Breadfacing

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Little Fish
As highly anticipated Pike Place Market restaurant, bar, and microcannery Little Fish has been bumped from a projected November opening to a January 2018 timeline, Antonitsas and her team will preview their menu at Cicchetti.

Inventive items include radishes with salt cured anchovy butter, Madrona smoked salt, and ash; an "octo-dog" of grilled octopus, saffron aioli, and kelp pickles on a sesame roll; and a "Baked Seattle" dessert featuring cannabis-leaf custard, meringue, and berries.

Bollocks. No dates while I'm in Seattle.

Cow by Bear
A 14-person dinner party opens with a snack and a cocktail, followed by three wine pairings for a five-course dinner that climaxes with a 50-day dry-aged ribeye roast entree. Oh, also the host is an anonymous chef in a bear costume.

$195 and a communal table, though…

Lady Aspirin

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After a decade of failed attempts, Universal's Halloween Horror Nights creative director John Murdy finally landed the rights to turn Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining into a haunted maze. [source]

To me, escape room experiences are too short.

$37 for 50 minutes? And I might not escape the room?

Jon: Are you familiar with "100 doors" games?
Adam Robot: No.
Jon You have to open a series of 100 doors, but each door opens differently.

Idea: A "100 doors" escape room challenge. Instead of escaping just one room, 100 rooms! How long you play is up to you. $37 for until you give up. Access room 101 and receive your $37 back.

  • Mom Hid My Game
    Essentially, players have to help a kid find the 3DS their mom hid somewhere in the room without getting caught in the act.

Gorillas and Anacondas

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homer_b is a dark, experimental film featuring live actors wearing Simpsons masks. It's a companion piece to another short, homer_a, an even more dark short in which a masked Homer is killed by kids in Bart and Millhouse masks. Describing it as "The Simpsons meets Harmony Korine"… [source]


homer_a


homer_b

Fox has a new programme (Ghosted) in which Adam Scott and Craig Robinson fight the paranormal, but Syfy has a new programme in which Vincent D'Onofrio and Meat Loaf do the same:

Jason Priestley and Leslie Hope (Teri Bauer on 24) each directed two episodes of Ghost Wars.

Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon International Film Festival is being described as "the first boutique Chinese film festival."

Named after Ang Lee's film, the competition section will also bear the names respectively. Crouching Tigers will round up emerging talents with debut or sophomore features from around the world. Hidden Dragons zeroes on the latest trends and developments in genre cinema. [source]

The top prize has to be the Green Destiny, right?

Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week

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39. Vancouver, BC (Nathan For You: A Celebration, 09-21-17)

Honourable Mention

Stray Observations

  • Potato soup (The Deuce, S01E02)
  • ♫: "Tears in Heaven" (Vice Principals, S02E01)
  • "It's almost like a Chinese buffet, but, you know, classier." (Vice Principals, S02E01)
  • "How dare you put ink of me onto your back of eating shit and holding his hand that way!" (Vice Principals, S02E01)
  • "And when I find that son of a bitch, I'm gonna shoot him in his dick."
    "Or her, 'cause it could be a girl."
    "Then she shall be shot in her privates too." (Vice Principals, S02E01)
  • "Tell Daphne to run a 199 on a possible Dolittle." (Rick and Morty, S03E08)
  • ♫: 331Erock – "Rick and Morty Meets Metal" (Rick and Morty, S03E08)
  • "People are like nature's apps." (The Good Place, S02E01)
  • "Relax. Feel the breeze on your feet. That's why Crocs have holes in them." (The Good Place, S02E01)
  • "What the fork, man?"
    "I know that book."
    "Is that some kind of nerd pick-up line?" (The Good Place, S02E01)
  • "Now it seems the collective rage and suspicion of this community has a focus, and it's a woman whose critics are calling 'a lesbian George Zimmerman.'" (American Horror Story, S07E03)
  • "His name is Mr. Guinea."
    "Sweetie, come on, you know we don't like cisnormative pet names." (American Horror Story, S07E03)
  • "Stop saying 'sorry' – for anything. That makes you nothing. Everything is somebody else's fault from now on. Do you understand? You want to be somebody? You want to matter? Then you make the world wrong." (American Horror Story, S07E03)
  • "Sir, try to calm down."
    "No, I can't calm down! You need to calm up! You need to get to my level!" (American Horror Story, S07E03)
  • "Listen, when I ask you if you wish you could have all your dinner ingredients delivered to your door, say 'yes.' I mean, I know that seems obvious, but for some reason, Janeane Garofalo said 'no.'" (You're the Worst, S04E04)
  • "Jack FM, like if the worst kid in detention had sex with radio station." (You're the Worst, S04E04)
  • Friday Night Lights (Channel Zero, S02E01)

