Jeffrey

Actor/singer living in ATL makin' it happen ;)

[Jeffrey @TheManJeffrey]

Happy Father’s Day to my father, Jeff Erickson. I’ve grown more and more to his understanding that reality is unyielding and not always fair. So, I gotta act, learn and adjust appropriately. To other fathers and father figures to give honorable shoutouts to: Carl McLaren (@mclsren), Tony Moore (@TonyMooreOrLess), Ken Feinberg (@Cr8iveS2diosATL), Matthew Chipman, Alex Haiken (@AlexHaiken) and Karl Snow (@KarlSnow17)! Gentlemen who all show different yet similar shades on masculinity. To all good dads out there, whether by blood or bond or law, God bless you as well as our mothers by blood or bond or law (in case I missed Mother’s Day lol) Most importantly, Happy Father’s Day to the Father of fathers, who sustains us all by His hand.

[Jeffrey @TheManJeffrey]

@TonyMooreOrLess @BillyM2k Really?! I bet it might not be the same as California since it might be like having a Whattaburger in Texas, for example. Or a piña colada in the Florida Keys. It really can be the environment.

[Jeffrey @TheManJeffrey]

@TonyMooreOrLess @BillyM2k And In-N-Out is opening in TN, so at least it’ll be close to home!

[Jeffrey @TheManJeffrey]

@TonyMooreOrLess @faceoffoos Plus my mom liking Russell Wilson

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@KarlSnow17 Dat’s riiiight. Serves her right.

[PeachProof @PeachProof23]

Mind = BLOWN. I’ve watched Back to the Future a million times and never noticed this insane detail.

Marty McFly literally altered the timeline just by hitting that one pine tree.

The attention to detail in 1985 cinema was unmatched. Did you catch this easter egg the first time around?

[Jeffrey @TheManJeffrey]

@KarlSnow17 @Kinza1278 Very first thought that came to mind was (shape of) gum

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@TonyMooreOrLess Heard of it yet haven’t seen it. I oughta as soon as today! Any other recommends?

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@KarlSnow17 @Supaporndamdae1

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@rubyzinR Welcome back and happy early birthday!

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@pk13510 Interesting take. Nuanced.

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@COSProject Do it North Carolina, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and so on.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Pixar hired a chef with three Michelin stars to design the dish in Ratatouille. Then they built the scene around the neuroscience of how taste triggers memory, and got Peter O’Toole to deliver one of the great monologues in animation history.

What you call “taste” is mostly smell. When you eat, molecules rise up the back of your throat into your nose. From there, smell takes a unique route. Every other sense (sight, sound, touch, even the actual taste your tongue picks up) gets filtered through a kind of switchboard in your brain first. Smell skips it. The smell heads straight to the parts of your brain that handle memory and emotion. Which is why one bite of food can drop you back into a moment from 30 years ago.

Ratatouille’s director, Brad Bird, built the entire flashback around this. Anton Ego takes one bite, and Pixar zooms the camera through his pupil into a childhood kitchen. The dish itself was Thomas Keller’s. His restaurant The French Laundry in California has three Michelin stars. He took a 1976 recipe by French chef Michel Guérard called confit byaldi (paper-thin vegetables spiraled over a tomato-pepper sauce) and adapted it for the film. Keller even had Pixar’s producer intern in his kitchen for months to get the look right.

Anton Ego is voiced by Peter O’Toole, the lead in Lawrence of Arabia. He was nominated for Best Actor eight times. Never won. He holds the record (tied with Glenn Close) for most nominations without a win, and once called himself the Academy’s “Biggest Loser.” He was 75 when he recorded the Anton Ego monologue. He died six years later, and it became one of his signature performances.

The speech was Brad Bird’s. In the review he writes the next morning, Anton Ego turns on his own profession. Critics risk almost nothing, he writes. They thrive on tearing strangers apart. The only risk that matters, he writes, is defending new talent when no one else will. He ends with the line everyone still quotes: “a great artist can come from anywhere.”

Ratatouille won Best Animated Feature at the 2008 Oscars, plus a Best Original Screenplay nomination on the strength of Bird’s speech. The film grossed $624 million on a $150 million budget.

In 90 seconds, a cartoon rat and a fictional food critic turn that science into something you can feel. Your best memories live in your stomach.

[Jeffrey @TheManJeffrey]

Maranatha

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@GoalieTomFluff He is risen, indeed

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@FairlyOddFather He is Risen, indeed!

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@guypbenson He is Risen, indeed!

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@CMCanidae @rubyzinR He is Risen indeed!