Noah Smith
@smithnoah.bsky.social
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I have a long story about eating an Indian spinach dish. It’s quite a saaga.
Thanks folks! That’s all from me for 2025! Can’t top that!
Thanks folks! That’s all from me for 2025! Can’t top that!
January 1, 2026 at 12:43 AM
I have a long story about eating an Indian spinach dish. It’s quite a saaga.
Thanks folks! That’s all from me for 2025! Can’t top that!
Thanks folks! That’s all from me for 2025! Can’t top that!
Playing touch football in the snow with my ten-year-old, my brother, and his ten-year-old. It’s kids vs. adults so I’m employing a defensive strategy of “He’s probably not going to be able to catch that.”’ Works about 60% of the time.
December 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Playing touch football in the snow with my ten-year-old, my brother, and his ten-year-old. It’s kids vs. adults so I’m employing a defensive strategy of “He’s probably not going to be able to catch that.”’ Works about 60% of the time.
He’s right and censorship is terrible and the people who forced them to do this were the worst. But, speaking only of my own personal preference, I’d so much rather see Superman eating thousands of pies than almost anything I’ve seen in a Marvel or DC comic this century.
[After two glasses of wine at every dinner party]
Hey did you know comic books imposed self-censorship to avoid government intervention so for like thirty years Superman comics stopped being about punching bad guys and instead he’d be like IF I DON’T EAT ALL THESE PIES JIMMY WILL TURN INTO A CLOCK!
Hey did you know comic books imposed self-censorship to avoid government intervention so for like thirty years Superman comics stopped being about punching bad guys and instead he’d be like IF I DON’T EAT ALL THESE PIES JIMMY WILL TURN INTO A CLOCK!
December 30, 2025 at 1:35 PM
He’s right and censorship is terrible and the people who forced them to do this were the worst. But, speaking only of my own personal preference, I’d so much rather see Superman eating thousands of pies than almost anything I’ve seen in a Marvel or DC comic this century.
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If you’re doing any sleighing this winter, please be careful. Hearing about a lot of folks getting upsot.
December 29, 2025 at 7:04 AM
If you’re doing any sleighing this winter, please be careful. Hearing about a lot of folks getting upsot.
I used to joke about Eli Manning looking far too young to be in the NFL. But I have to admit that when Drake Maye has his mouth guard in he looks like he should be in Pop Warner.
December 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I used to joke about Eli Manning looking far too young to be in the NFL. But I have to admit that when Drake Maye has his mouth guard in he looks like he should be in Pop Warner.
It’s weird to think that for 10 or 15 Decembers, when I was in my teens and twenties, I was probably much more interested in year-end best-of lists and countdowns than I was in Christmas, because now I have almost zero interest in what critics or anyone else says were the best movies and TV of 2025.
December 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
It’s weird to think that for 10 or 15 Decembers, when I was in my teens and twenties, I was probably much more interested in year-end best-of lists and countdowns than I was in Christmas, because now I have almost zero interest in what critics or anyone else says were the best movies and TV of 2025.
It’s really hard to reconcile the plot of Wicked with the original Oz books by L. Frank Baum to make it actually work as a prequel, but even harder with the 1939 movie. Are we assuming Dorothy is having a second dream that fills in backstory for the first one?
December 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
It’s really hard to reconcile the plot of Wicked with the original Oz books by L. Frank Baum to make it actually work as a prequel, but even harder with the 1939 movie. Are we assuming Dorothy is having a second dream that fills in backstory for the first one?
Make a Bond film casual
The Man with the Golden Grahams
The Man with the Golden Grahams
Make a Bond film casual
The Spy Who Swiped Right On Me
The Spy Who Swiped Right On Me
Make a Bond film casual
Dr. Nah
Dr. Nah
December 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Make a Bond film casual
The Man with the Golden Grahams
The Man with the Golden Grahams
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NORAD Santa tracker is Woke
December 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
NORAD Santa tracker is Woke
Okay, Santa leaves bite marks in the cookies at our house, but the carrots just vanish because Santa takes them with him back up the chimney to feed the reindeer with them. Does Santa leave behind partially-gnawed carrots at your house? Does that mean the reindeer came inside?
December 25, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Okay, Santa leaves bite marks in the cookies at our house, but the carrots just vanish because Santa takes them with him back up the chimney to feed the reindeer with them. Does Santa leave behind partially-gnawed carrots at your house? Does that mean the reindeer came inside?
Annual Christmas Eve viewing of It’s a Wonderful Life!
I’ve never understood what Santa is doing in this picture in the opening credits. Kicking a field goal? Dancing with the Rockettes? Slipping on ice?
#watchingIAWL
I’ve never understood what Santa is doing in this picture in the opening credits. Kicking a field goal? Dancing with the Rockettes? Slipping on ice?