Still the AR™TV World Drama Champion: Twin Peaks
Still the AR™TV World Comedy Champion: Rick and Morty

#clipoftheweek

Buttcon Limited

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On my flight to Toronto, someone sitting in front of me watched the Robert De Niro Bernie Madoff film twice.

// Toronto, ON


Chinatown

Every time I visit Canada, it seems like its credit card technology has advanced some more past America's. They were inserting when we were still swiping, and now as we're inserting, they've moved on to tapping. Just tap the card reader!

One night, I didn't have coins or tokens on me, so I had to pay streetcar fare with a credit card, but the machine only accepted cards you tap, of which I have none.

I could have used Apple Pay, but my iPhone was dead.

Adam Robot: Phone payment is the future, not plastic cards.
Jon: Maybe phone payment is the metric future?


Entertainment District

I got sick while in Toronto and bought store-brand combination DayQuil/NyQuil – green and white tablets.

One day, I almost dozed off during two film screenings and couldn't understand why. Why was I sleepy after a good night's sleep?

The following day, I realized that I had been ingesting night tablets in daytime. The white tablets were night tablets and the green tablets were day tablets.

Why would you colour day tablets green?!


Riverdale

Gorillas don't do that, bitches do that

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John Larroquette was cheaper than old age make-up.

Now I want to see Night Court with Bobby Moynihan as Dan.

Oh, Jaleel White plays Bobby Moynihan's best mate?

Now I want to see Family Matters with Bobby Moynihan as Carl.

Sitcom Idea: Did Me, Myself & I Do That??? – Same Carl and Steve, different ages.

Young Urkel > Young Sheldon.

Coke Zero re-branding as Coke Zero Sugar is like when the frontman of Papa Roach changed his name from Coby Dick to Jacoby Shaddix.

Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week

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38. All possible viewing angles of the dock (American Vandal, S01E02)

Stray Observations

  • ♫: Vince Staples – "Big Fish" (Insecure, S02E08)
  • ♫: TOBi – "Hidden Fences" (Insecure, S02E08)
  • ♫: Opening with Tyler, the Creator and closing with Frank Ocean (Insecure, S02E08)
  • Insecure Season Grade: B-
  • Preacher Season Grade: C-
  • "That's the pistol Nicole used in Cold Mountain." (American Horror Story, S07E02)
  • "Lesbians! We're under attack!" (American Horror Story, S07E02)
  • "He even went to Standing Rock with Matt McGorry. They got into a fight over who's more woke."
    "It's Matt McGorry, right?"
    "Obviously." (You're the Worst, S04E03)
  • ♫: Nick Monaco – "Lovers Do" (You're the Worst, S04E03)


(You're the Worst, S04E03)

  • "Truth or dare?"
    "Umm…dare."
    "You have to put four Monopoly houses up your vagina."
    "That's the same as a hotel."
    "Okay, or a hotel. You have to put four Monopoly houses or a hotel up your vagina."
    [pause]
    "What? You said 'dare.'" (Better Things, S02E01)

Still the AR™TV World Drama Champion: Twin Peaks
Still the AR™TV World Comedy Champion: Rick and Morty

#clipoftheweek