Cindy
@cindymclennan.bsky.social
Sally MacLennane
"Jesus Christ is not a weapon." —Carmen Reyes
"No DMs." —Cindy McLennan
Miserando atque eligendo
"Jesus Christ is not a weapon." —Carmen Reyes
"No DMs." —Cindy McLennan
Miserando atque eligendo
Hear me out. Maybe bringing back Tab might fix some things.
September 21, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Hear me out. Maybe bringing back Tab might fix some things.
Rest in peace, Robert Redford.
Heaven has all the pretty, now.
Heaven has all the pretty, now.
September 16, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Rest in peace, Robert Redford.
Heaven has all the pretty, now.
Heaven has all the pretty, now.
I deeply enjoyed your piece. I nodded along at your last couple of paragraphs and footnote, and yet, some of my favorite storylines center on wealthy Black society. It's lovely to see Black actresses in lavish period costumes (and their finale gowns were way prettier).
![Excerpt from https://www.theringer.com/2025/08/11/tv/the-gilded-age-season-3-finale-cast-episodes-carrie-coon — screenshot reads:
"It’s like the TV show version of having a pet,” I told my friends after I started watching. “It has a short memory. It’s incredibly messy. Its object permanence is shaky. It constantly makes you want to say, ‘Aw, buddy, let’s get you cleaned up.’ Yet it’s just a beam of pure goodness that you can’t even really explain.”
It’s not just an escapist fantasy, either. I mean, it is, in that it frequently seems to be going out of its way to avoid drawing any parallels between the oligarchic culture it depicts and the oligarchic culture that’s increasingly taking over America today. It’s not really interested in the other side of wealth inequality—in poverty, in the enormous human misery its protagonists’ lifestyles inflict on the lower classes. But because of the show’s sheer narrative gawkiness, it becomes a sort of off-kilter critique of the 1 percent. As much as Fellowes would love to blur the connection, his characters have at least one thing in common with our current elites, who also spend a lot of time delivering bad dialogue on television. These people can’t even run their own TV show; how can we trust them to run the world?
[A footnote after "lower classes" reads: "In Season 3, even the subplot about racism focuses on the elitism of the Black aristocracy in Newport."]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ccankcd5rvgjxx6isxs5qvy7/bafkreiejkyzweukjoagf2agjv6tey2d7drlqlqzpwjrgyvtwx4svlb25wi@jpeg)
August 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I deeply enjoyed your piece. I nodded along at your last couple of paragraphs and footnote, and yet, some of my favorite storylines center on wealthy Black society. It's lovely to see Black actresses in lavish period costumes (and their finale gowns were way prettier).
His career predates my birth, and I wasn't close to teendom at the height of Bobby Sherman's teen idol days, but even as a little girl, I knew how dreamy he was. Peace and love to his family and friends.
June 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
His career predates my birth, and I wasn't close to teendom at the height of Bobby Sherman's teen idol days, but even as a little girl, I knew how dreamy he was. Peace and love to his family and friends.
I think this is the piece's why:
"[Lee] began to insist that, in fact, he hadn’t changed; that what the world was seeing and hearing from him was no Trump-induced abnormality but rather the realest, rawest version of himself. 'Those who know me', Lee said, "know that privately, this is who I am.”
"[Lee] began to insist that, in fact, he hadn’t changed; that what the world was seeing and hearing from him was no Trump-induced abnormality but rather the realest, rawest version of himself. 'Those who know me', Lee said, "know that privately, this is who I am.”
June 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I think this is the piece's why:
"[Lee] began to insist that, in fact, he hadn’t changed; that what the world was seeing and hearing from him was no Trump-induced abnormality but rather the realest, rawest version of himself. 'Those who know me', Lee said, "know that privately, this is who I am.”
"[Lee] began to insist that, in fact, he hadn’t changed; that what the world was seeing and hearing from him was no Trump-induced abnormality but rather the realest, rawest version of himself. 'Those who know me', Lee said, "know that privately, this is who I am.”
Looks like they've now fixed the picture in the article.
May 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Looks like they've now fixed the picture in the article.
Warner Bros Discovery will ditch Max and return to HBO Max. TV people will argue anything online, but I've never seen anyone argue in favor of the 2023 Max rebrand. I don't know if WBD used this graphic at the Upfronts, or if @deadline.com was just clever, but I dig it.
deadline.com/2025/05/hbo-...
deadline.com/2025/05/hbo-...
May 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Warner Bros Discovery will ditch Max and return to HBO Max. TV people will argue anything online, but I've never seen anyone argue in favor of the 2023 Max rebrand. I don't know if WBD used this graphic at the Upfronts, or if @deadline.com was just clever, but I dig it.
deadline.com/2025/05/hbo-...
deadline.com/2025/05/hbo-...
I wonder how many times I have said, "I could not care less about [whatever]," when, for the past two years, the fictional bruised feelings about a fictional loss of a fictional football match against a fictional opponent was out there, just waiting for me.
I miss TWoP. #TedLasso
I miss TWoP. #TedLasso
May 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I wonder how many times I have said, "I could not care less about [whatever]," when, for the past two years, the fictional bruised feelings about a fictional loss of a fictional football match against a fictional opponent was out there, just waiting for me.
I miss TWoP. #TedLasso
I miss TWoP. #TedLasso
When did groceries get so needy?
April 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
When did groceries get so needy?
This will only mean anything to BtVS fans. After MT died, we started a rewatch at season 5, and saw "The Weight of the World," the other night (Buffy is catatonic). When I let myself think about everything going on in the world, I am Buffy, putting that book back on the shelf, over and over again.
