i'm a big fan of magazines, investigative reporting, and longform, all of which requires staff and institutions, but the really really dire thing that indie media can't replace? the fucking wire services

With Bill Duke finally getting his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today, I'm re-sharing the career-spanning conversation I did for @indiewire.com with him.

Completed my umpteenth watch of THE SOPRANOS and figured it was more than high time to do a deep dive on one of the greatest shows ever made. It remains a pinnacle of art, a skewering of American hypocrisy, and defined by the ardent desire to never, ever be "cool." www.patreon.com/posts/151710...

"Homer Tries to Find a New Bar" is perhaps the funniest two or so minutes in television history youtu.be/qVaVsyGV0oM?...

Huge Recommendation: Getting a membership LA TACO over the last year is one of the best choices I've made. Not only are they doing some of the best boots on the ground journalism in covering / counter-acting ICE's assault on the city, but... lataco.com/products

It’s good to see that pockets of pure art still exist out there.

A must read - www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...

CAIRN is rare example of a genuinely amazing game where the storytelling attempt 100% stands as an obstacle to the enjoyment of the actual experience. Talk about it briefly here! www.patreon.com/posts/151311...

Watching the internet evolve and get faster and faster felt like a really exciting thing! Watching it de-evolve so that every single freaking site, app, menu, and takes time to load / re-jigger / re-order itself would be the most comical back-step, were it not to for the 1000 bigger sins of tech rn.

every shot-on-video, made-with-a-camcorder horror movie that's just some teenage friend group fucking around in the woods with some fake blood and a monster mask contains more artistic merit, human joy and creative light than anything AI has ever made or will ever, ever make

“Readers should be able to assume that every word between quotation marks is what the speaker or writer said… The writer should, of course, omit extraneous syllables like ‘um’ and may judiciously delete false starts.” -NYT ethical guidelines

Caught up with the new Seth Rogen produced version of The Muppet Show and got to write about why, in the end, it's really just about how The Muppets make me happy. www.patreon.com/posts/150912...

Caught up with the new Seth Rogen produced version of The Muppet Show and got to write about why, in the end, it's really just about how The Muppets make me happy. www.patreon.com/posts/150912...

NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE is a little miracle and a masterwork. A sheer combination of storytelling chops, pure hilarity, and sheer audacity. I can't believe it exists. Please go see it if you can. www.patreon.com/posts/150830...

NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE is a little miracle and a masterwork. A sheer combination of storytelling chops, pure hilarity, and sheer audacity. I can't believe it exists. Please go see it if you can. www.patreon.com/posts/150830...

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

Happy Valentine's Day

For Valentine's Day, got to check out a bunch of new shows at a recent Crunchyroll Event and I absolutely ADORED one of the new Rom Coms (Polar Opposites, it was Polar Opposites, haha) www.patreon.com/posts/150726...

About to NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE and I have never been so excited (I already adored the show)

For Valentine's Day, got to check out a bunch of new shows at a recent Crunchyroll Event and I absolutely ADORED one of the new Rom Coms (Polar Opposites, it was Polar Opposites, haha) www.patreon.com/posts/150726...

Cartoon: If anyone in Chicago knows this school or an anti ICE organization affiliated with them I would be happy to donate this art. I only wish I could have fully Sal Buscema-ed that punch :)

greatest headline of my adult life

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.

Please take the time to read what the children detained in Dilley wrote me in their own words: www.propublica.org/article/ice-... 10/

One of tonight’s biggest life lessons is to avoid being named Drake

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

Kind of gives away the whole game that all the crypto ads this year have been replaced with gambling and AI ads.

RICKY MARTIN IN THE HOUSE

Yup, apparently that was Ricky Martin!!!! Dude looks fucking great wow.

They're having Bad Bunny do the Spike Lee shot!?

That Nightmare Dunkin commercial is the best possible example of AD ppl going for things that “feel” funny and have zero concept of set up / punchline or what makes something, you know, actually funny. Jeezy Petes.

What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss? Anton Chigurh here for FanDuel,

Hiring the guy who torched Tumblr as the Washington Post CEO is one of the more blatant examples of how failure is a feature of the role. Not only can C suite people fuck up on a massive scale with no consequences, there is strategic value in dropping a fuckup into a role like that

Finally hopped right on that bandwagon and holy crap, HEATED RIVALRY is amazing. But beyond all the surface level delights is all the tried and true lessons of set-ups and payoffs - all to help build "the moment of transcendence." Enjoy! www.patreon.com/posts/149994...

Elizabeth, a 10-year-old Minnesota girl, spent a month detained at the ICE facility in Dilley, TX before her release last night w/ her mom. Dilley now has a measles outbreak and hundreds of other kids remain detained. Elizabeth has flu-like symptoms and her mom has hives, a school official told me

HEATED RIVALRY. Two episodes in, "this is so fun! I get the hype!" *finishes episode five* "This is the best television I've ever seen."

HEATED RIVALRY. Two episodes in, "this is so fun! I get the hype!" *finishes episode five* "This is the best television I've ever seen."

I just saw JELLY ROLL for the first time and why do all these new artists look like they could be Schillinger’s number two bodyguard on OZ? Like I get that looks get inverted but its wild.

In many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.

There's always a "Hollywood Screenwriting Problem Du Jour" and lately I noticed a trend of movies and shows with a lot of static conflict. This provided a fun opportunity to dive into more nuts and bolts writing thoughts for a weekend column. Enjoy! www.patreon.com/posts/149545...

There's always a "Hollywood Screenwriting Problem Du Jour" and lately I noticed a trend of movies and shows with a lot of static conflict. This provided a fun opportunity to dive into more nuts and bolts writing thoughts for a weekend column. Enjoy! www.patreon.com/posts/149545...

i gotta say one more thing having worked in animation for years now, calling this "animated" is a fucking mortal insult. completely get fucked. animation is a creator thoughtfully and painstakingly giving something life. this is fucking nothing compared to animation

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases