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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • Casablanca is unironically one of my favourite movies! It’s better than most of the chaff coming out in cinema today.

    It builds tension on so many levels throughout its length, while also being funny and evocative. It puts admirable people in vulnerable places where they rely on other uncaring and self-motivated individuals, and then does it again with higher stakes. When tension is at its maximum its then deflated all with a single line callback to the start of the movie.












  • I once had a dream about two brother inventors who were trying to build a cheaper space rocket but they were strugglingvwith investors and running out of money, so the fun brother (in my dream he was played by Ryan Reynolds, I shit you not) spent the last of their money developing a prototype of some roller skates that played music, but only while you were moving. When the skates stopped rolling the music stopped. He was dressed in pink booty shorts and was trying to sell preorders of his musical skates at an LGBT pride festival but it’s not going well.

    Then his brother bawls him out for wasting their money and declared their partnership over. Ryan Reynolds can’t talk him back, and walks off, but he’s walking awkwardly on the grass with his skates, and because they aren’t rolling continuously, he is just sadly shuffling over the grass while his skates play, in broken spurts and stops, that “Firework” song from that American woman singer.

    There was more to the dream, it was movie length and extremely vivid, but that was the funniest part.

    So in my dream I invented shitty musical roller skates that even a gay Ryan Reynolds couldn’t sell at a pride fest.