerable with yourself first and then others.” The podcast is on Spotify, below, and Apple Music here. Thank you, Mike!
To watch:
If you watch Vanderpump Rules, please sound off in the comments. What did you think? Does Tom Sandoval actually need the mustache to disguise from his doofy upper lip? Who shit the bed on the color grading for the opening titles? Will Something About Her ever open its Nancy Meyers’ production designers’ hand-chosen doors? Why was Ally not made a cast member? Why does Katie insist on dressing like the small blonde girl on White Lotus: Italy (“This is the true story…of seven strangers and Theo James’ prosthetic penis… picked to live in a hotel…work lesbianly at the front desk…and have their bank accounts wiped… to find out what happens… when people stop being polite…and start trying to murder Jennifer Coolidge.”)
Quite stylish!
To read:
Friend and reader Andy Waldron read last week’s letter and dropped some incredibly hot goss about Governor Greg Gianforte and my OLD JOB, the Stevens Institute of Technology. I didn’t know any of this happened because I had left this job quite a few years ago, and I was GAGGED. I’m gonna be messy and share this information about the school’s controversial naming of a building after Gianforte instead of being discreet about a former employer, because there is no ethical decorum under capitalism. And here is an Onionesque (🧅)piece about Gianforte’s history of bodyslamming people.
From longtime internet pal
on loving alcoholics and loving yourself. Getting a text on Saturday from my alcoholic ex who is like my Lannister twin and the easiest reason I have to never drink….this hit home!!!
Another post from
, who interviewed me above! Sara and Michelle andMy gender dysphoria emerges in a complete understanding and adoration of your most basic white Hollywood bros. Here is an interview from Deadline with Leo DiCaprio, who, like chicken nuggets, is like my family.
Doug Liman, director of the new Jake Gyllenhaal UFC-flavored Road House remake, is boycotting the SXSW premiere of his own film to protest Amazon roundhouse-kicking it to a streaming release instead of giving it a theatrical run. He’s right and should say so!! In fact, he did!! in this op-ed for Deadline.
And speaking of Road House, I own this and you can too! I love Deadly Prey Gallery.
From
:“Courage to dream about what fulfillment looks like in our lives. Courage to be hopeful for our little and big dreams. Courage to move through the discomfort of shedding the parts of ourselves that hinder. Courage to step onto an uncertain, uncharted path, driven by nothing more than a radiant vision for the world we want to inhabit.”
From
: “Sidewalks are public and on them, somehow, a woman’s body is made to also feel public. Consumable.”
This is literally just Simone:
This is literally just Lugosi:
Actually my babies:
Actually me coming home from work to the babies:
Various and sundry:
Me dancing in the bathroom at 3 in the morning:
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A house chicken, from Rob:
A nice man I saw on the way to shul on Friday:
This from Jason, which made me scream laugh on the toilet:
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Me being a wacky little guy:
May Adele Springsteen’s memory be a blessing. I am grateful for what she brought this world, and though I don’t know Bruce, my heart hurts for him:
I leave you with these nice raccoons having a little swim:
Love you loverraccons,
TG
Thank you, thank you, thank you for the share! And thanks for entertaining me this afternoon. I needed a smile.
Very interesting, as usual a good read!!👏👏👏