I think often of the brilliant singer and electronic musician Trish Keenan, of the band Broadcast. She contracted H1N1 on tour in Australia and died after two weeks. She was by all accounts very healthy and capable of handling the stress of international touring and was just 42 when she passed.

Daycare centers were also the primary target of the Satanic panic, because fundamentally American religious conservatism is opposed to women having jobs outside the home.

Things that'll be on trend in 2026: Angela Schanelec movies Chantal Akerman movies Abbas Kiarostami movies Edward Yang movies Hou Hsiao-hsien movies Christian Petzold movies Richard Linklater movies Eugene Green movies Eric Rohmer movies Maurice Pialat movies Lucrecia Martel movies Lav Diaz movies

There's a great moment in this video where Penn Jillette accidentally trolls the Zach Snyder fandom. Knockout blow.

Cheez-It Sampling Bar, featuring 10 different flavors of Cheez-Its

I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet

You know in movies where they kinda wipe their hand gently over the face of a dead guy and it closes their eyes. It would be a good gag if they did that on a guy with glasses. Either his eyes close or the glasses turn into sunglasses.

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The clear answer is 5 because Chris Paul is 5'11 and won't need to lean his chair back for leg room. Also I'd get to talk to Giannis and Ant.

In 2026 I'm going to shift gears into making my debut feature film.

oh my god

Once stood beside Alia Shawkat scrutinizing the kombuchas at the Lazy Acres in Los Feliz.

billionaires are the sad victims of an inadequate tax code, which has allowed them to become surrounded by an isolating bubble of sycophants, severed from participation in community and ordinary fellowship. we owe potential victims of this condition prevention, and those already suffering remedy.

this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)

my top 25 most listened to records of 2025, per last.fm

I just love the way Karly Hartzman tells stories: Met you in the neighborhood you had Connects to get us high and then You sent my nudes around I never yelled at you about it ‘Cause you Died

The new all-star format means we’re getting a team whee the starting lineup is SGA-Doncic-Giannis-Jokic-Wemby. Arguably the five best players in the NBA on one squad.

fuck you

After my mother had her stroke she bought about seven thousand dollars worth of her favorite "collectible" Jim Shore figurines before we could assert power of attorney so she wouldn't bankrupt herself. It was worth nothing when she died.

Share a great female villain

Merry Christmas, everyone!

This is like, obvious engagement-bait but I'll jump at any opportunity to celebrate some of my favorite filmmakers.

Regular reminder that John Mellencamp is very good and SCARECROW and THE LONESOME JUBILEE are two of the best records of the 1980s.

If you have the space, you can buy an elliptical for $100 on Facebook Marketplace. It will change your life. Personally, I prefer a rowing machine for cardio -- my girlfriend and I have a Waterrower that we put out onto our deck daily -- but anything you can do to fit cardio into your life is good.

english degree: good luck getting a job, buddy! AI can replace you coding degree: good luck getting a job, buddy! AI can replace you film degree: your deep knowledge of behind the scenes stories from Who Framed Roger Rabbit will delight and entertain coworkers in any field for decades to come

this suit is absurd but it's even wilder in the context that you can safely publish "matt taibbi bragged about raping underaged russian teenagers" and have zero fear of being sued

what does will stancil know about winning a campaign

Kinda fucked up that we don't have RED TWO (2025, Jake Kasdan) to watch with the family this year.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, Tiny Tim. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

The summer before my freshman year at Dartmouth they told us all to read FREE TO CHOOSE.

this is insane to me. the doj had forever to look into this. now they're like liveblogging on x like they have no more information than a random person on social media

I feel absolutely crazy every time I read the NBA's copy promoting games like this.

a suicide note whose existence and content federal authorities appear to have concealed for years while conspiracy theories about Epstein’s death in their custody raged out of control

Morning.

In case you're unclear on what JD Vance is trying to do here maybe it will help to recall Italian writer Ignazio Silone's 1938 description of what fascism is: “Fascism is a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.”

Incompetent courtiers being put in charge of key technical positions and then totally botching them was a recurring feature and major weakness of historical absolute monarchies and authoritarian regimes. Anyway, Bari Weiss,

Who will play Bari in The Insider 2?

Look at this perfect angel.

Two months on and this is probably the single piece of media I've thought about the most in 2025. I still haven't reckoned fully with what Kirkslop "means" but I can't stop trying to piece together some sort of coherent theory for its existence.

One thing that strikes me about JD is that he won't go on Ozempic because he knows everyone will make fun of him for it.

It's remarkable that the prevailing quality shared among celebrities who turn MAGA is "known piece of shit"

I just find this language and the emphasis on stats so weird. Does this have some hidden appeal I'm unaware of? "Top-15 Scorers." What? It's LUKA DONCIC VS JAMES HARDEN. Anyone who follows the NBA enough to follow them on Bluesky knows who these men are and what they're capable of.

The Muppet Christmas Carol is The Nightmare Before Christmas for the PMC.

Does anyone wanna see a really good Getty image of Rita Moreno and Sam The Eagle having dinner in 1979?

I love this movie.

Goddamn, what an iconic image.

Cinema is Harriet Sansom Harris saying "Bueno. Fantastico."