These squirrels receive more love than you have ever given your pet. At least that’s the consensus regarding these squirrels lucky enough to live next to Ashley Deskins. Because like any good neighbor, Deskins hosts local get-togethers like Super Bowl parties, inviting community food trucks, and hosting a drive-in movie night.
Here’s the twist: All these are custom-made for the squirrels. That’s right. Deskins custom builds miniature dining sets that would make hipsters in Williamsburg jealous.
Her soft spot for the furry creatures started when Deskins and her husband returned home one day to find two injured squirrels. They hurried the poor guys to the vet, but apparently it was too late. The event inspired her into creating this safe spot for the squirrels to interact and play.
The move has been one of trial and error. “By observing the squirrels, I can determine what they feel comfortable jumping on,” she told Bored Panda.
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“I will usually set up a scene and it could be hours before any visitors come by,” she said. “It can take several more hours before I can accomplish some finished images as they usually come, take their almonds and run.”
This week we’ve been discussing a lot how cannabis continues to go mainstream in refreshing ways. In most cases this involves celebrities embracing the green, and either endorsing a product with their name on it, or building an entire niche enterprise from the ground up.
But now it appears the investing side in cannabis is going mainstream, too, at least according to this latest Variety feature. That a trade magazine like Variety would publish an in-depth cannabis features is also a statement in and of itself about marijuana’s continued push into the mainstream. (Major kudos to this line for Variety’s audience: “Much like the independent movie biz, the cannabis industry attracts investors looking for high-risk, high-reward investments…”)
However, Variety pinpointed a number of investment firms, old and new, that are pushing the cannabis industry forward in fresh and exciting ways. Here are just some of the firms they decided to profile.
The Colorado-based and family-owned company is known around the nation as the exclusive provider of one of the most trusted hemp extracts “Charlotte’s Web.” (If you haven’t, you should read Kathryn Gurley’s touching story how Charlotte’s Web helped her son.) CBD-enriched products continue to be a significant opening in the pathway toward raising cannabis awareness and its possible health benefits.
“We produce a product that’s considered a ‘whole plant extract,’ so we can legally market our products in all 50 states,” CW Hemp’s chief marketing officer Ashley Grace told Variety.
Bonita “Bo” Money is the creative and driving force behind the popular topical cream That Glass Jar. She is also known as the founder of Women Abuv Ground, a networking organization aimed at “cannapreneurs.”
Money’s ventures are primarily self-funded, though she has accepted funds from private sources. “I’ve had the chance to work with some very like-minded people who believe in this cause. I’ve been courted by major companies, but I didn’t want to give up control,” Money told Varitey.
The OG Collective and P&S Ventures Holding Co.
Patrick McMahon and Scott Lambert base their company in Cathedral City but are looking to expand to Los Angeles. They’re enthusiastic about marijuana reform as they try to grow their business to include more specialty products like edibles and vape pens.
As McMahon told Variety: “The industry is too big to turn back on now, and the amount of potential tax revenue cannot be ignored. Investments are tough because we’re still dealing with a cash business, which is a big obstacle, but we’re getting there.”
The venture capital and investment firm boasts possibly the most well-known cannabis entrepreneurs in Snoop Dogg, in addition to Ted Chung, Evan Eneman and Karan Wadhera. As Casa Verde writes on their website, the firm “makes early stage investments in innovative and fast-growing ancillary businesses in the emerging cannabis industry.”
You can head over to Variety for the full list and breakdown, where they discuss Beboe, the high profile product company we previously wrote about and is labeling themselves as the “Hermès of marijuana,” and MedMen, a strategic marketing group in key markets that also offers “turnkey services” to cannabis license holders.
As businesses and activists for legal weed wonder how the cannabis industry will fare in the new administration, California legislators are proposing a bill, called Assembly Bill 1578, to essentially keep the state’s control over marijuana law enforcement.
The proposed legislation would prohibit state and local agencies — unless served with a court order — from using local money, facilities or personnel to assist a federal agency to “investigate, detain, report, or arrest” any person for commercial or noncommercial marijuana or medical cannabis activity that is authorized by law in the State of California — and transferring an individual to federal law enforcement authorities for purposes of marijuana enforcement.” California authorities would also be barred from responding to requests by federal authorities for the personal information of anyone issued state licenses for a marijuana operation.
