sure, British Airways, I'm definitely interested in paying $132 for 30" seat pitch (less than Southwest!), no lounge access, and no fast-track security (I'm flying out of London City Airport where those things don't exist)

Zipline Brewing was going to host a political event for Pete Ricketts and Ted Cruz on Friday. The staff made noise and promised to quit or skip, so the owners just fired everyone and closed shop. If you miss the wonderful beers of Zipline in the coming weeks and months, you have Ted Cruz to thank.

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welp, I’ve now lived long enough to see my own name on the Criterion Channel 😎

These guys know their business, sure, but they've been tasked with the impossible. Paddington 2 scans as if Shakespeare and Moliere both rose from their graves and banged out one last triumph together. Fool's errand to go near a franchise after such work. And no, I'm not being hyperbolic.

Just realized that Severed Sound System's PICNIC is based in part on Cabaret Voltaire's SILENT COMMAND. Heh. severedheads.bandcamp.com/album/25-06-...

party in the usa sluggish.ghost.io/scene-report/

A fine Friday night: caprese salad, tsiporou, and watching 52 Pick-Up, which has the wildest Bawlmore accent I’ve heard outside of a John Waters or David Simon joint

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a GIF.

After a lifetime of dismissively rolling my eyes at accusations of pedophilia, I finally get it now, I think. It’s actually about the freedom to abuse young women and to prevent them from having abortions so they remain under your control. It’s about domination and perpetuating patriarchy…

Drinking the best Riesling I’ve had in years… this could easily hold its own with standout German rieslings, not to mention Grosset and other top notch Aussie Rieslings. Really wonderful stuff! rivuletwine.com/products/riv...

Judging by all the dance parties I’ve attended this year in Sydney, the musical trend of 2026 is simply speeding up old songs and adding louder drums. It’s unnecessary, tedious, and ruins the flow in general. Not a fan.

Starter pack ideas: 🌿 coriander-likers 💿 preferrers of Gaucho to Aja 💃 "answer prancer" reference-getters 🤮 full-cream milk in tea 👨 people who think that fella with a tache in Rivals resembles Ted Maul 🚗 folks who are up for keying the words "TOO BIG" into the bodywork of all SUVs on my street

In Sydney, waiting for a showing of BLUE MOON to start. They’re playing Pavement in the lobby. Feels like home to me.

can't stop thinking about rectangular february

A Turkish Citizen, who is also a high ranking US Government Official launching a racist attack on Armenians is really not something I saw coming.

Every time I see Melania I hear Dr. Startz saying "I have a terrific diet... the California diet. Guaranteed loss of 15 pounds in four weeks."

If only...

Confidential to Dr. Oz, Turkish-American dual citizen: no, that's not Cyrillic. That's Armenian. Why the hell are you here in Los Angeles targeting Armenian neighborhoods and alleging widespread fraud? Denying the Armenian genocide was bad enough already; this is reprehensible.

If you are anywhere near Palm Springs next weekend, I'll be at the notoriously fantastic Palm Springs Readers' Festival, hosted by @bestbookstore.bsky.social, on Sunday 2/1. There will be a ton of other amazing authors there too. Hope to see you! Get some books and say hi! bestbookstore.com/festival

"Police everywhere, justice nowhere," -Victor Hugo

i really enjoyed writing this one

New A24 character posters and trailer for Alexander Skarsgård-Harry Melling Christmas-set PILLION. Opening in limited theatrical release in the U.S. on February 6, before going wide on February 20. 🎥 Trailer: youtu.be/Gl8n5I-IIHU?...

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Fuck that guy... but at least we got some great phrases out of him (sort of). You'll find my nuts require extra attention this morning indeed.

If I was the commander in chief of the Imperial hegemon I would simply not dismantle the network of military and diplomatic alliances, favourable trade deals, and broad cultural paramountcy that had made my nation the most wealthy and powerful the world has ever seen.

Still in shock that it took just under 20 minutes from touching down at Heathrow to getting to the bus stop - incredible. Even better? The card reader in the bus wasn't working so it cost me a whopping £0 to get to Sutton 🥰

they're doing it for gender, imo

that was an... interesting train ride! sadly not something I can imagine doing in 2026 :/

My most minor celebrity interaction? I rang up a purchase for John Searle while I was working at the UC Berkeley student union bookstore - and he commented on my GRE test results. Hugely amusing at the time.

Today only, Automatic Noodle e-books are on sale for $2.99 on all platforms! Grab one while they're still hot and chewy! bookshop.org/p/books/auto...

Going through ancient emails today to try to write a list of everywhere I've ever visited and was amused to read a description of a visit to Momofuku Ko as "the ultimate experience in grueling terroir"

Do you know Zoom & other companies are encouraging discrimination against employees for things like "pausing too long" or not sounding sufficiently "charismatic"? Read all about our dystopian present in my new paper, out today in JASA! (Seriously, read it. It's important) doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

With @desertdadbear.bsky.social

#PuppyPile 📸 by @desertdadbear.bsky.social

For me, socialism is just a way to return more of the value we produce for employers to us - if you work for a corporation, most of the value you're creating is going to the already rich, so why not vote to redirect that value to childcare, healthcare, public amenities, and so on? Fair is fair.

My monthly health insurance premium is going from $908.88 to $1686.82 as of January 1, 2026. Thanks, Trump voters, for that 86% rise in premiums. I was hoping to spend that money on, you know, fun stuff, but nope. Gonna redistribute it to the rich instead. Awesome.

My first CD: CD1 by Throbbing Gristle. Just like Bruce, I got a copy of this before actually getting a CD player; in 1986, they were exotic, but it was easy enough to borrow one from a high school classmate to listen to it.

Vulture Cinematrix No. 573: Oct 20, 2025 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2555 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

Ironically, the first thing that comes to mind when I think about "coming out" is rejection - at 17, I joined the undergraduate gay men's support group at Cal, which was frustrating because none of the other men in that group were comfortable with my physical appearance and were kinda vocal about it

Picked up a copy of the BFI Blu-ray release of BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN - the one with the Pet Shop Boys soundtrack - and can confirm that it is gay as hell

I worked with so many brilliant, talented, and professional troops over the years who Hegseth thinks are worthless based on appearance alone - this is disgraceful. Surprise: IT, cybersecurity, clinical, medical, logistics etc. professionals don’t look like softcore gay porn models!

Just saw ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER projected in VistaVision in London and… oh man, that was a painful experience due to horrible flickering in well-lit scenes. Was that an LED projection bulb issue? Something else? No idea but man, it SUCKED

i wrote about the loss of randomness from music-listening and TV-watching www.patreon.com/posts/139812...

Still no wide release date for the Alexander Skarsgard and Harry Melling's PILLION, the holiday-set BDSM love story that debuted at Cannes and is making its next major appearance at the Zurich film festival next week. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

oh come ON

Very happy to be leaving the Camino de Santiago today… not a fan. The Americans across the hall in this shitty hotel have been snoozing their alarm since 5:45 AM… it won’t be light for at least two hours and today’s high is 60 degrees, so why the hurry to leave in the dark when it’s 38 degrees out?

Just back from a documentary entirely about French plants and then another film largely about a woman who raises a wild boar and if you want to feel calm, peaceful and connected to all living things for a long double-feature afternoon that's what I recommend. severalfutures.com/films/pierre...