I had the truly cursed thought there’s a not zero chance that Ryan Murphys next Feud series could be Elia Kazan & Hollywood. It would be so expensive and so historically inaccurate and I would watch every minute of it.

Look I love sending letters and writing in cursive but the reasoning he gives here is dumb.

I hate so much the idea that an actor is just a collection of a face, a voice, and some mannerisms, under the complete control of the director, rather than an enthusiastic and skilled collaborator.

“We have to be honest about all of this, not to slam on the past, but because it matters so much for us today.”

That’s my childhood hero and birthday twin!

Conan O’Brien is red carpet ready 📸

I’m not a Robbie-Whittaker shipper but I understand why people do. Why was their break room scene that sexually charged? #thepitt

This man is a loser. A man who wants to be this powerful badass because he has no control over himself or his life. A sad little fascist who should have to look at the corpses of the defenseless people he’s ordered killed and be told how they lived more fulfilled lives than he ever could

Kafka understood that an even greater indignity than being turned into a giant insect was still being required to go to work afterward.

Me when I see Patrick Radden Keefe in the final scene of the Industry finale

I am so tired of hearing about shareholders

Sharing this here and with several different text threads

To this day, I think about the copy of ANIMAL FARM that I checked out in middle school from the Cincinnati Public Library. The first notation in that book occurred at the first line of dialogue and this learned scholar wrote, “animals can’t talk stupid.”

The Supreme Court:

Tired: Succession/Industry crossover Wired: Industry/Hacks crossover where Ava gets involved with Yasmin & Henry

While you were studying the blade, I was studying zip zap zop. We are both deep in student debt

The man responsible for co-creating my favorite tv show wrote an essay on my favorite movie. Sometimes I get lucky

I miss when you could post Brave Norman Rockwell Townsperson and the caption could be, like, “R.E.M was wrong to leave ‘Fretless’ off of Out of Time” instead of “The secret police should stop murdering people.”

Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways

Age Verification? I was taught cursive in elementary school

First shot: sugarcane The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times Still used to make rum of course!

“And the bushes were people”

That Half Time show could have been an Oscar winning short film.

America Runs On Dunspeakablehorrors

Every one who signed off on that Dunkn ad needs to walk into the ocean

claymation ted danson go to hell

It’s the only way to ensure people don’t spit in his food

Dunkin being closed at this hour at the airport but Starbucks being open, now that’s class warfare

Taking a taxi to the airport and the driver is bobbing and weaving at unreal speeds and I’m glad there are some truisms about New York that remain unchanged 🫡

Adam Driver Emma Stone John Mulaney Kristen Stewart Keegan Michael-Key

For a v long time, I conflated "person who can make good art" with "person who has a functioning moral compass." I think that transference (based on appreciation, love, enthusiasm) is something a lot of us do. It hurts a lot when we find that our appreciation was hijacked so someone can do bad shit.

What I love about the 1 train is that it consistently has conductors who are absolutely fed up with people not following rules and train etiquette

!!!! "Aides to Todd Blanche directed the U.S. Atty’s office and FBI agents based in MN to shut down a civil rights investigation into an officer’s fatal shooting of Renee Good and instead alter it to probe Good for possible criminal liability, according to three people briefed on the discussions."

Wanda Sykes accepting Ricky Gervais’ Golden Globe by thanking God and the trans community is a highlight of an otherwise cringeworthy ceremony

I’m so glad we cut off Kleber Mendonça Filho’s speech for that UFC promotional

This Judd Apatow speech is cringe. It’s just…uhhhh, not good

we should be no kinder in our assessment of Schumer and Jeffries abject uselessness in this moment than history has been in its judgment of Neville Chamberlain (a figure so reviled that maga hasn’t even bothered trying to launder his rep and valorize his accommodation of nazism)

This fundraiser is 100% on the level and I just donated to it. Please, friends around the country - especially those of you with deep pockets - help this devastated young family. Thank you.

The Americans, “START” Halt & Catch Fire “Search” & “Ten of Swords” Are the two immediate finales that come to mind

One of the best looking noirs with my favorite rat bastard and an ensemble to die for

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

working for fox news or the white house must be so easy. any failing can be blamed on immigrants. "sorry for the late reply, an immigrant had my gmail password." "need an extension on this assignment, an immigrant deleted my file." "sorry i didn't pay the bill. immigrants."

To review: Sincerely : formal Best : neutral All the best : positive All the very best : can we be friends??? Regards : from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee

Today at 2 is the last performance of "Initiative" at the Public....I'm sorry not to have written about it (this has been a odd few weeks), but I so admired its ambition and frequent beauty. Else Went's five hour show about a "coastal podunk" teenage existence had me riveted for long sections (1/5)