“We are all Cheryl Hines. Unprepared for the scenario in which we will be forced to run for our lives. Watching the important people be whisked away while we wonder whether we should try to follow them, or duck under a table, or grab the good wine.” www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

Seeing a lot of hand-wringing over nobody (NOBODY!) in Sunday newspaper world getting Saturday's WHCD shooter on the front page. Nobody? Au contraire, mon cher. Behold the benefits of local ownership, local presses.

Incredible reporting by @maurajudkis.bsky.social. Please read through to the end. wapo.st/4u296gY

In the wake of the Michael Jackson biopic success, producers are now planning a John Wayne Gacy movie that focuses only on his career as a clown.

These look really cool.

More of this, less of bombing other countries (From @acyn.bsky.social )

Leopard, meet face. Face, leopard.

whenever people assume I am excited about a movie or show based on something I loved when I was 8 I just think about how weird it would’ve been if my dad got all pumped up about a Howdy Doody movie in 1986

“I hear people talk about this beautiful relationship with Jesus. Mine is not like that. It is a little more questioning and mystery. That is why it is called faith.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...

It's really not a good idea to try to be a debate-me bro with the Pope. Especially when you have only been a Catholic since, like, last Tuesday.

Big '80s nostalgia as Saks closes at Canal Place in New Orleans. But also existential questions from shoppers: "Where are we all gonna go as people if we keep buying stuff online? How are we gonna see people or even know if things fit?" www.nola.com/news/busines...

Don’t tell me I have no choice but to adapt to using AI. You don’t know how stubborn I am. My dad is 80 and has never had an email address. That’s the blood in my veins.

“The men and women who lie in Arlington have earned that peace, and they deserve our quiet, humble gratitude, not this monstrous monument to power, war and one man’s ego.” www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

I'm so Gen X that I don't watch live broadcasts of space things. Thought I was in the clear, yay, they're back, peeked into the NASA feed and now stressssed out over this radio thing. NO THANK YOU.

A very astute (and upsetting!) piece that touches on four scary cultural trends: 1) The demand for spelled-out moral clarity in stories 2) A growing inability to understand different types of narratives 3) The "customer's always right" version of fandom 4) The growth of fandom as a social identity.

Must be weird going to CVS after you just went to the Moon

Louisiana now has nearly 6,500 orphaned wells — more than ever before, and 2,000 more than it had just two years ago. We tracked down four companies that are largely responsible for that spike. They owned almost 1,200 now-orphaned wells. www.nola.com/news/busines...

Robin Williams on Qaddafi.

Sir, a second bird is at the feeder

What are you talking about? There's nothing wrong with AI fact-checking!

"The modest church on the cover of Vice President JD Vance’s new memoir unpacking his Catholic faith has a tiny but loyal congregation. What it doesn’t have, members said: any connection to Vance or Catholicism." www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

The Advocate news group is seeking a photojournalist in Baton Rouge. Great opportunity for a good photog at a locally owned operation that still does it all (digital, print, real work about real people, made by real people and read by real people). Wanna? workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

Pam Bondi right now.

When Hitler sought to add a grandiose new wing to the Reich Chancellery www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Apparently it’s Hug a Journalist Day, but let’s not get HR involved, ok? You can, however, get a one-year subscription to my new gig for 12 months for $12. Today only (4/2) And I love you, too. subscribe.nola.com/digitalhug?o...

I have been a Diet Pepsi drinker (addict) since July 31, 1990. It's never been an easy life in a Diet Coke world. It's becoming evident that Pepsi is sending it the way of Tab, hard to find. Drink Pepsi Zero instead. Sure, try that with Diet Coke people. Sigh. Why go on living? Honestly.

OK, Gen X. I see you. (They’re 47-50.)

Washington is comprised of good people who do thankless work because they believe in building and maintaining goodness. Thank you to Marilyn and Bill for volunteering at the Kennedy Center. And to Janay Kingsberry for writing about them. wapo.st/4lRlgXc

Well, add me -- and my +1

Please stop posting these ICE agents without their parents' consent.

Me: Okay, calm down and have a seat, People magazine. Now say it again, this time SLOWLY, because I don't think I heard you right. People magazine (takes deep breath):

On Trump's proposed arch:

"Trump is the most significant threat to the city’s architectural and design legacy since British forces burned the Capitol...." The art & architecture critic of The Post on the president's visual and symbolic desecrations of Washington: www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

You know how in a library no one’s trying to sell you anything? That’s how the internet was.

I've had nine-count-'em-nine Covid shots, still healthy, still haven't had Covid.

All yours, YouTube. Now if you want it. #Oscars

For the first time in 22 years I am not working on deadline Oscar-night coverage, and I can only say HALLELUJAH LORD. On that note, it’s a big night for Louisiana! www.nola.com/entertainmen...

Glad this story is being told but I’m extremely disappointed that it fails to mention that The Washington Post has laid off nearly all of its arts critics A decades-deep legacy of arts coverage has been destroyed here and it hurts our city and our world www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...

I am absolutely thrilled to join The Atlantic, working on the intersection of arts and politics.

Walz: "There are no Somali folks in the Epstein files"

I can already tell you that my most streamed song of 2026 will be the Inspira hold music.

I wrote about this a squillion years ago but I’m occasionally delighted that no matter how much technology fully automates the markets, we still need these guys to stand around and make faces.

Haunted by JUSTIN BIEBER singing to himself thefutureisourstomake.substack.com/p/man-in-the...

“…we have so much money that people don’t have to care if they don’t want to.” Teton County is awash in wealth and run by billionaires. But the morgue is in an old garage, and students have to eat in hallways, and teachers can’t afford to live there. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

Love Story gets so much right in the atmospheric details, but there is just no way that a mid-80s Macintosh Plus is sitting so elegantly in Calvin Klein’s HQ in 1995. You’d have to be as old as me to know that, but still.

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“Gaslight” is on during SOTU. I see what you did there, TCM.

Washington Post’s all-AP wire Sports section today. 😕

They would have been better off just mailing the silver medals to those Canadian hockey players. The grimness.

I wrote about one part of my reaction to recent events: the importance and nuance of what it means to subscribe to something.