Ellen Gray 🇺🇦 🇨🇦
@elgray1.bsky.social
Off deadline. Ex-Philly Inquirer. Recovering TV critic, still judgy. Knitter, bike lover, Pilates fan. Philadelphia Daily News forever. She/her
Someone at Apple News (or Time) was maybe a little too quick to hit “send.” But the hed does catch the vibe of general mayhem.
December 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Someone at Apple News (or Time) was maybe a little too quick to hit “send.” But the hed does catch the vibe of general mayhem.
And then there’s THIS framing. Apparently “squalid” conditions leave you open to anything.
October 19, 2025 at 12:51 PM
And then there’s THIS framing. Apparently “squalid” conditions leave you open to anything.
Last year I visited Norway’s Resistance Museum. I think of it so often these days.
August 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Last year I visited Norway’s Resistance Museum. I think of it so often these days.
I used to be a TV critic, but I don’t think you have to be a “critic” to recognize extortion when it’s just lying there.
August 20, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I used to be a TV critic, but I don’t think you have to be a “critic” to recognize extortion when it’s just lying there.
Quote this with a great TV father.
June 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Quote this with a great TV father.
Just finished #Woodworking by @emilystjams.bsky.social. It’s full of difficult people who are ultimately impossible not to love, which is very much my sweet spot.
April 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Just finished #Woodworking by @emilystjams.bsky.social. It’s full of difficult people who are ultimately impossible not to love, which is very much my sweet spot.
Just finished the delightful #BackAfterThis by @lindaholmes.bsky.social and I’ll never listen to a podcast quite the same way again. Also: There’s a great Great Dane.
March 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Just finished the delightful #BackAfterThis by @lindaholmes.bsky.social and I’ll never listen to a podcast quite the same way again. Also: There’s a great Great Dane.
“Why aren’t you wearing a suit?”
March 2, 2025 at 4:22 PM
“Why aren’t you wearing a suit?”
One thing that struck me last year during a visit to the Norway Resistance Museum was the role teachers played in refusing to teach propaganda
January 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
One thing that struck me last year during a visit to the Norway Resistance Museum was the role teachers played in refusing to teach propaganda
If you’re looking to watch something that speaks in some ways to this moment, you could do worse than Netflix’s #Person24. (Also recommend a visit to the Norway Resistance Museum, if you’re ever in Oslo.)
January 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
If you’re looking to watch something that speaks in some ways to this moment, you could do worse than Netflix’s #Person24. (Also recommend a visit to the Norway Resistance Museum, if you’re ever in Oslo.)
#SpellingBee not buying into this whole Canada-as-51st-state nonsense.
January 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
#SpellingBee not buying into this whole Canada-as-51st-state nonsense.
I wrote this headline about the decision to allow pro basketball players to compete in the ‘92 Games and didn’t realize what I’d done till I saw it on newsstand. Haunted to this day. Shit happens.
December 26, 2024 at 4:20 PM
I wrote this headline about the decision to allow pro basketball players to compete in the ‘92 Games and didn’t realize what I’d done till I saw it on newsstand. Haunted to this day. Shit happens.
Always nice to see. Still get it every morning.
December 10, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Always nice to see. Still get it every morning.
If you don’t have this mug (which my younger son, hilariously, bought me for Mother’s Day), you deserve it.
December 7, 2024 at 6:40 PM
If you don’t have this mug (which my younger son, hilariously, bought me for Mother’s Day), you deserve it.
This may sound strange, but the book that’s lately made me the happiest in these fraught times is about the end of the world,
#IThinkWeveBeenHereBefore,
by Suzy Krause.
#IThinkWeveBeenHereBefore,
by Suzy Krause.
December 4, 2024 at 5:30 PM
This may sound strange, but the book that’s lately made me the happiest in these fraught times is about the end of the world,
#IThinkWeveBeenHereBefore,
by Suzy Krause.
#IThinkWeveBeenHereBefore,
by Suzy Krause.
Have you been to Richmond lately?
November 16, 2024 at 2:13 PM
Have you been to Richmond lately?