Bonsai trees are such a beautiful art form. And, also, I see them and think “man some little Warhammer figurines would look sick here”

The Mandalorian and Grogu trailer looks like a TV show, which is a loaded compliment about the state of TV and a massive indictment of the state of movies

"I miss monoculture" [monkey's paw curls and we have state media] "wait no not like this!"

There’s a scene in V for Vendetta where the fascist regime retaliates over a late night comedy skit.

I’m spiraling

Fantastic winners start-to-finish; that was also the worst awards show I've watched in my life

The winners are good but aside from that this is maybe the worst awards show I have ever seen

this donation counter bit at the Emmys is POISON

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

Ranked the 20 best Stephen King adaptations for TIME, and of course I used the opportunity to once again speak the truth that the ending of The Mist is trash. (Unfortunate because the rest of the movie is really good!) time.com/7315750/best...

New Pokémon game where you play as a Ditto transformed into a human looks great

Wrote about some death contests for @avclub.com. I don't think I would do especially well in any of them. www.avclub.com/inventory-po...

The Lord The Of The Two Rings Towers

Please…

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

And you know what? Congrats to Tree Paine, too.

People have understandably been fixated on how an ‘Ice Age’ sequel features prominently in ‘Alien: Earth,’ but what I’m arguing is that the ‘Peter Pan’ stuff is actually way more fucking weird. time.com/7310989/alie...

Some light personal news but I'm temporarily returning to Vulture to fill in as the updates editor through the rest of the year. Part time but it's nice to be back!

I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.

HBO Max was the best streaming service... HBO Max just might be the best streaming service again. rest in piss Max!

Alien: Earth is good because it understands that privatization is scarier than chest-bursting Xenomorphs www.vulture.com/article/alie...

Malpractice to be calling “Home” the worst song of all time when “Rude” by Magic! not only exists but was No. 1 on the Billboard charts

After 7 years, I've officially quit a permalance gig I had that started out editing features for SYFY and eventually degraded into writing promotional content for NBCUni IP. There were some good times but i'm glad it's over because I don't think I could stomach uncritically covering 'The Paper'

finally got my tickets to see cow tools at the sphere

One of the greatest 800m races ever? It’s crazy between this and the 1500 that US men’s middle distance is so good right now that every race is a heartbreaker

Ah, so *this* is what Critical Role wasn’t telling me when I profiled them for Rolling Stone

Added The Bad Guys 2 to my @vulture.com ranking of every single DreamWorks Animation movie... pour some out for the nice even "50" in the headline... www.vulture.com/article/best...

Don't overthink it: what comic book panels/pages live in your head rent-free? Drop four and tag #comicsdna

what if they have rich inner lives?

His wife and child have been out of town for one day. They're calling him the most home alone man of all time.

Huh weird the line for the men’s room at the Academy Museum’s screening of all three Austin Powers movies is longer than the line for the women’s room… can’t imagine why

Apropos of nothing, The Incredibles is a fantastic superhero movie time.com/7305100/fant...

hulk hogan rest in piss

Having attended and paid for journalism school is inherently embarrassing but add to that the shame of having paid Columbia University for the degree? Sigh…

Trolls World Tour star Ozzy Osbourne has died

important context: @jscros.bsky.social is crashing at my house. i asked what he had to work on today and he said "i need to write a blog for discourse" "what about?" i asked "dunno yet" he said that was like 2 hours ago. This is what the blog mines teach you www.discourseblog.com/p/these-subs...

Jimmy Olsen fucks www.vulture.com/article/the-...

movie lengths, ranked: 1. 100 minutes 2. 85 minutes 3. 3+ hours 4. 120 minutes 5. getting hit by that train as it arrives at the station 6. 2 hours and 40 minutes

lmao Forest Whitaker's guest actor role as Saw Gerrera and Alan Tudyk's voiceover performance as K-2SO were the *only* acting nominations Andor got. The Emmys are so fucking stupid.

self-own in teaching my wife what "weeb" means

Wrote about how the new Superman makes a pretty drastic change to both sets of Superman’s parents — and why it works time.com/7301759/supe...

It’s very funny that four years ago everybody was freaking out about fan theories that Mephisto might be in WandaVision. Truly this dominated the geek content mines. …and now apparently he showed up, played by Borat, at the end of the latest Disney+ series and it has made zero impact.

me when anybody in my life who I care about says they used ChatGPT for something

Superman (2025) is a good journalism movie because it explains how "off the record" actually works

He is risen

Linda Yaccarino… gunned down in her prime

Going to my neighborhood’s little Chinese-American-owned donut shop this morning is the first thing that’s made me feel anything but disgust about July 4th

New York Times trying its best to prove Bluesky right, which sucks on several levels