Marry: Put a bird on it, we can pickle that, one more episode, he’s a mixologist...if any of those phrases don’t ring a bell, you need to start watching Portlandia ASAP. I highly recommend the hour-long director’s cut of “Brunch Village,” (it aired this past Friday on IFC), which reunites several of Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein’s charming and quirky Oregon-dwelling characters as they wait in line to dine at the titular city’s most hopping brunch joint. Well, unless you ask the Mayor. He seems to think a different dining joint is the best brunch spot in town.
Kill: Call me jaded, cynical, Miss Havisham, whatever, but Valentine’s Day has never been my jam. Specifically, pop culture’s stereotypical ideal of what’s supposed to happen on February 14 — wherein women want flowers, chocolates, and dinner at nice restaurants, and men are supposed to fail at making those things happen — has never been something with which I agreed. That’s one of the things I like about summer television: There are no “event” episodes timed around sweeps periods, meaning the writers don’t have to craft themed episodes about holidays like Valentine’s Day.
Well, since you like Valentines so much, I wrote you one:
Roses are red, violets are blue.
Sugar is sweet, don’t you have actual work to do?
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