Small Things Like These rewatch (and probably ending up there added permanently to the annual list as a Christmas movie along with modern holiday classic The Holdovers) Marty Supreme later tonight

A Christmas classic, the Lil Bub Yule Log. She and her dude made several of these over the years, and all are good, but this one has extra fun sound (and visual) effects www.youtube.com/watch?v=peHB...

Stephen Colbert Is Finally Free Stephen Colbert Hits A High Note NYT gift article link, guest essay by Lisa Schwarzbaum www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...

Made a trip to Baxter Avenue Theatres Filmworks back in September while I was visiting Louisville. Saw ‘Caught Stealing’ and was so happy to be back there. Over the years when I lived close this was the place with a dinner at Ramsi’s

‘Christmastown’ Faces Climate Reality After Brutal Northwest Storms NYT gift article link www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...

Amanda Seyfried Had A ‘Complete Spiritual Awakening’ NYT gift article link www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

Trump Administration Plans To Break Up Premiere Weather and Climate Research Center NYT gift article link www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...

Flooding That Forced People Onto Rooftops in Washington State ‘Is Not Over’ NYT gift article link www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

The Best, Craziest, Scuzziest Film Performances of 2025 NYT gift article link www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

some driving I did clustered around the Soldier Field Chicago Oasis show pushed them to the top of my music listens this year - wow that’s a surprise - with this song, Slide Away, at #1

I’ve Written About Loads of Scams. This One Almost Got Me. NYT gift article link www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...

Gen-Xers Have Money To Spend. Why Are Retailers Ignoring Them? NYT gift article link www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/b...

Arthur Jafa Crafts a Mixtape From MoMA’s Art NYT gift article link www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/a...

Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings NYT gift article link www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...

EPA Just Approved New ‘Forever Chemical’ Pesticides For Use On Food WaPo gift article link (may require email to read) wapo.st/4a4HPnp

Trump Says Zelensky Can Agree to Peace Plan or “Fight His Little Heart Out” WaPo gift article link, one of my last (may require email to read) wapo.st/4ow4kFH

Finished The American Revolution last night, caught some of an Exterminate All the Brutes marathon on HBO today - note, Rhiannon Giddens music appear in both! - now on to The Great Dictator at AFS, part of their Nope to Nazis series, and my first Chaplin film. More synthesis to do after all this.

How The ‘Disintegration Loops’ Saved William Basinski’s Life NYT gift article link www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/a...

A MAGA Senator Promised Hope For A Dying Ohio Mill. Then Reality Set In. NYT gift article link www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...

‘Take On Me’ Has Been Stuck In Our Heads For 40 Years. Here’s How It Got There. A-Ha! WaPo gift article link (may require email to read) wapo.st/4oobhco

Surviving Trauma, Yoko Ono Became an Artist of Exemplary Generosity WaPo gift article link (may require email to read) wapo.st/3LyG0F7

Meg White’s Drumming Spoke Louder Than Words NYT gift article link www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/a...

How Gun Blasts From Indoor Shooting May Cause Brain Injuries NYT gift article link www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Alps Are Melting, But The Villagers Will Not Be Moved NYT gift article link www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/w...

hours later, I’m still rattled by Bugonia. Also had Sentimental Value, Testament of Ann Lee, and Frankenstein this week, so lots of punches

NC GOP guy threatening Propublica!?! WaPo gift article link (may require email read) wapo.st/3JAzLjz

Some great content from another site a year ago. Happy Halloween.

Frankenstein Has Always Held Up a Mirror. What Does It Show Us Now? NYT gift article link www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/m...

Been in a moviepalooza this month and am surprised at the deep admiration I am feeling for The Testament of Ann Lee. I don’t enjoy musicals but I loved this film.

In Utah, Trump’s Vision For Homelessness Begins To Take Shape NYT gift article link www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...

Hurricane Melissa, Now Stronger Than Katrina, Closing in on Jamaica WaPo gift article link (may require email to read) wapo.st/4nrcJJW

No luck at Austin Film Fest screening of Hamnet w/ a Lone Star badge, 30 minutes pre-show, laughably inadequate - ALL 300 seats gone - so I’m spending time bonding with the new foster, a sr gal who has been neglected. I’ll see that film next month tho it was the reason to get this year’s badge 😭

Happy with the Blackwing pencil goodie in this year’s Austin Film Festival bag. I think I spotted one of the pencils in E.B. White’s hand in Linklater’s Blue Moon tonight as well too, possibly?

A Costly Radio System Faltered When Texas Needed It Most NYT gift article link www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

In First Six Months, Cost of Weather Catastrophes Escalated At A Record Pace NYT gift article link www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/c...

“The artist Kara Walker has sculpted a disordered new centaur: an American centaur, American in its bones and in its burdens. Her centaur is tall, midstride but weary. It rattles its metal parts through American purgatory.”

Fallen Confederate Statues Take Center Stage in the Year’s Boldest Show NYT gift article link www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/a...

It’s Hard To Be A Maple: How Climate Change Is Remaking DC’s Treescape WaPo gift article link (may require email to read) wapo.st/48ymmCI

US Government accounts have arrived on Bluesky. Block on sight. Protect your digital space. Be aware that the DHS account in particular is known to quote dunk on regular people to encourage their followers to harass them. The detach quote function will come in very handy here…

well, you probably have time to put together a Santos vampire costume before Halloween. Cape over a quarter zip sweater

ICE is Quietly Building a Massive Surveillance Network WaPo gift article link (may require email to read) wapo.st/4nWuulq

Higher Obamacare Prices Become Public in a Dozen States NYT gift article link www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/h...

Nope. Only one more month of posting WaPo gift article links, I promise. I carried a subscription for at least the last 8 years

On the National Mall, ‘Democracy’ Drips in Daylight WaPo gift article link (may require email to read) wapo.st/4nLtD6Q

How Trump’s Chicago Immigration Crackdown Escalated, in 10 Videos NYT gift article link www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...

Trump Is Pitting Us Against One Another In Chicago NYT gift article link opinion by Vic Mensa www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/o...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco NYT gift article link www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Radie Peat sang the song - I got to hear the whole thing (I learned to pronounce some of those words), not just a snippet. Fabulous so far in this Kneecap livestream

never would’ve expected to see Cillian Murphy on Morning Joe, but that was a nice interview about the film Steve