March 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This will only mean anything to BtVS fans. After MT died, we started a rewatch at season 5, and saw "The Weight of the World," the other night (Buffy is catatonic). When I let myself think about everything going on in the world, I am Buffy, putting that book back on the shelf, over and over again.
Ha! I would have gone with, "Armani Luminous Silk 3.75 Very Fair, Pink," but Updike works well, especially at a tender age.
March 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Ha! I would have gone with, "Armani Luminous Silk 3.75 Very Fair, Pink," but Updike works well, especially at a tender age.
What are you — from Fall River or something? It's chop suey on a hamburger bun.
February 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
What are you — from Fall River or something? It's chop suey on a hamburger bun.
No, this is an older couple. Bezos' girlfriend is also hoarding filler, but nothing like this couple. I took a picture earlier, but didn't post it, because it's not very clear. Here. I circled them in yellow.
January 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
No, this is an older couple. Bezos' girlfriend is also hoarding filler, but nothing like this couple. I took a picture earlier, but didn't post it, because it's not very clear. Here. I circled them in yellow.
What is McQuade's post but a politics Mad-Lib game using Woody Allen's "Old ladies at a Catskills resort" joke from Annie Hall as its template? "The food at this place is really terrible — and such small portions!"
Can we stop? Can we please just stop?
Can we stop? Can we please just stop?
January 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
What is McQuade's post but a politics Mad-Lib game using Woody Allen's "Old ladies at a Catskills resort" joke from Annie Hall as its template? "The food at this place is really terrible — and such small portions!"
Can we stop? Can we please just stop?
Can we stop? Can we please just stop?
We don't have to watch the Hitler ceremony. That's what inaugurations are — ceremonies. You know why we don't have to watch it? The Hitler will take office, whether or not we subject ourselves to an event meant to elevate him. We need to pace ourselves for what's to come. This person said it well:
!["The circus is here to wear people down. It's here to confuse, cause chaos, and drive apathy. Trump wants us exhausted. A people who are beat down, exhausted, and apathetic, will let their government do anything it wants. That's Trump's plan. That's his only plan." @ryan-n-wiggins.bsky.social / January 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM [time stamp in Eastern Standard Time zone]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ccankcd5rvgjxx6isxs5qvy7/bafkreigxsgjj5eged6nqesfxlyqnapgftt4dp3lad57uqfiy2calru6ck4@jpeg)
January 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
We don't have to watch the Hitler ceremony. That's what inaugurations are — ceremonies. You know why we don't have to watch it? The Hitler will take office, whether or not we subject ourselves to an event meant to elevate him. We need to pace ourselves for what's to come. This person said it well:
🧵 I hope you don't understand what I initially posted, or how disturbed I felt while posting it and why.
I posted about how awful it can feel to be an American woman right now. I couldn't even make myself read through an article about a domestic terrorist, because I am choking on American misogyny.
I posted about how awful it can feel to be an American woman right now. I couldn't even make myself read through an article about a domestic terrorist, because I am choking on American misogyny.
January 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
🧵 I hope you don't understand what I initially posted, or how disturbed I felt while posting it and why.
I posted about how awful it can feel to be an American woman right now. I couldn't even make myself read through an article about a domestic terrorist, because I am choking on American misogyny.
I posted about how awful it can feel to be an American woman right now. I couldn't even make myself read through an article about a domestic terrorist, because I am choking on American misogyny.
I used to find accidental comedy in sequential but unrelated tweets a lot, but this the first time I've noticed it with Bluesky posts. cc: @elainealimonti.bsky.social
January 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I used to find accidental comedy in sequential but unrelated tweets a lot, but this the first time I've noticed it with Bluesky posts. cc: @elainealimonti.bsky.social
I love that you can see the guillotine through the window. It features in the final shot of the musical number (Miss Piggy sings "Stayin' Alive").
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ae4...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ae4...
January 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I love that you can see the guillotine through the window. It features in the final shot of the musical number (Miss Piggy sings "Stayin' Alive").
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ae4...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ae4...
If you're on a computer, rather than a phone, it's over on the right. It's a little different looking from the one on Twitter, but it's there. I think it just came out on Christmas Day.
December 27, 2024 at 7:56 PM
If you're on a computer, rather than a phone, it's over on the right. It's a little different looking from the one on Twitter, but it's there. I think it just came out on Christmas Day.
Is Northern Exposure streaming, or do you have the DVDs? I found the first two seasons on DVD years ago, but not any more (at the time -- haven't looked in some years).
The packaging I got was cute. It looks like little puffy down jackets.
The packaging I got was cute. It looks like little puffy down jackets.
December 24, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Is Northern Exposure streaming, or do you have the DVDs? I found the first two seasons on DVD years ago, but not any more (at the time -- haven't looked in some years).
The packaging I got was cute. It looks like little puffy down jackets.
The packaging I got was cute. It looks like little puffy down jackets.
SMG just noted how her opinion has changed. I don't think there's a revival in the works. Is Warehouse 13 your guess? If so, no.
In S2.E13 "Surprise," Buffy worries about a bad dream she had about Dru & Angel. He reminds her not all of her dreams are prophecies and asks what else she dreamt about.
In S2.E13 "Surprise," Buffy worries about a bad dream she had about Dru & Angel. He reminds her not all of her dreams are prophecies and asks what else she dreamt about.
December 16, 2024 at 6:40 PM
SMG just noted how her opinion has changed. I don't think there's a revival in the works. Is Warehouse 13 your guess? If so, no.
In S2.E13 "Surprise," Buffy worries about a bad dream she had about Dru & Angel. He reminds her not all of her dreams are prophecies and asks what else she dreamt about.
In S2.E13 "Surprise," Buffy worries about a bad dream she had about Dru & Angel. He reminds her not all of her dreams are prophecies and asks what else she dreamt about.
