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Joe Pera the person talks about Joe Pera the character in this interview.

Like the Charlie Brown holiday specials are just endlessly re-watchable every year. – Joe Pera

https://www.pastemagazine.com/comedy/joe-pera-talked-with-you-interview/

It’s been exactly eleven months since my last Covid shot. Tomorrow I will receive the new booster. I assume we should expect that Covid shots, like flu vaccines, are now an annual ritual.

Parade magazine will cease print publication on November 6.

https://news.yahoo.com/parade-magazine-digital-only-035900562.html

The end of the once-ubiquitous Sunday newspaper insert will come within a couple of weeks of the 59th anniversary of my peak Boomer-era family being featured in its pages. We had the unfortunate timing of appearing during the weekend after JFK’s assasination.

That’s me leaning over the tail light.

“Happy Birthday in Heaven” notices on Facebook for deceased public figures really annoy me. I see this quite often, even for non-Christians. “Remembering [insert name] on their birthday” is standard for many organizations, and it’s the practice that should be followed by everybody.

Watching Hitchcock’s 1934 film The Man Who Knew Too Much, that I shared a couple of days ago, brought to mind the climatic rooftop scene in David Lean’s superb screen adaptation of Dickens’ Oliver Twist. Robert Newton, who has my vote as the greatest character actor of all time, is terrifying as the villain Bill Sykes.

https://youtu.be/qelzn2njS9c