“This is the equivalent of noncooperation on deportation and environmental laws, part of the larger California resistance to federal intrusion,” Dale Gieringer, state coordinator of California NORML, told LA Weekly.
Not all cannabis advocate groups are on board with the idea, however. “Cherry-picking when to respect states’ rights and arbitrarily doing so is inconsistent at best and confusing at most,” Adam Spiker, the executive director of Southern California Coalition, a lobbying group for Greater L.A. pot enterprises, said. “We are looking forward to making sure the intent of AB 1578 becomes law.”
If you think you have expertise in the wide word or cannabis, here’s your chance to share your knowledge. Beginning on Saturday and ending April 30, a group of Wikipedia editors will dive deep into the weeds and “create and improve cannabis-related content at Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in a variety of fields, including: culture, health, hemp, history, medicine, politics, and religion.”
The massive undertaking, organized by WikiProject Cannabis, is being dubbed a 420 collaboration. According to the project’s coordinators, there are three overarching goals to the endeavor :
The purpose of this project is for experienced Wikipedia editors, who may or may not edit cannabis articles often, and people who are familiar with cannabis topics, but do not edit Wikipedia regularly, to create and improve related content on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Bringing these two groups together, even for a short period of time, has the potential to improve many articles on the Internet’s largest and most popular general reference work.
We seek the inclusion of neutral, appropriately sourced facts. We want Wikipedia to have accurate, reliable information about cannabis, just like we want there to be trustworthy content about astronauts, butterflies, and your favorite episode of South Park.
We have no political agenda. We are not activists advocating for legalization. If you want to edit an article about an anti-drug program, or expand a section about the negative health effects of smoking, great! We welcome your participation. All we’re promoting here is free knowledge.
As is clear from the invitation, this is not the forum for aficionados to pontificate on why the color orange is much brighter after toking on a joint of Mango Kush. Nor is it an invitation for you to tell the story about that time your Aunt Midge ate a marijuana-laced brownie and thought she was a pole dancer.
The mission, should you be willing to accept it, is to provide accurate, sourced information on the various segments of cannabis.
Here is more from the project’s organizers:
Cannabis has long been used for hemp fibre, for hemp oils, for medicinal purposes, and for personal use. The plant has a history of medicinal use dating back thousands of years across many cultures, and touches on many different fields of study. This collaboration is being organized by WikiProject Cannabis.
Dear Dot: Three days before Christmas I was invited to dinner at my cousin “Doreen”…she wanted to do a “family” dinner since a few of us live in the same city. We grew up two hours away in a very small town, but a few of us moved for better job opportunities. We rarely see the family in our same city so my boyfriend and I decided to attend. I emailed her to say how fun and what could I bring. She said she had it all covered. We showed up with a bottle of wine…there were 6 of us and my other cousin also brought wine. Doreen made a yummy pot roast with veggies and we had a great meal and it was fun catching up. Immediately after we finished dinner, Doreen brought in the desert and announced she was going to do the dishes…I offered to help after dessert but she insisted she do them right them “to get them out of the way”. We sat at the table for 20 minutes, then ate dessert…honestly, she was gone for almost an hour…when she came back, we were ready to leave. She got huffy that we didn’t want to stay and talk, but we had said we had to leave by 10:30. She sent me an email afterwards complaining we up and left after dinner. I think if she wanted to visit, she should have waited to do the dishes…I offered to help! What could have been a fun time now has turned into a sour memory…am I wrong?
Oh, honey. Isn’t that what we all want? A nice family dinner followed by the racket of clinking dishes and picked-over pot roast being scraped into the compost? Isn’t dessert best accompanied by the sounds of water turning on and off and the sight of an empty hostess chair? And the snippy email? The perfect finish.
My mother always said that the best way to get rid of guests was to start doing dishes: The dinner ones, the dog’s … didn’t matter.
But why do that when your guests are people you invited in the first place and they brought wine?
Clearing the dishes and then leaving them in the sink to soak leaves you free to soak up the compliments on your cooking, drink a little more, gossip a lot more and maybe even slip outside for a cigarette with the granddaughter.
Wanna know why God made dishwashers? Dinner guests, gossip, wine and Camel-carrying granddaughters. According to my mom, anyway.
The only thing to do here is understand that your cousin Doreen is a clean freak, or one of those people who hates to wake up to a dirty kitchen. You can’t change that. What you can do the next time — and there should be one, since you’re family, which is all that matters — is insist that she stay put.
