It’s almost comforting that we can always count on the Times to raise this as news.
June 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
It’s almost comforting that we can always count on the Times to raise this as news.
I know we have all theoretically moved on from Russiagate, but what in the kompromat is this?!
April 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I know we have all theoretically moved on from Russiagate, but what in the kompromat is this?!
Val Kilmer in Real Genius is one of my favorite performances in film. Rarely a day goes by that one of his lines doesn’t float through my head and make me smile.
April 2, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Val Kilmer in Real Genius is one of my favorite performances in film. Rarely a day goes by that one of his lines doesn’t float through my head and make me smile.
In the midst of all this (waves hands), was still a good movie week.
March 28, 2025 at 11:56 PM
In the midst of all this (waves hands), was still a good movie week.
1848 was crazy, y’all. “Perhaps next week” is so vicious.
From Christopher Clark’s Revolutionary Spring.
From Christopher Clark’s Revolutionary Spring.
January 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM
1848 was crazy, y’all. “Perhaps next week” is so vicious.
From Christopher Clark’s Revolutionary Spring.
From Christopher Clark’s Revolutionary Spring.
I know there are more important things happening today but after being a whiny crybaby about it yesterday I am letting my NY Times crossword streak go to support the strike. In the immortal words of Margaret Cho, where’s my parade?
November 5, 2024 at 5:43 PM
I know there are more important things happening today but after being a whiny crybaby about it yesterday I am letting my NY Times crossword streak go to support the strike. In the immortal words of Margaret Cho, where’s my parade?
It’s been a nice streak but I’m fine to break it. Not crossing a picket line for my pastime!
November 4, 2024 at 9:07 PM
It’s been a nice streak but I’m fine to break it. Not crossing a picket line for my pastime!
Love this place.
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #201,745!
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #201,745!
October 8, 2024 at 1:25 PM
Love this place.
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #201,745!
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #201,745!
When the Pet Shop Boys’ “Opportunities” kicked in at the end of Industry 301.
August 15, 2024 at 4:51 AM
When the Pet Shop Boys’ “Opportunities” kicked in at the end of Industry 301.
A perfect album that came out when I was 16
November 8, 2023 at 12:24 AM
A perfect album that came out when I was 16
Britney apparently had a prescient, poptimist rebuke to her critics.
October 28, 2023 at 5:56 PM
Britney apparently had a prescient, poptimist rebuke to her critics.
THE WOMAN IN ME is a captivating read. For the celebrity memoir genre, particularly, it is incredibly efficient. In this section, for example, she goes from unknown to supernova in a few sentences.
October 28, 2023 at 5:46 PM
THE WOMAN IN ME is a captivating read. For the celebrity memoir genre, particularly, it is incredibly efficient. In this section, for example, she goes from unknown to supernova in a few sentences.
Striking essay about how much the Nineties set up everything that came after. www.firstthings.com/article/2023...
September 18, 2023 at 3:47 PM
Striking essay about how much the Nineties set up everything that came after. www.firstthings.com/article/2023...
Came across this passage in Middlemarch and gasped. Never knew the origin of the phrase in “How Soon is Now?”
August 15, 2023 at 9:45 AM
Came across this passage in Middlemarch and gasped. Never knew the origin of the phrase in “How Soon is Now?”
Loved Godland, streaming on Criterion Channel. Insanely gorgeous cinematography of the Icelandic landscape. It’s inspired by 19th century photographs and it has a stark, intense framing that’s really unique.
July 15, 2023 at 6:08 PM
Loved Godland, streaming on Criterion Channel. Insanely gorgeous cinematography of the Icelandic landscape. It’s inspired by 19th century photographs and it has a stark, intense framing that’s really unique.