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I am a dog lover, but I am not a dog fancier. I can understand people who dote on their dogs, but I cannot understand dog shows, which make dogs miserable while bringing out the worst traits of their owners. Dogs were not put on earth to pose, prance, sit, point and have their coats shampooed. They were created to chew shoes, bark at cars, have accidents on the rug and get their tummies scratched.
That s why I approve of Best in Show, a wickedly funny mocumentary by Christopher Guest that makes fun of a Philadelphia dog show with every instrument in the satirist s arsenal, from the skewer to the mallet. Built around the improvisational techniques of Second City, the movie is consistently just plain funny and sometimes ascends to a kind of crazed genius. Consider Parker Posey s rage and loathing as she assaults a store clerk who cannot supply a Busy Bee dog toy. Her dog has lost its toy and is fretting, and the way she screams Busy Bee! Busy Bee! you d think sh
Channel your inner Moira Rose and whip up a kifla Allison Robicelli
I have finally gotten around to finishing
Schitt’s Creek, and somehow it was even more wonderful than the internet said it would be. I don’t know how she does it, but Catherine O’Hara consistently exceeds the stratospheric expectations I have for anything she does. This is a woman who gave us Sheila Albertson, Cookie Fleck, Mickey Crabbe,
andMarilyn Hack, and somehow she managed to outdo all of those with the creation of Moira Rose, one of the greatest characters in comedy history, and the inspiration for today’s recipe.