This, like most things, can be easily done with love: Tell Doreen you want to spend a little more time with her before you have to leave. “Sit, honey. Tell me how you are.”
If she gets up to clean anyway, well, you should just help clear and then clear out yourselves, no dummies you.
Don’t be mad; just send her some rubber gloves for Christmas. Stuffed with Hershey’s kisses.
Dear Dot, A casual friend invited me to a dinner party she was hosting. She is supposed to be a great cook and we have a few interesting friends in common so I said yes. After asking, I showed up with a good bottle of prosecco to be a good guest. There were eight of us and I only knew the host and one other person. I had a blast in the first 45 minutes… two people were really interesting and there was chemistry between me and another guest. The host moved us to a beautiful table next to the kitchen and explained how she had spent two days prepping for the dinner and really thought we were going to enjoy it. We all expressed our appreciation as we enjoyed three courses. The food was delicious…but once we sat down, the hostess got irritated when we talked about anything other than the food. She assembled the food for each course and we had to watch and listen…she would shush us if we wanted to talk to another guests. Honestly, it felt like I had signed up for a cooking class not a dinner party. After dessert, we were dismissed as she had to “clean up”… she was clearly annoyed. I ran into her at our spin class a few days later and she commented that having 8 to dinner was a total waste as people wound up talking to each other and not focusing on the food! I thought that was what a dinner party was about the people.
Oh, honey. Was her name Julia Child? No? Giada deLaurentis? No? Then why hold a cooking class, and hold your guests hostage? Girl needs to chill out.
Even Martha Stewart, the Nazi-est kitchen queen to ever roast a rump knew when to shut her gob and let people just enjoy the food — and each other. (You little minx.)
Clearly, this woman has a self-esteem tureen that will never be filled. There is something missing there, and cooking for a crowd seems to fill it. She should be working in a prison cafeteria if she wants a captive audience.
Almost every hostess wants to know how the food is, if it needs anything, is it hot enough. But when you have a table of wonderful, interesting people, all you need to do is ask once and trust that they will know enough to pass the salt. Even better if they make a pass at each other.
All you needed was one happy guest a drink or two ahead of everyone else (you know the type) to tell Chef Lady that everything was wonderful and there was NO WAY they would ever be able to recreate her skills. And what was the worst thing anyone here has every cooked?
In other words, start a conversation that she will never get back.
Tureen filled, she might have cracked open that Prosecco you brought, poured herself a glass, looked around the table and seen that she had assembled the finest feast of all: Friends. Hot ones, too, it sounds like. (You little minx.)
The Canadian government revealed a piece of legislation earlier this week aimed at eliminating marijuana prohibition nationwide. It was a move that the world has been expecting for the past year, ever since Prime Mister Justin Trudeau took the reins of the northern nation from Stephen Harper, based somewhat on the promise that he would establish a taxed and regulated pot market to prevent kids from getting their hands on weed.
Although Canada’s concept of legal weed is not exactly legalization in the eyes of some cannabis advocates, the goal of the measure is to give adults 18 and older the freedom to purchase weed in a manner for which they presently do with beer.
Some argue the bill is nothing more than “decriminalization,” or “Prohibition 2.0,” because it carries restrictions on possession limits.
Nevertheless, Trudeau’s plan will make Canada the second country in the world to legalize marijuana in an effort to curb black market activity. It is a common sense approach that a number of other nations have sided with, at least to some degree, throughout the years.
In 2014, Uruguay announced that it would be the first country to create a fully legal marijuana market – one that would allow residents to purchase recreational reefer from their local pharmacy. Although it has taken the South American country some time to get the wheels turning, some of the latest reports show the country is set to begin legal sales by July. What’s even better is the weed will be inexpensive – around $1.30 per gram.
Another country that understands that throwing pot offenders in jail is, in no way, a solution to black market problems is the Netherlands. Although marijuana is not technically legal in the country responsible for bringing the concept of the cannabis cafe to life, the system simply does not consider weed to be an issue worth much concern. In fact, for the past four decades, the possession and sale of small amounts of pot has been decriminalized, which has given Amsterdam’s famous coffee shops the freedom to sell weed to customers. However, these establishments must still get their weed from the black market sources. This is the reason Dutch officials are now trying to legalize commercial growers.
