Willa
@willa.bsky.social
Slate, Decoder Ring, previously cared about television
A little shook MTV is ending as a broadcast network, and even more shook it was announced a few weeks ago and I had no idea!
October 30, 2025 at 1:31 AM
A little shook MTV is ending as a broadcast network, and even more shook it was announced a few weeks ago and I had no idea!
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Congrats to 4 (!!) @slate.com podcasts -- Decoder Ring, Death, Sex & Money, Slow Burn and Political Gabfest -- for making Left of Dial’s list of the 100 Greatest Podcasts of All Time (voted on by 300 audio creators, podcast hosts, writers, etc.)
www.leftofdialmedia.com/essential-li...
www.leftofdialmedia.com/essential-li...
August 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Congrats to 4 (!!) @slate.com podcasts -- Decoder Ring, Death, Sex & Money, Slow Burn and Political Gabfest -- for making Left of Dial’s list of the 100 Greatest Podcasts of All Time (voted on by 300 audio creators, podcast hosts, writers, etc.)
www.leftofdialmedia.com/essential-li...
www.leftofdialmedia.com/essential-li...
Ready to give it all up and embrace my true calling as a lantern fly hunter
July 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Ready to give it all up and embrace my true calling as a lantern fly hunter
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Had a fantastic time working with Willa & Katie from @slate.bsky.social's Decoder Ring. It's funny how when someone else makes a thing based on your thing, they can see so much more clearly what it's all about (if that someone else is great at what they do)
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The Scratch-Off Ticket’s Instant Win
Podcast Episode · Decoder Ring · 02/12/2025 · 34m
podcasts.apple.com
February 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Had a fantastic time working with Willa & Katie from @slate.bsky.social's Decoder Ring. It's funny how when someone else makes a thing based on your thing, they can see so much more clearly what it's all about (if that someone else is great at what they do)
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
unexpected sandworm remix bsky.app/profile/clas...
February 10, 2025 at 1:21 AM
unexpected sandworm remix bsky.app/profile/clas...
one of my kids calls podcasts cadposts and im gonna try and keep it going til college
January 7, 2025 at 12:13 AM
one of my kids calls podcasts cadposts and im gonna try and keep it going til college
All the haute-jello looks great but come on with how it tastes!
December 31, 2024 at 2:06 PM
All the haute-jello looks great but come on with how it tastes!
Excited for The Brutalist to have been out long enough for people to start writing about what the whole final thrust is actually about!!
December 28, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Excited for The Brutalist to have been out long enough for people to start writing about what the whole final thrust is actually about!!
Jealous of this piece! I have come to love Panettone almost Because I dont like it that much and think the real answer is to get a not insanely expensive one in chocolate and sort of wonder why you’re eating it for a week even as you can’t stop www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
The Luxury Makeover of the Worst Pastry on Earth
How panettone, the once-reviled Italian Christmas treat, became a high-end commodity
www.theatlantic.com
December 19, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Jealous of this piece! I have come to love Panettone almost Because I dont like it that much and think the real answer is to get a not insanely expensive one in chocolate and sort of wonder why you’re eating it for a week even as you can’t stop www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
I was thinking about how all contemporary musicals sound…so like musicals but the songs in The Sound of Music or Singin’ in The Rain do not. What happened? I think part of it is a (Sondheim-ish) verbosity, but someone who knows about music, please explain!
December 19, 2024 at 1:02 PM
I was thinking about how all contemporary musicals sound…so like musicals but the songs in The Sound of Music or Singin’ in The Rain do not. What happened? I think part of it is a (Sondheim-ish) verbosity, but someone who knows about music, please explain!
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For good reason, BLUEY is the recent kids cartoon that’s received the most “Actually, This is Actually Good” attention from the critterati. But our younger daughter is watching HILDA now, and we, as a culture, have slept on HILDA.
December 18, 2024 at 12:45 AM
For good reason, BLUEY is the recent kids cartoon that’s received the most “Actually, This is Actually Good” attention from the critterati. But our younger daughter is watching HILDA now, and we, as a culture, have slept on HILDA.
Carry On expects me to believe that’s how TSA works??
December 17, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Carry On expects me to believe that’s how TSA works??
Real self own, but if I had to describe my musical taste it would be: songs that can play during a movie montage (preferably rom-com)
December 13, 2024 at 4:03 AM
Real self own, but if I had to describe my musical taste it would be: songs that can play during a movie montage (preferably rom-com)
Blowing my mind about my fave movie!
When James Stewart is crooning “Over the Rainbow” in THE PHILADELPHIA STORY it just sounds like an old song to us now, but at the time it was MGM cross promotion! OZ was prob still in theaters!!!
December 8, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Blowing my mind about my fave movie!
The TV top 10 lists are…so bleak
December 4, 2024 at 2:47 PM
The TV top 10 lists are…so bleak
Gift guide singularity: the point at which there are so many gift guides everything has been recommended as a gift
November 27, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Gift guide singularity: the point at which there are so many gift guides everything has been recommended as a gift
If you read a piece of fiction in which a group of people were so fixated on uncovering pedophiles and sex predators everywhere that they went and…installed sex predators as the state you would be like this author has read a little too much psychoanalytic theory, it’s a little too tidy
November 21, 2024 at 1:23 PM
If you read a piece of fiction in which a group of people were so fixated on uncovering pedophiles and sex predators everywhere that they went and…installed sex predators as the state you would be like this author has read a little too much psychoanalytic theory, it’s a little too tidy
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For Decoder Ring, I look into "Pink Lady & Jeff," the infamous 1980 NBC variety show flop, dubbed one of the "worst shows in TV history." But it turns out that old narrative is too simplistic, too US-centric, and omits the voices of the Japanese stars of the show—the sensational pop duo Pink Lady.
The Time Japan’s Biggest Pop Stars Crash-Landed on American TV
“Pink Lady and Jeff” tried to carry an international mania over to American airwaves. Instead, it became a punchline.
slate.com
November 20, 2024 at 4:29 PM
For Decoder Ring, I look into "Pink Lady & Jeff," the infamous 1980 NBC variety show flop, dubbed one of the "worst shows in TV history." But it turns out that old narrative is too simplistic, too US-centric, and omits the voices of the Japanese stars of the show—the sensational pop duo Pink Lady.
Has anyone observed already it’s the reverse of the cliche? First time as farce, second time as tragedy
November 20, 2024 at 2:28 AM
Has anyone observed already it’s the reverse of the cliche? First time as farce, second time as tragedy
Latest Decoder Ring is a good one (lol I think) about a failed, 30 year old video game with a lot of contemporary resonances! slate.com/podcasts/dec...
November 16, 2023 at 4:31 PM
Latest Decoder Ring is a good one (lol I think) about a failed, 30 year old video game with a lot of contemporary resonances! slate.com/podcasts/dec...
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While researching my next book I discovered a hilarious, wild, unlikely story that I ALSO knew wouldn’t fit! Today, I bring it to Decoder Ring.
So… Here is the story of how Melrose Place became home to a multi year long experimental art installation:
So… Here is the story of how Melrose Place became home to a multi year long experimental art installation:
The Secret Art of Melrose Place
How an art collective smuggled their provocative work onto prime time TV.
slate.com
October 25, 2023 at 2:10 PM
While researching my next book I discovered a hilarious, wild, unlikely story that I ALSO knew wouldn’t fit! Today, I bring it to Decoder Ring.
So… Here is the story of how Melrose Place became home to a multi year long experimental art installation:
So… Here is the story of how Melrose Place became home to a multi year long experimental art installation: