hello everyone. today i'm gonna take us on a little track-by-track adventure with this odd relic i found called "barbie sings!" (featuring "6 terrific teen-age tunes sung by barbie and ken") which is surely not the corniest thing put to vinyl www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvF3...

i have no intention of having kids so it's nice that i'm getting some version of the "school calls About Your Kid and it's the one who's always in some shit" experience, except it's when "'man bad' horror" views/comments spike again

therapist: you use humor to deflect from trauma me: so you think I’m funny therapist: it’s a maladaptive behavior me: what I’m hearing is I’m funny

hit peak in my utena rewatch tonight

you know you're hitting the mental strain phase of essay editing when you're like "damn xemnas from organization xiii is fit as fuck"

still kind of in awe of how this can sound like a song you'd make up in 5 minutes to add to a live action remake with the intention of mining for a cheap oscar nom, except it is, in fact, original to this movie

okay i know i'm probably seeing more negativity than positivity and i can't say i've watched a lot of these shows, but definitely curious to figure out what has caused the phenomenon of all the big hitter streaming series seemingly buckling under their own weight at the finish line

everyone's brought out the bangers to mourn ohno's passing and celebrate his work but i wanna share this quieter cue from mamo i've always really adored. what a composer man youtu.be/TW-kzVgyXXc?...

Yuji Ohno was one of the very best to ever do it. Without him, I wouldn’t have fallen head over heels for Lupin. My life wouldn’t be the same without being so taken by that iconic theme. His work on that series and beyond mean more to me than words can describe. Rest in peace, king.

what's the best thing ever and why is the answer "the 1998 alan cumming cabaret revival"

[a moot I've never spoken to] my friend online--

disney female protagonists have always been pretty constricted in what negative traits they ARE allowed to have so with that in mind it's still crazy to think of the gulf between most of those characters' biggest mistakes and judy hopps perpetuating bullshit eugenics on national television

i mean this with no irony or sarcasm whatsoever but congratulations to alan carr for winning a BAFTA by being gay, being bad at lying, and being SO bad at lying that everyone assumes you're just being gay

sometimes i wonder if michael giacchino feels like this about "married life"

bringing a "gurgi and bette midler" vibe to most of my friendships

i dig up stuff like this and wonder if i should be paying youtube to get to do this job

been some number of days since the taskmaster s21 premiere and i can't stop thinking about nanjiani's read on "ᵢₜₛ ₙₒₜ ₐ ᵥᵥₒₒₒₒₒₒᵣₘ"

New Lupin! The boys are down in the dumps. Full clip in the comments

other alternative that sprung to mind out of nowhere this morning: marionette puppetry yes i REALLY would go THAT far to not put my actual mug on camera

i love that the democrats' first port of call re: blatantly racist antebellum redistricting is "this is why it's so important that citizens get out there and vote in huge numbers." GOP could station armed skinheads at every polling place and it'd still be "mobilize and vote them out!"

ok i can't help myself. i think this is already so much one of my favorite line deliveries in the next video that i've been genuinely tempted to figure out how to animate the poster to look like i'm chucking it across the screen in a way that matches the john mulaney "go, fetch" energy of the take

i have an upcoming podcast & an upcoming essay (god willing, this fucker is 90 minutes) so there's no better time to book is what i'm saying. ya girl loves to yap

mclachlan's career is truly a magical reflection of the person observing it because you're either a twin peaks diehard, a flintstones enjoyer, or my mom, whom any time mclachlan is brought up immediately responds with "oh he kills shows"

anthy and shiori doing laps in the car watching utena and juri wail on each other again

still kind of baffled that in the frozen musical they wrote elsa her own "no good deed" but instead of "let all oz be agreed/i'm wicked through and through" the song lands on a baffling note of "i'm not a monster because *I* choose to be nice, actually"

You are a skilful and trusted vizier. You will advise me wisely on how best to rule the kingdom. You will not scheme or plot. You will not inveigle my other courtiers into turning against me. You will not lie to me about scheming or plotting. If you scheme or plot against me, you have to tell me,

new game just dropped

i didn't know rip torn painted portraits for disney calendars

okay this is not actual merch but i designed my friend a "writing or life" t-shirt for her birthday bc this has become an inside joke (ba-dum-tiss) across at least two friend groups so yeah. maybe one day

VO moots i have an insane ask but i figured i'd just shoot it out there. can anyone do a passable ted danson

hey can Next Essay make somewhere in the ballpark of $2k so i can blow it all on animation for the Next Next Essay's trailer

okay this one was pretty fun

i'm gonna look back on 2026 and this is still gonna be in like my top 10 days of the entire year, if not my entire life

Hind Rajab would've been 8-years-old today.

killing time before my flight in a few hours. let’s rock & roll

i love the scarecrow's stupid little gun. i'm like a lot of people who grew up completely missing it but every time i see it now as an adult it just kind of cracks me up

i've been getting more folks telling me about this and it's not anything i agreed to. it's been stolen like AI steals. please vandalize it if and when you see it.

nearly a decade & a half of film/tv productions clumsily trying to manufacture “prop” memes which either don’t resemble any meme that actually exists or go out of fashion between editing and release has culminated in this horrible, beautiful handmade miracle which also managed to come out on time

i have an upcoming podcast & an upcoming essay (god willing, this fucker is 90 minutes) so there's no better time to book is what i'm saying. ya girl loves to yap

Bring back the ancient knowledge

a lots gonna change-weyes blood i don't want to see tomorrow-nat king cole my silver lining-first aid kit where or when-peggy lee wolf like me-tv on the radio something stupid-marsh or williams i can dream can't i-carpenters starman-david bowie black hole sun-soundgarden voulez vous-abba

hey can Next Essay make somewhere in the ballpark of $2k so i can blow it all on animation for the Next Next Essay's trailer

me when i get shot

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only Twin Peaks Better Call Saul Pushing Daisies The Venture Bros. Inside No. 9 The Twilight Zone Doctor Who The Sopranos Revolutionary Girl Utena Neon Genesis Evangelion Shogun Conan Taskmaster Boardwalk Empire It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

ah screw it, throw one out for my emotional support character

Artwork I painted for Robin Benway's novel "The Wicked Ones"

as with any unmade film there's an urge to mythologize what could have been and i think i can say, with confidence, that when it comes to disney's unmade oz film we are well and truly Good

"thank goodness you made it! hope you come back to see us all soon!" *unintelligible prince mouth sounds*