When I watch TV with E, I always make sure to say one thing (if it's relevant):

[conuly]

Man, I sure love a good montage.

And I do! I do love a good montage!

This is an excuse now to link to my favorite montage I've seen this year: A montage wherein Luz explains to her friends with a montage is.

I really, really like montages.

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The kids I coach are the living rejection of anti-LGBTQ hate. They shouldn’t have to be

Meet the Peecyclers. Their Idea to Help Farmers Is No. 1.

Visualizing the World’s Most Popular Religions (An interesting link, but it makes an arbitrary assumption that everybody practices one AND ONLY ONE religion at all times. It's possible to be an atheist AND a religiously observant Jew, or to be a Buddhist AND ALSO do the things associated with the local folk religion, etc. Like most things, it's not really an either/or.)

Safety Town

The Incredible Journey of Three African Wild Dogs

The Gruesome Attraction of Prison Tourism Is Being Challenged at Last

The Dismantling of Hong Kong

Escaping Afghanistan

Scraps of stale bread are keeping Afghans alive

Here’s what you need to know about the ‘boyfriend loophole’ holding up gun safety negotiations

‘A merry-go-round of buck-passing’: inside the four-year Grenfell inquiry

“Big Lie” Vigilantism Is on the Rise. Big Tech Is Failing to Respond.

Deepening suspicions. A parallel voting system. Dumpster diving for documents. In northwest Georgia, a woman known as ‘Burnitdown’ portends what the Trump movement is becoming.

Comments

[thewayne]

The first really overt use of the training montage that I can remember was Team America: World Police, where they really broke the fourth wall with it. And now it's a running joke with us.