Bobby Nash

2x UM Grad | Health Educator | World Connoisseur 🌎 ✈️ | Here are some thoughts…that are my own :)

[Oluwatobiloba @Tobielobba]

Job post: Are you open to relocate?

Me: I'm open to teleport, evaporate, levitate, reincarnate, accelerate, regenerate, migrate. just hire me.

[kas𓆩ꨄ︎𓆪 @urth2kas]

whenever i see someone from my dad’s family

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Office jobs are so funny because you’ll be 25, soul-crushed, and your life will feel like it’s already over.

[Marie🧚 @glitchu__]

Just stalked my own instagram archive & forgot I lived all those eras 😭😭😭 Miss you sis. You had so much fun.

[Myke @Mykethogan]

Alamo: “Who sent you?”

Ali: “RUE”😭💔

#Euphoria

[noel @jedaltemus]

We used to be a society

[Rajvi @rajvishah30]

today someone in office said that “worrying is the worst way to use your imagination” and that’s easily the best thing Ive heard all week

[WALKER🪂 @maxl1am]

when i'm mad from my perspective but i can also see their perspective so now i’m carrying double the emotional weight and being eaten away by my anger and empathy

[ki at the garden. @ChasingKia]

we gotta stop relying on nostalgia.

[Softboy @softboywin]

Fries not coming with burgers anymore is the next crisis we need to tackle right after housing, mental health, and people who eat candy corn.

[PeePee🎀 @peegzy1]

No one will ever admit it, but Google was enough.

[Skores @Skores9q]

These are our founding fathers

[BIGSAM :) @badghel_sam]

Seeing your home girl losing herself and crying herself to sleep builds resentment.

[joshua. @livingthroughJ]

i don’t want to work this week. at all.💔

[Pintu @Pintuu0]

me convincing myself go to work, because i need salary:

[L E S E D I @_Hybreed_]

This new generation don’t know anything about this! 😭🔥

[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.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Richie’s arc in The Bear (2022) hits so hard since the show starts with him looking completely stuck in life, angry, insecure, and clinging to the past. Then “Forks” quietly transforms him into the one character who finally discovers purpose & self-worth.

[D. @Lush_Beauty1]

“You handled it so well!”

Me the moment I got into my car

[raixdaily🦋 @raixdaily]

Some of you take these jobs way too seriously 😭. Why are you snitching on coworkers, skipping breaks, coming in on your days off, and refusing to use your PTO or call out? Especially for jobs with little to no room for growth.