It is a similar situation in Spain. Although marijuana is illegal, there are countless cannabis clubs all over the country. It’s a situation very close to what has happened in the United States in some legal jurisdictions that continue to prohibit any kind of social use. Basically, clubs are established on private property and members pay dues in order to be a part of the fun. Technically, there are no laws being broken because marijuana is not being sold.
Portugal does not have a legal pot market either. Instead, the country made the decision back in 2001 to decriminalize the possession of all illegal drugs. This means while it is still against the law to cultivate and sell marijuana, anyone caught in possession of the substance receives no punishment. This progressive policy has been effective in controlling the nation’s problem with harder drugs, like heroin. In fact, since decriminalization, Portugal health officials say they have seen no increase in overall drug use, and more people are seeking treatment for addiction issues than ever before.
In other parts of the world, marijuana has either been decriminalized or it is simply tolerated in some way because it is part of religious culture.
Then there is the United States… where the federal government still considers anything derived from the cannabis plant to be one of the most dangerous illicit substances in the world, yet over half the states have legalized it for medicinal and recreational purposes. This schizophrenic policy has created a wealth of issues – too many to even begin to go into in this column — the biggest of which is the lack of a concrete policy to protect legal marijuana states from being shutdown by the federal government. Although Obama’s Justice Department issued a temporary memo a few years back, indicating that it would take a hands off approach to states that have legalized the leaf, it is distinctly possibly, at this juncture, that Trump’s leading law enforcement hammer, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, is the process of formulating a devious plan to drop the “Mother of All Bombs” on the cannabis industry.
The entire cannabis community is simply waiting to see what happens next.
The Liberal Canadian government on Thursday revealed its proposal to nationally legalize and regulate recreational marijuana by July 2018.
Supporters if the bold plan said that it is designed to cripple the illicit market and to keep drugs out of the hands of Canada’s youth.
“Criminal prohibition has failed to protect our kids and our communities,” said Bill Blair, parliamentary secretary to the Justice Minister and a driving force in the legislation. “As a former police officer, I know firsthand how easy it is for our kids to buy cannabis. Today’s plan to legalize, strictly regulate and restrict access to cannabis will put an end to this. It will keep cannabis out of the hands of children and youth, and stop criminals from profiting from it,” Blair added.
Ralph Goodale, Canada’s public safety minister, also spoke in favor of the plan. “Police forces spend between 2 and 3 billion dollars every year trying to deal with cannabis, yet Canadian teens are among the heaviest users in the Western world. Criminals pocket 7 to 8 billion dollars in proceeds.”
Canada becomes the first G7 nation to move toward recreational legalization, thumbing its nose at treaty agreements currently in place with other nations, including the U.S.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made cannabis legalization a major pillar of his platform during successful 2015 campaign. But the issue has become bipartisan across Canada — even concept has received support among some members of the Conservative Party.
When can I got to Canada to buy and consume cannabis?
The Government intends to bring the proposed legislation into force no later than July 2018. July 1st is Canada Day, a a federal holiday marking the official birth of the nation and many reports suggest that is the target date. But there will likely be negotiations to iron out the regulatory details, which could delay the process.
What is the age requirement?
The proposal sets the minimum age to purchase and consume marijuana at 18. The drinking age in most Canadian provinces is 19. But each province will be able to set its own age limit, similar to the nation’s alcohol laws.
In the U.S., of course, the legal age for consuming alcohol and cannabis is 21. Will this encourage Americans between the ages of 18 and 21 to vacation in Canada? Perhaps. Many college-aged students visit Mexico and other countries to take advantage of more permissive drinking laws. But …
Can I bring back cannabis back into the U.S.?
Um, no. Don’t even try. Marijuana is still federally illegal in the U.S. and the borders are patrolled by federal agents. And Canada’s plan specifically states that the movement of cannabis and cannabis products across international borders would remain a serious criminal offence.
How much can I purchase and where?
The law provides adults to legally possess up to 30 grams of legal cannabis in public. (An ounce of marijuana is about 28 grams.) Each province will be set up their own retail system. It is not clear how the retail experience will develop, but most experts suggest it will be similar to the stores in Colorado, Washington and other legal jurisdictions in the U.S.
Canadian adults will be able to purchase cannabis online from a federally licensed producer with secure home delivery through the mail or by courier.
Can Canadians grow their own?
Yes. According to the proposal, Canadians are allowed to grow up to four plants per household at a maximum height of one meter (about 3 feet) from a legal seed or seedling.
