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"it sounds exhausting to be you"
Sypical Tituation
November 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
apparently it was in the original script, so I must assume that my memory from 1999 is correct, and George Lucas has since reëdited all clips that are circulating on the internet
November 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
this is great, but there's no way I saw this in 1999, and I specifically remember thinking Natalie Portman saying "Supreme, Chancellor - Valorum" being the best part of the entire movie
November 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
finally, I wanted to see how far down in the original search results I would find the Owen Pallett song.

so I googled the original lyric again, and this time Google AI told me it came from Disturbed's cover of The Sound of Silence--as if the attribution had changed within the past hour.
November 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
then I googled the lines that Google AI told me were part of "Thaw", and found that the first three all seemed to be completely invented. when I searched for them, there were no actual hits, and Google AI suggested that they had come from entirely different (also incorrect) sources.
November 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
then I googled the poem and found out that while there is a poem with that title by that author, all four lines of the poem are different than the one cited in Google's AI result
November 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
vegan ma po tofu is very good, but much like a veggie burger, you need to take a completely different approach than you'd take for the meat version
November 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
if you told me it “was Paula Abdul herSELF” who wrote this, I’d believe you
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
has a palpable "Tim Curry in Red Alert 3" energy
November 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM