Dave Willat was just 11 years old when he showed up for what he thought would be a routine church choir practice in 1965. He and his fellow singers ended up making history.

Christmas movie👇

Michael Mann: ‘I make films for a large presentation’

my dad snoring during the movie he insisted we all watch

Recreating this legendary Peanuts scene. Yeah hoe!

Data point: this package of H-Mart kalbi was $33. In January, I paid $25 for similar sized package. Trump is bad for Korean Americans.

the H is for Happiest Place on Earth

“Seasons Greetings From Japan - Lou Gehrig” ~ Rare 1930’s #Christmas card from the New York #Yankees legend. The Tategaki inspired inscription is a nice touch! #MLB #Baseball #History

“Is it madness, or is it some form of spirituality?” With THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE in theaters, I interviewed Mona Fastvold, for @ebertvoices.bsky.social, about faith and trauma, hunger and thirst, echoes of THE BRUTALIST, communal languages of movement, and more. www.rogerebert.com/interviews/t...

Also had to redo bunny on the scale bc the original painting got lost in the mail and I’m pretty happy with how the new version turned out!

Sometimes people ask me why I use watercolors for my little doodles and the answer is: because you can make the sky look like this.

And Bane, who did NOT give you permission to die,

realized that my mom/ @ndgree.bsky.social had never seen Trogdor before - an ur-text for everyone approximately my age. youtu.be/90X5NJleYJQ?...

only sufjan understands that I want sacred harp *and* joy division *and* medieval pipe songs *and* iron and wine

Gosh - so shocking something like this has gone sideways www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/b...

As we say farewell to the MetroCard, we’re taking a look back at the variations of the Student MetroCard produced through the years! @nycschools.bsky.social alumni, which Student MetroCard did you commute with? #MetroCardFarewell

On the extraordinary, bizarre and quite wonderful (in every sense of the term) THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/m...

Perhaps you would like to hear me and the objectively hilarious @joshgondelman.bsky.social and @samthielman.com talk about it back in the depths of pandemic-induced delirium. Well! You’re in luck! I think (if this link works.) open.substack.com/pub/yammpod/...

“this is an all-time great episode of Mad Men” -me during every episode of Mad Men.

In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely. youtu.be/R9XN1iOungs?...

watching my favorite christmas movie and what is possibly the great american comedy about class and race

Ruth Wakefield’s Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookie was the perfect antidote to the Great Depression: in an inexpensive, hand-held serving, it contained the very richness and comfort that millions of people were forced to live without in the late 1930s. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/gWviJq

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

I wrote about Reels!

I know she's just kind of saying whatever, but it's on-brand for Bari Weiss to review a damning story about the US sending people to a concentration camp and respond "we can't air this, have you even asked Tom Homan if he feels bad about any of it yet?" Perfect readout of who she sees, and doesn't.

On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

Things That Matter: Has Art Become Degenerate? Featuring guests Lydia Tár and Jordan Peterson

Production designer Jack Fisk on re-creating the streets of 1950s New York, where Timothée Chalamet’s character runs wild.

Blue Mountain by Vasily Kandinsky, 1908 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137304

Wrote this a few days ago. Still holds up I think. Sacking Ange was a huge mistake. Spurs are now in a mess of their own making www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer...

starting a mad men rewatch. i like that one of the lessons in the first episode is “be nice to IT”

I don't think Trump should get access to standard medical care, he should have to let RFK Jr treat him

Just within the past hour, nearly a dozen YouTube accounts have posted the pulled 60 Minutes CECOT story. CBS and Google can keep trying to take them all down, but it's sort of pointless now.

A cartoon by Hartley Lin. #NewYorkerCartoons See more from this week’s issue: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/X0bNr2

In early November, I wrote a newsletter titled "Sequoia Still Has a Shaun Maguire Problem." Last week, Maguire falsely accused a Brown University student of being a mass murderer. I would say Sequoia now has a much bigger Shaun Maguire problem—and Maguire himself is vulnerable to a massive lawsuit.

Odysseus is described as a "polytropos," a "man of twists and turns" who consistently deceives or lies to others. And The Odyssey is non-linear in its narrative structure. It's Nolan catnip.

Muffled Gunshot Heard From Inside Otto The Orange Costume

THE GOAT IS HERE

The full Weiss memo is dogshit -who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT -who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison —who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison

For my last New Yorker piece of the year, I visited the Shaker room at the Met with the director Mona Fastvold, whose film "The Testament of Ann Lee" opens on Christmas Day and is absolutely weird and wonderful. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I cannot stress enough how embarrassing anyone is who thinks the Odyssey should be historically accurate

The next reporter to interview vance should ask him to explain what the joke is here. bsky.app/profile/atru...

chatterton doesn't really post here but i would love his thoughts on of his most famous episodes given today's events.

I think many people know him as that cheerful guy on NPR. But this paragraph written as Hurricane Katrina made landfall is the essence of Jonah Goldberg.

it's not that you have to be stupid to be an effective regime mouthpiece, but it certainly helps bari weiss that she has a wind tunnel between her ears www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

"The project—[Bari Weiss's] and that of her backers—is to establish herself and her cohort not as new-right media, but as the new liberal media, staking out the leftmost acceptable position within the new right-wing paradigm." (This is a gift link, from October) defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

“What got broken here doesn’t go back together.” www.vulture.com/2019/10/the-...

Bluey is legitimately a great TV show. and Every parent of young children right now is SO GLAD WE ARE ALIVE for the era of Bluey supremacy, rather than Caillou supremacy. They are both true!

Back when I was childless, I could be vaguely dismissive of art aimed at kids that I found good-not-great, and now that I _have_ a child, I'm, like, "Frozen is an American masterpiece because at least it's not this weird fucking computer slop my kid found deep in the bowels of Netflix."

If you’d like to know what it was really like inside CECOT for an innocent man who was wrongfully deported by this administration, we interviewed a pro soccer player and youth coach named Jerce Reyes two weeks ago: youtu.be/vlz3eGwHZBY?...