Is this the first nation to legalize?
Canada the second country in the world to allow for full recreational legalization. Uruguay was the first. Netherlands has been a marijuana-friendly nation, but has never officially legalized the herb.
In her upcoming memoir, The Secrets of My Life, the Olympian accuses the talk show host of alienating her from the LGBTQ community when DeGeneres called out Jenner for sending out a “really confusing” message about acceptance.
As reported, Jenner admitted she was previously “not for” same-sex marriage during her appearance on Ellen two years ago, leading the comedienne to question how could she expect people to accept her transition when the Olympian herself would deny gay couples the right to marry. Later on The Howard Stern Show, DeGeneres spoke out about Jenner again, claiming the I Am Cait star still “had a judgement” against gay people.
“I believed, as anyone would, that that was exactly what she wanted to talk about my progression in terms of changing attitude over the years,” Jenner recalled in her book, according to an excerpt obtained by Radar Online.
“This discussion further alienated me from members of the LGBTQ community,” she continued. “Ellen’s appearance on The Howard Stern Show, where in my mind she even more emphatically took what I said out of context, made it go viral.
During her 2015 sit-down with DeGeneres, Jenner — a staunch Republican who recently revealed she had underwent a sex reassignment surgery to become a woman — said she didn’t initially believe in gay marriage because she was a “traditionalist.” She explained at the time, “I like tradition and it’s always been between a man and a woman and I’m thinking I don’t quite get it … If that word marriage is really, really that important to you, I can go with it.”
Tiffany Pollard Describes (In Detail) Sex With Flava Flav: HE IS HUGE
Tiffany admits that when she was known as “New York” she did have sex with Flav and that it was “magical.”
“[When I met Flav] he’s taking me out in limos, he’s living in mansions and everything and I did squeeze it and it was so big. Like, literally it hit his kneecap.”
Savor this interview, just like Tiffany savors her lobster. It’s downright magical.
Kids can be some real pieces of crap. How insolent, petty, whiny they are when they don’t get their way. But perhaps that childlike belief that the world should operate as they innocently see fit is what produces those wonderful moments that could only come from a child.
One of those came recently in the form of one toddler daughter who insisted on a poop-theme party for her third birthday. Every time her mother Rebecca asked her daughter Audrey for ideas, “poop” was the only word that came out her mouth.
“For months, every time we mentioned her party, Audrey requested ‘poop balloons and a poop cake,’” Rebecca said to The Huffington Post. “I tried suggesting other themes, but she always insisted on poop.”
Instead of fighting the strange request, Audrey’s parents decided to fulfill her crappy wishes and deliver. She dressed in a poop emoji costume and gave her daughter a poop emoji outfit for the party. To celebrate, they had poop emoji piñata that contained Hershey’s Kisses and Tootsie Rolls, a game of “pin the poop,” and more.
The mother questioned what the parents and grandparents might think of the whole thing, but it turns out everyone loved it. “I expected the grandparents to question it, but they all just laughed when I told them,” she told The Huffington Post.
She later added to HuffPo: “I feel like in this time of Facebook and Pinterest, we sometimes get caught up in trying to impress other adults. This party wasn’t for me, it was for Audrey. I love that we will look back at pictures, and it will represent her at 3 ― my funny and quirky little girl.”
To properly discuss a Joe Swanberg movie involves, eventually, talking about yourself, so let’s get it out of the way: I don’t like or love his movies, as much as I find them…unavoidable. It’s not that I find them relatable or they explain some deep-rooted feeling I couldn’t previously articulate, as great art often does. Swanberg movies, if I’m being 100 percent honest, often feel like they’re about me in a (slightly) creepy way. Often times, after watching his films, I’m left asking, “How did he know?”
Casual moviegoers perhaps don’t know Joe Swanberg, the outsider indie filmmaker, but Joe Swanberg knows you. Anyone who’s watched his movies understand this sentiment I’m describing—“documentarian” better describe the bulk of Swanberg’s work, particularly his earliest output (I’m not using that word that rhymes with “dumblecore”). Characters in his movies aren’t proclaiming some grand gesture, there aren’t massive set pieces; instead they’re voyeuristic in nature.
As a director, he literally creates moments. Part of this stems from Swanberg’s improvisational style—2013’s Drinking Buddies and 2015’s Digging For Fire reportedly had rough outlines, not scripts—which allows for these raw emotional performances that can only be found, not fabricated.
