Somebody tell me why LOVE CRAZY is not universally regarded as a timeless classic. Also: DESIGN ART MARKERS! They were great! I still miss them!

Whut th--?!?!? (Although I do wish he had been "advising" the Dubs back in 2021 when they took Moody over Trey Murphy III)

My distinguished colleagues @charlielargent.bsky.social and @thejoedante.bsky.social inform me that TCM will be airing the following concise rebuttal directly across from tonight's SOTU address:

Archie Goodwin had a habit of tacking an extra twisteroo onto the end of his Creepy Classic adaptations ("Tell-Tale Heart," "The Damned Thing," etc.). As a result, when I eventually read the originals, I would always think "Hey! They cut off the ending!"

I guess people have forgotten that Trump started the pandemic by refusing to test and bringing in tens of thousands of people in crowded airports. and then stole PPE from blue states. and then suggested bleach or UV light might cure it. and then tried to kill Biden with it. and then

It costs $130 + a $35 facility fee to obtain a passport and an extra $30 for a passport card. In California, fees for certified copies of vital records are between $18 and $31 each. How is the SAVE Act not a poll tax?

Aaaaack--can't say. This is the first I've heard of it. Most of the casting took place during the '88 writers' strike when I was sitting on my thumbs

Re: Cap, I endorse this idea. (Although "Star-Spangled Man with a Plan," which occasionally veers into camp, is still pretty much of a rouser. And if you ax me, Joe Johnston's first Cap movie is still one of the best Marvels.) BTW, the Spidey cartoon theme is in the credits of the first Raimi!

"These Companies—Palantir, AT&T, Deloitte—Have The Biggest ICE Contracts As DHS Funding Under Fire." This story has a bit of details re: the types of services these companies provide to ICE (No paywall) www.forbes.com/sites/tylerr...

Hey everyone. Potentially the biggest story in the country, right here. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

The year is 2015. China is getting richer and more powerful every year, but America has three trump cards: universitities, biomedical research, and immigration.

Children/By the million/Wait for Alex Chilton/To come 'round

Hi attorneys! Want to not be able to get to sleep tonight? Here's Judge Rakoff (probably the single most well-respected judge in SDNY) saying that the use of AI destroys both attorney-client privilege and work-product privilege.

Stunned to learn that the late Bud Cort's real name was . . . Wally Cox! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/m...

Although I never got to meet her, the first spec script I ever sold was one I wrote as a vehicle for Catherine O'Hara. Everything she did was kissed by genius. This one hurts.

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

to the extent that there is a “carrot” to trumpism it is the same carrot that slaveholders offered to lower class white men: “you can be an overseer”

All you're plugging is a goddam toilet

FINALLY tracked a copy down at the B&N in Emeryville. Borderlands says they have an order in but it hasn't arrived. And yes, I read (and dug) TCS a few weeks back, courtesy of our good friends at Weightless Books.

Has anyone in the greater Bay Area seen a print copy of the new F&SF on sale, and if so would you kindly tell me where? (And btw, "Corporate Soul" is legit!)

General reminder of the words of proud son of Virginia, Major-General George H Thomas. The "Rock of Chickamauga". Who, unlike Lee, stayed loyal to the Union. Post-war he had views on 'Lost Cause' and the damage it would do to America, unchecked. A “counterfeit varnish of patriotism” he called it.

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

Of course you should read everything Doctorow posts, but you should ABSOLUTELY read what he posted today: pluralistic.net/2025/12/16/k...

THREE THE HARD WAY. Soundtrack constantly recaps whatever just happened in case you wander in late.

it is the worst of all worlds. a "unitary *presidency*" insulated from judicial or congressional power and a weak president unable to do the job of governing

thinking more about this: it is highly ironic that at the same time that it serves as a test case for the "unitary executive," this administration is all but being led by two subordinate officials with no immediate political accountability.

#sff The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction that was supposed to come out this last summer is finally out. They got a new publisher and there were growing pains. It contains my novelet 'The Corporate Soul' and Afrofuturist sf from Maurice Broaddus and other cutting edge sf and fantasy.

Good to see two of our stand-up governors standing together on this one. (As they have on many other issues.) @governor.ca.gov just weighed in to similar effect.

she called it

Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.

one thing i find crazy-making is the idea that getting rid of the filibuster would make congress a purely majoritarian institution. bicameralism itself is counter-majoritarian! equal state representation is counter-majoritarian! the fact that senate elections are staggered is counter-majoritarian!

i wouldn't be a total glenn youngkin hater if i didn't mention that the results tonight mean that his total tenure amounted to presiding over the destruction — at least for the next few years — of the virginia republican party. lmao.

If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago

At the risk of sounding a little presumptuous: God bless the Pope

Miller is what you would get if an incel somehow managed to impregnate his inflatable fuck-me doll.

If we’re renaming departments and calling the DOD the “Department of War”, we might as well go ahead and make the DOJ the “Department of Revenge”

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.” It existed yesterday and is gone today.

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

These fools are going to kill a lot of people.

Hoping the AI cover controversy won't delay (or worse yet, scuttle) the print release. Any news to share, Johnshirley2024.bluesky.social?

Actual question: It has been only 72 hours since the disastrous puppeteer/puppet show in Anchorage. Has there yet been a background story on how, and by whom, this emergency intervention of *eight* big-time world leaders was pulled together, over a weekend?

Have waited all these years for someone to explain to me why QUIZ SHOW was not a comedy

Graphic designer Joe Caroff passed away yesterday at age 103. Responsible for absolutely legendary posters and typefaces. www.printmag.com/daily-heller...

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Update: I offered the amendment. Not to refuse acceptance of the Qatari jet; just to prohibit Trump from taking it with him when he leaves office - after the taxpayers spend $1 billion to retrofit it. Failed 14-15. Every single Republican voted to allow Trump to take the jet.

Emil Bove's confirmation was only possible because Democrats caved to a vile right-wing smear campaign of Adeel Mangi, who would have been the first Muslim appeals court judge, when Biden nominated him for the same seat last year. Absolutely disgraceful. Bove's confirmation is on them, too.