The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.

One of the best Star Trek: TNG episodes analyzes this question, and let's just say you're not going to like how it is resolved.

In my dream last night it was revealed that David Attenborough was one of the world's largest tax cheats and I laughed so hard I woke up

I’ve seen enough. Not about the election. Just generally.

This bit in the From Russia With Love game made me laugh out loud. You've got a fairly grounded, low key fight based on the one in the movie, then the most video game looking fucker of all time slides into frame.

Hi Bluesky friends, I’m ShouXin (手訫). I love drawing cats with simple lines. This is my first post here, and I’m sharing four of my classic pieces. I hope they bring you a little joy, and I hope you enjoy them. #art #sketch #catart #cats #shouxinsketch #ShouXinArt

Call your office, Graham McTavish!

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

the scene at my local Key Food

I love AUTHOR! AUTHOR! It's like prozac for me. Pacino does MR. MOM and then the very next year he's Tony Montana

Haaaahaaa

all NYC winter weather alerts sounds like this to me

Bark-laughed.

There's three votes for anything on the supreme court. If trump said "I'm the god-king of arrakis" he'd get three votes and a lengthy opinion about the long history and tradition of english common law with regards to the spice melange

I was recently gifted some very high quality schmaltz. I cannot reveal the source. This must of course mean…kasha varnishkes

Tom Noonan had top-tier X-Files monster-of-the-week on his resume too. Serial killer John Lee Roche in “Paper Hearts” (S4E10) RIP to a great one.

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Always thought Duvall deserved landmark status, like a building or some great national park. His sturdiness and longevity always felt like that to me. Hell of a damn career. RIP

Boosting for a friend of a friend—NYC (Ft Greene/Clinton Hill): Keep an eye out for Max! Grey and white longhair cat, missing since a bad apartment building fire during the cold snap last weekend 2/7-2/8

bezos drank from the wrong grail..?

In regards to what’s going on at the Berlinale film festival, here is footage of Godard & Truffaut shutting down the 1968 Cannes Film Festival in solidarity with students workers & protestors getting brutalized by police in the streets, & probably Godard’s best line about film criticism ever

This year is a very special year for horror fans, because it's the first time in eleven years that three Friday the 13ths will be taking place in a single year! That happens to be the maximum amount of Friday the 13ths that can exist in a single year, and it won't happen again until 2037.

"Hades II is already a best-selling game that doesn’t need a boost from me, but it is incredible and Supergiant changed my life." Matt Johnson of NIRVANA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE names Hades II in his Three Great Things: www.talkhouse.com/three-great-...

Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

it only calls sickbay

Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes have started a podcast and the first guest is Levar Burton

louvre this

Respectfully,

small (samwise voice) POH-TAY-TOES in the grand scheme i know...but signed

you can buy the same cozy Norwegian socks Stellan Skarsgård wears around the house in SENTIMENTAL VALUE

this is bang on

The Challenger disaster is 40 years ago today. Adam Higginbotham's book on it was by far the best thing I read last year. Exhaustive, moving, and an all-around tremendous account of the event and its cause(s).

this. every word. i've been going for a year and a half.

I am very glad for this.

word is he has a new office awaiting him

Drawing out of rage mollycrabapple.substack.com/p/portrait-o...

whaddaya got, Z???

Leonard Nimoy was more than a colleague—he was a friend, an ally, and my political soulmate. Leonard played a half-human, half-Vulcan officer—a being caught between two worlds. Yet in his own life, he was perhaps the most profoundly human person I have ever known.

also totally Vorgons

You have to be a certain age to appreciate how this is The Very Best Joke

"All .com, .net, .org and many other top level domains are down, and only .ir websites might work."

I didn’t realize cassian andor was a real person bsky.app/profile/kevi...

shit, vincent price would've done a killer cameo vid for a new divorcee

If this is your first contact with the work of the legendary @annienocenti.bsky.social, then welcome to a groundbreaking oeuvre. @lorrainecink.bsky.social and I had the pleasure of talking with Ann for the Marvel Declassified podcast a few years ago. Starts at 23:44 www.podchaser.com/podcasts/mar...