“Network” premieres today in ‘76 “.. we thought we were making a satire,” said Lumet. “But the extraordinary and frightening thing is how quickly it stopped being satire .. When the truth becomes entertainment, when rage becomes a commodity, the culture begins to eat itself.” @ditzkoff.bsky.social

today i am thankful for the new episode of all’s fair, a beautiful disorienting odorless gas of a show. i am not thankful for the dog ripping the squeaker out of his toy and chewing on it six-inches from my face while i watch said episode.

“are you going out tonight?” ha-ha, no. i am sitting alone in the dark wishing the 30 rock joke about the local affiliates editing will & grace down so much it was just called karen, was a reality, like an adult.

very into the chair company. lynchian’s an overused term, and this isn’t that, but there’s something to tim robinson’s fractured mirror/uncanny valley approach to, well, everything that feels its most realized and oddly gratifying this time around. sitting here like wow, this guy just gets it.

Pediatricians say vaccines do not cause autism. A bear-eating heroin addict who fantasizes about sucking his own semen out of his lovers' orifices says they do. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Finally. My big 2800 word essay about One Battle After Another and its black women characters is live. www.vulture.com/article/blac...

I don’t understand how I can be on social media *this much* and still never have any idea what people are talking about

when rush hour 4 ends with “for jeffrey”

i love being a stay-at-home—whatever i am. right now a man is hammering rocks to the side of the house while the dog barks pees, most likely, in another room. meanwhile, after an hour of trying to get my ward up, i just exited the shower to find her polishing off, wait for it, chocolate cake.

Page One in Cincinnati: “.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.” #ICE

variety listed the birdcage as the 61st best comedy of all-time and people are fighting about star wars rankings. i’m going to be SICK!

only mildly-embarrassed about having to follow-up with the people i drunkenly invited to thanksgiving because those plans just got canceled.

I don’t even wanna be around anymore

unclear if these ad breaks will help or hurt after the hunt, but i’m excited to find out.

disappointing that so much of “the future” or, my thirties, is [sharp inhale] thinking about fascism and whether or not a car’s headlights or television show are designed to be that bright or if i have should seek out an optometrist.

help

this time next year when MTG is holding the center apple on rhony 2.0

If you want to read some actually good cultural writing, here is the intro to my book of essays on the politics of Y2K era pop culture.

Trump exchanging two words with Zohran and then immediately rolling onto his back for belly rubs … I almost feel sorry for the rightwing toadies who have spent the last decade tripping over themselves to ass-kiss their way into his good graces

i feel…nuts

America 2025.

the epstein files (donald’s version)

uh-oh! a little over 15 minutes into twinless and i can’t stop smiling (while sweating profusely internally)

no❤️

you know the 30 rock jenna babies gag about jenna’s doll line being used to smuggle drugs? and they cut to the two little girls in their bedroom talking a mile a minute nonsense? that’s what i imagine writing for all’s fair to be like.

you can tell amazon owns imdb because you have to really put your back into it if you want to find the awards page.

some people do mushrooms and, i don’t know, explore the universe, themselves, others… i bought: something’s gotta give, magnolia, kneecap, mrs. harris goes to paris, there will be blood, and, looking for mr. goodbar via apple.

I’m just home from For Good and the first thing way too many of you want me to do is read that? How cruel are you?!

“she flamed out and faded away” is such funny framing for a woman publishing an excerpt of her book in vanity fair, where she also works. I wish I could flame out and fade away so successfully

We already have promising medical research to cure disease and prolong healthy life. The federal government these guys bought gutted the funding and shipped the scientists overseas.

it’s so wild that the pope might’ve heard kristen scott thomas say “cum dumpster.”

Temu Joan Didion

Definitely something Jack invents to appease Jenna and then they actually have to hold the ceremony

she loved his eyes, “blue like asbestos.” she loved that “the sight of something otherwise unrecognizable, crumpled on the side of the road, quivering with pestilence from within, could hold his interest.” she loved his insatiable appetites and “particular fondness for desserts served in stemware.”

in theory i can wrap my head around falling for someone you’re corresponding with. though, that’s a bigger ask post-epstein email dump and seeing how these types write. but, i don’t know how you read poetry rfk jr wrote you and get past hearing it in that vacuum filter filled with thumbtacks voice.

it’s a shame nora ephron isn’t here to tell olivia nuzzi to go order an egg white omelette as she drags her adult son away from her by his ear. well, that, and a lot of other reasons.

C R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7cPSf...

BREAKING: Rep. Adelita Grijalva signs the Epstein discharge petition, serving as the 218th vote to force the bill to the floor for a full vote of the House.

Trump getting elected a few weeks AFTER the Access Hollywood tape dropped was to America’s culture of sexual violence what Sandy Hook was for gun violence—a clear sign that tens of millions of “conservatives” were totally fine with it.

scrolled too fast and assumed this was another epstein email.

two minutes into frankenstein. what in the adventures of tintin… i think i need to put a pin in this and circle back. will stay on theme and pivot to something else about man’s inability to get out of its own way and inherently gothic: the real housewives of salt lake city.

bit surreal watching house of dynamite, an ostensibly meticulously researched film, and being like, oh wow, they really nailed what the white house used to look like.

This is how the Trump administration, Congress, and the Supreme Court are recognizing Veterans Day this year. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support US public television reut.rs/4hQLwyY

oh no, sydney sweeney’s next biopic was just put into turnaround 🤭

The ACA made my whole self-employed life possible. For almost ten years, I was able to build a career that actually worked for me AND keep receiving necessary care to address the consequences of childhood medical neglect. And I still deserved better. We all do.

Senate Democrats had the power to do one thing: This shutdown. And this is what they did with it. Maybe this is some brilliant political calculus, in which case I'll happily eat my words. But right now, it feels like the beginning of the end of the party in its current form--and by its own hand.

Prescient