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THREE QUESTIONS... THREE ANSWERS, below...

• Thanks for asking about GIRLFRIENDS DAY. I love this little movie the same way I love Mr. Show. I know that it won't be everyone's cup of tea, but it's a cup of tea I will personally be sipping with joy for years to come. Netflix is the ONLY place that could host such a quirky endeavor and get it to the audience of smart and curious brains that will appreciate it. Plus it's only 65 minutes long, so...wouldn't really play in a traditional format. IT'S FUN, DARK, SERIOUS, FUNNY, RIDICULOUS, and I swear in it a bunch.

• I don't see my career as being divided as clearly as it seems from the outside perhaps. I still write comedy and work on comedy projects. SAUL certainly has opened up doors for me in the drama world, and that's great and new, but it's all a big kitchen-sink mess of a career to me. I like it that way and I will say I am "blessed" although, according to Wikipedia, I am an "atheist". Who gets to decide that?

• My advice to young people who are trying to find themselves is...keep trying. Make no mistake, outside of some patches of life that lucky people like me run into, everyone is, every day, trying to "find themselves". Maybe the dalai lama has it down, but everybody else is working on it, every day. But as a younger person take note that you can take more risks than an older person can - move to a fresh city - try something new and really commit to it - and then, also, I would add, try to dissemble your experiences smartly - try to notice what you contribute to a project or effort. You may want to be a comedy writer, but if you work on a project, find that you are a better director, or producer...if you can be honest about what your contribution actually was. I was surprised that I felt more impactful and connected in dramatic acting than my first love, comedy. But I am going to take that cue from life and pursue it now, see how far it goes.

Exactly this. I worked as a lowly QA engineer, but I knew just enough about our engineers' and IT guys' interests that I knew better than to ask or pry. There is no reason to believe any of them don't maintain a grey- or black-hat hobby in the off hours.

Side-by-side

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPA3I7QeLE8

Gillian Welch

There is no one better. I have probably seen her and Dave perform at least 20 times and each time is better than the last. I say without hyperbole that I believe they exist on a higher plane. Real-life magic.

I've had one encounter with a grizzly but didn't actually see it ... Sierra Nevada

This explains why you didn't see it; the Californian grizzly has been extinct since the 20s. The furthest south you'll find a North American grizzly today is Wyoming.