Have you ever watched a movie or TV show or anything, where some character’s discussing love or failure or something, and it’s poetic and beautiful yet lacking in some way? Like it’s not real? I understand how loaded “real” as label of art can be, so I won’t characterize Swanberg’s movies in that way. All I’ll say is that I never question whether or not if what I’m watching could actually happen. Because it does, it has, and it will. Watching Drinking Buddies, a film about love unspoken and felt at all the wrong times, and Happy Christmas, regarding a 20-something Anna Kendrick facing existential failure and revolting against traditional safety nets, induce more traumatic stress than many war and horror movies ever have. If I was a vet, I’d likely feel different. But I’m not. I’m a normal-ass dude and Swanberg makes movies about normal-ass folks experiencing normal-ass turmoil and pain.
You could be tempted into thinking Swanberg’s latest feature Win It All, the Netflix-streaming exclusive where a dirt-poor gambling addict happens upon a bag of money, steps away from that sentiment. It’s the most the director has ever waded into genre filmmaking and his first, in some time, that has a realized plot structure. Swanberg and star Jake Johnson, who also co-wrote the confused disappointment Digging For Fire, joked they actually wrote a script this time following Win It All’s South by Southwest premiere. The crowd nervously laughed, not because it wasn’t funny, but because everyone knew this was true after watching the film.
Johnson’s 30-something Eddie in Win It All boasts a career as parking attendant at Wrigley Field. He’s so financially unstable, he can barely muster enough change to buy his morning coffee. Where he finds his real drive is inside a dingy alleyway gambling room, where Eddie often plays—and loses—at poker. You don’t understand; Eddie is god-awful at poker. He’s probably the worst movie character poker player ever. An intimidating crime boss gives Eddie a job to protect a bag of money while he does a short prison stint, and you know he’s really handing him a bomb you can’t wait to explode in Eddie’s face.
This is all plot, a surprisingly refreshing addition to a Swanberg film, but it’s not what we’re here for. The heart instead revolves around Eddie’s resistance into domesticity and not as that idea is typically rendered in a comedic work. A Judd Apatow man-child giving up his immature goofiness this is not. When Eddie does eventually dip into the stash, he finds immediate success and confidence. This leads him into winning over Aislinn Derbez’s Eva, a nurse and single mother who expects simple things of Eddie, like showing up to family dinners and meeting for breakfast.
But tick, tick, tick and the bomb does explode. Eddie gambles more than he should and loses too much money. It forces him into accepting a blue-collar job from his older brother, who owns a lawn maintenance company, so he could replace the lost cash. He gives up gambling and Eddie’s life falls into predictable routines of work and family. The twist isn’t so cheesy, like he discovers he loves this lifestyle, but that he’s able to mine a personal victory and happiness within it. It’s not great, but better than what he has.
Throughout Win It All, notions of financial instability lurk just outside the frame. Affording convenience store coffee, the boring yet stable investment of blue collar work, the lingering belief that winning this one bet will finally fix everything. And it’s not even that grand American ideal of get rich, be happy; it’s more about earning enough so that you might finally be able to think clearly again. This is what millennials talk about when we talk about debt. Gambling movies like Win It All are effective because they can visualize how financial ups and downs result in emotional ones, too.
It’s why the movie’s climax, while predictable, still strikes the audience on a personal level. The crime boss comes home to collect the debt and Eddie doesn’t have the money. (Hi, student loans!) Desperation leads him back into gambling, and because he remains a trash gambler, he loses even more. With real stakes to lose outside himself, a mixture of fear and fury contaminates Eddie’s dealings with friends and family, lashing out, blaming, and demanding they fix this problem of his. Like most gambling movies, Win It All ends with a final showdown, though Swanberg and Johnson discover a fresh way to say something said before.
Win It All is satisfying in that, unlike Digging For Fire, Swanberg has finally found a way to sneak in what makes him so captivating as a filmmaker into a larger canvas, though I still prefer the narrow human dramas found in Swanberg’s Netflix TV series Easy (the Marc Maron-starring fifth episode “Life and Art” is the purest expression either artist has managed to pull off). Swanberg still understands normal-ass folk better than most of his peers. Life is hard and it’s sometimes harder to try. Sometimes that involves gambling, others telling someone you love them. Win It All’s profundity is that both sentiments mean the same thing.
