just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

POTUS gave a convicted child sex abuser favorable treatment, and dangled the prospect of a pardon, so she would tell lies about if he was implicated in her crimes. That's not speculative or circumstantial, it's a cold hard proven fact, in and of itself more than enough to demand removal from office.

Putting aside all the horrible shit in them: I cannot believe the global elite composes emails like fucking horses who somehow learned to crudely type. My emails read like Shakespeare compared to the lowercased, unpunctuated screeds written to the worlds biggest pedophile. Fucking write like adults!

listening to a new danny brown record

As a California birder, I have to concede "tricolored blackbird" is not on my life list. I'm sure I've seen one, but I am not confident enough a birder to differentiate it from a red-winged blackbird.

Still thinking about the brilliantly menacing stupidity of the PIMP steel drum cover in ANATOMY OF A FALL.

There are a lot of good things to say about The Devil Wears Prada and many agreeable defenses of being interested in the fashion industry but I think Miranda's "cerulean" speech is pretty insipid.

I do not think we need a strong child-molesting party

"what it means to have your fixer flip"

I think it's fun that people would just email Jeffrey Epstein because they knew him to be an authority on Donald Trump.

Columbo in his first episode looks like a dog that's just come back from the groomer

every tiny crumb that leaks out is a career ending bombshell and we’re all just supposed to go on with our lives while our elected representatives shrug and tell us there’s nothing to be done about the president’s involvement in a child sex trafficking operation

Me? I'm gleeful on behalf of whoever gets to sue CBS News first when Bari greenlights something incredibly libelous.

I wish I could see the auroras.

It's Mad Men season 4, for the incredible feat of somehow being better than Mad Men season 3.

The five best players in the league are all going to be on the same team??

Few things guarantee a chuckle for me like the "greatest hits rollercoaster" of Bill Simmons' career captured in motion graphics at the beginning of YouTube uploads of his podcast.

While we're on the subject of Joyce Carol Oates... drip queen?

He's from the Bay Area! What the fuck is he doing repping the Dodgers in the first place!

One of the best experiences I've ever had watching a movie in a theater. A total delight.

You might enjoy these quotes from Falk talking in general about Columbo's "reaching into pockets" business. (In that same interview he told me about directing "Blueprint for Murder" and getting help from Cassavetes and Spielberg.)

Michael Shannon cooking with gas here:

I'm doing a study of patient film grammar for my debut feature BIRDWATCHING. Lemme know if there's anything you think I should watch. #FilmSky 📽️

Boxing biopic directed by David Michod starring a famous young rising star is a great candidate for opening on ten screens and expanding via word of mouth over the course of two months but uh some people don't believe in that model anymore.

Just make it so "James Bond" is an assumed identity MI6 gives to its deadliest "blunt instrument" secret agent, much in the same way that M, Q, and Moneypenny are assumed names. "Moneypenny" is an assumed name, right?

Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.

Patrick Dumont is like a real-life Tom Wambsgans: an MBA Bear Stearns guy who marries his way into unimaginable wealth and access and knows absolutely fuck-all about the products he's selling. Of course he's not nearly as charming as Matthew Macfadyen.

The episode of Chapo Trap House where Felix talks with his sister Lucy about the show Council of Dads is one of the funniest podcast episodes ever.

This is fantastic

hearing reports out of Japan that Tatsuya Nakadai has passed away at 92. RIP to a legit legend.

My gut says that Trump is, unfortunately, the greatest poster in history, but my heart says it's JCO.

The sad thing about Sweeney effectively detonating the last of the remaining goodwill/plausible deniability with that GQ interview is she's actually pretty talented. It's not like we're talking about a Gina Carano or Kevin Sorbo.

Independent of her tweets, which are mostly pretty good even when they are exceptionally weird, Joyce Carol Oates is my favorite living American novelist.

every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet

Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years

The Senate was designed by slave owning child abusers to make sure the American government would never be democratic.

Emmanuel Clase threw 746 pitches this year and was paid $4,000,000 for it. Meaning he made more per pitch this season ($5,361.93) than he did for throwing that first intentional ball.

Probably my favorite Heisei-era Godzilla movie, one I watched a ton as a kid. All Godzilla is political but this one especially so, with a compelling message about playing god with genetic manipulation.

John C Reilly not only despises “How’s everything tasting?”as much as I do but uses the exact same phrase to describe how it feels to be asked. I guess I have to get really into hats now?

Joan Cusack late career renaissance when

Canary in the coal mine. A declining brand, yes, but also the exact sort of consumer product you immediately stop purchasing when you need to tighten the belt.

How is it only 6:37

Famously traditional British surname "Mishchuk." "Shch" is definitely one of those consonantal clusters we all associate with the Anglo-Saxons.

Bootsie participated in a canine intelligence study at Occidental College today

i made one

It seems like being a billionaire makes you miserable, lonely, and paranoid but I think I'd do it differently.

What's striking to me about the video is that if you saw this in a movie, the takeaway from the performance would be that this woman is lying.