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Fast Times and Mean Girls

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In the early spring, I caught a preview at my local Alamo Drafthouse Cinema for its forthcoming stoner-classics retrospective: snippets of Monty Python’s Life of Brian; Tommy Boy; a few Dada-esque cartoons perfect for zonking out on, post-edible. The audience watched quietly until Matthew McConaughey, sporting a parted blond bowl cut and ferrying students to some end-of-year fun, delivered a signature bit of dialogue. “Say, man, you got a joint?” he asked the kid in the back seat. “Uhhh, no, not on me, man.” “It’d be a lot cooler if you did,” he drawled. The crowd, including me, went wild.

The Atlantic     Jun 06, 2025