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The man is both blessed and cursed with a squirrelly civic demeanor and innumerable stoner overreaches that, without fail, continue to land him in ludicrously incoherent political territory.

The response: “We’re stretched kind of thin, it’d be really fragmented. This wind is really kicking up right now, and it’s sometimes it’s going northeast and then it’s pushing northwest. So it’s really squirrelly out here, and all my resources are committed right now, but I might be able to squeeze something out for you. Not much though.”

You might take this coda as a salute to mothers and sons, a comment on the squirrelly nature of fiction, or just a final mean trick in a series that delights in them.

"Smith, in particular, is wonderful here; she gets laughs with her light, squirrelly touch — you sometimes forget what a terrific comic actress she is," wrote Salon's former movie critic Stephanie Zacharek at the time.

The abrasive sound of a scordatura violin colors the second movement, but the concertmaster, Frank Huang, slyly played it straight, letting the instrument’s fiendish, squirrelly sound speak for itself.