12/13/2023 0 Comments Ilift twin![]() ![]() Billboard Dad was probably my introduction to the entire concept of Venice Beach, sowing the seeds of California dreaming for me, a child in suburban Pennsylvania. Of course, it wasn’t just the egg scene that stood out to me in Billboard Dad - the premise of which is that Emily and Tess climb up to a billboard to make an ad to get women to date their sad widower dad. An E! ranking of the Olsen twins’ best movies puts Billboard Dad at number four and calls out the egg scene specifically. 2nd Showing, a podcast that “unpacks the formative media” of early 00s youth, discusses the scene in an episode from earlier this year. In another video, someone remakes the scene shot for shot. It’s captioned: “This Mary-Kate and Ashley Moment Means Everything to My Childhood.” Many commenters, like me, mention that they also think of it every time they make eggs. And I’m not alone: The scene pops up every so often on social media, including recently in a TikTok from Cosmopolitan with over 737,500 views. It’s been at least 23 years since I first saw this scene and yet it sticks like scrambled eggs cooked in a stainless steel pan that hasn’t been prepped properly. Indeed, if scrambling eggs can be this fun, why bother with the whisk or the fork? Tess follows suit, grabbing the bag and doing a little twirl with it. To this, Emily demonstrates what we’d now call a “life hack.” She pours the eggs into a large resealable bag and shakes them around with a little song and dance (“scramble scramble”) until the yolks and whites are nicely combined. (Counterpoint: Use a fork, not a whisk to scramble eggs, says Food & Wine.) “How can we go on?” Tess tells her matter-of-factly that whisks are “what all the great chefs use” because forks “bruise” the eggs. She’s greeted by her sister, Tess, played by Mary-Kate, who is cracking an egg and asks if she’s seen the whisk. And every time I lift a whisk to make scrambled eggs, I think of the Olsen twins and how they offered a better option.īillboard Dad, the Olsen twins’ direct-to-video 1998 movie, opens with Emily Tyler, played by Ashley Olsen, rollerblading home from Venice Beach with her surfboard in hand. While I likely won’t ever get a perm, thanks to Legally Blonde I remember that if I ever change my mind, I won’t be able to wash my hair immediately. ![]() I know that Gremlins, if they were real, should never be fed after midnight. Every time I eat a banana, I think of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and remember that bananas have potassium. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.The movies I watched as a kid seared some valuable nuggets of information into my brain. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” This country’s greatness and true genius lies in its diversity. Several other public citations of Lazarus assume that her poem is reducible to a message about the value of diversity. It’s a statement of values of our country.Ĭomey’s tweet echoes Nancy Pelosi’s interpretation from early 2017: “You know the rest. It’s a recognition that the strength of our country is in its diversity, that the revitalization … of America comes from our immigrant population.” For Comey, diversity is greatness. For Pelosi, diversity is both the existing strength of America and its source of revitalization. To marshal Lazarus’s poem in support of a redefinition of American greatness, however, is to capitulate to the terms of Trump’s exceptionalism-and to ignore the poem’s own radical imagination of hospitality.Ī little like Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken,” published in 1916, “The New Colossus” is one of those poems that is constantly rediscovered and recontextualized. Whether the popularity of “The New Colossus” is a consequence of the poem’s timelessness, its curious forgettability, or its “ schmaltzy” sincerity, writers, readers, and politicians resurrect Lazarus’s sonnet to speak directly to a present moment in which anti-black racism, xenophobia, immigration bans, and refugee crises define the terms of U.S. The story of the poem’s creation has circulated almost as widely as the lines of Lazarus’s poem. The Jewish Lazarus was a prolific writer in multiple genres, a political activist, a translator, and an associate of late-19th-century literati-including Ralph Waldo Emerson and James Russell Lowell. She wrote the sonnet, after some persuasion by friends, for an auction to raise money for the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. ![]() The Major Flaw of You’ve Got Mail Megan Garber But the details of the poem’s production and of its author’s biography do not fully capture the conditions under which the poem emerged, conditions that help to explain the poem’s message to its immiserated masses. ![]() “The New Colossus” emerges at a pivotal moment in history. ![]()
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