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Deborah L Reiser's avatar

Very well written. Sadly, Hollywood will never change.

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Kim Druker Stockwell's avatar

Frankenhooker?? Oh how perfectly wonderful! What a title! I LOVE it!! As for ways to cook a potato: Idaho, because it's large and good bang for the buck...bake it thoroughly. roll it around after it cools down (obvi). Cut the top vertically and scoop out the insides into a bowl. Pour a little milk over it, kosher salt, olive oil, dry rosemary and stir it up well. Scopp it back into the skins and if your'e up for it put it under the boiler for a few!

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

All yum except for milk. Can’t do dairy. Sigh. Thx for reading and commenting!

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Ororo Munroe's avatar

I've been meaning to watch that movie! I love RomComs and now that you said you would've abandoned it after the meet-cute, I'm curious to see what that is now. To answer your questions:

Did you ever find creative ways to eat potatoes? Sometimes. Because fries can get old after a while

Do you know anyone with Hollywood boobs? My friend's daughter. She was a competitive dancer until she graduated from high school. But as she got older and grew into her body, her mother (my friend) would refer to her as Boobs McGee sometimes. LOL Not to her face, obvi, but whenever we would talk

Have you ever played, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon? I have not. LOL I'm not aware of his full roster of movies, but I've seen a couple.

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Love Boobs McGee. Hehe.

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Lazaros Giannas's avatar

I liked how you went from writing about the movie to writing about something else as if thinking before you do that “alright, there’s nothing interesting about that movie - let’s talk about something somewhat different but still boobs-related.”

I do like potatoes on a pizza. I don’t know if it is creative. Many people find it odd—till they try it!

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Thx for reading and commenting. Potatoes on pizza sounds like a starchy delight.

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Bill Southern's avatar

In order to hone my skills for “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, Naked,” I’d like to understand the game rules: Must each actor perform naked in each film? Must I be naked when detailing the connections?

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Haha. Great points!

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David Roberts's avatar

In the oven, says Debbie.

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David Roberts's avatar

Carissa,

It's a brilliant minds think alike situation that you and I both brought up the sex scenes in GOT in our recent posts as superfluous, which also seems like a an appropriate alliterative addition to your featured rom-com star, as in the Superfluous Sidney Sweeney.

Sidney Sweeney was in a very well done HBO show called Euphoria that also had a lot of sex and nudity. I will admit that I watched it, with my wife, but will also admit that I felt very creepy during the sex scenes. I felt a lot more wholesome watching Friday Night Lights!

My wife makes unbelievably delicious crispy small potatoes.

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

I thought the same thing. Brilliance or the collective consciousness at work? Or both. Hehe. GOT made a “big” impression.

My kids loved Euphoria. Wholesome FNL! Haha.

Crispy potatoes. Air fryer?

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Sue Ferrera's avatar

I love that photo of Sophia Loren, priceless! 💚

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Heather Brebaugh's avatar

Fortunately my husband likes potatoes. He's German. Potato pancakes are at the top of his list. They are round, but quite flat. I could say more, but it would probably be all down hill from here....🤣

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Potato pancakes are big in my religion/culture. We call them latkas. It’s inception probably from our Eastern European ancestry.

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Kim Van Bruggen's avatar

Finally got to sit with my cup of tea and read about Hollywood Boobs!😂😂

I have a hilarious story about boobs and great boobs, I think I'll save it for a post. You just reminded me of it. Stay tuned! Thanks for the inspo.

P.S. I am swooning over your husband after a comment like that. What a love he is. :)

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Glad you didn’t gag on your tea.

I want to hear your boob story. 🙏

Hubby. ❤️🥰

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Terry Freedman's avatar

OMG. There is no way that any self-respecting Dylan would tell his ma what's going through his head. The funniest comment I've heard on the subject, apart from one I made myself, was in the film The Girl Can't Help it. A gangster, Fats Murdoch, has commissioned an impressario to make his girlfriend, Jane Mansfield, a star -- in six weeks.

Impressario: Six weeks??! Rome wasn't built in a day.

Murdoch: She ain't Rome, and what she's got is already built.

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Haha. I asked Dylan to read the essay and he just chuckled. You’re so right. I’m just glad he didn’t woot woot at the TV.

Murdoch line!

I wonder if the Commodores were inspired by her. Remember that band with a young Lionel Ritchie?

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Terry Freedman's avatar

Indeed, but not sure of the connection with her

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

The song, Brick House.

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Shelly Mazzanoble's avatar

You know what I hate doing? Drying my hair. It's like a malamute's undercoat and takes forever. Know what I love doing while drying my hair? Reading my favorite Substacks. So thank you for making this morning's hair drying session so much more pleasant and I'm going to need you to write a new post every two days, okaythanks! Also how did I not know Mariska Hartigay was Jane Mansfield's daughter??? Also "Thanks for the mammories" made me snort.

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

So glad I made hair drying less tedious. How do you read while drying? Thats an unrecognized talent. I have to focus on every brush roll.

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Shelly Mazzanoble's avatar

I'm bad at drying my hair. I just point the dryer and roll my eyes and look at my watch the whole time. And then I'm all pissed off because I have a big frizzy mess 12 minutes later. And then it's flat iron time. And I'm bad at that too because I never get the undercoat and I make the top part all frizzy too. Every four weeks when I get my root touch up I have "good hair."

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

I have frizzy curls and get a Keratin plus colored roots. I know all about frizz. The color helps tame the new follicles otherwise I get box head.

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Shelly Mazzanoble's avatar

Box head! When things get out of control I call it “triangle hair.”

Box Head and Triangle Hair— new buddy cop movie?

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Haha. Yes! I wrote about my frizzy hair here. https://csteefel.substack.com/p/everyday-was-a-bad-hair-day

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Donna McArthur's avatar

As the mom of two sons I sure do wonder what might have been going on in Dylan’s head watching the movie and listening to the commentary! I’m pretty sure we’ll never know!

Yes, I’ve been eating potatoes again lately which makes me curious if you ever eat them anymore or stay away from them?

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

So true. We have no idea what’s behind those quiet eyes. I asked Dylan to read the essay and he chuckled at my description of him. Still no reveal.

I prefer yams. 😉

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Donna McArthur's avatar

It’s their motto (they being young male engineers) ‘No Reveal’🤣, at least not to the Moms!

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Haha. Yes.

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Rebecca J. Gomez's avatar

Why do I suddenly feel like watching Tremors?

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Haha. Was Kevin exposed in that flick too?

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Rebecca J. Gomez's avatar

No, haha. But it’s the only Kevin Bacon movie I ever rewatch.

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Priya Iyer's avatar

The Rack not The Rock!! This was hilarious, Carissa!

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Hehe.

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Chris Stanton's avatar

“This romcom starring The Rack (not to be confused with The Rock)…”

My hat’s off to you for that one!

Oh, and I agree with your husband’s very wise take on the subject.

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Thx, Chris.

Another gentleman! 😊

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