The Morning Show is SO messy I love it 😆😆😆

Seeing live music and The middle act, Chris Cohen, is making me realize that I’m fully in my indie dad rock era. Really enjoying.

Had this encounter with this coyote on my sunset river walk last night! As adorable as it was that the coyote laid down in front of me, and as unlikely as it is for coyotes to predate humans, I kept my head on a swivel for their pack mates lest I ended up getting Muldooned.

Nooooo D’Angelo

I walked an extra mile this morning because the coffee shop I first went into had too long of a line so I wanted to go to a different one that didn’t have a line.

‘tis the season of scary movie marathons, vampy nail polish, and the long-awaited return of daily Spooky Lake Month videos ☺️

Oh god that twist on this week’s Peacemaker 😱

“He is risen” HA! Billy Crudup delivered the fuck out of that line.

Holdup, was that @bjcolangelo.bsky.social in the audience on Crowd Control?! Is this how I find out that @dropout.tv is a part of the @yourewrongabout.bsky.social / @youaregood.bsky.social / @americanhysteria.bsky.social extended universe?!

Chief of War is fantastic TV and “The Black Desert” is a marvel to behold. Jason Momoa proved conclusively what a skilled director he is. As the sun set the battle scene progressed into darkness and lava and yet the many stories never got lost in the dark. What an outstanding episode.

Just a bit curious which companies were threatening to pull their ads over the Kimmel situation. The FCC, Disney, and those advertisers make for quite the triumvirate of cowards.

I wrote about the firing of Alan Sepinwall, which is awful. And I tied it into what's happening all over in the media, why it's scary & what we can do to help. I used my words, but it's definitely Hulk Mo dialed up to 11, if that's a thing you would like to experience: www.moryan.com/on-the-firin...

In this emergency pod, host @elainelow.bsky.social is joined by a rotation of our best and brightest to break down the shocking news of Jimmy Kimmel's "indefinite" suspension. @snoodit.bsky.social has a play-by-play on Disney’s decision to pull Kimmel: theankler.com/p/emergency-...

I stand with PBS. I stand with NPR. I stand with Stephen Colbert. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. I stand with the First Amendment. PERIOD.* *Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

Marc Maron Is Asking the Right Question About Jimmy Kimmel

Essential @poniewozik.bsky.social on Kimmel and ABC: "Free speech will only thrive on TV to the extent that companies are willing to locate their guts and stand up to political and financial pressure." Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/a...

Saw Big Thief tonight for my first time and they’re immediately one of the best live acts I’ve ever seen in two and a half decades of seeing live music. Their studio recordings already sound outstanding, but they’re absolutely STUNNING live. Can’t wait to see them again.

No surprise ABC is morally spineless. Jimmy Kimmel said nothing meriting suspension, simply exercised his first amendment rights. Ironic that the, ostensibly, free-speech, pro-discourse, anti-cancel-culture people are literally stifling discourse and literally cancelling opposing viewpoints.

I forgot how wonderfully batshit insane The Mornings Show is. Every season I’m astonished at how such an instantly forgettable show can be so thrilling to watch for the hour each week it’s on.

Said this in the Vulture slack, but this Emmys made me angry. Not because of the results: Lots of great choices from what was a great year of TV. But the show had zero interest in celebrating TV: No montages, no clips (with sound) from the shows, and no interest in anything remotely surprising

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

A beautiful speech from someone as good as Jeff Hiller who has waited decades for this moment is why you LET. PEOPLE. FUCKING. TALK. #Emmys

John Oliver got censored for saying Fuck Nate Bargatze and fuck this stupid bit. Sad to see CBS censoring truth. #Emmys

This Emmys money/speech time nonsense is really terrible. CBS is quite happy to be state television.

Can someone sit the producers of the Emmys down and explain that we watch for the speeches? And why are they producing the Emmys if they don't know it?

I really fucking hate this speech timer bit. Already feeling like it’s qualitatively stunting the speeches. #Emmys2025

Liberals defending dead nazis are nazis

Let me get this straight: 2 elected Democratic officials in Minnesota murdered 2 months ago - hardly any coverage Charlie Kirk murdered 2 hours ago - nationwide attention and our Nazi leader advocating for flags at half mast for it School shooting moments after Kirk's death - *crickets*

This world we’ve created for ourselves as a society has such an elegant command of irony sometimes 🤭

Happy day for anti-nazi Americans

First ever bloom for my Hoya davidcummingii! Only made me wait five months. It’s a miracle it survived this long.