#watchingIAWL
December 25, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Annual Christmas Eve viewing of It’s a Wonderful Life!
I’ve never understood what Santa is doing in this picture in the opening credits. Kicking a field goal? Dancing with the Rockettes? Slipping on ice?
#watchingIAWL
I’ve never understood what Santa is doing in this picture in the opening credits. Kicking a field goal? Dancing with the Rockettes? Slipping on ice?
#watchingIAWL
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Second anniversary of our Apple TV’s spectacular attempt to understand me asking for “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas”
December 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Second anniversary of our Apple TV’s spectacular attempt to understand me asking for “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas”
🎶Gone away is the bluebird
Here to stay Lobster Newberg🎵
Here to stay Lobster Newberg🎵
December 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
🎶Gone away is the bluebird
Here to stay Lobster Newberg🎵
Here to stay Lobster Newberg🎵
“Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die …”
Well, he died eventually. This book came out in 1843. It’s not like he’s still alive today at the age of 187 …
Well, he died eventually. This book came out in 1843. It’s not like he’s still alive today at the age of 187 …
December 23, 2025 at 11:45 PM
“Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die …”
Well, he died eventually. This book came out in 1843. It’s not like he’s still alive today at the age of 187 …
Well, he died eventually. This book came out in 1843. It’s not like he’s still alive today at the age of 187 …
WHY WOULD THEY CALL HIM PINOCCHIO?!?! HIS NOSE ISN’T LONG! IT’S RED!
December 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
WHY WOULD THEY CALL HIM PINOCCHIO?!?! HIS NOSE ISN’T LONG! IT’S RED!
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- Does the music have to be Christmas music?
- Will viewers know what a fireplace is?
- Make the fire more appealing to single men.
- Will viewers know what a fireplace is?
- Make the fire more appealing to single men.
Network Notes on The Yule Log
Overall, you’ve got a strong concept: a log burning in a fireplace, on a loop for five hours. But we have a few notes. Can the log be more aspira...
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December 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
- Does the music have to be Christmas music?
- Will viewers know what a fireplace is?
- Make the fire more appealing to single men.
- Will viewers know what a fireplace is?
- Make the fire more appealing to single men.
The turkey that Scrooge buys for the Cratchits is pre-cooked, right? He doesn’t send them a massive raw turkey that would take hours to cook, right?
December 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The turkey that Scrooge buys for the Cratchits is pre-cooked, right? He doesn’t send them a massive raw turkey that would take hours to cook, right?
“So we want to sell M&Ms for Hanukkah, but we don’t want to scare off Christians. So what do we call these blue-and-white bags?”
December 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
“So we want to sell M&Ms for Hanukkah, but we don’t want to scare off Christians. So what do we call these blue-and-white bags?”
The #1 movie from when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 will go.
1986.
1986.
December 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The #1 movie from when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 will go.
1986.
1986.
I was listening to an old @cbbworld.bsky.social holiday episode from 2020 and they joked that the next Ocean’s 11 movie should be about trying to break into Santa’s workshop. I suddenly thought “Call it Ocean’s 11 Pipers Piping!” –– There’s my lightning-fast comedy mind. Only five years late.
December 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I was listening to an old @cbbworld.bsky.social holiday episode from 2020 and they joked that the next Ocean’s 11 movie should be about trying to break into Santa’s workshop. I suddenly thought “Call it Ocean’s 11 Pipers Piping!” –– There’s my lightning-fast comedy mind. Only five years late.
Wordle … maybe YOU should be sealed in a stone cold tomb.
December 19, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Wordle … maybe YOU should be sealed in a stone cold tomb.
It’s probably good that the Frosty cartoon skips the melting part — we see Frosty sweating and the next thing we see he’s a puddle (till Santa restores him). We never see the middle part where he he dwindles drop by drop, extremities falling off … Karen had to watch that. Must’ve been traumatizing.
December 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
It’s probably good that the Frosty cartoon skips the melting part — we see Frosty sweating and the next thing we see he’s a puddle (till Santa restores him). We never see the middle part where he he dwindles drop by drop, extremities falling off … Karen had to watch that. Must’ve been traumatizing.
In the movie Elf, is it possible that “Jovie” isn’t her real name? She mentions another elf named Crumpet (a reference to David Sedaris’s stories about working as a Christmas elf) which implies that Gimbels employees address and refer to each other by “North Pole” names rather than their real names.
December 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
In the movie Elf, is it possible that “Jovie” isn’t her real name? She mentions another elf named Crumpet (a reference to David Sedaris’s stories about working as a Christmas elf) which implies that Gimbels employees address and refer to each other by “North Pole” names rather than their real names.
Have Republicans been whining about Clue going woke with these character designs?
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Have Republicans been whining about Clue going woke with these character designs?