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Jason Mantzoukas once called me a "stentorian alpha".
Art tells a lie that tells the truth. But the lies we tell in our everyday lives tell the truth too. The lies we tell each other out of fear. The lies we tell ourselves out of shame. There will always be a moment where they give way, and the nature of the lie illustrates the pain of the truth better than we could ever have intended to communicate if we had tried to speak honestly from the start.
And…
I have now watched this five times and I have no idea how it took me this long to realize how fucking fake and strange that snowman tree in the opening scene looks.
I did mostly watch it again just so I could document the release of the episode of How Did This Get Made? in which I become a weird distraction, and the subsequent t-shirt with my name on it that you can buy for all of your loved…
Shrek walked so that Ronal the Barbarian could stumble and fall and hit his balls on a bunch of stuff.