Nearly finished my IKEA Milsbo Tall greenhouse cabinet! The heat and humidity is weakening the adhesive on the lights and cord covers, and is warping the lights, and I need more fans to improve air circulation. Easy fixes. But I’ve had this going for almost a month and new growths have boomed since.

My African Violet Harmony’s Ice Queen finally bloomed! And holy hell it’s gorgeous!

I just mounted a 65” TV by myself without ruining the TV or killing myself. I think I deserve Biryani tonight!

Season two of Nine Perfect Strangers has been kind of excellent. The cast has been top notch, they have surprisingly potent chemistry, Dolly de Leon is a pure gem who producers should be fighting to cast in their projects, and the plot twists and progresses at such a breezy pace. It’s must-watch.

Run #2 done! Rebuilding the habit! 1.4 miles. 22 minutes. After vacuuming & shampooing my apt. My V02 Max is soooo bad, I’m slooow, lack the endurance I had, my moobs are flopping. But I’m not focused on that. Right now I’m proud of myself for starting this chain. Haven’t felt that in far too long.

Listening to Tuesday’s episode Insight and their guest, who’s been described as a “threat to Western civilization”, UC Davis prof. Dr. @rebeccacalisi.bsky.social is kinda effing awesome. Immediately calling Time Tested Books tomorrow to have them order a copy of their book, Wild Pride a.co/d/ikzWTWx

I haven’t really ran in two years. Over two years of existential event after existential event. None good. They’ve pushed me to the point of nuking everything good in my life, bringing myself to my lowest. Tonight under the strawberry moon I ran. Just one mile. And it felt fucking good.

I regret not watching The Pitt weekly when it first aired. This show and all the individual episodes are all so good that they deserve the week of consideration and discussion that’s lost with a full-season release bingeing.

Finally catching up on The Pitt, and five episodes in and I’m already certain that it is one of the best shows currently on TV. There’s clearly a lot of first-hand experience guiding the writers room. And there are some outstanding acting performances all around.

Eeeeeeeee!! This is the first ever leaf of an alocasia azlanii that I grew from corm! This is my first time ever growing a plant from the corm of a mature azlanii that I bought last summer and repotted in the spring. Super excited to have actually succeeded at growing this!

Walking this afternoon to the bike shop on the Sac State campus to pick up my bike from a tuneup. Saw this very relatable squirrel absolutely enjoying this avocado 🥰

Went to Nopalito’s Southwestern Cafe around the corner from my apartment for the first time and look at these glorious plants! They had at least four different begonias in and around the place, all super lush, and these oxalis triangularises growing outside with foliage nearly as large as my hand!

Alriiiight! This finally arrived in the mail and I couldn’t be more excited! Temporarity above my headboard mummy bedroom, but will be relocated into my living room once I get that whole mess sorted. ‘A Classic With Cheese’, Tyler Turnbull. www.tylerturnbullart.com/nighthawkstore

This week in I Don’t Have Room For Any More Plants: Steve’s Leaves got a begonia ‘American River’. Walk it all the time, live a block away from it, I needed it. My African Violet Snowy Egret will love it. Please no one breed a new hybrid and call it ‘great blue heron’ or ‘double crested cormorant’ 😭

Finally got out for a 5 mile walk along the American River Parkway today for the first time since March (thanks, depresh). Saw lots of butterflies, especially western tiger and pipevine swallowtails. Would’ve been 7 miles but I ran into this fella and promptly turned around and skedaddled.

I need to stop coming home with a new plant every time I leave my apartment. I. Don’t. Have. The. Space. 😭

Whoever at Trader Joe’s came up with this is a coldblooded sociopath.

Add a ring for a collar and have it occasionally degrade me and I might be into it 🤷

Nathan Fielder truly knows how to tell cohesive season-long stories. It’s especially refreshing to see that in tonight’s The Rehearsal finale. He managed to implicitly examine the autistic experience more successfully than any show that’s explicitly about the autistic experience.