Lenny

Lenny

@formergremlin.bsky.social

Sometimes I have more to say than should be said Proof of this assertion can be found in my role as one half of the podcast @interviewwabothan.bsky.social

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Shoutout the Alberta independence referendum for making me be like damn what the fuck is up with Alberta and now I know the call in show Alberta at Noon exists and it is the best hour of radio out there and I will not be convinced otherwise

Yeah let's not forget that you don't need to leave Canada to be extremely xenophobic Because, well, Canada

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The large one is for me bc I am Suffering

Interview with a Bothan@interviewwabothan.bsky.social

instead of accepting responsibility i am instead going to blame the bakers dozen jars of apple butter i made last night (not pictured but equally culpable is the 11 mini loaves of apple bread)

Also this would kill me. They would have blood on their hands.

Eon/HDW@dogincredible.bsky.social

The pieces on the roster this season need to adjust to each other. I can't say another straight year of Heart Attack Habs is what's needed for a Stanley Cup

I'm editing the episode of my podcast (well it's not mine it's a collaborative effort but you know) and for some reason this past recording session I decided to murmur assent to everything my dear cohost is saying like I am the host of a serious NPR show

Reader, the part that I am currently editing is a conversation on whether or not Han Solo and Leia Organa had slept together before or after Hoth

I think it's really brave of me to advertise our newest episode by broadcasting one of my stupidest, most oblivious moments that we've ever happened to record lol

Interview with a Bothan@interviewwabothan.bsky.social

Wake up babe new episode of Interview with a Bothan just dropped! This time Lou teaches Lenny about romance tropes... because Lenny missed the tension between Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade in the (first 15 chapters of) Vision of the Future. open.spotify.com/episode/16QH...

I am confident that this book will make me cry which is an assumption I have based on the fact that The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire also made me cry

Chris Kempshall@chriskempshall.bsky.social

'Star Wars: Star Pilots' releases in 1 month from @dkbooks.bsky.social / @dkbooksus.bsky.social ! If you're thinking of pre-ordering (geni.us/StarWarsStar...) it might help to see a little sample chapter! Here you'll meet our 3 interviewers and a selection of pilots (old & new) from the book!

I've said it once I've said it a hundred times Thrawn would get Ezra on board with fighting the Grysks this man does nooot care about the Empire now that they're defeated he cares about the Chiiiissss bro

Furthermore! My real beef is that I feel like if you're gonna make a story that centers Thrawn it would be a lot more interesting to rope something about the Ascendancy to maybe counter the whole "there might be 50 ppl in this whole galaxy" vibe idk

Hi, I'm half a peanut butter and jelly sandwich that I stuffed down my throat as I ran up the stairs away from my 7th grade English teacher bc I was worried about getting in trouble for eating in the hallways but then I needed CPR and 3 days in the ICU.

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Any meows you may hear.... This is the culprit

Interview with a Bothan@interviewwabothan.bsky.social

Lou and Lenny go over (the first 11 chapters of) Specter of the Past (1997)! Their characteristically tonally diverse conversation covers an analysis of Timothy Zahn's self-canonization and this book's portrayal of emotional responses to genocide. open.spotify.com/episode/6ePp...

In all seriousness the real problem with the general paleness of the main cast is not the "lack of Greek representation" it's my personal suspicion that the "great literature of Ancient Greece" is so folded into the "Western Canon" bitches can't conceptualize that Ancient Greek people were brown lol

And I refuse to say that the solution to this is to cast Greek actors as I think this legitimates the notion that Modern Greece is the sole inheritor of Ancient Greece and that this is somehow related to ethnic "Greekness." Therefore, Odysseus should be Albanian.

Christopher Nolan had the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever and cast people from the Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean but not a single person from Greece and that's the real loss here. Cast a Turkish Odysseus I dare you

(If anyone happens to stumble across this for whatever reason don't come for me I am "of Greek heritage" so like guys I'm actually sooo Hellenic you don't understand)

God I almost fucking commented on r/nhlcirclejerk because someone posted this tiktok of a woman saying she was "born to be a WAG" and a lot of the comments were like lol who's gonna tell her that that would probably actually be unpleasant but a lot of them were also coming at her for being ugly...

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But what REALLY killed me was that she was so clearly being tongue in cheek! Her tone was like conspiratorial, it was like she was hatching a plan with her bestie to get out of her 9-5 and go to some hockey games, like she was NOT serious!! Like r/nhlcirclejerk this joke is not for you...

... ESPECIALLY if you can't tell when women are joking?? Like what?? But after many drafts I realized I am not prepared for what the consequences of posting such a comment would be lol

God I almost fucking commented on r/nhlcirclejerk because someone posted this tiktok of a woman saying she was "born to be a WAG" and a lot of the comments were like lol who's gonna tell her that that would probably actually be unpleasant but a lot of them were also coming at her for being ugly...

... and also for being too dark and having too big a nose and I was just sitting there flabbergasted. And I recognize that it's fucking reddit and a circlejerk sub at that let alone a fuckin hockey subreddit...

Shoutout Ken Dryden for reminding me that I actually do like reading for fun (The Game [1983] is easily the most fun book I've read so far this year this man is so catty)

Saving this so I don't sound like a conspiracy theorist every time I return to the states and explain that I do not in fact live in a communist utopia

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Gotta say the existence of a man named Cole Hutson is deeply confusing to me as a Habs fan and a simpleton

It's really unfortunate that the main sources that have covered the thing I am writing about for my thesis send me into a blinding rage that cause me to need to step away from my computer to calm down and then I end up watching endless hockey videos

Just hung out w a childhood friend's parents who are diehard Bruins fans and I had to physically restrain myself from gushing about the Habs but I kept saying things like "well the city was so energized" "it's so hard to avoid" "I would die for Jakub Dobeš" that I think rly gave the game away

Respectfully, as a Habs fan I would rather die than support the Knights.

Sean McIndoe@downgoesbrown.bsky.social

New post: Knights or Hurricanes? It's my annual Stanley Cup final rooting guide for the other 30 fan bases. Can we actually get Vegas into double digits? www.nytimes.com/athletic/732...